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by maximilianburke 2y ago
The air can't go out the filter because a valve prevents air from going back through the filter.
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
It is boost pressure in the sense that the air going into the intake manifold is above ambient pressure. It isn't like nitrous where air still comes in the intake, with compressed air systems there is a valve that's closed to prev
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
It’s being premised on tariffs being good for the economy, contra to a century of demonstrated proof they aren’t.
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
ICE picking up people off the street is a thing that is now happening too.
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
Completely understandable. Why would I, as a Canadian who sees stories coming from the US of fellow citizens getting hoovered up into the bowels of ICE from border crossings, want to go to the US when I have a choice not to?
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
Because the better Tesla does the more financial leverage that Elon Musk, a terrible person who is causing a great deal of harm, has.
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
I'm all down for 14" laptops too. My two favorite laptops are the 14" MacBook Pro I use for work now, as well as my personal 14" Thinkpad X1 Carbon. They have the best combination of performance and size, for me at least
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
An added bonus is that money for the GTR doesn’t go to a nazi though.
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
The 360 had three hyperthreaded cores, not six.
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
I once did a cold water dive in a drysuit without fleece undergarments. We were loading our gear onto a charter boat for a week's dive trip and the boat captain dropped his keys through the dock and into the water. I volunteered as tri
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
Gosh. I can’t believe that was more than a decade ago. Tempus fugit.
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
If I recall it was something even sillier, like none of the presumptive rights holders could find the documentation saying who owned the rights.
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
There's an issue with the rights to the No One Lives Forever games which is why it hasn't re-appeared on Steam (et al). Nightdive Studios tried to get the rights to republish it but couldn't nail down between these parties wh
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
As someone who has written a fair bit of web service code in Rust over the last 5 years or so, this is all correct.
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
> Consoles have known hardware and thus games can ship with precompiled shaders. I know this has been done since at least PS2 era since I enjoy taking apart game assets. That's what I said. Consoles ship GPU machine code, PCs ship t
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
Compiling shaders directly from a high level representation to the GPU ISA only really happens on consoles. In DirectX on PC, shaders have been compiled into an intermediate form going back to Direct3D 8. All of these intermediate forms are
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
Elon wasn’t elected.
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
DOGE is the kleptocracy.
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
The sad irony of members of a forum named as such harassing someone who is indeed building a very old MIDI synthesizer for new hardware.
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
So then when talking about database replication, why are the non-authoritative servers called slaves?
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
Just becauase you choose not to understand how government works does not mean it isn't transparent.
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A Coup Is in Progress in America(techdirt.com)
365 points by maximilianburke 2y ago|170 comments
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
> Have they voted on a single thing yet except the Laken Riley Act? I mean on things like confirmations, but when bills start coming up reps need to go full on toddler mode and say no to everything. They need to read the Mitch McConnell
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
Sure, but there's other things they can do. They can all stop trying to achieve bipartisan support on things, as the republicans do when they're in the minority. Senators can withdraw their unanimous consent. They can vote against
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
Sure, but your choices are to: 1. Participate in the system 2. Violently overthrow the system 3. Do nothing Sitting on the internet and whinging about how the deck is stacked against you is choosing option 3. Fact of the matter is that a lo
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
If you're calling a coworker something that they are uncomfortable with enough to get HR involved, HR may be the prigs but you're being an asshole.
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
Well, better do nothing then!
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
Then either participate in your government or, at the very least, vote. Take control of your destiny.
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
the sound I make every time I need to wrangle YAML directly
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by maximilianburke 2y ago
EA's HQ is in the Bay Area (Redwood Shores)

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