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by jandrese 6mo ago
My current machine is an i5-3570k with a 1070Ti... The old CPU is actually more of an issue. I couldn't run Civ 7 because the game (probably the DRM) uses some instructions that aren't implemented on that CPU. Other than that I
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by jandrese 6mo ago
They were probably forced to update when they dropped older busses. Without a PCI or AGP bus on there they have to find something that can hang off of a PCIe lane.
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by jandrese 6mo ago
I remember having a ton of servers with cut down Mach64 chips. They were so bad that you would get horizontal lines flickering across the screen while text was scrolling in an 80x25 text console. I don't know why server manufacturers
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by jandrese 6mo ago
Matrox was really halfhearted with game support. They seemed far more interested in corporate customers, advertising heavily stuff like "VR" conference calls that nobody wants. They were early with multi-monitor support back whe
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by jandrese 6mo ago
I mean it makes sense if you were just forced to implement an expensive waste management system and your competitor gets to just dump the stuff on the ground in a National Park. I would complain too.
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by jandrese 6mo ago
AI tends to write like it is getting paid by the word. This article wasn't too egregious but an editor could have improved it.
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by jandrese 7mo ago
Is that including a Jupiter/Saturn assist?
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by jandrese 7mo ago
Those shitty modems were infamous. IIRC they were also the sound card on the box and had serious issues with interrupt conflicts. It took three wizards and a dead chicken to get Doom to run stably in an online deathmatch.
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by jandrese 7mo ago
Historically panels are generally considered to be exhausted after 30 years of service, although even that means they're down to 80% of their original capacity. The more failure prone component is the inverter, by a huge margin.
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by jandrese 7mo ago
That is a problem. The only way it could be worse is if your technology required a constant supply of input from a foreign country... From a geopolitical standpoint running a country on locally produced renewable power is obviously the lea
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by jandrese 7mo ago
Depends on your locality. The Fossil fuel industry is lobbying hard against this and is successful in some places.
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by jandrese 7mo ago
Buildings get torn down. Roof needs a replacement and the owner doesn't feel like it is worthwhile to redo the solar install for panels that only have 5 years of warranty left, or maybe they want to replace them with higher power mode
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by jandrese 7mo ago
I mean it makes sense that the sand is made of the same stuff as your local rocks, that's where it came from. Sure it washes around a bit in the surf but it's not like it's floating around the world on the ocean currents, at
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by jandrese 7mo ago
IMHO, to achieve anything close to the timelines Elon has publicly stated you need to do both at once. The habitats are a decade long development effort at a minimum. The capacity and dimensions of the launch vehicle are known, there is n
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by jandrese 7mo ago
I mean he had to invent a decent amount of magic technology (the radiation proof tent material for just one example) and purposely not do the math on other parts to make his story work. IMHO the biggest tell that Elon has never been serious
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by jandrese 7mo ago
To be fair many of Rapture's problems were extremely avoidable, except possibly by libertarian idealists.
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by jandrese 7mo ago
Tesla also went to a 48v wiring harness in some of their vehicles to allow them to power more equipment with less copper. It might be one reason why they use nonstandard connectors, so people don't attempt to hook 12v equipment to the
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by jandrese 7mo ago
FIPS just locks you into a specific (generally fairly old) version of everything and sets some more annoying defaults. The only benefit is to be able to check a box on a form saying you qualify.
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by jandrese 7mo ago
Unless of course your adversary can count. But if they can count they can also just count the number of keystrokes they hear, especially if you're recording it and they can spend time post processing the audio.
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by jandrese 7mo ago
I feel like livestreaming is a good example of an unusual situation where one might consider changing defaults that are otherwise good for the majority of users. Also, I think the vulnerability of knowing that someone's password is exa
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by jandrese 7mo ago
Even in my internal company tech support line they play that "higher than expected call volumes" message, but their website also has counter on it that tells you just how many people are on hold and even when it is just one (me) i
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by jandrese 7mo ago
The question is how much of that data do they sell to data brokers.
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by jandrese 7mo ago
Some of it may also be neighborhoods where solar contractors went door to door selling the systems. Even if you don't buy from that salesman you get the numbers in your head and start to realize it isn't some exotic tech for elit
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by jandrese 7mo ago
I clicked on the link for the "Yuppie button" and confirmed that the guy is a nut. The amount of effort required to create and install a device that flashes all of your tail lights at a tailgater is not something an average perso
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by jandrese 7mo ago
Would you say old DOS applications like Borland's Turbo series of compilers were not TUIs? They ran in the console but had menus, mouse support, dialog boxes, etc... How about those text games that used ASCII art and you typed in comm
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by jandrese 7mo ago
I've been working with notcurses recently and it is a full TUI that handles mouse events just fine. Runs over slow SSH connections and everything. The nice part is that you can fully operate applications built on top of it with the k
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by jandrese 7mo ago
Sure it can, the DNS server returns the A record if your client doesn't understand Ax. It just won't work. Honestly, this backwards compatibility thing seems even worse than IPv6 because it would be so confusing. At least IPv6 i
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by jandrese 7mo ago
It's kind of annoying that the 3D viewer on their website keep you a respectful distance away from the object like you might try to touch it if you got too close.
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by jandrese 7mo ago
Preemptive pardons have been used in recent history. https://www.criminallawlibraryblog.com/amp/preemptive-pardon...
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by jandrese 7mo ago
I think the minivan is the perfect vehicle for electrification. It's used mostly for short trips. Getting rid of the engine means you can greatly shorten the nose and improve cargo area, or just make it easier to park. People don&#x

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