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by mastax 3y ago
I remember there was a disposable COVID test that had an arm processor in it.
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by mastax 3y ago
Interesting. That sounds basically perfect for ZFS where the default is 128KB blocks and zstd compression.
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by mastax 3y ago
Looking at that map, it's wild how many "confirmed impact structures more than 100km wide" there are just in Australia . There must be dozens of mass extinction events that we don't know about because the fossil record
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by mastax 3y ago
A different machine in a similar vein: https://youtu.be/v4QyfElo1fs
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by mastax 3y ago
Did the FEA account for the weakness from the layer lines or did it pretend it was an injection molded part (I'm assuming the latter).
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by mastax 3y ago
If I understand it correctly, The Dawn of Everything argues that (many) Native American societies had those kinds of strong taboos and that was a workable model until acted upon by an outside force.
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by mastax 3y ago
* 50% more GDDR6 bus width
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by mastax 3y ago
If you step into microcontroller land you run into hardware bugs all the time, at least if you have to write any low-level code. My very first major project I ran into at least 3 silicon bugs which wasted weeks of my life. Rookie mistake: c
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by mastax 3y ago
I know that Nvidia does extensive telemetry with GeForce Experience (the optional but heavily pushed companion software to the driver) but do they do it in the driver package also? The article makes no distinction and says there's no o
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by mastax 3y ago
That software experience does not look as bad as I was expecting. That performance is shockingly good, am I missing something? Comparable to a Titan RTX? Yes, that card is 4 years older but it cost an order of magnitude more, has almost twi
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by mastax 3y ago
The US permitting process is shockingly bad. It is both far too complex and also overseen by understaffed agencies so projects get delayed by years which is very expensive. NIMBYS can either use political pressure or environmental lawsuits
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by mastax 3y ago
I mentioned many other great games in this genre which were lucky to have 1/100th of the success of this game. But okay, those didn't have the multiplayer, or the presentation, or the accessibility. But Larian's previous game
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by mastax 3y ago
Yeah the Divinity: Original Sin 2 combat system had the huge emphasis on elemental effects and surfaces and interactions which I found a lot more fun than the traditional RPG systems which feel more like solving a math equation. So far ther
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by mastax 3y ago
> You need people who care and know what they are doing and let them do what they love. That includes Pillars of Eternity, and the other games I mentioned. They made great games but they just weren't that popular. I agree in gener
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by mastax 3y ago
I am a bit shocked by how popular this game is. All the signs were there, though. - Their previous game Divinity: Original Sin 2 was critically acclaimed, very popular for a pretty hardcore CRPG, and had long legs. - DnD has a lot of bran
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by mastax 3y ago
They have a cross platform save sync service which has been disabled, but it sounds like that wasn't load related. I'm not sure how big the save games are but 700k people mashing the quick save button every 30 seconds probably add
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by mastax 3y ago
I love how the party can split up and go do completely different things. That's often difficult to do even in a traditional tabletop setting.
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by mastax 3y ago
How does cow's milk contain so much calcium when they only eat plants?
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by mastax 3y ago
When the paper value of an asset disappears you don't get the money back to spend elsewhere. Nobody does. Just like lending creates money, destruction of assets destroys money. Which happens to be what we want right now, as long as it
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by mastax 3y ago
I have a hard time believing the 10k line shell script didn't have a comment at the top saying what it did.
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by mastax 3y ago
I understand all of that. None of that disagrees with what I have said. I think we're talking past each other. In a practical sense I agree the two filesystems achieve an essentially identical result through very similar methods, as yo
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by mastax 3y ago
Well yes, my point is that (counter to GP) ZFS doesn't combine together multiple blocks into a compression extent, rather it uses larger blocks by default.
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by mastax 3y ago
Oracle could relicense its own ZFS (probably?) But it couldn't relicense the ZFS everyone actually uses because they don't own the copyrights of independent contributors, some of whom oppose license changes.
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by mastax 3y ago
ZFS compresses records (blocks) independently.
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by mastax 3y ago
I am!
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by mastax 3y ago
Glass is normally made with 50-75% silicon dioxide (sand, basically) and the remainder various metallic salts or oxides like lead oxide, soda, potash, etc. These are combined as powders and when you melt them down they all dissolve together
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by mastax 3y ago
As I understand it, none of the windows handhelds have instant or even reliable suspend during gameplay.
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by mastax 3y ago
You'd usually want 3 phases for a brushless DC motor, right? Though I'm sure theres a cheap Chinese 3/4 channel DAC on LCSC since the output quality won't matter. I haven't considered using a DAC with a motor before
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by mastax 3y ago
Thankfully, Jony Ive is gone. Though their design has only gotten marginally more practical since.
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by mastax 3y ago
If you're going to wade into a 200 year old flame war at least have something interesting to say.

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