earthbee

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by earthbee 5y ago
Any news about their lawsuit and what the chances are that they're going to get sued into oblivion some time in the next couple of years?
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by earthbee 5y ago
Are there any particular circumstance where it takes 10-15% of one CPU for you or is it whenever there is sound playing? I just checked mine while playing music on YouTube and it bounces between 4.0 and 4.8%
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by earthbee 5y ago
> Isn't this a chicken and egg problem? Without voter ID we don't know whether fraud has taken place or not. No, they keep a track of who has turned up to vote, if you are putting extra votes in or voting in someone else's
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by earthbee 5y ago
How about not only there being a lack of evidence showing significant election fraud in the UK but there's also positive evidence there is no significant election fraud, and that there are hundreds of thousands of people in the UK who
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by earthbee 5y ago
I hate saying it because it makes me sound like a paranoid loony, but we're literally getting close to being a config file change away from being an inescapable totalitarian dictatorship, all the parts are slowly being put in place and
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by earthbee 5y ago
I disagree. Elements in a story should help communicate character setting or plot, preferably more than one at the same time, but I think it's perfectly fine to introduce elements that only communicate setting and/or character wi
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by earthbee 5y ago
I was reading just yesterday that people with Sjogren's, an autoimmune condition, were more likely to end up in hospital with Covid. I'm sure there's lots of potential confounding factors that mean I shouldn't jump to c
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by earthbee 5y ago
Looking at the source to that webpage got a chuckle out of me
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by earthbee 5y ago
Then you could hear them coming and avoid them
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by earthbee 5y ago
If the passive sonar filling the entire nose of a huge submarine can't hear another submarine, why would a much smaller sonar in the nose of a drone be able to detect a submarine?
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by earthbee 5y ago
A taken branch on the 6502 takes 3 cycles. A not taken branch followed by a Return From Subroutine instruction takes 2 + 6 cycles. Looking up the conditional return instructions on the 8080 seems to show it takes 5 cycles when false and 1
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by earthbee 5y ago
What significant advantage does that have over a conditional branch followed by an RTS?
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by earthbee 5y ago
Even where besiegers outnumbered the besieged by a huge margin it still often took months or even years to defeat a castle by siege, yet if the same two forces met in open battle it would be over in an hour or less. This clearly shows that