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by davemp 9y ago
Check out hybrid contacts. I had similar issues with my astigmatism. The contacts have hard centers and soft outer rims. As a result they can provide decent astigmatism correction/stability while being __much__ more comfortable than ha
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by davemp 9y ago
manufacturing =/= innovation
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by davemp 9y ago
He also hangs out and is pretty helpful on some fpga related IRCs
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by davemp 9y ago
OP is talking about a bare-metal world where you might care about things like: - how many instructions execute between an interrupt trigger and your vector getting executed - if some piece of data is getting stored in text, data, or runtime
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by davemp 9y ago
Judging from google's track record with android, chrome, and youtube, I'm not very excited for this project. As much as I would love some innovation in the OS world, I find myself hoping that this system does not catch on. Google
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by davemp 9y ago
Seems like a vary bias/incomplete list to me. No guass, euler, ohm/kirchhoff, and many more people who made huge leaps for human umderstanding/achievement.
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by davemp 9y ago
> The Chinese government is protecting Chinese [control over citizens] markets > and also acting as the world's biggest innovation VC Wew. > Other countries have been asleep at the wheel Calm down with the CN propaganda.
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by davemp 9y ago
> make certain kinds of threats (generally the specific kind.) It is very hard to prosecute someone based on threats. You have to be able to prove intent to follow through.
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by davemp 9y ago
I wasn't commenting on the particular issue. I was merely saying that "who are you to judge me?" is a peer in society. Our lives are interconnected to varying degrees and your life will definately affect others. Everyone shou
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by davemp 9y ago
Not trying to offend, but . . . > If I enjoy xyz, who are you to judge me for that? I find this (common) sentiment troubling and frankly a bit arrogant. Whether or not you enjoy something is not always good metric for said thing's l
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by davemp 9y ago
The same thing happened to me. Ambiguous jargon is a real problem in the field. I guess it's because the field is relatively young and we haven't nailed things down yet.
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by davemp 9y ago
Honestly if someone had no prior experience with opperating systems, Ubuntu is probably easier to learn than windows.
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by davemp 9y ago
Nuclear power plants run critical systems on mostly analog and sometimes pld devices (much easier to formally verify). They also generally don't care about date-time and have rigorous testing/verification. Nuclear PP are not somet
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by davemp 9y ago
I glanced at the code snippet and immediately backed out of the article. There's no way that code looking like that solves any real problems FPGAs/HDLs have.
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by davemp 9y ago
The ol' General Purpose Unit
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by davemp 9y ago
AoEII definitive edition aka seriously we're going to stop making you pay for the same game over and over again.
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by davemp 9y ago
Blizzard's battle.net client is a qt app. I don't think it's available on linux though.
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by davemp 9y ago
Huh? Because the FBI is warning about a Russian company being used by the Russian government for intelligence gathering? As depressing as it sounds, assuming any government is keeping their nose out of their tech companies is honestly prett
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by davemp 9y ago
Be careful what you wish for, the OS might end up with javascript.
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by davemp 9y ago
Free speech were very popular ideas in France/England/USA in that time period. [1,2] France even had free speech protections before the USA did. [2] The USA's notion of free speech was directly influenced by/spawned from
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by davemp 9y ago
> many peripherals flapping around headphones and charger A usb hub also doesn't fit into my pocket. What if I'm walking around and want to plug two things in? Well fuck. EDIT: Also that is not a relevant xkcd. I'm not sug
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by davemp 9y ago
If I'm holding a phone I don't want a usb hub flapping around to plug in >1 device. More ports fit strictly more use cases. The only reason to limit phones to one port is so the manufacturer can save a few bucks. Sure I can wor
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by davemp 9y ago
I'm sure they are fine, but I don't see why I have to deal with bluetooth pairing and managing another device's battery. Plugging things in works great and is an overall more efficient protocol.
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by davemp 9y ago
That's kind of clunky and may cause issues with multiplexing high bandwidth protocols like monitors.
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by davemp 9y ago
I have a wallet with a decently powerful magnet. Modern credit cards and devices seem to hold up fine. The only issue I've had is a parking garage ticket getting wiped.
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by davemp 9y ago
> And physical keyboards. Something for SSH'ing with. Biggest thing I want is no aux port but __two__ (or more) usb-c ports instead. That way you can do stuff like plug in a keyboard/monitor or other standalone usb devices. I d
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by davemp 9y ago
At least it's promoting some decent discussion in this thread?
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by davemp 9y ago
> My apologies for providing a brief introduction and believing in you enough to think you could further research the source material yourself. Thank you. I always appreciate some good sarcasm and condescension. > Next time I'll
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by davemp 9y ago
While I did make a cheap jab, my issue was that the OP used Popper's authority but substituted the argument with a "youtube faux philosopher"
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by davemp 9y ago
All the misinformation and crud out there is troubling, but I think we just fall victim to sampling bias. Don't let the seas of crap dissuade you from your civic duty of making sound arguments!

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