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by dfex 2y ago
Am I mistaken or has Intel pretty much shelved the Tofino switching hardware that supports P4 in the first place? I seem to recall Oxide having to switch suppliers over this?
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by dfex 2y ago
Amen! I've worked at multiple lean companies that were purchased by bigger public entities. Without fail, the "problem" the company existed for moves from delighting customers to financial engineering. Since going it solo, i
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by dfex 2y ago
Came here to say this. The Oil & Gas industry is not sexy and never will be, but it pays well above market and people with niche skills will do very well there (as you have no doubt now seen). Technological progress in the space tends t
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by dfex 2y ago
I've just arrived at the walk-off scene in Zoolander and have a still frame of Derek Zoolander's crotch to measure my life's progress. Sounds about right.
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by dfex 2y ago
For those struggling with the above, I'd add one more step that I learnt here on HN - go to assistive settings and set your phone's screen to Black & White. On the iPhone, triple clicking the lock button will do this for you.
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by dfex 2y ago
> ...the web used to be more interesting when more of it was made by people different from us And there it is, beautifully distilled into one sentence.
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by dfex 2y ago
I was more referring to the statement: > Also from my experience it's the counterparty that should feel honored to be working with Apple rather than the other way around The Beats purchase was interesting in that I'm almost cer
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by dfex 2y ago
Interesting read - I thought that the reason the aliens sent the supercomputer probe things ahead of their invasion fleet was because they understood the humans capacity for advancement would far exceed their own capabilities if left unchec
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by dfex 2y ago
So much this. I too read the book when I was very young, and enjoyed it for its awesome mix sci-fi, absurdity, dry humour and absolute classic one-liners. What I love about it now is how it presents a view of life in the universe as entire
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by dfex 2y ago
Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre have entered the chat...
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by dfex 2y ago
Just awesome!
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by dfex 2y ago
No - I have only been trialling them for about 2 weeks after having substantial hearing loss on one side for 20+ years. Thanks for your insight though - I was told "a couple of days" to get used to them would be enough.
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by dfex 2y ago
I sure hope so. Like I said, I'm only trialling them. Do you find they pretty much have no low-end/bass at all?
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by dfex 2y ago
I am currently trialling a pair of Phonak hearing aides (mid-range audio package, roughly AUD$5K) and I can assure you the sound quality is garbage even at this price point. Yes, they pick up sounds I don't normally hear, but I would c
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by dfex 2y ago
Not quite Realtalk, but inspired by it: http://paperprograms.org
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by dfex 2y ago
Genius! Though for that price and the "license fee", the council should be providing you with a free pensioner and/or lawn chair.
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by dfex 2y ago
> Residents will need to pay an application fee of £108 and if their application is successful, they will pay a further £1,251 for construction costs and a licence for the first year. ...and after handing all that money over, will be thw
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by dfex 2y ago
Creative souls build successful startup, but sell to big media/private equity, then instantly regret it when big media/private equity squeezes fun out of it and want ROI. News at 11.
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by dfex 2y ago
"Do a kick-flip"
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by dfex 2y ago
I think you'll find the market for GBA cartridges is alive and well - those handhelds are indestructible, and small release games like this will sell out and be traded by collectors. And for those who aren't sure about buying a 2n
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by dfex 2y ago
> But its not like grid operators back in the control rooms are disconnecting solar farms because the grid is oversaturated. In Australia, this has been happening for some time - plants are literally having their output dialled back (or
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by dfex 2y ago
Thank you for this - the article had me wondering: if they are putting the PMMM film over glass, what's the point? - any extra transparency from the film will just be negated by the glass, but in the paper it appears they have develope
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by dfex 2y ago
Thanks for this timely post! I have been kicking around the idea of starting a meetup in my city to meet interesting people in my field. Being a freelancer on large projects in my day job, it sometimes feels like I'm out of the loop fo
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by dfex 2y ago
You're mostly there - your hub definition is spot on - it's basically an electrical repeater and doesn't inspect the packet in any way* and operates at half-duplex. Switches (specifically Layer 2 switches) will send broadcast
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by dfex 2y ago
Another vote for Inkscape here - amazing tool. I probably use less than 1% of it's functionality, but it is far and away the best PDF editor I've come across (I work with a lot of design drawings that started life as DWG/CAD
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by dfex 2y ago
> Upon closer inspection of Asia, we can notice a significant number of addresses located in South Kora, (and possibly North Korea?), as well as in Taiwan. > I was surpised to see that the distribution of attacks is extremely uneven w
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by dfex 2y ago
> I've been dwelling in some nostalgia recently and miss some of the earlier days when everything wasn't so homogenous. You are not alone in this. I see announcements like this one from Meta and others like Oxide - companies o
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by dfex 2y ago
The VR game isn't "mobile-only" as per the parent post
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by dfex 2y ago
Not so much Monument Valley-like, but I also found The Room tetralogy (quadrilogy?) very enjoyable. Certainly a very different aesthetic from Monument Valley's whimsical colour-palette and story line, but excellent puzzles nevertheles
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by dfex 2y ago
The ABit BP6 bought me so much "cred" at LAN Parties back in the day - the only dual socket motherboard in the building, and paired with two Creative Voodoo 2 GPUs in SLI mode, that thing was a beast (for the late nineties). I see

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