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by ivl 7y ago
Oh I'm well aware they used to make very quality products. Craftsman at one point was re-branding high quality products, like Abus locks. But that was again, 50 years ago. Their recent tools have left me disappointed with issues co
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by ivl 7y ago
Good may be a bit too generous to Craftsman. I've never found their hand tools reliable. Their powertools less so. Worst was a ratchet where the first thing to break wasn't one of the teeth on the gear, but instead the pawl, mea
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by ivl 7y ago
L3 went down per core, but total L3 only fell by 3 MiB. While total L2 flew up from 2.5 MiB to 16 MiB in a single generation for two processors that target the same segment at the same price. Per core you're correct, but I was looking
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by ivl 7y ago
In the case I was thinking of, Skylake-X, the HEDT line, that wasn't entirely true. I was looking mostly at something like Broadwell-E vs Skylake-X, where the difference is huge: Core i7-6950X - $1,700 at launch in 05-2016: 10 × 256 K
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by ivl 7y ago
Skylake-X has 1024 KiB of L2 per core. Which was a 4x increase over the 256 KiB of L2 per core that had been the standard forever since they've been going with the Core series.
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by ivl 7y ago
More cards is not seen as an advantage. There are a couple cases where you may want more cards, but usually up to about 75. It's about drawing the right cards, not just many, and more cards makes your deck less reliable, simply on th
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by ivl 7y ago
Which is terribly unfortunate, and makes me value my Canadian citizenship less and less.
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by ivl 7y ago
Personal computers (and cell phones) contain more information than people could have ever imagined when polices around searches at borders became a thing. It's really unfortunate that there's no desire to respect that. You could
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by ivl 7y ago
> la porcelaine blanche Not only is their slogan descriptive, the name alone suggests as much as well.
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by ivl 8y ago
That does not sound too broad. I don't think anyone wants these unsolicited marketing calls. And people definitely don't want the 'free vacation in the Bahamas' spam calls. I can hardly tell the two apart. What&#x2
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by ivl 8y ago
From the previous article on this island, it was not expected to last this long, and now if I'm remembering correctly it's not expected to last more than 30 years. It may just be better to research what happens naturally for the
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by ivl 8y ago
I sympathize with that, and I was in no way advocating the PE exam for software development (although I could see it being of use in certain areas - it could be useful for roles involving risk similar to the risks that usually lead to other
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by ivl 8y ago
The NCEES does offer a software engineering PE exam. But, that's meaningless when anyone can be a dev because there are no limits to who can be hired for what purpose in software, really.
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by ivl 8y ago
Amusingly, Safari made the same change as the Chrominum devs are discussing here. Limiting how well extensions can parse and block requests.
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by ivl 8y ago
Those are a loss leader, though. Those are chickens typically past the sell by date. Grocery stores actually take a loss on those, but they're appealing and convenient. People will pick them up during normal grocery shopping and hav
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by ivl 8y ago
To your comment about a PlayStation being ridiculously simple compared to a desktop computer I'd call that close to true in the case of the now 20 year old first generation. The most recent two have basically been custom extensions on
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by ivl 8y ago
So, this reminds me of a nuclear meltdown vs. the constant pollution form a coal power plant nearby a city. Even with one of those single, ugly, massive failures they could still very well cause fewer deaths.
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by ivl 8y ago
This runs into the paradox of tolerance[1]. Net, when the things being censored are say, advocating for genocide, the harm they can lead to is much greater than not having people advocating for genocide. [1]: https://en.wikipedi
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by ivl 8y ago
> This will result in more people choosing to enter those fields. I think for skilled labor in the US there are way better ways to accomplish this. Lower the cost of education, and work to improve education on the whole. But your idea i
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by ivl 8y ago
It's not a chicken and egg problem. Cities are much more efficient for labor and companies. You have a larger pool of talent, a larger pool of freshly educated replacements for those who retire or leave, and often more services avail
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by ivl 8y ago
> This will deprive rural and middle America on the skilled labor that they need to survive. That's kind of already happened. Since the recession almost all new jobs created were in cities and metro areas, and mostly to educated wo
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by ivl 8y ago
The beneficiary of pretty much every brain drain for the last 100 years. No wonder such a strong economy came of it.
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by ivl 8y ago
I actually liked Gambia's choice of using marbles. Only really works for single ticket elections, though.
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by ivl 8y ago
I think it's because what he's trying to make are high on a lot of peoples priorities, morally. I like Tesla as a battery company. I like Space-X. I want to root for the guy. I wish he wouldn't do things like this... But
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by ivl 8y ago
With a little effort you can. Some ADB creativity with a restore rom or rooting or magisk. You'll be hunting down settings inside /data/data/com.android.messaging/shared_prefs/com.android.messaging_preference
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by ivl 8y ago
It's kind of disappointing, but I'm not at all shocked to see the South having the largest area in the red, and the North East and the West coast doing well. I'd really like to see this map over time, though. I think that w
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by ivl 8y ago
Because they're fearful and they have support from fearful people who want to punish drug users for no reason. Moral panics are some of the worst things in existence. Leads to absolute garbage like the Convention on Psychotropic Subs
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by ivl 8y ago
Honestly between peyote (mescaline), LSD, and marijuana you've got half of schedule one being ridiculous punishments against drugs that can be used relatively safely. Half of the schedule 1 drugs hardly even need regulation.
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by ivl 8y ago
I think this is the craziest thing. It's easy to just leave an encrypted copy of all your phone's data online, reset your phone to factory settings, travel, and then restore your data to your phone. Seizing it to search is just.
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by ivl 8y ago
I'm not going to address the social aspect of this as that's not really my concern. This is a clear case of the lump of labour fallacy. It's a zero sum way of looking at the economy that has almost no backing. The same thin

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