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by nibnib 10y ago
Buying a winning lottery ticket always looks like a great investing decision in retrospect...
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by nibnib 10y ago
I think it's actually much slower than the original. >The maximum reliable clock rate is not yet determined, but we expect it to be in the tens to (low) hundreds of kHz.
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by nibnib 10y ago
It also effects your ability to find work. Being laid off can be completely out of your hands and isn't always something that works against you.
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by nibnib 10y ago
>Something tells me that manually fabricating it on a small lathe/mill like Lonnie Johnson did would be much faster for prototyping than 3D printing, even today ... but I could be wrong. I think you are correct, and this is true for
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by nibnib 10y ago
Yeah, I've done this myself when building switching power supplies. I guess there's no reason not to tray silicone or nail varnish on noise graphics cards.
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by nibnib 10y ago
Is it possible to dope the coil with something to damp out the whining? I have an old Lenovo that has this, and the noise seems to vary depending on what's onscreen. It can be very annoying.
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by nibnib 10y ago
I wonder if there is a certain level of wealth where school test scores aren't a worry anymore.
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by nibnib 10y ago
>I figured Nervana was mostly dead if they were stuck at 28 nm Why? Is there a competitor that has leveraged a more modern process technology?
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by nibnib 10y ago
If you are outside of the US or Canada you are entitled to request all data Facebook holds about your account. This may be useful in determining what is actually deleted. http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Dat
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by nibnib 10y ago
A better idea.
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by nibnib 10y ago
Thank you. The jargon seems to be the biggest stumbling block here, the concepts make sense. If there is a "Finance for Hackers" out there I would love to read it.
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by nibnib 10y ago
This was my take, and I'm pretty sure I belong to the group that does not.
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by nibnib 10y ago
I don't understand most of the financial terms used in this article. Where do I start?
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by nibnib 10y ago
Thanks :)
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by nibnib 10y ago
Retropie is Linux right? That will have the same latency issues discussed. A more realtime OS is needed.
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by nibnib 10y ago
> as an emulator author, you get people presenting new zany latency reduction ideas that defy the laws of physics all the time, and they completely dismiss your own experience in the field, and it's like kids constantly saying, &quo
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by nibnib 10y ago
Great article. >This process can incur quite a bit of CPU time as well. Attempting to poll the keyboard state, mouse state, and all attached gamepads can easily eat several milliseconds per call. So it's just not possible to poll ev
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by nibnib 10y ago
An alternative is to do mixing on the sound card, but in that case you still need enough audio to fill up the hardware buffers.
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by nibnib 10y ago
I don't think I can tell much of anything from an unboxing video. I have no idea why they are so popular.
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by nibnib 10y ago
Yeah sure, there is probably specialized equipment for recovery too. It just doesn't really compare to pulling the tape out of a shattered VHS cassette, taping it together, respooling on another cassette and getting something playable.
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by nibnib 10y ago
>DVD correctly handled will last forever while a VHS degrade over time, especially when you play it often True, but a mangled VHS can be still be recovered. The analog nature of the degradation means that VHS is still somewhat usuable, w
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by nibnib 10y ago
TVs and VCRs were considerably more expensive. One of the biggest use cases was compromising with family members or housemates.
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by nibnib 10y ago
In Europe (not sure about the rest of the world) the newspapers printed numerical codes along with each TV listing. If you typed that into the VCR it would populate the start and end times for you, possibly the channel as well? edit: the sy
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by nibnib 10y ago
For a counter argument, I like to read many blogs that are more or less defunct, but have valuable material. The author has moved on (or passed on) but the material is still sitting on Google servers instead of disappearing when a hosting c
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by nibnib 10y ago
A lot of the book is advice and rules about efficiency. Simple things like cleaning items by category, instead of by room (i.e. get rid of your excess clothes instead of just planning to clean a bedroom). There is no mindblowing epiphany, j
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by nibnib 10y ago
This looks fantastic. I am curious about reselling Chinese products - why do Alibaba sellers value FBA businesses? Why don't they just set them up themselves?
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by nibnib 10y ago
Wireless headphones are another battery to charge, maintain, replace... Not ideal, imo not even an improvement. My phone is on my person when I use headphones with it, so untethering isn't really a plus. The only advantage I can think
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by nibnib 10y ago
The tiny amount of lead involved is very unlikely to be harmful. You could probably safely eat the amount of solder used to assemble that board. I do think think a case is necessary though, as those SOIC packages will not last long in pocke
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by nibnib 10y ago
The context is 2$/day, it's not exactly fair to suggest people hire some dudes with helicopters.
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by nibnib 10y ago
That rules out selling any in large parts of the world then.

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