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by jzwinck 3y ago
The UK's National Rail used to have a "4 for 2" offer. Four people could travel together with a 50% discount if booked in advance. One day our friend was ill but three of us weren't going to miss the only sunny day of Br
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by jzwinck 3y ago
Reduce your working set. Make frequently used data and instructions as small and contiguous as possible. Reuse memory, e.g. store two large objects in a variant if you don't need them at the same time, or instead of calling free() keep
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by jzwinck 3y ago
The Jai programming language has some support for that.
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by jzwinck 3y ago
The article says 2 million liters but then quotes a public official saying 41 lakh liters which means 4.1 million liters. Maybe the editor of this piece doesn't know what a lakh is: one hundred thousand (of anything).
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by jzwinck 3y ago
See here: https://youtu.be/O1lZ9n2bxWA
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by jzwinck 3y ago
Good point, but not in base 1.
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by jzwinck 3y ago
Which countries (or trains) do that? I've taken night trains in four different countries and none of them worked like that. I wish they did.
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by jzwinck 4y ago
I used one of those mice for many years. It doesn't so much "enable acceleration" as it does "disable deceleration." A button disengages the wheel from the detents that most mouse wheels have, so it acts like a flyw
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by jzwinck 4y ago
The photo of a mountain biker is not unrelated, you just aren't aware of how it's related. Flow is a term used often in mountain biking, and in a similar way to programming and other pursuits. Garmin even have a metric for it: ht
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by jzwinck 4y ago
As far as I know, x86 and x86-64 have never had microcode for ASCII (base 10 is what I'm interested in) to binary number conversion. Why do you think this is? It seems like a very common operation these days, and the reasons you gave f
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by jzwinck 4y ago
Until now I had no idea Trinidad and Tobago can be considered part of North America. Any lay person looking at a map would not think so. It seems like an unreasonable definition to me, one which brings more confusion than clarity.
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by jzwinck 4y ago
The main reason you want your boat to have a bit of weatherhelm is because it makes the boat go faster upwind. And just because you have slight weatherhelm at optimal upwind trim does not mean the boat will fall into irons if the helmsman g
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by jzwinck 4y ago
Are you saying this page is wrong? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_Cars
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by jzwinck 4y ago
Because high end research uses a fleet of them, not just one.
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by jzwinck 4y ago
Concur is indeed a poor system. I suppose the thinking is that by having each employee of a big organization do a small amount of work, they can avoid hiring a central person who just accepts receipts in envelopes and deals with them. Or ma
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by jzwinck 4y ago
If IEEE does that, some manufacturers will just ignore it. Sure they may have to write weasel words like "USB compatible but not USB authorized" on their products, but they'll dominate the market by allowing people to use the
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by jzwinck 4y ago
At Burning Man I met a guy who was making...something...by drilling into a big piece of wood while his hand was on the other side of the wood. I told him he shouldn't have his hand in the path of the drill. "You can't tell me
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by jzwinck 4y ago
Sell a fraction of tickets at higher prices (perhaps via auction) ahead of time, and sell the rest at the door. Scalpers cannot pretend to be multiple people if they have to enter the venue and pay. The known-price door tickets set a bound
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by jzwinck 4y ago
I only meant that the devices, if properly maintained, can be trusted to do their job as best they can and not say "PC LOAD LETTER" and expect you to troubleshoot it. A successful rescue is never guaranteed. Those of us who are pr
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by jzwinck 4y ago
I dont own this but it is pretty much the standard: https://www.acrartex.com/products/resqlink-400/ These devices require a new battery every few years and that service includes a test done by the manufacturer. Th
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by jzwinck 4y ago
SRAM bicycle parts start from X3 for the cheap stuff up to X9 for nice parts, then X0 is better than X9 and XX is the best. XX can be read as "X ten" but why is X0 between X9 and XX?
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by jzwinck 4y ago
Sure, every application does that, but the kernel could do it better. What if I'm writing to two filesystems and one of them might have high latency sometimes? Do I make two threads for disk I/O to avoid starving one write when an
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by jzwinck 4y ago
Disk I/O. It's basically all blocking except the fairly recent io_uring which is much more than disk I/O and perhaps a bit daunting for "I want to write some data without starving my main thread." I wish you could u
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by jzwinck 4y ago
Citrix is like VNC or Remote Desktop or NoMachine. Tibco is like Apache ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ or IBM WebSphere MQ.
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by jzwinck 4y ago
Many of those bicycles were stolen from Malaysians, who bought them from the Japanese before the war. Years after the war, Shimano Japan became the biggest maker of bicycle componentry in the world. They manufacture most of it in Malaysia.
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by jzwinck 4y ago
Not much gas will get stolen. This campaign says they'll stop their direct debit arrangements. They'll still owe the money and most people will pay eventually. It may squeeze the utility companies a bit in the short term though, a
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by jzwinck 4y ago
It is a wing you attach to the bottom of a surfboard so you can hydrofoil (ride the board with only the foil in the water). You need energy to move forward. This can come from a tow boat, a kite, waves, jumping with your legs ("pumping
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by jzwinck 4y ago
One is connected and logged on. The other sees the same-named network and is not logged on yet because it doesn't know the password. Two different senses of "connected."
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by jzwinck 4y ago
The fuel is made from used, waste oil. Not something you can cook with. The article explains this. Same is true when you read about cars and buses powered by cooking oil. They aren't going to the grocery store to buy the oil.
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by jzwinck 4y ago
Yes. This one: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1z2rm5/crucial_m4... That problem became known a decade ago, so it's somewhat surprising to see such a similar bug now. This new one is wors

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