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by mastax 5y ago
Thanks for the context. It's very frustrating as a .NET developer that infighting set back .NET GUI development by 10 years. There's still no supported way to use DirectX from .NET. All the new GUI tech is moving in the right dire
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by mastax 5y ago
Is crop insurance not effective at mitigating this risk?
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by mastax 5y ago
Drip irrigation works best when delivering water directly to the roots of small annual plants. Trees have large root systems, and are planted closely enough that you need to water the entire ground. Perhaps a network of smaller sprayers bel
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by mastax 5y ago
Related tangent: I just spent a few hours evaluating WinUI 3 for a new project. There's currently no way to hook into the app exit event. Want to flush your SQLite store before you exit? Tough.
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by mastax 5y ago
I'd usually suggest someplace away from the equator to get cooler temperatures, and close to a large body of water to reduce temperature swings. Good supply of fresh water is a plus as well. Lower population density reduces the risk of
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by mastax 5y ago
I recently listened to an episode of the Ezra Klein podcast: "Michael Lewis is asking the right question." Milton Friedman predicted that in the future our productivity would be so high that we'd only work 15 hours a week. We
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by mastax 5y ago
https://www.analog.com/en/parametricsearch/10826#/sort=1746,... That is the price for just the IC, at 1000 quantity. Depending on the experiment that might not be a relevant number.
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by mastax 5y ago
Intel put itself out of business since all the world's computing needs can now be done on one CPU. Or, perhaps, lower unit costs of computing lead to far far greater demand for computing since it became practical to apply to more dom
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by mastax 5y ago
California has made huge strides over the past year to legalize housing, so I have some hope that the winds are changing.
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by mastax 5y ago
The Intel DG1 is quite good for that, apparently, but they don't sell it at retail.
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by mastax 5y ago
Zhongshan https://www.anandtech.com/show/13153/amd-creates-quad-core-z...
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by mastax 5y ago
If gold stopped being used as a store of value, we could use the gold uselessly stored in vaults (~80% of all potential mineable gold on Earth) to make things. Even if 1% of gold reserves were sold off each year that's far greater than
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by mastax 5y ago
In an emergency situation, an unresponsive and unintuitive GUI may be very dangerous. Especially if pilots forget how to use it because they're using the iPad day to day but right now it's rebooting to install an update. Like, I g
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by mastax 5y ago
When I've done this, on first boot Windows detects the changed hardware and there's a little mini-installation screen that says "Reconfiguring Hardware" or something. Things seem to work afterwards. Changing the Motherbo
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by mastax 5y ago
You have to find and follow people you want to see - and ignore all the "New and Trending" that Twitter tries to shove on you. I don't use Twitter often, but it seems like the social media of choice for semi-public techy mill
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by mastax 5y ago
NVMe drives can access system memory over the PCIe bus.
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by mastax 5y ago
> How expensive is a ~ 10 Gb/s ADC? $1000. Much cheaper to use many slower ADCs in parallel. Or put your entropy directly into a Schmidt trigger, etc. since you don't care about any of the specs that make ADCs so complicated.
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by mastax 5y ago
Printed carbon resistors used to be reasonably popular in the 80s and 90s [1]. The process fell out of fashion as components and assembly became cheaper. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zao8upe4phs
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by mastax 5y ago
A lot of small town USA looks like this now: https://postimg.cc/4YHfF59X
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by mastax 5y ago
Carlin spends a lot of time telling you where he gets information, who he's quoting from, how reliable they are, what the historical consensus is, etc. In a word, historiography. That's not to say he never gets anything wrong, he
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by mastax 5y ago
I recently found a silicon bug in a microcontroller. I had spent 18 hours trying every other possibility before, by chance, the test code made it very obvious that the chip was broken. I've only been doing this Electronics Engineerin
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by mastax 5y ago
The "wings" are not very comparable between countries. They are influenced by their environment. I can confidently say that an alternate universe where those countries had US-style elections would have very different parties, thou
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by mastax 5y ago
The earliest ransomware allowed using pre-paid cash cards to pay the ransom. It seems that all (?) of them have moved to crypto only, though. Take that as you will.
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by mastax 5y ago
The British Union of Fascists was quite happy to have uniformed marches, rallies, etc. until the Public Order Act 1936 banned political uniforms. Could you tie that to the royal family?
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by mastax 5y ago
I hope so. I'm not optimistic that it can be cost competitive without massive government subsidies for construction, fuel production, waste disposal, and/or insurance.
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by mastax 5y ago
Linear Systems still makes JFETs and all sorts of other discrete parts that everyone else stopped making.
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by mastax 5y ago
My understanding is that Strike is already reasonably popular in El Salvador, because it's much better than taking a bus 2 hours to the Western Union, paying 10% to them, then paying 10% to the gang that hangs outside. Could a more &qu
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by mastax 5y ago
"RTOS" has come to mean a library os for embedded microcontrollers . A lot of embedded projects don't care about realtime-ness at all.
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by mastax 5y ago
I switched to Firefox from Chrome a few years ago (maybe 2017/2018). It required a tiny bit of willpower since making even minor changes to frequently used tools causes friction. I've experienced few issues since. About once a mon
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by mastax 5y ago
On average, fish sticks are increasing in much of the world: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/4/2218 https://sustainablefisheries-uw.org/science-of-seaspiracy/ > Among the assessed st

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