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by kec 7y ago
That's still not accurate. Load up 20-30 gifs on a page and I can pretty much guarantee you'll see your browser saturate a core.
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by kec 7y ago
> [...]but I can have 100+ GIFs playing at once with no impact to my CPU. That's... not entirely accurate. What do you think is rendering all those gifs to screen?
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by kec 7y ago
Not really. In settings where a PE is required any asshole can work on the project so ling as they're under the supervision of a PE who ultimately signs off on the whole thing. I imagine medicine (residency?) and law work similarly.
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by kec 7y ago
They have history of doing so though: They own both Mini and Rolls-Royce now.
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by kec 7y ago
Because people will still want to go to private universities, same as today.
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by kec 7y ago
If the hardware is even capable of 8k30 it should be able to do rock solid 4k60, let alone 1080p60
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by kec 8y ago
I personally am not in that situation, but people who haul diesel & other fuels out into the backwoods do exist. Batteries aren't quite as viable for that because they're way less energy dense and in general less environmental
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by kec 8y ago
That's great for urban folks, but doesn't really help people living off the grid.
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by kec 8y ago
Is rooftop solar even viable in the northern half of the province? High latitudes get way less sun.
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by kec 8y ago
The base model 3 is only 0.5s faster to 60 than the base E class, and that gap doesn't widen by all that much as you go up both product lines.
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by kec 8y ago
The ps4 definitely has a blu ray drive, not sure where you got the impression it doesn’t?
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by kec 8y ago
How do you edge cache games though? Edge caching youtube requires a giant pile of hard drives, Edge caching games requires a giant pile of hard drives and a giant pile of compute power.
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by kec 8y ago
If a plane can only get a GPS fix to within a 15m radius that's no big deal, whereas if a car has a 15m fix it's running down pedestrians on the sidewalk. Planes also don't have a habit of flying in tunnels or urban canyons w
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by kec 8y ago
It's been a while (~10 years) since I've had to deal with credit processing, but at least back then, discovers terms were pretty abusive for small businesses. In any month where we processed 1 or more discover transactions we had
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by kec 8y ago
How can the Bay Area have less than 1/8th the GDP of NYC when Apple’s revenue alone (~300B) is over 1/3rd of NYC’s GDP (~800B per Wikipedia)?
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by kec 8y ago
Seeking help may end up including drugs as part of treatment, it may not. Pushing the narrative that depression isn't real and that depressed people should just get over it is ignorant and actively harms folks who do need help by reinf
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by kec 8y ago
Depression isn't "feeling any way other than perfectly fine", it's feeling so continuously for an extended period of time such that your mental state begins to prevent you from living a normal life. Depression is a real
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by kec 8y ago
Alcohol isn’t a great solution for anxiety, it works short term but over the long run tends to increase feelings of anxiousness. Benzo’s are extremely dangerous and only typically used as rescue medication... if you’ve only been dealing wit
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by kec 8y ago
That would be a terrible idea. Aluminum can only flex so much before the metal fatigues and fails catastrophically, steel does not (so long as the stress is below a critical threshold). Aluminum framed trucks would not last nearly as long.
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by kec 8y ago
The difference (and why I don't think your statement is particularly true) is one of control. Businesses can and do continuously adjust pricing to reflect the market, workers cannot.
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by kec 8y ago
Businesses can always raise prices to cover higher costs. If they can’t, they’re not viable in the first place. Individuals on the other hand can’t generally just will more money into existence to cover higher housing costs.
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How to optimize C and C++ code in 2018(medium.com)
8 points by kec 8y ago|0 comments
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by kec 8y ago
Microwave ovens also typically transmit around 1kW, at the resonant frequency of water. By comparison most cell equipment is either not at this frequency or a harmonic if it, limited to <<50W, or both.
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by kec 8y ago
The unsubsidized launch price of the base model iPhone was $499 in 2007, which would be $600~ today, not too far off from the $749 price of a base Xr, and worse than the $449 of a base 7 today.
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by kec 8y ago
The "global" refers to the fact that it works globally, not that it exists for the good of humanity. Navstar (owned by USDoD, what is commonly called "GPS"), GLONASS and soon Galileo all have global coverage.
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by kec 8y ago
Where did you hear that? 3 hasn’t even been competitive vs 2 until very recently. Reasons for the switch have always been better Unicode handling and not being left behind as the community matches on (and soon lack of security updates to 2)
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by kec 8y ago
Elon is not a natural born citizen of the US (He's South African), he is ineligible for the presidency.
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by kec 8y ago
Cars cost significantly more, and yet the average age of cars on the road in the US is still only about 11 years.
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by kec 8y ago
The long term outcome of this is not what you want. The less risk there is to going to war, the less incentive there is to avoid war in the first place. More automation will inevitably lead to more frequent, bloodier (especially in terms of
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by kec 8y ago
Well, yes. This is known as the "race to sleep" and is probably the single most common power saving strategy for modern chips. It's true that switching power scales with the square of voltage (P=V^2 C f), but that's not

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