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by cjensen 4y ago
Your points about AR are worth emphasizing: Pokemon Go has AR... that most users turn off. With AR turned off, it's strictly a location-based game.
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Funny thing: I use Teams on an i9 MacBook Pro 16" and _HAD_ this problem. The issue is that if an i9 overheats, the ONLY symptom is that the CPU slows down and you will never know this happened. No report about heat is generated. For m
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People do install normal starlink on boats [1]. The $10K/$5K price tag really has me scratching my head about what they are thinking. Does look like they plan to cover the entire ocean, so at least there is a specific benefit they can
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Most exercise does not burn the number of calories people expect. For example, running a 5K doesn't quite burn the calories of a single Big Mac. If you think "I am exercising so I can eat a little bit more" it's very eas
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by cjensen 4y ago
Nader's book was also click bait. The Corvair was not any more dangerous in practice than any of its contemporaries.
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Profits? The Green Revolution[1] is credited with widespread reduction of poverty and hunger. The Haber Process provided the fertilizer which was one of the keys to the revolution. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gree
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If you have a concern about this, talk to your doctor. Also keep in mind "sex drive" (aka "libido") can be easily affected by worrying about it. Talk to a psych about it because generally speaking psych-caused libido iss
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Ford, like GM, has a literal camera monitoring the driver's face so they can see if they are paying attention. Seeing what your face is doing is a much more reliable system of measuring attention than whether or not the driver is touch
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Legally speaking, the University admin cannot do anything to Chinese students who boo and walk out, and also cannot do anything to white supremacists who boo and walk out. In the US, Students have First Amendment rights to express themselve
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If your TV set can't talk to the internet, you can't be tracked. All you lose is the silly 'interactive' features that no one uses.
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RVs go to remote scenic areas that have notoriously bad cellular service. Consider Yosemite. It's visited by plenty of tech people, but Highway 120 through the park has almost to cell coverage from Groveland to Lee Vining.
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One nitpick with this: when the author first uses a mutex to ensure safety, he says "the operations took over 50 times longer!" Well sure. But "the operations" were single read and writes to a small array likely held in
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by cjensen 4y ago
To clarify, the word "recession" has a strongly defined meaning. It does not mean "things are bad" although bad times are strongly associated with recessions. Things can seem bad even without a recession. Historically
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The gold-backed currency did not, in fact, work okay in the US for a long time. Between 1836 and the Great Depression, the economy went 3 or more years between recessions only 4 times. By comparison, the last three gaps between recessions w
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by cjensen 4y ago
20 years ago California installed sound walls on all freeways through residential areas when studies found severe health effects. Not sure this is really "waking up to the problems"...
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It's a very old idea which is in use in many places [1] -- and not just for nuclear plants. Main constraint is that you really can't transport the waste heat very far. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogene
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by cjensen 5y ago
Holding a volatile and risky asset implies that the holder thinks there is a significant win available to offset the costs of the risks. It's reasonable to assume that projected price is far above market.
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With Vanilla Minecraft, you have have a port open to the entire planet and have to trust that the built-in security will work. The more ports you want to open to friends, the more services you are relying on to have working security. With T
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by cjensen 5y ago
They put that one on Catalina Arizona. There's ambiguity, so the illustration has to pick one.
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Economics has a lot to say about how bad an idea sharecropping is. (This is apart from the obvious racism/slavery aspect of sharecropping in the southern US). When you take a percent of income, you necessarily demotivate the worker. It
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by cjensen 5y ago
"Grace?" After 13 microarchitectures given the last names of historical figures, it's really weird to use someone's first name. Interesting that Anandtech and Wikipedia are both calling it Hopper. What on Earth are the
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by cjensen 5y ago
If a hacker has the skill to make an evil boot loader, I'm prepared to be impressed. In contrast, creating a shell script to do something evil is literally the definition of a script kiddie. At the very least, instead of the one liner
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by cjensen 5y ago
It's something to talk about on a podcast, so it is not a waste of time. Also, for many of us programmers, we really need programming in our lives otherwise we get that itch. Your comments have been terribly absolutist about your own o
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The two dies and interconnect are all part of the same silicon. In the chiplets used by AMD and many others, they use separate CPU dies with literal wires between them. This replaced the wires with hard silicon. Disadvantage of this techniq
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At first it was "this will be put into a trust" as if that solves the problem of the club being owned by an oligarch. Now it's "it will be sold but not fast-tracked and the proceeds given to a foundation." Why not
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Satellites are already used to detect hotspots. The Alert camera network [1] catches a lot too. On days where fire would be dangerous, there are already planes ready to go to get the fire before it gets large. At best, this would provide mo
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by cjensen 5y ago
Being informed does not take a lot of time. But there are many wrong ways of doing it like reading what comes up on your twitter timeline or visiting a clickbaity site like CNN or reading any algorithmically-created newsfeed. Here's wh
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by cjensen 5y ago
Looks like this is a work in progress. All the nav markers on buoys seem to be in place for the SF Bay, but none on the coastline or in Oregon. But hey, looks like it's on GitHub for anyone to submit patches.
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Wikipedia has the 'splainer for you[1]. There are good satellite examples online[2] But basically it has to do with buoyancy. A cloud or other layering of the atmosphere has a stable place in the vertical column. If the atmosphere pa
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by cjensen 5y ago
Your comment contains a lot of info that is not the consensus view of economists and businessmen. Yes, interest rates going up lowers the price of bonds because "interest rates up" is mathematically equivalent to "bonds are c

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