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by dharmab 3y ago
I had a bunch of friends working in the fab industry in the US at Micron. They said TSMC's offer to poach them was 50k, no insurance, no 401k, no stock, 1 week PTO with no increases (that includes sick days). It was an absolutely insul
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by dharmab 3y ago
Anecdote- most of my skilled friends working in chip fabs jumped over to software jobs a few tears ago. Software pays better for easier and significantly less hazardous work.
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by dharmab 3y ago
Man, repairing my XC90 sucked. I remember ripping the busted blower motor out through the passenger footwell because the service manual called for a full removal of the dash and A/C system which exceeded the value of the car. And the r
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by dharmab 3y ago
A more likely explanation: https://xkcd.com/1279/
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by dharmab 3y ago
Whoever downvoted you have never heard of heel toe
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by dharmab 3y ago
I have a modern-ish manual (Acura RSX) and never need the parking brake on a hill. Left foot on clutch, right toe on brake, release brake, add gas and clutch together, roll up.
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by dharmab 3y ago
1. So you can run any container image that someone made into a Docker container instead of building your own VM images 2. So you can run in Kubernetes and use the Kubernetes API, alongside any non-VM Pods and many other features in your Kub
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by dharmab 3y ago
Run multiple workloads on the same CPU that you don't fully trust. VM-based containers will force the CPU to properly context switch between guests (e.g. using VMENTER on x86), normal process-based containers won't.
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by dharmab 3y ago
In Kubernetes 1.25+ page cache usage accounting is improved thanks to use of cgroupsv2. https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/architecture/cgroups/
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by dharmab 3y ago
A friend of mine was bored and bought a Lishi tool online recently. Within 10 minutes and with no previous lock picking experience he was able to silently pick his house's deadbolt.
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by dharmab 3y ago
I believe Ford has a patent on keypad entry. Many of their vehicles have it.
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by dharmab 3y ago
This would be nice to retrofit onto my old Honda, which has an easily exploited flaw in its rolling code system. Modern cars also have new vulnerabilities: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-h
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by dharmab 3y ago
Because Kia tried to save money by removing said security systems from base models.
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by dharmab 3y ago
Some of the software is mission critical but not flight critical. If your targeting pod is down, it'll be harder to see the ground target or visually ID aircraft from afar, but there is no safety issue to the plane.
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by dharmab 3y ago
I use these tools but make sure to turn off any subjective checks in their configurations.
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by dharmab 3y ago
My favorite useless watch is the H. Moser & Cie Swiss Alp Minute Repeater Concept Black. HM&C took their Swiss Alp, a square watch with a tourbillion and minute repeater, and removed the hands. The only way to tell the time is with
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by dharmab 3y ago
Dairyland is in fact an insurance company https://www.dairylandinsurance.com/
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by dharmab 3y ago
I was inside Adobe during the final death of Flash. Adobe as an organization is fully capable of maintaining a frighteningly complex product; Document Cloud is a testament to that. Steve Jobs and Apple's decision that iOS should be foc
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by dharmab 3y ago
The cockpits are environmentally controlled- otherwise the equipment inside could overheat or freeze.
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by dharmab 3y ago
Suction cups are extremely secure when used correctly (clean flat smooth surfaces). GoPro advertises theirs as secure in a 150MPH wind when used correctly.
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by dharmab 3y ago
A common checklist item is to secure any "FOD" (Foreign Object Debris"). For example some pilots will strap their clipboard or iPad to their legs as a "kneeboard".
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by dharmab 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Mover
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by dharmab 3y ago
Torrents don't work well in most of the world due to asymmetric upload/download speeds.
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by dharmab 3y ago
I use this to play the Ace Combat games on my PC using a high-end flight simulation HOTAS. It's like having a home arcade cabinet and a lot of fun! I ripped the DVDs myself using a standard DVD drive, and you can use FreeMCBoot to lega
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by dharmab 3y ago
I use a SATA SSD in my PS2. I buy used games and rip them directly to the drive.
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by dharmab 3y ago
Even the games that have successful have cross game items- like Blood Dragon Armor in Mass Effect and Dragon Age- had to have entirely separate 3D models for the item. Because the Grey Warden and Commander Shepard have different bodies!
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by dharmab 3y ago
Which projects?
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by dharmab 3y ago
The main use case is for users who upgraded their mainboard and want to reuse their old board for a home server or something
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by dharmab 3y ago
You might want to get your eyes checked at your next appointment. I'm severely color blind and yet I can see a significant difference in color diversity, vibrancy and image quality in these examples. The FP image is muted and muddy.
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by dharmab 3y ago
Most Android cameras are fine for social media pics. However if you edit and print your photos the iPhone and flagship Android cameras are noticeably better in color, image noise, brightness, contrast and low light.

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