faller

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by faller 4y ago
> So to make this familiar, you're probably used to traditional coordinate vectors in geometry. For example a 3D vector [x, y, z]. This seems sane enough, but is actually somewhat ambiguous. The concept of a coordinate system is not
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by faller 4y ago
> Hang on, is that a Natural number, or a signed Integer? Is it place-value, and if so what's the base? Big- or little-endian? I fail to see how that makes any sense. OP clearly referred to the unidimensional nature of a scalar in c
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by faller 4y ago
> No. If your device only supports 5 Gb/sec speeds, it's USB 3.0, yes. That's not how things work. Devices are implemented while targeting a standard. If you implement a USB 3.0 device then you do not support any data tran
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by faller 4y ago
> This is supposedly better than USB 3.0 (original standard), USB 3.1 (new standard (...) Not quite. * USB 3.0 specifies SuperSpeed. No need to go on about GenX given it's the first one introduced by USB3 is there? * USB 3.1 specifi
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by faller 4y ago
> You keep dancing around my arguments. No, not really. Feel free to point out exactly which argument you feel was ignored. > The issue isn't that things have changed; it's that they've changed in a way that makes thing
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by faller 4y ago
> But USB 3.0 supported USB 2.0 and 1.0/1.1 speeds already without this "generation" garbage. No, not quite. What do you think the USB3.0 SuperSpeed is? Why, a brand new transfer mode. > If I plugged a USB 3.0 cable (9
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by faller 4y ago
> I'm not talking about the standards, but the marketing names. "USB 3.0" is now "USB 3.2 Gen 1" No, it's not. If you implement it from the legacy USB 3.0 spec then you don't care about it. It's Su
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by faller 4y ago
> But then why rename 3.0 to 3.1 then 3.2? I honestly have no idea what you're trying to ask. Keep in mind that: * USB3.0 was released in 2008. * USB3.1 was released in 2013. * USB3.2 was released in 2017. Each standard is standalon
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by faller 4y ago
> Adding a new transfer rate seems like a reasonable place to bump the minor version number of a protocol. After reading all of that I'm even more convinced that it should have just been USB 3.2. I'm not sure you read any of t
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by faller 4y ago
> Why? To solve what exactly? In a sane world, it'd be major.minor, with nothing appended at the end. It's always important to get acquainted with a topic before succumbing to the desire to mindlessly criticize in ignorance. A
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by faller 4y ago
> It's a one time charge and also can be resold if needed. It's a hefty one-time charge that is not required to operate a Uber and thus can baloon the initial investment between 2x and 3x, and at best is capex that you have to
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by faller 4y ago
> 1. Uber is actually a higher cost/less efficient producer of urban car services than the taxi companies it has driven out of business This doesn't seem to be true, given that in some countries you have taxi companies providin
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by faller 4y ago
> Since then, what surprises me is that this project continues to be a useful, possibly necessary tool for measuring and tuning Lambda performance. Is performance tuning a relevant topic for AWS Lambda though? It's my understanding
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by faller 4y ago
> Lord knows they're heading in that direction with the WHO. WHO as in World Health Organization? If so, can you please point out your rationale for your link between the WHO and "an unelected world government"?
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by faller 4y ago
> As long as you haven't made the active window full screen, or the window you want to switch to, then yes, it works. But it is painful :P What's being described as "full screen" windows on macOS is not exactly that,
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by faller 4y ago
> But are these people going to jail? The first paragraph of the news piece states that "the head of the department responsible for Ukraine was sent to prison." Here's the second paragraph: > In a sign of President Put
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by faller 4y ago
> I think "annoying" is a better description. Tying your personal health and that of your loved ones to your employer gives your boss unduly leverage over yourself, particularly when there are life and death decisions to be mad