csharptwdec19

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by csharptwdec19 5y ago
> regional cross-mixing of sources. This is the part that worries me. If something happened like this even 300-400 years ago, it would probably just wipe out that village.
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by csharptwdec19 5y ago
Even in the US the original XBox was still at best 'neck and neck' with the PS2, at least from my recollection. The PS2 came out sooner and didn't need anything extra for DVD Playback which helped sales a ton. Important takea
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by csharptwdec19 5y ago
> So I don't think the group wants to sell the information to accessory manufacturers or Apple news sites. That wouldn't be a viable business model for the ransom group; Any accessory manufacturer or news site would likely get
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by csharptwdec19 5y ago
> another student knocks iPad out of hands onto floor breaking, penalty charged to steward not to knocker; I had stuff like this happen to me in school; my family was not well off, so it was a fun prank for the kids who had money to &#x2
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by csharptwdec19 5y ago
> wireless keyboards I really like the Logitech K700 solar keyboards, with two caveats: - In a couple of mine, the included battery seems to have lost the ability to keep a charge well before you would expect (i.e. a year). This is a bit
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> The story says they were delivering partial shipments of the tens-of-thousands of screws in their personal vehicles. Sounds about right. When my brother was green in his automotive supply logistics career, there were a couple of times
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
I mean, not trying to be grim about it, but broadly speaking, an airplane landing has a lot less fuel to do damage with.
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
Actors can indeed make caches super easy. If your entries are simple enough (add/remove/update) and can be expressed as messages, wiring up a simple pub-sub cache is an afternoon project.
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
now do it in YAML
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
Part of the issue is modern accounting practices discourage holding on to money for a 'rainy day', the end result being our current state where profits tend to be immediately reinvested in growth or paid out as executive bonuses.
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
I wouldn't suggest using the 1913 price as a baseline. Noticing in the article, the price stayed close to 10 cents until 1973-1974ish. That time range (probably-not-coincidentally) is when the Gas shortages happen. This is interesting
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
There's a few challenges with doing something like this. - arrays (which most collections use under the covers) will need to allocate `elements*size_of_struct`. Unless the structs are the same size, you'd have to do some level of
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> AOT compilation? I'll believe it when they'll release it, until then, it's all speculation Devil's in the details, but there -is- AOT compilation[0]. While it hasn't been released as an official product, it has
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
The problem with that however is that games might be using the GPU for non-visual things such as physics or AI. Would those 'off by one' errors impact those tasks?
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
You can do raw SQL with EF, but you lose a lot in the process. EF Core -can- be better than the older, much more reviled EF as far as generated SQL, but in EF core 3 they did a pretty big breaking change on joins, bringing behavior closer t
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> I don’t understand why people think the employer cannot check whether the employee is slacking off. On some level it depends on what 'slacking off' means. I've had employers where 'slacking off' meant actively
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
Roblox is. This is just a near-NCAA tier play by the company to make money off child labor. Change my mind.
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> The only reason AMD wasn't hit by Meltdown too is their cores are/were less optimised. That doesn't answer whether they were less optimized because someone on the Red team realized that was a good idea.
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
It's because they know that Self Driving Cars are the way to Guarantee a revenue stream for the life of the vehicle. Screw actual utility, this is about revenue, plain and simple.
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> For instance, Hertz is going through Chapter 11, but you'd never know as a customer. For most cases yes. I don't know the exposure risk of Hertz in this regard, but in a Chapter 11 it's worth remembering that any people
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
Of course, there's also the FS-12, my favorite oddball camera... http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Zenit_Photosniper
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
Historically it's in-line with Nintendo's policies around guiding content however. After the CD-I debacle, Nintendo was not at all on-board with the idea of disc-based storage. One of those reasons was loading times. Another was l
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
I had to actually do something like this. Due to the hilarious nature of the business, getting an S3 account to use for 'local' (i.e. dev machine) development was a huge chore. We wound up creating an Interface to abstract our usa
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
And the worst thing is, as we've learned from Big Tobacco, They're -never- going to admit it. Nestle, Kraft, etc. will stop at nothing to make sure they aren't liable for the way they cut costs at the expense of generations o
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
On the other hand, given the direction everything else in the world is going, maybe it would be better to build a desalination plant NOW and before the problem gets critical... There's only so much fresh water you can take from a natur
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
There's still the environmental costs related with creation of the panels and cards. Making Circuit boards and Silicon is a costly endeavor in and of itself from an energy and waste standpoint.
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
One big difference is NINJA loans aren't really a thing on mortgages any more. [0] [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_income,_no_asset
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
> The incremental cost of labor is not going to slow the arrival of a robotic Aldi. No but it could speed it up. I'm certain plenty of big enough retail operation has a spreadsheet somewhere tracking the ROI on potential automation
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
I'd argue the infrastructure between phone numbers and e-mails are different enough that filtering for fake phone numbers is easier. You can look up carrier data on a phone number easily enough, and if you're in the industry you h
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by csharptwdec19 6y ago
The problem is we can't yet map a person's neurons well enough to know their motivations as to why they don't want to see the other person punished. Is it a genuine desire to forgive? Or is it out of fear/undesire to rel

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