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by grkvlt 10y ago
I think one of the first 'mass market' processors that used this technique was the Intel 486SX, back in the early 1990s. It was simply a 486DX which had the fuses connecting the FPU blown. I believe binning by clock-speed has been
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Unfortunately, I don't speak French, so I wondered whether there was a translation of the video. As it turns out, YouTube has automatic sub-titling, and even automatic translation of sub-titles, from French into various languages - f
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by grkvlt 10y ago
From the article: "However, ternary computing may be spurred on by a new device called the memristor. [...] Memristors might become one of the industry’s hopes for extending Moore’s Law beyond the age of the silicon transistor."
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by grkvlt 10y ago
And the 2.5GHz chip you are using now n years later has (very) approximately 2^n more transistors - think about the increase in the number of cores, the large number of different execution units, the increased width of the data busses, that
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by grkvlt 10y ago
However, words do not exist in a vacuum. They have context when spoken or written. I suppose someone who was offended by the occurrence of the word "nigger" in the dictionary would be a little odd, but it would be quite normal for
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by grkvlt 10y ago
"You're an idiot as a handle, you stink ass and your mother sucks like a vacuum cleaner." Apparently. However, "You're an idiot as a handle!" may well become my go-to insult...
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> besides the scientific (or at least practical, at the current level of OCR/machine learning) impossibility I'd hardly say impossible. It's being done, today. See this article: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Yes, the chain mail protects you from the experiment detonation products, such as fragments of blast shield or fume hood, lacerating your hands. Also recommended is an iron face-mask and heavy leather apron. The candle effect you mention, i
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by grkvlt 10y ago
And note that the same brake fluid is also used in push bikes, if they have hydraulic disk brake setups.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> A much bigger risk of lead exposure is your local rifle range, esp. down range (i.e. the backboards / target area's) I would guess instantly fatal levels of exposure, if you hang around at the target area during a shoot...
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Disappointing - that used to be the best source for a copy. It's been out of print for a long time, but I checked on Library Genesis and found this copy: http://93.174.95.27/get.php?md5=4ACE426B937741B4ACFFFC81F658...
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by grkvlt 10y ago
The point is more one of framing, not of tolerance to assholes. If you restate the 'no assholes' policy as a set of positive traits that are to be encouraged then the framing effect is to cause people to look for those desirable t
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Anecdotally, yes, at least one; Cloudsoft, in Edinburgh in the UK! I brought my cat Biggles to work once, but it was underwhelming. He ignored me completely, and went to sleep under a colleague's desk. 2/5 would not bring cat to w
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by grkvlt 10y ago
The article contains this fascinating gem: > Fordlândia was established by American industrialist Henry Ford in 1928 as a prefabricated industrial town in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. Intended to be inhabited by 10 thousand people, i
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by grkvlt 10y ago
The UK and US have been using submarines as SIGINT platforms for a long time. Don't discount the ability to sneak into coastal waters a mile offshore from a missile testing facility, pop up an antenna and listen for telemetry, radar or
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by grkvlt 10y ago
No, very true, sadly. I wonder if the C-school hackers on BSD just look down on Java as far too 'Enterprisey' for them? Or has this changed?
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Something about this seems slightly wrong to me. Perhaps it's the assumption that users are a thing that is a property of the software? I guess it isn't clear what way the causation goes, or even if it exists - just as the GP poin
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by grkvlt 10y ago
That googly-eyed bald guy is, quite literally, the worst thing ever. I'm not sure why, but it was deeply disturbing in a very strange, uncanny-valley sort of way. Perhaps it's the fact that they've not got the synthesis _quit
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Yes, if your business model revolves only and completely around sending these unsolicited pieces of mail to my address, I think there would be no problem in getting a court to uphold the cease-and-desist letter, thus destroying your busines
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by grkvlt 10y ago
[META] This is popular, but is there a way to notify the mods of duplicates so that conversation doesn't get fragmented? I flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12135897 and https://news.ycombinator.c
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by grkvlt 10y ago
In fact, they used the exact one that is mentioned in the article: 23 and 24 Leinster Gardens (although incorrectly called Terrace in the article)
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by grkvlt 10y ago
It is interesting though. I wonder why Japan peaked in 1991? Perhaps as simple as the start of the Chinese ascendancy in exports, and from then onwards 'Made in China' just gradually replaced 'Made in Japan' for the pejo
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Macau has been the Vegas of the East (or, the Monte Carlo of the East) for a long time - Portugal made gambling legal there in 1850 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_in_Macau
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Actually it's 60k feet or 18km, which you can check, since phone GPS will still work on a commercial airliner during cruise.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> Nobody knows what it takes to relaunch a rocket Well, apart from Blue Origin, I guess. They've done four sub-orbital missions now, with their production hardware. I know there are differences, but it's a similar problem-space
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by grkvlt 10y ago
That's a little unfair. Dan Brown gets everything wrong.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
The human brain is an amazing thing, and the particularly amazing thing about it is that it's a very general-purpose thinking and learning machine. It's this generality and the ability to learn that allows people to become program
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by grkvlt 10y ago
For N=8 the solution listed on the Wikipedia page is a square antiprism ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_antiprism ) which seems intuitively reasonable. But, I don't see anything listed for N=20. Look at the
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by grkvlt 10y ago
The paper referenced is 'Probing the Nuclear Spin-Lattice Relaxation Time at the Nanoscale' [1] by researchers at the Leiden Institute of Physics. One of the reasons this is interesting is the application to brain imaging - it is
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MRI machine at the nanoscale breaks world records(phys.org)
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