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by leguminous 3y ago
I assume the author picked up the quotation mark habit from LaTeX. Backticks and apostrophes (single or double) get rendered as proper left and right quotation marks. It's also possible this was copy+pasted from a LaTeX source and they
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by leguminous 3y ago
The problem with a solution like this is that you are limited to square pixels. Not all games and systems used square pixels, because CRTs didn't really _have_ pixels, only scanlines. Their vertical resolution was discrete, but their h
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by leguminous 3y ago
I'm not an economist, but this sort of situation has been considered since the 1800's and is sometimes known as the broken window fallacy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window Basicall
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by leguminous 3y ago
I use Firefox on Fedora as well, but with Xfinity (IPv6 support and no CGNAT). I have to solve a lot of CAPTCHAs, but it always lets me through.
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by leguminous 3y ago
Intel actually exited the SSD (and NAND flash) business. It was sold to SK Hynix and renamed to Solidigm.
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by leguminous 4y ago
RJ Reynolds is a tobacco company. EDIT: Never mind. I see that the previous poster had confused the two and linked to the consumer products company, not the tobacco company.
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by leguminous 4y ago
I just want to point out that, in the US, it is illegal to not rent to families. More specifically, it is illegal to discriminate based on familial status. Whether anyone is actually enforcing that in a particular area may be a different ma
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by leguminous 4y ago
What's really annoying is that the current generation of Intel CPUs support ECC, they just don't implement it in consumer chipsets. You can get working ECC with a W680 motherboard, but those are very expensive and availability is
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by leguminous 4y ago
My own anecdotal experience is that in America, very few homes have hoods that vent to outside the building . I have lived in one LEED certified apartment building that had one, and even that had issues with the exhaust backing up because
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by leguminous 4y ago
What kills the efficiency of gas stoves is not converting gas to heat, it's getting the heat into the pan. Induction stoves heat the pan directly. Gas stoves heat the air, which then has to heat the pan. Inductions stoves can be 90% ef
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by leguminous 4y ago
> Most of the problems with indoor pollution can almost certainly be more cheaply mediated by adding building codes requiring venting range hoods. I would guess that adding range hoods is more expensive than switching everyone to electri
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by leguminous 4y ago
Maybe someone who understands the specs better can add more information, but as far as I can tell from Wikipedia, USB4 supports DP in two different ways: tunneling and alternate mode. When tunneling, you are limited to DP 1.4a and wouldn&#x
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by leguminous 4y ago
I'm curious, where did you get a heat pump that uses R744? As far as I know, none of the major manufacturers offer one for residential use. I'm also curious about how well it works for you.
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by leguminous 4y ago
What would be a more resilient mode of transportation? Few people would take a train from Chicago to Miami, for example. That's something like 1200 miles (2000km). Traveling from LA to NYC is like traveling from Lisbon to Moscow (2500m
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by leguminous 4y ago
Checksums don't save you from memory corruption. If your data gets corrupted in memory, you will just end up checksumming and committing bad data. Or your checksum could get corrupted, and you commit a checksum that doesn't match
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by leguminous 4y ago
It might also be worth noting that the SNES used non-square pixels. CRTs didn't really have a discrete horizontal resolution, so they could stretch the 8:7 image about 17% horizontally to 4:3. In other words, each pixel had a 7:6 aspec
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by leguminous 4y ago
I noticed this when I was playing guitar and using my laptop at the same time. The strings and bridge on an electric guitar are grounded. When I had my arm touching the bridge and I put my hand on the MacBook's case, I would get a mild
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by leguminous 4y ago
Intel's stated TDPs are not accurate representations of how much power a chip actually uses. You can see in some of these Blender benchmarks the 12900k hitting >230W average: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews&#x2F
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by leguminous 4y ago
Pretty much the only place you see Pozidriv in the US is Ikea furniture. Almost nobody realizes that it's different from Phillips, which results in some mildly frustrating experiences putting together furniture with the wrong screwdriv
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by leguminous 4y ago
Venting R600A (isobutane) isn't really the problem. This stuff gets vented from things like backpacking stoves fairly regularly. R410A is what's used in most modern HVAC equipment and it has a GWP of around 4000 (it's complic
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by leguminous 4y ago
Wirecutter seems to make a big deal of the fact that the IKEA purifier doesn't use a "true HEPA" filter. As far as I can tell, neither does the Blueair purifier that is one of their top picks. Blueair claims to use "HEPA
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by leguminous 4y ago
I used to have Spectrum "community wifi" (their service for apartment buildings). They were doing this as of last year. They even spoofed responses from root servers, which utterly broke things like `dig +trace`.
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by leguminous 5y ago
As far as I know, you can place a backorder with Newark or Allied.
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by leguminous 5y ago
I don't know a lot about the graphical stack, window servers, etc. All of my professional work has been on systems with no graphical components. I am trying to understand what you are pointing out. Is it that there is no separate &quot
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by leguminous 5y ago
I had to go back to GNOME on Xorg. GNOME on Wayland won't run my 4k display at a consistent 60Hz, which results in horrible issues in games and emulators, as well as massive numbers of dropped frames in 50/60Hz videos. It is set t
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by leguminous 5y ago
The differences between the 5600 and 5500 are interesting. The $199 5600 has 6 cores, 32MB of L3, no GPU, and uses the chiplet packaging. The $159 5500 has 6 cores, 16MB of L3, a disabled/fused off GPU, and is one larger, monolithic di
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by leguminous 5y ago
A Raspberry Pi 4 can route at gigabit speeds, even with a USB3 nic.[1] There is also a router board for a CM4 module that adds a second nic through PCIe.[2] The nics still aren't super nice but they are more than good enough for a home
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by leguminous 5y ago
> until a new type of electric heating is invented/popularized, there will be higher costs I wouldn't be surprised if electric heat pumps were already cheaper to operate than gas furnaces in many places. Especially in temperate
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by leguminous 5y ago
Optometrists treat infection and disease, and can work in hospitals as well. My fiancée is an optometrist who did her residency in a hospital and has worked in hospital systems.
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by leguminous 5y ago
I have had the same thought. Why not do away with chroma subsampling and just compress the chroma planes more heavily than the luma plane? Does heavy compression perform worse than just throwing away 3/4 of the data?

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