ginko

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   by ginko 3y ago

   The possibility of having a personal secretary seems almost as outlandish as having a butler. No idea how much higher I'd need to go in my current company's org chart to get to that, but it'd be pretty damn high.
2. 662.▲
   by ginko 3y ago

   >It's also very easy to bodge together a USB-C connector in a pinch that only supports USB 2.0 If I found out (some of) the USB-C ports on my mb were limited to USB 2.0 speed and power I’d be quite pissed.
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   by ginko 3y ago

   There's an even more insane example: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-roman-mosaic-...
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   by ginko 3y ago

   The foreign super power ath92 was referring to was the US, not the EU.
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   by ginko 3y ago

   Diamond has the highest thermal conductivity of any natural material. Five times more than silver.
6. 666.▲
   by ginko 3y ago

   Diamonds are still too expensive as long as you can't get phone screens, PC heatsinks and chip wafers made from the stuff.
7. 667.▲
   by ginko 3y ago

   I thought we hit 8 billion decades ago. At least I think I remember hearing that number in the late 90s.
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   by ginko 3y ago

   I find the most beneficial thing about being able to touch type as a programmer is that you don't need to concentrate on the task of typing. That way you don't lose your train of thought so easily while working on something.
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   by ginko 3y ago

   >it will stop listening as soon as you break contact ..or so they say
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    by ginko 3y ago

    DigiCert's HQ is a 10 minute drive away from the NSA's Utah Data Center. I don't think you you need to be particularly paranoid to think there might be foul play there.
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    by ginko 3y ago

    > Because it goes via English? That's my understanding, yes.
12. 672.▲
    by ginko 3y ago

    Which is very confusing. Why does 12pm follow 11am and 12am follow 11pm?
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    by ginko 3y ago

    Another example I recently ran into is Google translate stripping gender from words even when translating between languages with grammatical gender. (German) die Banditin -> (Spanish) el bandido (Spanish) la bandida -> (German) der Ba
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    by ginko 3y ago

    There's ROM hacks that add most of the modern features of tetris to the GB version. https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5813/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDYciJzzTvw
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    by ginko 3y ago

    Frink looks pretty interesting, but it's not open source as far as I know.
16. 676.▲
    by ginko 3y ago

    That's a single lever mixer, not a thermostat.
17. 677.▲
    by ginko 3y ago

    It's strange that thermostatic valves aren't more common. They're pretty much standard here in Norway (and also in Japan as far as I've seen) but barely anywhere else for some strange reason. They're just downright
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    by ginko 3y ago

    >Apple patented GPU Dynamic Caching back in 2020. I know this might seem like a lifetime for SW people but <3 years from patent to customer for a GPU HW innovation isn't really that long? It's pretty typical, really.
19. 679.▲
    by ginko 3y ago

    Also in the Disney version Snow White and the prince meet for the first time at the very beginning of the film.
20. 680.▲
    by ginko 3y ago

    Feels like the HDD business is the more stable of the two. The competition in the flash/SSD market if fierce.
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    by ginko 3y ago

    I would have expected for youtube to splice the ads directly into the video stream ages ago. Combined with some stream throttling it'd make it almost impossible to skip (or at least waiting for the ad to be over). Any reason why this h
22. 682.▲
    by ginko 3y ago

    I didn't realize accumulating a large funko-pop collection was an expression of "man's tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities ... to express and activate all the capacities of the organism"
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    by ginko 3y ago

    Uppercase L is the correct symbol for liter adopted by CIPM. At the very least both l and L are generally accepted. M is definitely wrong for meter though.
24. 684.▲
    by ginko 3y ago

    The symbol for meters is a lower-case m.
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    by ginko 3y ago

    I used an original GPD Pocket as a travel laptop for a while. The tiny size and weight is really handy since you can just drop it in your bag and practically forget it's there. The small screen size and cramped/weird layout KB mad
26. 686.▲
    by ginko 3y ago

    >The complexities don't multiply here. I never said that. I just mentioned that O(n log(n)) is the lower bound since sorting will already take that long. What I'm concerned with is the complexity of the scanning step, which I t
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    by ginko 3y ago

    The main programmer of Kirby's Dreamland was Satoru Iwata (credited under the pseudonym Sunday Rain in the game) the later president and CEO of Nintendo. Apparently Hiroshi Yamauchi the original Nintendo CEO saw promise in Iwata and in
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    by ginko 3y ago

    I would be interested in an explanation why it's O(nlog(n)). It requires sorting the points along one axis which already gives O(nlog(n)) as a lower bound, but I'd be interested in how the line-sweeping would need to be done to no
29. 689.▲
    by ginko 3y ago

    It's a tit-for-tat response to ESTA.
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    by ginko 3y ago

    I have to admit I never really got into SQL, and maybe learning Prolog in university ruined me for it, but can someone explain why SQL is considered "relational" when you still have to explicitly do queries for basic stuff like th