martyvis

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Luiz André Barroso has died(spectrum.ieee.org)
282 points by martyvis 3y ago|40 comments
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by martyvis 3y ago
I guess one is more than nobody. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson_Leung
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by martyvis 3y ago
Humidity. Above a desert you won't have much moisture in the air in summer.
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by martyvis 3y ago
BP were actually doing a lot of solar cell research from the early 1970s
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by martyvis 3y ago
Sadly the article this refers to that talks about the demise of catalog cards, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/card-catalog-dead-... , has links to the company that printed cards, OCLC, that are also now dead
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Windows 10 security group policy that looks like a display driver issue
2 points by martyvis 3y ago|0 comments
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by martyvis 3y ago
In early 20th century Australia some common names were abbreviated rather than initialled, often seen on business names. For instance George was Geo. and Charles was Chas.
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by martyvis 3y ago
It would have been nice to have at least some audio teaser of the music.
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by martyvis 3y ago
As an Aussie, yes the word "small" would indicate something about their stature. I would use the phrase "low staff numbers"
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by martyvis 3y ago
TIL "Fortran is a natively parallel programming language". I guess we aren't talking about FORTRAN 77 then.
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by martyvis 3y ago
And soon you learn that when it is an adjective it is a-tom-ic and not at-om-ic
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by martyvis 3y ago
Power dissipation in chips isn't an issue with the DC power supply but switching the current billions of times a second.
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by martyvis 3y ago
The subject of the last typewriter shop in Melbourne, Australia made for a great article and documentary. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-02/tom-hanks-letter-melb...
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by martyvis 3y ago
When Bruce Lee died when I was 10 I remember a school buddy who also had the surname Lee being quite moved. I'm not much of martial arts film fan (but did learn a bit of judo and Taekwondo when I was young). Anyway I caught this docume
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by martyvis 3y ago
Satellites follow a extremely well known path and are tracked by the operators to a ridiculous level of precision. I can't imagine us needing more than 10 providers of 100K sats each at an upper limit. You could fit them all in a few (
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by martyvis 3y ago
I can hear that 20Hz hum in my head right now!
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by martyvis 3y ago
I was a very early adopter of Ethereal. My team had a Sniffer PC, but either it was being used by someone else or it didn't adequately decode protocols.
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by martyvis 3y ago
Probably because the father was only just 30 when his son had turned 10 and hadn't realised yet that he had already lost 3 stones. That said I feel I still have plenty to share with my children and now grand children - each day is a gi
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by martyvis 3y ago
Starting to get interesting. Not sure whether fixing the code, MacGyvering or brute strength will win the day.
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by martyvis 3y ago
And here I am halfway through Michael Crichton's novel "Prey" ...
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by martyvis 3y ago
I'm surprised I'm the first to say something about the waste they produce. They seem to be relic of the 80s or 90s where no one cared. Buying a meat pie in Australia used to mean you could get a squeeze from the tomato sauce bottl
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Australian prime minister says to turn off phone every night for 5 minutes(theguardian.com)
3 points by martyvis 3y ago|0 comments
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by martyvis 3y ago
I have some $50 Soundpeats Air3 Deluxe HS earbuds. They have the high end LDAC codec with 14mm drivers (far bigger than your ear canal / drum). Absolutely amazing and pass all the Sonus Faber tests [1] to these 59 year old ears. [1] h
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by martyvis 3y ago
Are you sure they are measuring blood pressure on the fingers? My experience (just spent 21 days in a major hospital) and BP is always measured with a cuff. The finger sensor is for oxygen saturation and pulse.
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by martyvis 3y ago
I have bought a number of pairs of pliers over the years. Some are quite serviceable but the worst were the adjustable multigrips (also sometimes called water pump pliers). They pinch as they slipped out of the grooves - just horrible. And
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by martyvis 3y ago
I went back and noticed the same. Most be the genuine blackness of AMOLED screens.
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by martyvis 3y ago
Clearly they all want to welcome their AI overlords.
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by martyvis 3y ago
Definitely useful once calculus is looked at. I attended a"mathematics summer school"back in 1979 at the local atomic research facility. (I was at the end of year 10). It had an overall theme that looked at global oil production a
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by martyvis 3y ago
I very much fall in to that category having been a "Texas Tank Watcher" (the self-appropriated nickname given to those keeping a close eye on the SpaceX development in Boca Chica) for the past 4 years or so.
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by martyvis 3y ago
I am shocked, I say again, shocked, that it is possible to cheat in casinos.

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