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by metaphor 10mo ago
> I am astonished that NIST does not have multiple clocks over multiple distributed sites with robust ability to detect and bypass individual failures. They may not operate redundant clocks at a single site, but ITS redundancy posture[
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by metaphor 10mo ago
Naw, slip shifting is a thing.
33.
by metaphor 10mo ago
Hold up...5-speed manual transmission in a '78 Datsun?
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by metaphor 11mo ago
Are you seriously trying to compare raw commodity inputs traded on the futures market to finished semiconductor products that are expected to become deprecated, uncompetitive and/or EOL'd in a few years?
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by metaphor 11mo ago
Apologies for not tracking; the monitor in question is spec'd with HDMI 2.1 and TB4 I/O.
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by metaphor 11mo ago
Apparently, ASUS believes there's an addressable market willing to pay a premium for +26.5% color-calibrated ppi in larger form factor.
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by metaphor 11mo ago
8K HDR implies that DSC becomes unavoidable...but DSC's "visually lossless" criteria relies on the human eye and is statistically subjective at face value. Any domain experts know how that actually squares in practice against
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by metaphor 1y ago
https://archive.is/9H2pY
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by metaphor 1y ago
Bullshit. LCSC is a grey market distributor whose sources of supply are of untraceable, dubious provenance. They are neither ECIA member nor participating distributor.
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by metaphor 1y ago
> Last updated:Jul 30, 2025 Appears to be stale documentation.
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by metaphor 1y ago
Appreciate the clarification and perspective.
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by metaphor 1y ago
What's the provenance of this "30 places year-on-year" assertion anyways? (TFA won't load on my end.) The Times filed Durham 7th @ 859 in FY24[1], 5th @ 898 in FY25[2]. They're now 3rd @ 906 for the current FY. P.S.
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by metaphor 1y ago
I agree that it's not optional; in my book, a company mandating association with the degenerate cesspool that is LinkedIn as entry criteria for employment consideration is simply a non-starter, full stop. If I disclose an email address
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by metaphor 1y ago
My wife is a professional graphic artist and I sent it to her without hesitation...if only for the awareness.
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by metaphor 1y ago
> And the repairability thing is a meme from back when they had part production lag due to crazy scaling. Respectfully, bullshit; auto insurance companies I've dealt with certainly begged to differ, and have priced comprehensive&#
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by metaphor 1y ago
> ...that’s already been the case for the vast majority of software developers ever since Apple stopped supporting PowerPC. For better or worse, PowerPC is still quite entrenched in the industrial embedded space.
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by metaphor 1y ago
> The company is pretty lousy and doesn't communicate well. They have missed every single deadline they've ever set for themselves. THIS...BUYER BEWARE! Raise your hand if you're one of the first thousand Indiegogo campa
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by metaphor 1y ago
> Immediately after the wreck at 9:14 p.m. on April 25, 2019, the crucial data detailing how it unfolded was automatically uploaded to the company’s servers and stored in a vast central database, according to court documents. Tesla’s he
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by metaphor 1y ago
https://archive.is/s1psp
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by metaphor 1y ago
Using bottom line of their most recent quarterly income statement[1], and given Google operates 24/7, then that's more like every 4.3 business hours. /s [1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data&#x
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by metaphor 1y ago
They do[1], but only open on weekdays and closes at 1600. [1] https://www.mosaicpizzacompany.com/washington-dc/
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by metaphor 1y ago
No[1], far from it in the US...thank goodness. [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1KzKj
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by metaphor 1y ago
> New cars prices doubled in the last 20 years. In the US, authoritative data sources[1] suggest otherwise. [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1KzJF
54.
by metaphor 1y ago
To be fair, there's a common pejorative for individuals who "value" unsolicited ad hoc profiling with the objective intent of stroking egos. Hint: It starts with an N and rhymes with arsonist.
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by metaphor 1y ago
> Roosters should not be allowed Ironically, the article depicts the homeowner holding a rooster; I can see why a neighbor would be pissed. Backyard hens are thing in my city (dancing around HOA is another issue altogether), but our or
56.
by metaphor 1y ago
For decades, Guam has had an invasive brown tree snake problem that completely decimated its native bird population and then some. Your wife's proposed solution reminded me of something the military actually tried: parachute thousands
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by metaphor 1y ago
Great points and in full agreement. Thanks for broadening my perspective!
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by metaphor 1y ago
Not sure I follow. Are you suggesting farming pythons as a prospective solution? Assuming this is the case (that would likely mitigate the mercury bioaccumulation hazard), it may be doable, but that would only make business development sens
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by metaphor 1y ago
The 9 footer in the video should weight around ~25 lbs, good for around 4-5 lbs of consumable meat...not a bad harvest considering level of effort to butcher relative to, say, deer. Acknowledged on the potential excessive human consumption
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by metaphor 1y ago
Not just any snake...these are Burmese pythons[1]. [1] https://youtu.be/0wXeRStcG6A?t=173

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