cr0sh

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   by cr0sh 7y ago

   I'd like to know how the company behind the robot manages to get away with charging the cost of a small car for this glorified Roomba with a stick. I must be in the wrong line of work or something...
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   by cr0sh 7y ago

   > With a Dutch bank card, for someone to go on a spree, they would have to have your actual bank card This here might be part of the difference between EU and USA: Here in the states, there are actually three main forms of "cards&qu
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   by cr0sh 7y ago

   > accessible tools that don't have...the psychological/emotional barriers actual coding has for lots of people I don't think I've ever seen this expressed before; that is, people (in general) having "psychologica
4. 544.▲
   by cr0sh 7y ago

   How much is there and do you live in the USA? I'm interested, if you want to talk about it, PM me.
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   by cr0sh 7y ago

   > Is there something the average police force in America does right? Protect their own?
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   by cr0sh 7y ago

   > As a single developer it is impossible to implement a browser that is compatible with today's websites. Then don't make it "compatible with today's websites". In fact, that should probably be the goal. That is,
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   by cr0sh 7y ago

   > Stopping compilation with an error for every unused import & variable is particularly annoying It's been a long while since I last touched Golang, but I recall the process of learning it. My coworker and I were tasked with cre
8. 548.▲
   by cr0sh 7y ago

   It was cheap, compared to the Xerox Star it was "inspired" by...
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   by cr0sh 7y ago

   Whereas in a theocracy, the Ruler is bound by the law of God. God wants You dead on the spot, and the Ruler is his instrument on Earth - and then You die. The Ruler is now not at fault, because God told, and used, the Ruler to do the deed.
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    by cr0sh 7y ago

    What would be needed to support some of the small retro z80 platforms out there? I can't even begin to list them all - most basically tie the z80 to some static RAM, maybe a pia or similar; I know one out there uses an ATMEGA32 to act
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    by cr0sh 7y ago

    This site claims: "For over thirty years, he has been studying, modelling, building and testing his own ornithopter — an invention that was first conceived some five hundred years ago, but is yet to be implemented successfully." T
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    by cr0sh 7y ago

    This really sux - that the fix is "Move to DDR with TRR enabled - which means for many people: Buy a new computer. Or new RAM. Or new RAM, motherboard, CPU, etc - ie - a new computer; ie - spend a lot of money". But there really i
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    by cr0sh 7y ago

    Easy - just "C-x M-c M-hypercard"... /... https://xkcd.com/378/
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    by cr0sh 7y ago

    I looked into that myself, but the number of cores didn't compare to that of GPUs - the cost was right, though. I don't know if those boards were better than a GPU or what? Maybe they were more optimized for compute than what a GP
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    by cr0sh 7y ago

    > Consider a car, for example: you have to keep track of oil changes, water, tires, brakes, taxes, insurance, and the list goes on, each with its own schedule. Not sure where you're from, but for me and my two vehicles, it's no
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    by cr0sh 7y ago

    Well...you might give this book a read: https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/
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    by cr0sh 7y ago

    > Add to that corporations with more power than governments (Facebook,Amazon,Google) Until one of the FAANGs get access and control to their own nuclear weapon and/or military - they unequivocally do not have more power than governm
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    by cr0sh 7y ago

    > I see no reason why intelligent life with high technology could not have developed on Venus. Say, several hundred million years ago. And perhaps they triggered runaway greenhouse warming, which vaporized the oceans. And so perhaps it w
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    by cr0sh 7y ago

    I don't typically worry about my level of income or whatnot, except when I think of retirement (which I also don't think will happen, honestly). I'm more concerned on whether my family (wife and dogs - no kids - talk about a
20. 560.▲
    by cr0sh 7y ago

    I own a Jeep. That thing keeps increasing in value massively on a yearly basis... /just add up everything I spend on it...
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    by cr0sh 7y ago

    > If a kid is a bully, he's an asshole. He shouldn't necessarily be expelled or even necessarily suspended, but someone needs to make it crystal clear to him that his behaviour is unacceptable and will not be tolerated, otherwi
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    by cr0sh 7y ago

    It's kinda crazy. We say this - but I suspect we are a minority. Simply because "we" (some of us - not I) are parents of kids in these systems, but there are other parents of our age with kids in these systems who like them j
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    by cr0sh 7y ago

    I'm not a C# developer, but this kind of thing seems to permeate almost all languages in one form or another. Maybe it is just a style and readability thing; or maybe (as suggested elsewhere as well) it is meant to be reused elsewhere
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    by cr0sh 7y ago

    An interesting article that I think fits in well with the current discussion on hiring, interviewing, etc for SWE and other similar positions. All too often in the past I've been rejected, and wrote an email or other letter to the comp
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    by cr0sh 7y ago

    I've looked into this kind of thing in the past, but there was always something that made me shy away, despite the prices being relatively favorable. Most of the time, I think it was a worry of "if the power supply dies" - be
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    by cr0sh 7y ago

    Several years ago my friend did that to learn about cryptocurrency. He bought a bunch of GPUs off CL that were being dumped by people in favor of FPGAs (or whatever was the new hotness at the time for bitcoin). He had a bunch of server rack
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    by cr0sh 7y ago

    Unless you were cranking everything to the max 24/7 (like maxing out your GPU while reading/writing to a database while doing a bunch of floating point calcs for something?), it probably idled at around 100 watts. Not great, but n
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    by cr0sh 7y ago

    I think this is cool just from the "sharing code" perspective; yes, it needs some more work, but that's the way games are. I can't give any suggestions there, since I haven't touched game code in decades (well out o
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    by cr0sh 7y ago

    > thats the actual reason why soldiers were spared in Nürnberg: because a lot of the army didn't actually have a choice. It was death or collaboration for them. My historical knowledge of this isn't as detailed as I would hope
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    by cr0sh 7y ago

    > To use an extreme comparison, there's a reason the entire German army wasn't hung at Nuremberg. An interesting alt-history fiction could be written where that was the case, I bet...