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by gh02t 8y ago
Nowadays, certain games make the GPU in my desktop whine, though I'm pretty sure it's some kind of coil whine in my case. It's equally mysterious however, it's only certain games. And it's not load-based, some relat
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by gh02t 8y ago
> A weird thing was how at 11MHz I could audibly hear large screen refreshes. Never quite understood where that sound was from. Was it a whining sound? First guess would be spike in power consumption and the inductors making noise in the
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by gh02t 8y ago
3 mg is also the sweet spot for me. More than about 5 makes me have really wild, restless dreams. I still sleep feel rested in the morning, but it's kind of like you spend the whole night half awake because the dreams are so vivid.
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by gh02t 8y ago
Right, that's my point. What most people associate with "macOS" is actually the stuff layered on top of Darwin, which is mostly proprietary. It's not just the GUI, it's also a lot of the frameworks and libraries as
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by gh02t 8y ago
People forget that actual Unix descendants are really mostly proprietary . Linux and BSD are what we often think of today, but those are really more "Unix-like's" and many of the "true" Unixes tend to be proprietar
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by gh02t 8y ago
It's exactly what it sounds like... using explosives to bond two metals together. I don't know much about it other than in passing though, so I can't speculate what the parent's application was. I think it's most co
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by gh02t 8y ago
It's not so much that it's highly radioactive as it is that radiation detectors are really sensitive. It's not inert, but its specific activity is pretty low. The types of radiation it emits do mean it is significantly more d
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by gh02t 8y ago
> I would expect waterbeds to be easier to regulate as well, as I imagine they have a higher thermal conductivity. This could allow to place the cooling apparatus underneath, and make it something like a regular fridge radiator. I dunno
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by gh02t 8y ago
Also worth noting that APL isn't totally foreign. Numpy, Mathematica, MATLAB etc. draw inspiration from APL in their array manipulation. Maybe not so much syntactically, but logically.
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by gh02t 8y ago
Side note, is it just me, or is the Android Messages app really laggy? Especially on the phone, there is a significant delay from when I hit send to the message popping up on screen, to the point that I frequently get the "Messages has
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by gh02t 8y ago
For reflow soldering they really don't have to be that precise. Capillary action pulls the part into place and aligns it as long as it's somewhat close when the solder wets, it's really neat. Even QFN packages the author ment
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by gh02t 8y ago
A PhD is a pretty deep dive into a subject, if you don't have passion you're gonna burn out. Of course other things are important, but if you don't have passion for the subject you're gonna be miserable. And I don't
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by gh02t 8y ago
> Unless you possess a serious passion for the subject, you’re unlikely to survive. I mean, should you really get a PhD without a serious passion for the subject? I won't disagree one bit that it's not for everybody. Speaking a
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by gh02t 8y ago
Yeah, the point is that Amazon's design costs more to produce and they sell it for a lower price. The Sonos design is more typical and $200 is probably closer to a "realistic" price. In other words, the design details from th
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by gh02t 8y ago
Making those diagrams in Mathematica would be extraordinary painful. It's probably something similar to that (a custom XKCD-like style) but for a dedicated diagramming tool. I don't know of any tool with such a style though, so I&
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by gh02t 8y ago
IIRC, I used to have one of the old Apple Airport travel routers back in the day and it used 10.0.0.1 by default. I've tended to prefer that block for my home network ever since.
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by gh02t 8y ago
Projectors are also getting smart features, at least the ones targeted at home users. 4K projectors also still represent a significant price premium over TVs, which has gotten a lot better in the past year or so, but still. Projectors also
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by gh02t 8y ago
Yep, Android (Google) Messages' logo is a white text bubble on blue background. If you have a Samsung phone and didn't explicitly install another SMS app you're probably using the Samsung one. Ditto for the email client (Emai
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by gh02t 8y ago
Not true, having just gone through publishing in an Elsevier journal (and not for the first time). There was a person involved, because I discussed several of their edits over the phone. It's partially automated, but there is definitel
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by gh02t 8y ago
The biggest thing Elsevier does that requires actual work is final typsetting and editing of your article. They have someone take your preprint submission and take care of the formatting for the final article. I don't think this justif
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by gh02t 8y ago
Note that GT Academy winners get extensive race driver training as part of their prize. I agree that the skills translate (somewhat), but people should be aware that he (the guy in the article) didn't go from playing Gran Turismo direc
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by gh02t 8y ago
I've heard of this being used in a few products, especially more advanced "LiFi" systems. I think one company was advertising an in store network for things like setting price signs and such based on optical data transmissio
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by gh02t 8y ago
The article mentions it at the end, by "downfall" they don't mean Apple is going to fold. They mean that Apple making such a difficult to repair laptop is now going to cost them a ton of money because the "keyboard"
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by gh02t 8y ago
I've tried a few of the apps on the Play store (non-rooted) and they did work, but they were crashy and when they did work, clunky to the point of being unusable
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by gh02t 8y ago
Regarding why DARPA changed their name, it was because of a change in focus. Originally they were much broader and were also involved with early projects related to space and nuclear test monitoring, among others. Around 1970 ARPA was cons
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by gh02t 8y ago
Indeed, I was impressed just by his PCB layout... it's so neat with that big Spartan-3, while I struggle to make tidy layouts with a simple 32-pin TQFP chip. And that's probably the simplest part of this project.
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by gh02t 8y ago
Out of curiosity, what is the future of PyMC3 since development on Theano was halted? I used PyMC very extensively in my dissertation work (both 2 and 3) and even implemented some custom samplers for it, but when I heard the devs of Theano
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by gh02t 8y ago
Since you called yourself an "ex-physicist", would you mind saying why you quit and/or what you are doing now?
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by gh02t 8y ago
The lore for PoE is actually super deep and fascinating (as we as dark , even Diablo would be like "damn dude, that's hardcore" about some of the stuff that goes down), but it's much more in the background and you have
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by gh02t 8y ago
> Have a little kid and make the mistake of attaching a credit card to the app store account. iOS and Android have parental controls where you can lock out/limit IAPs for an account or device to counteract this. I agree the whole pr

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