kardos

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by kardos 6y ago
Do you mean this [1] kind of charge pump? The article indicates 90-95% efficient, that's a huge gap from 25% [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_pump
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by kardos 6y ago
Yep that pretty much burns the service :/
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by kardos 6y ago
Broadly speaking, the issue is that cryptocurrencies drive up demand for GPUs, and that makes them less available/affordable for gamers. If there was a crypto-crippled GPU then it would be exempt from that particular demand.
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by kardos 6y ago
Yeah this only works if you have more than one circuit.
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by kardos 6y ago
Or you could use two kettles
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by kardos 6y ago
That would give competitors an incentive to buy&return said product to drive up the return rate
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by kardos 6y ago
> I ONLY trust negative reviews now. That won't last long, negative reviews will get flooded by glowing reviews with trivial complaints. "This thing is perfect except I don't like green so 1/5"
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by kardos 6y ago
On the other hand, we tamed nuclear fission, which is also pretty hard to handle. So I am optimistic that we'll sort something out when the time is right
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by kardos 6y ago
> but it seems like every avenue of "you deserve it" is being explored on social media Trolls are still a thing, this is what they do Edit: As other comments are pointing out, poor planning is not unique to Texas [1] [1] https
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by kardos 6y ago
Is it weird that a /university/ is offering this course on how to work with a specific commercial product? Shouldn't this be the domain of Apple itself or a company that specialises in training?
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by kardos 6y ago
Thanks for the reply & pointing to the change. Hopefully there will be another stable coreutils release coming soon. Agreed that it behooves projects to make the contributing process straightforward...
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by kardos 6y ago
From 2019. Has there been any progress on the issues since then?
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by kardos 6y ago
This is a really roundabout way of shutting down your bug bounty program
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by kardos 6y ago
Would they not be sitting ducks for pirates?
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by kardos 6y ago
> Of course if everyone did that this year, it would create problems so I imagine colleges are trying to disincentivize it? I think they would be disincentivising it so they still hve revenue this year. But yes if the admissions per year
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by kardos 6y ago
Getting re enrolled next year will be twice as hard?
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by kardos 6y ago
Yep it sounds like a workaround that could work, but that is a lot of moving parts to keep oiled.
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by kardos 6y ago
Re 1, the argument against discharging student loans in bankruptcy is that it incentivizes declaring bankruptcy upon graduation
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by kardos 6y ago
> They also shutdown Firefox Send. IIRC it was being abused and there was no way to combat that
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by kardos 6y ago
Several encrypted packets went to WhatsApp servers. Did they contain your key?
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by kardos 6y ago
That's the theory. The closed source nature means that the WhatsApp app could send the key back to WhatsApp. How would you know if it does or doesn't?
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by kardos 6y ago
Testing all of the doubles may actually be possible [1]. Even if that estimate is optimistic, testing all doubles for order $10k would be feasible for some problems. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18109432
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by kardos 6y ago
So it seems like this is a complicated measurement of latency. The CDNs should win where they have a nearby endpoint. A comparison of the additional latency (due to slow webservers etc) seems like a more relevant thing to measure if we&#x27
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by kardos 6y ago
So what do you do to fend off the accounts created this year to get around this rule next year?
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by kardos 6y ago
Switching to opt-in is the right call here to limit any further damage. Meanwhile, it's painfully obvious that the whole thing is aimed to be a "low-touch" / "fully automated" campaign where the participation r
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by kardos 6y ago
Such a microbe may have adapted to thrive in sulfuric acid. Unlikely, but it would be fascinating if it turns out to have happened that way...
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by kardos 6y ago
> It feels like this isn't a large enough leap forward. The hash it relies on is broken, so their hand has been forced.
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by kardos 6y ago
> Also just minimal outdoor sun exposure is the best way to get it, no sunscreen. 15 minutes if you're light skinned, 35 if you're really dark. These prescriptions seem to always lack the amount of exposed skin. Is exposed hand
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by kardos 6y ago
Unless its disguised as something else
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by kardos 6y ago
Being detained and missing your plane while they do that in a slow bumbling fashion will be less lovely

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