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by msimpson 9y ago
It's important to note: > TileMill has shifted to an open open source contributor model and moved to its own organization, tilemill-project. A shift which has come a year or so after the project was abandoned by Mapbox in favor of M
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by msimpson 9y ago
Not one Johnny Mnemonic joke? I'm proud of you guys.
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by msimpson 9y ago
> ... they routinely have the best deals on CPU prices and often have incredible CPU & motherboard combo prices. Agreed. > The X299 is early in its lifecycle, of course, so I'd hope availability for a few years. Same, here.
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by msimpson 9y ago
It's how the mass of the International Prototype Kilogram and its copies have drifted over time: http://www.bipm.org/en/bipm/mass/ipk/ (verifications tab)
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by msimpson 9y ago
I always get a kick out of this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Pr...
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by msimpson 9y ago
The MSI X299 RAIDER is the cheapest X299 board I can find at NewEgg and costs $219.99. The GIGABYTE GA-AB350M-Gaming 3 is the cheapest Ryzen board I can find at NewEgg and costs only $94.99 by comparsion. Therefore, there's an obvious
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by msimpson 9y ago
If you're a gamer, then yes, the i7-7820X is precisely what you'd be considering in opposition to the 1800X. I invoked the example of 3D rendering as it's the origin of most of these discussions among my co-workers.
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by msimpson 9y ago
Between the Intel Core i9-7900X and AMD Ryzen 7 1800X there is a $540 price difference. But for that extra cost you get four more threads at a higher clock rate, twenty extra PCIE lanes, a 500 MHz higher turbo clock speed, and double the me
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by msimpson 9y ago
> Studies are showing that more diverse teams have higher collective intelligence... Yet the evidence provided for this claim regards preliminary findings of a singular study conducted six years ago. > Is it a problem that of computer
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by msimpson 9y ago
This is why we love Mark Hamill.
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by msimpson 9y ago
The late 2016 Razer Blade uses the i7-6700HQ which is specifically a Family 6, Model 94, Stepping 3 processor. I wonder if a microcode update would solve some of the various issues I have in Windows.
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by msimpson 9y ago
> Nationalism is a Bad Thing in my view. First of all, nationalism is not national sovereignty. The former is a social construct which an individual embraces while the latter is a principal of law which a group embraces. The former is ha
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by msimpson 9y ago
No, it's a loaded question. But if you want to play, let us discuss the health of Chinese peasant farmers before and after globalization as well.
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by msimpson 9y ago
Why are you trying to create a false dichotomy?
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by msimpson 9y ago
I'm against increased globalization because it erodes national sovereignty and undermines republican governments.
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by msimpson 9y ago
Unionization fails for many reasons. Even in the US, with all of our protective laws, Wal-Mart is and remains a union-busting force. Also, I'm not implying this is the fault of local workers. It's simply a terrible mess at every a
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by msimpson 9y ago
> ...laws are lax because oligarchies in developing countries typically don't get harmed by dangerous working conditions. This holds true even for developed nations. If a particular company or industry can skirt workers rights, envi
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by msimpson 9y ago
It's this lack of follow through which burns me in regard to these investigations. > The two Chinese ransom notes differ substantially from other notes in content, format, and tone. Google Translate fails in both Chinese-English and
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by msimpson 9y ago
There is a known issue regarding Raleway due to aliasing in Chrome, see: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74672/renderi... I hear claims it has been fixed, but I still see the issue in Chromium 58 on
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by msimpson 9y ago
I wish people would stop using Raleway or implement a fix. This is what I see: http://imgur.com/a/locAq
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by msimpson 9y ago
There are a myriad of options available to gain platform agnosticism and nowhere did I, or even the original commentator, state that Electron was the only viable path. Ironically, you should read the comments from your own example as they d
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by msimpson 9y ago
While I agree that, "every tradesman has a right to choose his preferred tools and platforms to support," that attitude is hard kept if you're selling closed source software for a platform with only five percent market share.
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by msimpson 9y ago
You've expressed my exact sentiment. This really should be platform agnostic.
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by msimpson 9y ago
"So far ad revenue has helped to cover costs and to justify the time I spend on keeping the site and data up to date. That's been fine and dandy, but wouldn't it be great if you could help support the site and have an ad-free
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by msimpson 9y ago
"Because this attribute is typically implemented using CSS, it’s also possible to override it using CSS. For instance, a rule that applies 'display: block' to all elements will cancel the effects of the hidden attribute. Auth
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by msimpson 9y ago
> Git version control system to build Windows itself. ZDNet ...
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by msimpson 9y ago
So, presently, this is what I've been able to gather: -------------- Xeon E5 2699 v5 32C/64T @ 2.30 GHz L1 Instruction Cache: 32 KB x 32 L1 Data Cache: 32 KB x 32 L2 Cache: 256 KB x 32 L3 Cache: 46080 KB -------------- AMD EPYC 32
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by msimpson 9y ago
Right. I forgot NTFS is in fact case sensitive. Thanks.
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by msimpson 9y ago
While I know nothing of Rust, Diesel, or CrateDB, I do know that Windows uses a case-insensitive file system and this fix doesn't seem to take that into consideration. However, the author of the fix does note: > I believe crates.io&
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by msimpson 9y ago
The site uses its own framework, but the menu isn't responsive?

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