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elabajaba
5y ago
More like 40-60% off. Their base prices are insane for Thinkpads.
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The survivability onion: https://i.redd.it/33lz51812ko31.jpg Gun anti-air(AA) is basically useless against jets at this point (they fly too high and fast). For missiles, you can't really evade them if you're in th
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Discord was consistently seeing pauses in the range of several hundred ms every 2 minutes a couple years ago. https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...
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Panasonic got out of the NA TV market a few years ago, and no warranty+exorbitant shipping costs means it isn't worth buying one in Europe and having it shipped. They're also ending their inhouse TV production and outsourcing it f
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elabajaba
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Guns vs missiles is a bad example (missiles clearly won decades ago). It's more about eg. wanting to use a locally developed missile instead of using one of the US approved missiles (because missiles have to be tested, integrated, and
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elabajaba
5y ago
Is anyone using QuestDB in a memory constrained scenario? I've been running InfluxDB 2.0 on a 1GB RAM VPS (+2GB swap, currently collecting data every 5s but would prefer more often) for monitoring my home network, and it gets OOM kille
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elabajaba
6y ago
Windows powershell: ii dir (eg. ii ./)
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6y ago
LG's TVs are pretty bad as TVs outside of their OLEDs. IPS panels are good for computer monitors where you want color accuracy, fast pixel refresh rates, and good viewing angles, but are terrible for TVs because of their low contrast r
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Intel is reportedly going back to their old ways and incentivizing nuc vendors to either delay or cancel AMD versions. https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1249819270537715719?s=...
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7y ago
Western Digital bought HGST in 2012, started folding them into their business in 2015, and phased out the HGST brand in 2018.
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7y ago
Not everyone rips you off on egress fees the way Amazon/MS/Google do. Quite a few of the 2nd tier providers (eg. Vultr, Linode, Digital Ocean, Upcloud, etc) offer $0.01/GB for public outbound bandwidth with a free allowance e
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John McCain wouldn't let the Airforce retire the A-10 because most of the A-10s were based in Arizona, and he was afraid of the job losses from having airbases close (aka the dreaded BRAC).
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elabajaba
7y ago
Ready at Dawn's (Lone Echo, The Order 1886) CTO said that going forwards everything new would be in Rust in 2018[1] (however, looking at their careers page all the dev jobs are asking for C++ and don't say anything about Rust). EA
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elabajaba
7y ago
According to https://an.undulating.space/post/181227-er_alternate_firmwar... Wireguard is just as fast as hardware accelerated IPSec on both the Edgerouter X and Lite. With Openwrt on the Edgerouter Lite Wireguard is ~
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7y ago
Blackbird Interactive did that for Homeworld Deserts of Kharak so they could have a deterministic simulation for multiplayer RTS and used Unity for the rendering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwLW6CjswxM
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According to their documentation, Wasabi will move you on to their $0.005/GB storage $0.01/GB download plan (same price as B2 without api charges) from their $0.0059/GB storage free egress plan if you download more than your
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elabajaba
7y ago
Doubtful, since these are just fully unlocked TU102 GPUs (same as the Titan RTX, 2080ti is the same TU102 GPU but partially locked at 4352 cores vs 4608 for the Quadro RTX 6000/8000 and Titan RTX). If you could be profitable with this
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RTX 6000 is significantly faster than a P100 outside of FP64, and is the fastest or 2nd fastest GPU outside of FP64 work [1] (the GV100 is sometimes faster, sometimes slower than the RTX 6000 but costs more). For FP64, GV100 based GPUS are
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8y ago
They're too vulnerable to fly during the day because they're so big and fly so low.
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It's much cheaper to house the homeless than leave them on the streets. https://shnny.org/research/the-cost-of-long-term-homelessnes...
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8y ago
If you're on Mac or Windows, Affinity Photo is a pretty good Photoshop alternative for 50 USD. Iirc there's wording about paying for major version upgrades (eg 1.x to 2.0), but for Affinity Designer (their Illustrator equivalent)
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8y ago
Just saying, Sony was managing to fit a microSD card, headphone jack, and good sized battery (in terms of battery life, they've been some of the longest lasting phones despite using (admittedly low res) LCDs instead of OLEDs) in their
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The F-35 is vastly superior compared to any of the planes you listed (due to much better sensors, stealth (way lower radar cross section, meaning radars will only detect it once it is much closer vs a non stealth fighter), radar, sensor fus
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4k@60 is GPU bottlenecked, not CPU bottlenecked. It's pushing for 144fps where you'll start to be cpu bottlenecked in eg. Battlefield multiplayer or Assassins Creed. (also having a 4core/8thread cpu helps quite a bit vs 4core
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Extreme north or south. Barrow Alaska gets over 60 days without sun in the winter. A bit further south in more populated regions you only get a few hours of sunlight during the shortest days of the year.
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8y ago
Nothing, seeing as how OMERS (the pension fund) is worth $95 billion.
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iirc the Unreal Tournament team was the one who made the battle royale mode for Fortnite, so I don't think they're going back to UT anytime soon sadly.
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https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1985/... According to that, in the 1920s the British Army "discovered that armies in the past had on the average issued the soldier between fif