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721.
by coolspot 5y ago
You misuderstood. When the turbo button is pressed, computer runs on nominal speed. When turbo button is un-pressed, computer would run on half of nominal speed. So, unpressed button makes computer slower, not pressed one. Source: actually
722.
by coolspot 5y ago
I had a meta****.com domain for sale on sedo for couple years, it was sold last week.
723.
by coolspot 5y ago
IQ tests are still banned in California for certain kids. https://www.kqed.org/news/11781032/a-landmark-lawsuit-aimed-...
724.
by coolspot 5y ago
Drug/arms/human trafficking operations can have easier time cashing hundreds of millions via shady Tether than US-based audited and KYCed USDC.
725.
by coolspot 5y ago
IPv6 has like 4B * 65k ~= 260T (260,000,000,000,000) unique /48 addresses (subnets). Should be enough for every human on earth for sure.
726.
by coolspot 5y ago
But OP argues that overpopulation leads to increased water usage. Farming takes more water as more people it has to feed.
727.
by coolspot 5y ago
It’s ok, they were smart enough to not setup a recurring charge.
728.
by coolspot 5y ago
I don’t think you can comfortably use Q1 as monitor replacement. IMO, resolution is not enough for comfortable reading.
729.
by coolspot 5y ago
US authorities pass leads to Indian/Nigerian authorities which are paid off to do nothing.
730.
by coolspot 5y ago
I would imagine distracting GPU with interface rendering significantly reduces ML performance. On Linux you can use integrated video while your RTX 3090 is 100% loaded.
731.
by coolspot 5y ago
Man-made nuclear fusion is not self-sustaining, requires massive infrastructure to ignite very little of material. Nuclear fission of unstable isotopes is self-sustaining chain reaction that converts a lot of matter into energy without much
732.
by coolspot 5y ago
Also, if you raise altitude high enough, you also can get rid of air resistance, so you won’t need to spend any energy to maintain altitude.
733.
by coolspot 5y ago
At least in California, teachers also get pension that is equal to their salary.
734.
by coolspot 5y ago
You can see that the scrollbar is at angle to the text of a background window.
735.
by coolspot 5y ago
Worse, the image is clearly photoshopped into the screen. Look at the scrollbar on the right. It is vertical in the picture, but not parallel to the edge of the screen, defying perspective.
736.
by coolspot 5y ago
That Paddle demo is smooth. Apple can’t let this happen - they will lose billions.
737.
by coolspot 5y ago
The great filter that destroys civilizations is not a nuclear weapon technology as we thought, but crypto-mania consuming all available resources.
738.
by coolspot 5y ago
IMO Twitter and Reddit cause more mental harm than all FB properties combined.
739.
by coolspot 5y ago
They just would switch to TikTok/Snapchat/Friendster.
740.
by coolspot 5y ago
To reconfigure misconfigured routers one needs physical access -> routers are in a high-security area of a secure DC -> physical access systems do not let anyone in due to network outage.
741.
by coolspot 5y ago
A BGP routing mistake that can cascade into a hard-to-recover-from state of the network where inter-dependencies lock each other.
742.
by coolspot 5y ago
The onion site is just a reverse-proxy to the main web-site. So if the main site is down (due to internal DNS or BGP issues) onion reverse-proxy can’t get to it as well.
743.
by coolspot 5y ago
Signal replicates each message to NSA and FB, so when one is down, Signal’s backend fails with a timeout error.
744.
by coolspot 5y ago
This and other Google’s contributions into software security, such as Project Zero deserve much praise!
745.
by coolspot 5y ago
Can you please elaborate what are “X2 all-in cost” for a $150k software engineer? I can imagine it would include things like an office space, snacks, yoga classes, etc. I don’t think it is anywhere close to additional $150k, maybe $10-20k.
746.
by coolspot 5y ago
I think because contractors often need to power their tools on sites that may not have a power source.
747.
by coolspot 5y ago
In Russian it means… … it doesn’t mean anything.
748.
by coolspot 5y ago
Yep. The first one was iPhone 4 vs Canon 7D video[1] that convinced me to replace my DSLR with an iPhone. Only later I realized that it was pure manipulation. [1] - https://youtu.be/H7bStLePvKo There are others like that:
749.
by coolspot 5y ago
EncFS over GDrive/Dropbox is great!
750.
by coolspot 5y ago
I traveled with like $20k cash arriving from aboard via LAX. Declared in paper that I have those money and verbally when asked upon entry, then had to go with an officer to fill out some additional form, that’s it.

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