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by ginko 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsinkable_Sam
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by ginko 3y ago
Even in a FANG you can't just walk to your manager and tell them to get a mainframe so you can play around with z/OS.
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by ginko 3y ago
>are outside HN radar, because IBM isn't cool More like outside people's radar because IBM only sells to big companies.
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by ginko 3y ago
This article explains why you can’t travel with only an iPad (and a phone presumably) but doesn’t seem to bother explaining why you can’t just travel with a small laptop and phone. What does the tablet add that makes it indispensable for tr
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by ginko 3y ago
I have a masters in computer science from Vienna University of Technology in Austria. This gives me the title “Diplom-Ingenieur” (diploma engineer) which according to Austrian law essentially becomes part of my name. I can (but don’t have t
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by ginko 3y ago
Kodachrome archives a lot better than E6 process slides.
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by ginko 3y ago
>In any case it was an experience, certainly not a cheap one, and it was punctuated with moments of discomfort but also deep relaxation. Fancy onsen ryokan can be quite pricy, but I wouldn't say it's expensive in general. I&#x2
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by ginko 3y ago
This is a pretty good multi-part documentary from 2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HUrl1JwmJs
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by ginko 3y ago
Grew up in EU as well(Austria). When around 13 we’d buy alcohol with the old “I’m getting it for my dad” excuse. (Obviously my dad needed some 4% alcoholic lemonade in the early afternoon) Cashiers didn’t really care. At least back in the 9
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by ginko 3y ago
>Some prompt engineering, JS, Python, etc can accomplish a lot. The problem is you can’t just deploy this and forget it without regular security updates (with the likelihood of breakage in compatibility - python libs are particularly bad
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by ginko 3y ago
DNA has a ~500 year half life. For a 300,000 year old copy of a genome to survive there’d need to be 2^600 copies to begin with.
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by ginko 3y ago
How can engineers working on this even look at themselves without being ashamed? For the record: I'm a graphics driver engineer myself.
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by ginko 3y ago
Does that include corporate zoom contracts?
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by ginko 3y ago
At this point it feels like even of this turns out to not be a full superconductor it will be a huge leap forward
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by ginko 3y ago
There's a prediction market on it. Went from ~25¢ to >50¢ since yesterday. https://polymarket.com/event/is-the-room-temp-superconductor...
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by ginko 3y ago
I think I'm reasonably tech savvy and at no time in my life I had a system I could trust to be 100% always-on. No way you could expect average users to run their own service just so they don't miss messages. Anyways it feels sill
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by ginko 3y ago
Where do you host the bot? Not everyone has an always-on server.
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by ginko 3y ago
> The reliability and lack of bloat that are inherent to IRC ultimately also means that there are a number of fancy modern features that Discord has that IRC lacks, a big one being the inability to view backlogs of conversations that tra
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by ginko 3y ago
Exactly why what? "0.25%" is a lot easier to understand. It's even fewer characters than "25 bps"
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by ginko 3y ago
This is a tech forum, not a finance forum though. The original article doesn't even use bps. It just says "In support of these goals, the Committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 5-1/4 to 5-1&
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by ginko 3y ago
Why not say 0.25%? No one knows obscure English language economics terms.
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by ginko 3y ago
25 bits per second?
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by ginko 3y ago
It wasn't the Soviet Union that nationalized the steppe, it was the Syrian government. At no point in time was Syria part of the SU. The article only mentioned the Syrians got the idea from the Soviets.
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by ginko 3y ago
If there's one thing I wouldn't want to do in the United States it would be raising a family. Seems like there is absolutely zero freedom for children there.
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by ginko 3y ago
But relative temperature change only makes sense if you use absolute units. I.e. Kelvin.
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by ginko 3y ago
A 30% relative change in temperature from an avg 20°C/293K would be a difference of almost 100K.
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by ginko 3y ago
I used to swear by scons but it really collapses under its own weight when projects become larger. At my work we used it for a fairly large source tree and no-change incremental builds would take a good minute for scons to figure out there&
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by ginko 3y ago
Just from reading the title i figured their idea of 'modern' was using something like yaml or json.
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by ginko 3y ago
I'd recommend shooting slide film with the F4 though, since that one has a matrix meter and slide film is quite finicky if you don't get the exposure right.
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by ginko 3y ago
>always thought of Anchor Steam as bland, malty, and mediocre, on the same low level as Fat Tire, to name a comparable brand. So was it bland or malty? Those seem mutually exclusive to me. I'm generally a fan of steam beers/cal

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