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by jinto36 4y ago
I treat it as meditative, "connect with nature" time. Treadmills, however, are indeed terrible, but then it's easy to watch things. I was never a fan of listening to things while running, some combination of having to have vo
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by jinto36 4y ago
It wasn't a blow-out-the-doors commercial success, but it was successful enough that players and media were produced for 20+ years. It had broad adoption in Japan, where the random-access functionality was particularly useful for karao
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by jinto36 4y ago
I just sold one on behalf of a friend who was moving, probably in the same series as yours- I was very surprised at how easily perceptible the flicker was. It also had some "dot crawl" noise even with HDMI, which seemed odd, could
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by jinto36 4y ago
I'm not familiar with Zstandard and the Zstandard site doesn't discuss how they use threads in compression vs decompression, but I know that for gzip the parallel implementation in pigz is able to split the workload across threads
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by jinto36 4y ago
I agree on the numpad. I do bioinformatics/data science work that sometimes involves some manual spreadsheet surfing and definitely use the numpad. A lot of numerical identifiers for genes that you end up incidentally memorizing after
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by jinto36 4y ago
There's a bit of a difference in the US also, that might not be broadly appreciated. Universities offer graduate degrees. Colleges may or may not have graduate programs. https://isc.baylor.edu/blog/difference-betwe
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by jinto36 4y ago
I was more of a fan of manuals for reasons of efficiency before double-clutch automaticss were widely available, and when CVTs were not very reliable. Of course none of that matters much for many electric vehicles either. My first and only
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by jinto36 4y ago
It varies pretty wildly, often efficiency ends up being dependent on the load since power supplies usually get optimized for a certain load range. Individually, the numbers might not look too bad, but when you think about how many individua
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by jinto36 4y ago
There's already a peer-reviewed video-oriented journal: the Journal of Visualized Experiments http://jove.com/ The downside is of course it's not open-access by default, and it can be expensive even if you don&#x2
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by jinto36 4y ago
While the idea is interesting, I think that lifestyle changes associated with the social withdrawal behavior are likely to make any blood-based biomarkers reflective of being more sedentary rather than having any causal association. The art
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by jinto36 4y ago
The LLE at least wasn't a single purpose build-abandon-dismantle project, and still operates for research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory_for_Laser_Energetic...
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by jinto36 4y ago
"fine with using it as-is" and "would buy some upgrade parts if they were available" are not necessarily exclusive. I've known plenty of people for whom upgradeable laptops make no sense- by the time newer parts com
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by jinto36 4y ago
I think that microelectronics engineering is treated as a separate subfield from electrical engineering. I went to RIT which AFAIK is reasonably well-respected for MicroE, and while it wasn't my major, I have some friends who were in i
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by jinto36 4y ago
Also, if they have an existing solution that they're looking for someone to maintain/port/update- it's more likely to be some cobbled together spaghetti monster without any documentation.
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by jinto36 4y ago
I'm in the northeast US and grew up without A/C. My house now has central A/C, but I still think of it as unnecessarily opulent and I feel bad about using it. I keep the setpoint pretty high most of the time, unless someone e
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by jinto36 4y ago
One of the most noticeable things about playing laserdiscs on modern displays is the poor black levels and noise in shadows, and of course the difficulty in scaling interlaced material. Even with what should be a decent (but not nearly top
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by jinto36 4y ago
REI has a crazy return policy, but attempts to resell everything that comes back. You can buy boots, through-hike the Appalachian Trail in them, and bring them back for a full refund. REI will put them on the shelf in the clearance section
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by jinto36 4y ago
* presumably Qualcomm and not Cisco, for mobile SoCs?
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by jinto36 4y ago
There are many repetitive lyrical themes that seem to be associated with particular genres, and personal preferences associated thereof. I feel like country used to have more variety- my father used to listened to it- but it's kind of
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by jinto36 4y ago
The PCjr started my collection actually, $15 at a rummage sale in 1997. The infrared keyboard was pretty neat.
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by jinto36 4y ago
The National Association of Rocketry which supports model rocketry clubs and such has a tiered certification for High Power Rocketry (HPR) which is where you get into building very large models and packing your own motors. These certificati
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by jinto36 4y ago
I don't think most people in cars would think about the helmet, unless they themselves have spent much time thinking about cycling. I always can tell who the drivers are that also cycle, they try to give you much more space. I imagine
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by jinto36 4y ago
Yes- very, particularly in advertising, presumably because it stands out. The longer answer is that Japanese has a few different writing systems, and one of those is already used most often for transliterated "loanwords" that came
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by jinto36 4y ago
See the GP's comment about SGI- SGI cases were still some kind of box or tower, but usually with curvy accents and bright colors at least. Otherwise, I wish I had managed to pick up a NeXT when they were not as rare as they are now. Ap
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by jinto36 4y ago
I first came across this book in a library (a while ago) and basically read the whole thing on the spot. From my entirely biased perspective as someone with a "vintage computer" collection, it's the best book ever. The stagge
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by jinto36 4y ago
Sonos stuff is also outrageously expensive for mediocre audio quality. I have a really nice home theater from hand-me-downs, friend's basements, and yard sale finds, and sure I had to re-foam some woofers, but it sounds quite a bit bet
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by jinto36 4y ago
Hackers is ok. If you want to re-calibrate your cringe-o-meter with respect to movies that involve "hacking", see Swordfish ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordfish_(film) ).
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by jinto36 4y ago
Oh there are so many. Roku- because it was the founder's sixth company (means six) Gaikai (owned by Sony now)- 外海 "open sea" A lot of bioinformatics tools with sushi-themed names, stemming in part from the "sashimi plot&
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by jinto36 4y ago
They mostly run construction companies now, an industry where there's been a wild amount of corruption for a long time- in part why most rivers have completely unnecessary concrete banks, ostensibly for "flood control". See &
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by jinto36 5y ago
A note on Blackmagic hardware in general (including the ATEM switches)- they tend to only work with signals that are fully compliant with broadcast standards. For example, I have some Cisco HD PTZ cameras with a "raw" HDMI output

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