doikor

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by doikor 6y ago
> Taller constructions are concrete + steel. There have been some advancements in wood for taller structures in recent years. Basically they have come up with wood that is as strong as concrete. Main problem is fire/pests/rot&#
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by doikor 6y ago
Problem is powering the repeaters. More fibers are not going to help if you can not use them. They mention in the article the improvements in the repeater design to cut down power draw to allow more fibers to be used.
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by doikor 6y ago
Not really sure if either can cause more severe lung damage then they do. The worst case end scenarios of both are your lungs being so damaged that it kills you. Hard to make it worse than that. Though one manages it in a few weeks while th
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by doikor 6y ago
YLE also has some originally English content (and as we don't dub adult programs in Finland you can enjoy them too). For example the early seasons Game of Thrones were shown on YLE in Finland (this was before HBO Nordic existed)
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by doikor 6y ago
Here in Finland they just moved the payment into taxes in 2013. Basically 2.5% starting from income after 14000€ and maxes out at 163€ collected. https://www.vero.fi/en/About-us/newsroom/visual_aids_for_pre...
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by doikor 6y ago
Wait you actually login to a bank using a password? It’s all single use codes from a booklet or two factor application here in Finland (and has been for decades now) (And the two factor is the kind where you input a pin code every time)
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by doikor 6y ago
When someone makes a game for Stadia they don't really care if it works on linux or Vulkan in general. All they care is that the game works on the custom hardware and drivers Google/AMD provides for Stadia. That is the only platfo
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by doikor 6y ago
When making a game for Stadia you can target a very small subset of hardware and test on those on one single linux distribution/software stack (at the moment all stadia servers are identical). When you make a game that anyone can downl
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by doikor 6y ago
With games as long as you have good enough hardware to run the game at a steady frame rate you want it being divisible by some magic number does not matter. Also the old "standard" Hz for games is 60hz so going to 120 and then to
610.
by doikor 6y ago
Supercell has their office in that building now.
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by doikor 6y ago
> It just doesn't run on consoles It does run just fine on Series X and PS5. Not the greatest looking game but is running nicely at 60fps most of the time.
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by doikor 6y ago
Here is example of that (compilation benchmarks) for Ryzen 5950X https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-59... > For the code compilation speed tests were compiking Apache, PHP, the Linux kernel, Im
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by doikor 6y ago
I pretty much do work that needs more then 16GB of memory all day every day (and can take advantage of CPU cores up to 12 to 16 range). But yeah very dependent on your environment/workflow. Especially if you are just doing lightweight
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by doikor 6y ago
I doubt the instruction set is the only (or even the main) advantage M1 has. Apple just has been hiring some of the best talent in the field for a long time now that have been working on their phone/tablet chips and now used their tale
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by doikor 6y ago
> Just Buy M1 if you'd like to have a low-power, long-lasting, quiet, and performant dev machine. If your development environment/tooling/workflow does not gain any real advantage from more CPU cores. Also your data must f
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by doikor 6y ago
I think what he means with "needs more than 1 vendor" is that there exist a competitor to Dell (or now HP) that provides roughly the same service they can switch to if they are not happy with their services. With Apple the only su
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by doikor 6y ago
> the very fact that they tend to move around limits how much they can own and carry with them This is why they used horses/animals to carry their stuff (at least on the Eurasian steppe). If you can carry huge tents with floors rise
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by doikor 6y ago
Here is an excellent talk about the Xbox One security (and Series X|S should be quite similar) by the person who is in charge of security on the Xbox platform. https://youtu.be/U7VwtOrwceo Basically it boils down to trust N
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by doikor 6y ago
And a lot subsistence farming in the developing world where you basically just farm for yourself to eat which are very small. And even if someone farms for selling to others if they don't have reliable access to machinery the farms wil
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by doikor 6y ago
The effect is much much slower then the melting though. For example Finland, Sweden and Norway are still rising up from the last ice age (over 10k years ago). Don't know the other countries numbers but Finland is rising at 3 to 9mm (mo
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by doikor 6y ago
Yes but Intel can't take 2 (or 4 or 8 or whatever number you want) of defective parts and sell it as a high end part. AMD can make a 5900X or a Threadripper/Epyc out of 6 core chiplets "defective". As Intel chips are one
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by doikor 6y ago
Starting salary is actually pretty much exactly 3k in Helsinki. In most companies as a pure software engineer you can expect the salary to top out somewhere between 5 to 6k. If you are willing to take on management roles you can go higher e
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by doikor 6y ago
> People do suffer, even die, waiting in line for public treatment Never heard of anyone dying waiting for public treatment here in Finland. If you have some life threatening issue you will get treatment right away. I would say the only
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by doikor 6y ago
Also gives them a lot of flexibility with binning which should give them excellent yields. The ones that don't have full 8 (well enough) working cores just use them for 5600X (6 core) or 5900X (12 cores) if there is 6 or 7 good cores.
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by doikor 6y ago
The Russian nuclear submarines are just crazy big compared to the American ones (or anything made by anyone else for that matter) Typhoon class has a displacement of 48000 tons. Los Angeles class has displacement of 6927 tons. Typhoon class
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by doikor 6y ago
Microsoft did (still?) offer a free upgrade path from Windows 7/8 to Windows 10 for years so I doubt this is really for "getting money from our customers" but more "we want to stop supporting these old platforms at some
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by doikor 6y ago
We have compound words in Finnish too but what I am talking about (inflection) is very different. For example here is some (but not all) for the word dog (Koira). The longer ones would be full sentences on their own in most languages. Koira
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by doikor 6y ago
Problem is that we Finns can use a word (a known base word and adding the inflection to get the wanted meaning) in a sentence that has never been said or written before and the native speakers will still understand it. Basically a full trai
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by doikor 6y ago
The SpaceX satellites are in such a low orbit that anything that is not actively being pushed back up (well given more speed in reality but whatever) by engines will come down in a couple years due to drag from the atmosphere. Most of the S
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by doikor 6y ago
The verification app does tell you what the verification request is for. Also you can't really do anything in the bank without verifying yourself again (basically any change/write requires you to approve again) Basically in the ap

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