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by mshook 7y ago
As a native French speaker who knows how to do that without knowing the rule, an American friend once told me how they remember where to put the adjective: B.A.G.S. Most adjectives dealing with the following will precede the noun: - Beauty
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by mshook 7y ago
Intel is supposedly dropping the support to boot in 16 bits mode next year. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/intel-to-kill-off-th... https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-were-ending
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by mshook 7y ago
Previous discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20748711
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by mshook 7y ago
Circumstantial ad hominem fallacy perhaps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem#Circumstantial
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by mshook 7y ago
I agree, I was just saying all traditional supercomputer manufacturers lost that battle, including POWER but it's the last standing member from the old guard...
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by mshook 7y ago
Yeah but that's the thing in a way: people don't necessarily optimize. They just run the stuff right out of the box or after compiling it themselves... That's the hurdle which needs to be overcome and that's why x86 is y
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by mshook 7y ago
You have a point but then Intel has been crushing it... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Processor_families_in_TOP... They have cornered at least 85% of that market... And most likely, it's the nVidia connection
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by mshook 7y ago
> Well, the local machines are coming, it's totally feasible to have a Blackbird at home and host at IntegriCloud… Yeah but there's a HUGE but: the motherboard and CPU (1S/4C/16T) and heatsink alone are $1.4k, no RAM
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by mshook 7y ago
Yeah, it's the question I guess: too little, too late? Because it's hard to beat the x86 mammoth for so many reasons (on top of my head): - huge market share in servers/workstations - Intel has more resources than pretty much
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by mshook 7y ago
If I may ask why did you get it, which reasons? I like the cool non x86 factor but it's quite expensive... EDIT: Forgot to mention the open argument which is quite amazing as well (I've followed what Talos does).
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by mshook 7y ago
Exactly, having a 1000/400 Mb (roughly, can't complain for 49€) at home not only helps to download stuff as plenty others mentioned but it also created new opportunities. I have roughly a half a gigabyte of pictures (digital and d
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by mshook 7y ago
The city problem even has a name: Street Canyon or Urban Canyon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_canyon#GPS_signal_recep...
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by mshook 7y ago
Ok so the UI or procedures sucked but what's really aggravating as a tax payer, at least to me, is the lack of foresight and proper funding where it matters. Though to be honest it's not different from most work environments... Fi
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by mshook 7y ago
That's pretty much why we use vm.panic_on_oom = 1 as you have no idea about what's going to be killed...
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by mshook 7y ago
Except there's another wide cultural gap when it comes to windows: in Europe you almost never find windows which open by raising a pane vertically... And that means window units are not an option.
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by mshook 7y ago
Meh, there were plenty of similar stories when cruise control became a thing: people stuck travelling at high speed, people crashing too fast into things, etc.
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by mshook 8y ago
Plus if speed was really THE main factor, highways would be terribly dangerous. Or they're usually the safest when it comes to accident statistics. So speed is not the main issue but it's a nice tool when you're a politician
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by mshook 8y ago
Some cars use their GPS to enable that yes. I think the Nissan GT-R does that. It's from 2007: https://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/22/nissan-gt-r-recognizes-t...
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by mshook 8y ago
Yeah plus seq can generate sequences with leading zeroes (something like seq -f %04.f 1 20). So instead of scripting, he could have generated a sorted list of numbers from the files he had. Created a file with the sequence of numbers for th
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by mshook 8y ago
They probably lost a huge chunk of money but in the long run, it will probably be worth the effort. When you design something new like that, you invent and invest in new technologies that you'll use along the way. Concorde, while a com
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by mshook 8y ago
Japan is usually a Boeing backyard. Case in point with JAL (not sure if they fly the routes you talked about but it's as good as an example): https://www.jal.com/en/outline/aircraft.html 231 aircrafts, not a
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by mshook 8y ago
Ctrl-S doesn't freeze vim, it freezes your terminal output (Ctrl-Q to revert it). It's handy when something is dumping tons of stuff in the terminal. Here's the explanation of where it comes from: https://unix.stac
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by mshook 8y ago
In a way we need someone/something like Backblaze doing a SMART report about SSDs to let us know which SMART metrics we should be monitoring... Because they've shown most metrics are kinda useless or mean different things from one
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by mshook 8y ago
Not sure if you read the article but what they were testing is pretty much emergency braking from 60mph to full stop. So the goal is not regenerate the battery (and it doesn't matter if the driver was "an electric neophyte"),
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by mshook 8y ago
Which allowed him to park on disabled parking spaces without being fined... https://www.cultofmac.com/2613/steve-jobs-still-parking-in-h... https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-jobs-car-apple-ce
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by mshook 8y ago
Right (I upvoted you actually) but by another way of comparison, it appears BA itself ended up having 19 747-100 altogether. Which is 5 more than the whole Concorde fleet. 167 747-100 were built says wiki... https://en.wikipedi
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by mshook 8y ago
At the same time, when Concorde stopped flying after the accident in 2000, people who used to fly on her, flew on other things, so these passengers weren't lost revenue wise.
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by mshook 8y ago
It wasn't really the issue. Yes, that was a major problem but the real issue was the plane was old. The newest model had been built in 78 (G-BOAF, Aircrat 216). Think about it, how many airlines back in 2000 were flying planes that wer
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by mshook 8y ago
They did, they got new tires which would be less likely to break into shards and installed liners in wing tanks so shock waves wouldn't pierce the fuselage. http://www.concordesst.com/returntoflight/rts/chapte
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by mshook 9y ago
Actually the fuel efficiency of Concorde in "max cruise" auto pilot mode (aka max speed) is way better than people think: it didn't fly with reheat on (that's what is called supercruising in military planes). Reheat (aka

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