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by dave7 7y ago
There are many, here is one I hope you find reputable - The Royal Collage of Physicians. https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/news/promote-e-cigarettes-widely... A quote: "Although it is not possible to estimate the long-t
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by dave7 7y ago
Yes.
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by dave7 7y ago
For Bitcoin specifically (by far the largest), the amount of computational power is now very large indeed. An argument often seen against Bitcoin is that of it's environmental damages - quotes like "it uses more power than the who
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by dave7 7y ago
A timely reminder that the "new and improved, cool, friendly, loves open source, a different company" Microsoft is - beyond the slick rebranding PR - still quite happy to throw it's massive weight around, abusing the law, int
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by dave7 7y ago
It's the Mac equivalent of Windows' old-style "hourglass" or more modern "spinning blue circle". Basically means "become unresponsive, perhaps eventually needs process killed"
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by dave7 7y ago
I was curious if there is any indication of vulnerability between Rowhammer attacks and running Memtest86, a procedure I've been doing on new builds for many years, and it's a program that IIRC tests for all sorts of RAM issues (u
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by dave7 7y ago
At this same event they also announced their 1st gen RDNA GPUs, called Navi. Also releasing to retail on July 7th. They supposedly go quite some way to reducing the gulf in GPU power usage/performance.
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by dave7 7y ago
This article is a fairly standard hit-piece, of which there are many that follow the basic form: Valve Bad; Epic good! There has been an incredible quantity of these PR efforts over the last 6 months as Epic has tried to push that narrative
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by dave7 7y ago
Gamer's Nexus Youtube channel recently did a tour of Shenzen and produced an amazing "How it's Made" series on the components making up the majority of a modern gaming PC. One such video covers USB-C cables, here: https
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by dave7 7y ago
For these, there is a link below the headline titled "web" - click this, it opens in a search that when clicked through allows reading.
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by dave7 7y ago
ChrisFix videos are outstanding and somewhat generalized, he really does fine work. One of my favourite channels has much lower production values (not bad by any means though!), and is much more of a hacker. He buys something damaged, figur
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by dave7 8y ago
> It's known that CARB ordered the research due to discrepancies in US v EU numbers—but someone pushed them to look at the numbers closely. This is revealed in these quotes from the article: German and his colleagues at the Internat
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by dave7 8y ago
You can certainly use the PSVR (on PC) like this.
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by dave7 8y ago
> After a little more reading it looks like the Quest (their equally priced all-in-one headset) has a higher resolution and a physical IPD adjustment. What the hell are you even paying for with this? You get a worse headset for the same
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by dave7 8y ago
It's because games can be cheaper in countries where the economy is weaker. $60 in USA is a standard price, but that's outrageous in Thailand, and here Epic might charge the equivalent of $30. They do not want people shopping arou
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by dave7 8y ago
Even more ridiculous when you consider all those voting for Oscar winners will have watched the contender movies on their home TV setups from specially provided BluRay screeners!
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by dave7 8y ago
Setting up a build system is not required, React with JSX can be inlined using plain old <script> tags just fine I believe. <head> <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/reac
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by dave7 8y ago
It's also quite unsafe to run lithium ion batteries in series with different levels of wear / charge state, the old ones can easily be pushed too hard and fail (spectacularly).
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by dave7 8y ago
> Just fucking educate people on fact checking and elementary logic. Push for some lessons in high-school or whatever. I was taught this back in the 90s, UK GSCE History so a mandatory class at least for the first 3 years. I can't q
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by dave7 8y ago
Can you specify which motherboard please? And I guess it's a pair of Nvidia cards fitted? I'd like a setup like this in my future!
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by dave7 8y ago
> In the U.S. today, less than 2% of new cars sold are manual now. Automatic gearboxes are well beyond the norm already. At that percentage, the U.S. is a huge outlier however, and accounts for quite some chunk of of worldwide automatic
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by dave7 8y ago
It's probably done enough damage to their reputation in your estimation to not matter, but please note these Linux problems are specific to the Raven Ridge APU [1] - not the case using a discrete AMD GPU, the open source drivers for wh
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by dave7 8y ago
Started off the year with React, like others have mentioned in this thread "React for Beginners" by Wes Bos was instrumental in my understanding. Styled-Components is probably my favourite React library. I had been using JavaScrip
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by dave7 8y ago
I am currently halfway through making my first donut! (albeit in .79 for now). I've been wanting to do this for a long time.
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by dave7 8y ago
I have a UK one on my keyring right now, it's from Barclaycard. It reads "Finder, please deposit in any post box - no stamp needed", and also has an 0800 phone number on it. It's never been tested, but I like to think it
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by dave7 8y ago
I use these Faraday cage pouches for my new car keys (I got the two-pack listed "Amazon choice" in the above link) and they are excellent. As far as I can tell anyhow - my car hasn't been stolen (yet!) and if I keep the key i
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by dave7 8y ago
Not parent, but "As I Understand It"
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by dave7 8y ago
I'm glad to see this OP, as my post was initially going to be pointing you towards the support materials, eg.g Caesar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ergRKv3DglI I would suggest you have a golden opportunity here, tbh
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by dave7 8y ago
> but with occasional artifacts: some raster icons looks torn, sometimes there are weird graphical artefacts between text lines in Konsole/Kate/etc (which is rather annoying) ... I have to put up with this. Frustratingly I can
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by dave7 8y ago
> I worked at MS for a long time. I can say that sort of stuff hasn't happened for quite awhile, and people involved in it happening were fired, some of them rather publicly. 2016 isn't that long ago, and that's just one t

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