copperx

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811.
by copperx 4y ago
I'm still waiting for the US to convert from letter size to A4. The change feels imminent, but for some reason it hasn't happened yet. Maybe we need to convert to the metric system first?
812.
by copperx 4y ago
> Right to the ego! You mean as an ego boost, right? You're certainly wiser than anyone born circa 2000s. We can hack drivers for breakfast.
813.
by copperx 4y ago
Does cancer ever start in adipose tissue?
814.
by copperx 4y ago
64 channels I/O at 192khz over USB2? That's insane. Isn't USB2's bandwith 60 MB/sec? Ok, I just checked, and a 192kHz 24-bit WAV file is only 0.56 MB per sec. Nice.
815.
by copperx 4y ago
No, it's in their DNA to name things like that. "Windows" ... nuff said.
816.
by copperx 4y ago
I have three bank accounts and it's difficult using Zelle. I use a different email with two, and a phone number with the other one. But sometimes I forget which account belongs to which email. It's idiotic.
817.
by copperx 4y ago
Thanks. I just sent this to my graphic designer friend and was very excited. This is a though crowd.
818.
by copperx 4y ago
Both are equally inaccurate because the drive is an information blackhole.
819.
by copperx 4y ago
Accurate? It reads like, "this drive is not too bad, but don't buy it anyway."
820.
by copperx 4y ago
> That doesn’t sound right. It doesn't sound right indeed because it should read "it is," not "it isn't." Regardless, "something sounding too good to be true" is how you determine that tech innovat
821.
by copperx 4y ago
I don't care if Amazon keeps doing it, but please give me an option in the settings to hide all third-party sellers.
822.
by copperx 4y ago
> The shelves are largely stocked with cheaply made chinesium junk as it is! I don't understand this complaint in this day and age. Can you point me to a brick-and-mortar store that has mostly high-quality long-lasting items?
823.
by copperx 4y ago
How does all of that sound to people with absolute pitch?
824.
by copperx 4y ago
What for? You already have access to the datacenters.
825.
by copperx 4y ago
I did not. That's fantastic. Thank you.
826.
by copperx 4y ago
> My take is that there are two types of programmers: those who admit they can't avoid making memory safety mistakes, and real programmers, who don't make such mistakes, and happily keep programming in C/++. I absolutely a
827.
by copperx 4y ago
I was watching a Pixar movie and wondered, "what if these resources were spent in creating, say, scientifically accurate animations of biological processes for people who are learning chemistry, anatomy, genetics, etc." We all hav
828.
by copperx 4y ago
For me, most products get delivered in 6 days with Prime. It has stopped making sense to pay for the Prime subscription. It's cheaper to pay for faster shipping, given that I only order 1-2 items monthly.
829.
by copperx 4y ago
Probably free plans have tons of overhead. If this results in drastically lower prices, I'm all for it.
830.
by copperx 4y ago
That goes against my intuition. Multiplication in hardware to this day relies on addition. Is one adder going to add an extra cycle? Or would that time be amortized? Take a look at slides 45-46 here. https://acg.cis.upenn.edu&#x2
831.
by copperx 4y ago
There's no reason why memory addresses had to start at 0.
832.
by copperx 4y ago
I always wonder why such fundamental features were not adopted by all languages.
833.
by copperx 4y ago
I've always called floor zero and everybody understands.
834.
by copperx 4y ago
I assure you, that if we counted from zero, there would be an instruction to add and multiply in the same number of cycles as a multiply.
835.
by copperx 4y ago
It's like English pronunciation, there's little logic. I gave up finding logic in these things at an early age, and resorted to memorizing everything instead.
836.
by copperx 4y ago
I didn't know that. Do you get to be 1 year old if you are born on Feb 29, to account for leap years?
837.
by copperx 4y ago
> The fact that a technology exists does not give government the right to shove it down everyone's throats. The government shoves its "moralistic" views down the population's throats. But doing the same with material
838.
by copperx 4y ago
I think it's very precise. Just multiply the last cheapness value times three. If last month there was a 10% discount, today's discount is 30%.
839.
by copperx 4y ago
I like this hypothesis; however, if that was indeed the original meaning, it would have more sense to advertise it as a 33% discount, or as slashing the price by 1/3. "3x cheaper" seems to be aimed to the average Joe shopping
840.
by copperx 4y ago
It's hard to understand because "cheaper" only makes sense as a relative comparison. Assuming that if, say, the service was 25% cheaper than the nominal price last month, it is now 0.25 * 3 = 75% cheaper than the nominal pric

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