murderfs

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by murderfs 4y ago
> actually they do but it's a trivial amount. That depends on the type of battery. There are battery technologies that aren't closed systems (e.g. iron-air batteries are pure iron when charged, and iron oxide when discharged, p
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by murderfs 4y ago
Did you self-select into a public school that only has rich students? The average for California is depressingly bad: e.g. https://edsource.org/2022/californias-detailed-test-data-giv... The response by the state is to
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by murderfs 4y ago
They're not actually a process node ahead. Intel 10nm has slightly better density than TSMC 7nm.
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by murderfs 4y ago
Or, even more comically, "$"20,000,00 BTC, as people try to escape from a sinking tether.
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by murderfs 4y ago
Consistently Meets Expectations, one step up from "you are probably going to get fired" (needs improvement)
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by murderfs 4y ago
The response time seems rather bad, at least compared to regular LCD displays. You can see the mouse cursor leave a trail: https://i.imgur.com/S1fNFFl.png The outdoor performance looks amazing though.
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by murderfs 4y ago
Cheap LED christmas lights flicker because they don't have a bridge rectifier, so half of the input waveform is zero, at 60Hz. You're not going to see that kind of flicker in anything that requires real DC power (PWM frequencies f
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by murderfs 4y ago
Yes. There's even a bot that calls you out if you use "bad" words in internal chats.
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by murderfs 4y ago
Tech salaries seem to be becoming increasingly bimodal: you can get $600k/year as a staff SWE at amazon/google/facebook if you get competing offers.
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by murderfs 4y ago
That's only true in extremis: it's not even completely true of car/industrial motors! Companies like Cummins design motors that are used in all sorts of applications, e.g. https://www.cummins.com/engines/
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by murderfs 5y ago
I too encourage others to sacrifice their well-being for my vague sense of aesthetics.
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by murderfs 5y ago
> it's nice that threading got better recently in embedded Realtime OS's, HW always gets better, but certainly drivers not and SW not. I hate to break it to you, but hardware is basically always broken, and it's all "
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by murderfs 5y ago
> Why do math students need to know the sine doubling rule? Not so they can calculate with it (they could look that up) but so they can reduce certain expressions to sin(2x). That's why calculus teaches this stuff. Why make math stu
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by murderfs 5y ago
"Federal Bureau of Investigation" or "Secret Service" aren't particularly friendly sounding names either...
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by murderfs 5y ago
Yes, but that's not what the original poster proposed! "Just do a flat x% tax on every dollar of revenue. That's it. Forget income, loss, expenses, tariffs, etc etc." The way that VAT is implemented is that every interme
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by murderfs 5y ago
Sure, if you want literally everything to be vertically integrated. Either your tax is meaninglessly small, or everything that exists today in a supply chain (e.g. iron ore -> iron pellets -> steel billets -> steel wire -> nails
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by murderfs 5y ago
> That all said, the degree of cooling predicted by nuclear theorists was overstated—not that overstating the destructiveness of nuclear weapons is so bad Yeah, and even if it wasn't, the effects wouldn't be from nuclear weapon
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by murderfs 5y ago
It performs significantly worse than Chrome for me on both desktop Linux and Android (although Chrome mobile not supporting extensions means I use Firefox anyway). On privacy, I tentatively agree (but Mozilla's actions with Pocket etc.
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by murderfs 5y ago
> Just to add, back then Firefox had an army of advocates installing Firefox on their family’s and friends computers, basically making them use it. Google co-opted the same arm just four years later with similar marketing to get everyone
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by murderfs 5y ago
> The C11 and C++11 programming languages expose a weak software memory model which was in many ways influenced by the Alpha. What this doesn't mention is that the software memory model for systems languages like C++ should pretty m
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by murderfs 5y ago
https://www.teamblind.com/post/The-guy-got-PIPed-VBvKiiXu 90% of the point of blind is to shit on your own company anonymously (at least, that's what I use it for). I find it hard to believe that it's false,
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by murderfs 5y ago
Stories have two sides, someone on blind posted the following, and no one's challenged it so presumably it's true: > The guy made 24 CRs in his entire career at amazon, all in just one CDK package. > 50% of his CRs are merge
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by murderfs 5y ago
Ah, yes, everyone knows that Google killed their highly profitable product in Google Reader to push ads somehow.
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by murderfs 5y ago
The scales are different: torque is from 0 to 700 Nm, power is from 0 to 300 KW.
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by murderfs 5y ago
? Arianespace was the first commercial launch provider.
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by murderfs 5y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the structure of the credit card system a bit. > And as mentioned, they know things like past transaction types, previous chargebacks, amounts, other current activity, and so on that the merchant does
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by murderfs 5y ago
Ah, yeah, you're right. You can probably still buy them through a broker, though. Searching around a bit, it looks like you should be able to open an account with Schwab: https://international.schwab.com/
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by murderfs 5y ago
AFAIK, TreasuryDirect should be available to non-Americans. You'll need to get a U.S. Tax Identification Number, and figure out your tax situation though: it'll vary from country to country based on treaties with the U.S.
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by murderfs 5y ago
> Lazy: Send it to Gemini, buy 600k worth of GUSD, loan it on their Lend program and collect 8%pa compounded monthly. Why would you bother with this when TIPS bonds are paying out 7.12%?
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by murderfs 5y ago
Yes, Chromium is basically entirely memory unsafe modulo mitigations [1], with the exception of some codecs being generated from a memory safe language. I meant that the memory safe parts of Firefox are a very small minority: it's also

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