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by mbell 7y ago
I think a lot of what you are talking about is due to a huge amount of 'papers' being nothing but coloration tests. Again, I think terminology is of utmost importance when discussing public perception so I would rather not talk ab
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by mbell 7y ago
> That's possible in physics, chemistry, or biology just as well. Yet it seems to happen far less often, or at the very least, in less publicly impacting ways. Part of this is the media, but part of it is the participants themselves
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by mbell 7y ago
I think it's situations like this that result in society having such a hard time with 'science'. The term has been so heavily co-opted by fields that just don't have sufficient rigger for the term to hold weight. Yet, on
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by mbell 7y ago
Not sure why you've been downvoted here, you are completely correct. Bose's noise canceling is good, but everything else they build is really quite poor acoustically. This isn't really even up for much debate as it's pre
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by mbell 7y ago
There is really no such thing as 'instantaneous frequency response'. For any frequency to meaningfully exist, you need data for the corresponding period. e.g. If the audio contains content to 20hz, you need at least 1/40th to
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by mbell 7y ago
> While there are issues with Zuckerberg, I think it bears noting that the FB IPO wasn't done because he needed the money, but rather because they were forced too by law because too many people had ownership. This isn't entirel
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by mbell 7y ago
It's not so much the 'core' as the memory. For example it looks like the RTL8367 has 16KB of program memory, 32KB of data memory, 256bytes of SRAM and a 12KB nic buffer. These memory cells will make up the bulk of the transis
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by mbell 7y ago
This is rather misleading. The RTL8366 pictured in the tweet doesn't have an 8051 in it which is why it's absent from the datasheet. I don't see anything in this thread that contradicts this. The RTL8367 does have an 8051 in
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by mbell 7y ago
> "render a large area uninhabitable for a century". I've never really understood this argument. Even if we set aside 1000 square miles of land for waste disposal, that's a rounding error in the amount of uninhabitabl
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by mbell 7y ago
> I've used hand rolled pseudo ORMs before. Is your pseudo ORM as well documented as a commonly used ORM? Can I google (or search your wiki) for common issues?
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by mbell 7y ago
> We may not even know the full range of micro-nutrients that the soil has been depleted of. You may not know the full range of micro-organisms needed or how to care for them to achieve this 'living soil'. Taking agriculture ba
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by mbell 7y ago
> Soil fertility can be returned to historical levels by changing farming practices to make living soil. Seems easier to just add the missing minerals/chemicals to the soil.
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by mbell 7y ago
The only existential threat to Uber is how long it takes self driving cars to become a reality. Human drivers are a speed bump in their business model. It only affects the length of their runway and thus when they intersect with self drivin
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by mbell 7y ago
> but feels oddly synthetic I think it's viable to determine the level of knowledge an author has on a topic purely based on the number of times the word 'technology' is used. In this case - this is almost certainly writte
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by mbell 7y ago
Outside of reliability issues I much prefer the new keyboard. Typing on the older one feels like typing on mush now.
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by mbell 7y ago
Meh, I think this lacks perspective. Maybe you 'worked' less in that era in the sense that you provided a smaller portion of your time to a third party for pay. But, you worked more overall. You didn't work for a few hours th
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by mbell 7y ago
How would Infiniband fix this?
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by mbell 7y ago
I think you're making the mistake of assuming a static market. Pricing is often assumed to be based on cost, it's not, at least not only. Intel's prices are high because they can be, not because their costs are inherently hig
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by mbell 7y ago
This should be interesting to watch. The new Ryzen CPUs are good, but the desktop market is a rather small portion of the overall CPU market which is dominated by server and laptop. AMD making inroads in the server space is where they _may_
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by mbell 7y ago
One example of the use case, which the article hits on, is open source. Most open source projects are relying on free CI resources, tying them up doing linting is a waste and can be rather annoying when you're doing important core work
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by mbell 7y ago
I don't think there is enough information to come to a conclusion here, but I doubt your proposed failure mode. Based on my experience with largish data in mongo, my guess would be that the database size was >> than ram and, due
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by mbell 7y ago
> Requires nothing but Apache running, minimizes attack surface area Shellshock comes to mind as a counter point.
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by mbell 7y ago
> I assure you that $5500 is a substantial addition to the TCO of buying and running the server. I assure you it's not. This thing is going to go into a 2U server, which is going to run ~$400 month for the rackspace, power and bandw
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by mbell 7y ago
$5,500 doesn't matter in this context which is why the pricing is structured this way. This is destine for a server in a datacenter, the cost of the hardware is pretty much a blip in comparison to rackspace, power and networking costs.
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by mbell 7y ago
> no mention of NYC, Boston, nor do they appear on the infographic. Yea, the metric used here is rather convoluted, it's ranking cities by how much their share of total national employment increased. This is going to favor cities th
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by mbell 7y ago
Does anyone know what 'on record' means for NOAA? EDIT: I found this from NOAA -> Earth’s long-term warming trend continued in 2018 as persistent warmth across large swaths of land and ocean resulted in the globe’s fourth hotte
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by mbell 7y ago
I'm getting to the point where I think 'tax incidence analysis' should be a required course, perhaps required every few years throughout ones life just to ensure it's not forgotten[0]. It would improve the political disc
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by mbell 7y ago
> density is not a concern I don't think this is true. We would need about 20,000 sq mi of solar to cover just our electricity needs today. Problem is, electricity is only ~38% of our energy usage. To replace all energy used (transp
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by mbell 7y ago
> Remember that only 100 companies are responsible for 71% of climate change. That has to be one of the most misleading statistics I've ever heard. The source of this appears to be here[0], they are assigning all emissions of produc
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by mbell 7y ago
Corporations don't hold tax burden, only people do. Corporate taxes are ultimately paid by shareholders, workers and customers; 'Apple' never pays taxes. In a fairly free global economy, many economists hold that workers bear

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