cwillu

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841.
by cwillu 1y ago
And sometimes not getting it is the joke, for which I need only mention “Cow Tools”
842.
by cwillu 1y ago
Reddit is turning more into hn everyday.
843.
by cwillu 1y ago
Like the hn commenting guidelines you apparently didn't read :p
844.
by cwillu 1y ago
There was an awkward period of 3d accelerated games that required 16-bit framebuffers; I've had no success getting them to run in emulation
845.
by cwillu 1y ago
Super resolution refers to imaging below the refraction limit, more or less by having the receiving sensor within a wavelength or two of the material being imaged, allowing you to use the nearfield (which doesn't have a diffraction lim
846.
by cwillu 1y ago
A changing magnetic field induces an electric field; this is how asynchronous motors work. Having been in the room with a patient undergoing TMS a couple dozen times, I can assure you that the electromagnet will induce a muscle twitch from
847.
by cwillu 1y ago
Stop conflating “I don't want to live” with “I don't want my parents to live”.
848.
by cwillu 1y ago
This needs a [video] tag, as the entirety of the content referenced in the title is in the video.
849.
by cwillu 1y ago
Very much so.
850.
by cwillu 1y ago
Any discussion of an intel entry to discrete graphics cards needs to at least _mention_ intel's repeated history of abandoning discrete graphics cards.
851.
by cwillu 1y ago
Unrelated, but am I the only person who finds the concept of “getting notifications for somebody walking by a house” to be really creepy?
852.
by cwillu 1y ago
““Drone” covers many orders of magnitude in capability”
853.
by cwillu 1y ago
“Drone” covers many orders of magnitude in capability, but a CIWS can handle functionally unlimited numbers of the low-end, and the high-end don't clearly win the cost-per-kill war. Drones are game changing on land because they allow s
854.
by cwillu 1y ago
Diesels are basically intelligent mines.
855.
by cwillu 1y ago
“There… are… FOUR… lights!”
856.
by cwillu 1y ago
“Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10.” --Microsoft
857.
by cwillu 1y ago
Ugh, that explains why it hangs for a quarter second any time I scroll with the mousewheel.
858.
by cwillu 1y ago
If only there was an existing regulatory framework that has established protections and rights for customers and providers in this space.
859.
by cwillu 1y ago
You can quite easily draw a line that society does not get to force someone to live a tormented existence in spite of their prior declaration that they do not want to be tormented. “It shouldn't be that way” is not an excuse to torture
860.
by cwillu 1y ago
So, shoot it at the plate instead.
861.
by cwillu 1y ago
The whining about F-35 was always transparently nonsense, and happened more or less with every generation of attack and fighter jet.
862.
by cwillu 1y ago
Why shouldn't it? “On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual c
863.
by cwillu 1y ago
Honestly asking, but did you forget to add a “/s”?
864.
by cwillu 1y ago
Why not? Flour and rice and potatoes are cheap, why shouldn't a basic level of nutrition be available?
865.
by cwillu 1y ago
It's better in the dimensions they care about.
866.
by cwillu 1y ago
“Adaptations and improvements required by the military are programmed and incorporated into the LibreOffice project. More than five man-years have already been paid for this, which can benefit all LibreOffice users.”
867.
by cwillu 1y ago
“Adaptations and improvements required by the military are programmed and incorporated into the LibreOffice project. More than five man-years have already been paid for this, which can benefit all LibreOffice users.”
868.
by cwillu 1y ago
“We are not doing this to save money,” Hillebrand emphasized to ORF, “We are doing this so that the Armed Forces as an organization, which is there to function when everything else is down, can continue to have products that work within our
869.
by cwillu 1y ago
I said that if you introduce a major dataloss into a stable filesystem such that you have to break rc discipline, okay, do it, but be prepared for a period of community soul-searching afterwards. How does that imply that no feature could e
870.
by cwillu 1y ago
You appear to be arguing about something I didn't say; feel free to continue, but I'm going elsewhere now, cheers.

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