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by mnw21cam 5y ago
The latter will surely depend on your operating system and its file handling semantics. In general, in Windows if something is reading a file and you delete the file, then you're actually deleting the file and the reader will be interr
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Most of the IFF images produced on the Amiga were also ordered by bitplanes, but that's bitplanes of an n-bit number for each pixel, referencing a colour lookup tables.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Different companies call these technologies different things, but they're fairly divorced from the actual minimum feature size these days. Your advertised feature size is a marketing term, so it's going to be gamed to some extent.
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The kite engineer striving to revolutionise DIY wind power(bbc.co.uk)
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
No. That's what I want, and that's what the law says I should get. End of story.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
> In other words, you're welcome to walk up to me, slap me in the face, and call me a son-of-a-bitch... but that's probably not a great start to a conversation that ends with "Would you please work with me on this?" W
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Yeah, I still don't quite get the argument against do not track, and why its clear declaration of intent couldn't be made binding. I mean, you're effectively telling web sites "Do not track me", and they are respond
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
The problem with dithering is that it is added noise (read: entropy) that needs to be preserved in the image file, which can make the compressed image file bigger. You can actually achieve quite good results by just cranking down the qualit
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
This is completely arbitrary. We could switch to DST all year round and work 9-5, or we could switch to normal time year-round, and work 8-4. It's the same thing - you're just calling it something different.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
If there's an example of a thing that you shouldn't try to do yourself other than crypto, it's timezones. The timezone database is there, and it is updated regularly by very dedicated and intelligent people. There's no e
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
The database has analysed the query that is being run, and decided that the quickest way to fulfil that query is to take 27MB of data and sort it into a file on disc before reading it back in with the correct order. This is caused by the wo
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
I'm an advocate for nuclear power, but I have to point out that this isn't actually true. A nuclear plant can load-follow to a certain extent if it is designed to do so, but if you reduce the power output of a nuclear reactor belo
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Agreed. I bought my laptop four years ago for £600. It has a 3200x1800 bright and clear display, 8GB RAM, is thin and light, the battery lasts six hours, and I really don't care that the CPU is an Atom, because I'm always logged i
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Can someone post the content into a comment here please?
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Since the minimum wage in the UK is a thing that is set by law, defined as an amount in Sterling per hour, before tax (although at that pay level tax would be irrelevant anyway), that's the only valid response.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
In other words, around 5% of hate messages were actioned. Of those 5%, about 4% were identified by AI, and 1% by responding to direct reports of abuse.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
The classic reason quoted for SMT is to allow the functional units to be fully utilised when there is instruction-to-instruction dependencies - that is, the input of one instruction is the output from the previous instruction. Doing SMT all
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Working with video will use up an extraordinary amount of memory. Some of the genetics stuff I work on requires absolute gobs of RAM. I have a single process that requires around 400GB of RAM that I need to run quite regularly.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Yeah, countries absolutely have a negative feedback loop. In the UK, society is largely open and free to intermingle, yet the virus isn't spreading exponentially. In my mind, that's because the vaccine has significantly lowered th
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
I'm currently dreading the time when I stop working from home and go back into the office, because at home I have a nice 4k monitor and a 3200x1800 laptop screen, whereas at work it's 1920x1080 or less - and that was fairly recent
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Well, the point isn't that my bank wouldn't "leak" my details - I certainly don't trust them that far. So it's absolutely possible for a random person to get my phone number from the bank. But if a random perso
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Red flag number 1 - my bank wouldn't give someone random my telephone number. That would be illegal.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Plus, when such an object that is moving so (relatively) slowly approaches the planet, it will fall into the gravity well and pick up a lot of speed - the escape velocity of the planet, which for Earth is about 11.2km/s. So effectively
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
I really hope you mean rpm, not rps.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
If you put aluminium in a dishwasher enough times, it will gradually eat it away.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
The thing is, GPS signals are really weak at the receiver. They're technically below the noise floor, and receivers have to use shenanigans to get a usable signal at all. If you're transmitting the jamming signal, you're re
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
The majority of modern mobile phones will happily use satellites from all three systems for location. However yes, they generally aren't approved devices.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Note, this is a Windows thing for managing log files - it is not a file system.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
It didn't end very well in the book. Hopefully this case goes well.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
In standard NMOS or PMOS circuitry, both a NAND gate and a NOR gate require two transistors each (and a resistor, which is usually actually a transistor as well). CMOS requires four transistors for both a NAND gate or a NOR gate. It's

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