pacetherace

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by pacetherace 5y ago
People raving about moving to Texas is plain stupid. Housing prices in places like Austin have increased to unaffordable levels for many locals. They are affordable only for California transplants.
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by pacetherace 5y ago
Some people just don't get it.
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by pacetherace 5y ago
Whitebox solutions can be adopted by corporations that can afford to have dedicated teams to maintain the software stack. For others, it can be quite risky.
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by pacetherace 5y ago
Crimnals tend to start small, if uncaught, go big.
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by pacetherace 5y ago
Right click and open in vlc/iina is my preferred way
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by pacetherace 5y ago
The construction prices you quoted are not correct at least in the Bay Area. And I am guessing $150/sq ft achievable at scale. Pricing ADUs is tricky because the some of things in a house cost same for a small to medium size home. For
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by pacetherace 5y ago
80M 512 byte I/O per second. That’s 10M 4KB I/O per second. That’s not groundbreaking.
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by pacetherace 5y ago
Sorry to correct you. But the first person alone in lunar orbit was John Young during the Apollo 10 mission
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by pacetherace 6y ago
Every brokerage house has this problem. If their client goes bankrupt, then the brokerage house has to eat the loss.
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by pacetherace 6y ago
My wife has been hoarding tons of garbage from Buy Nothing Group. I wish she joined No Nothing Group.
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by pacetherace 6y ago
That's taking it a bit too far. Now that Apple has shown multiple times that software can be used to bridge the transition from one architecture to another, I have a feeling that x86 will also take a similar route of revisiting the ISA
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by pacetherace 6y ago
Apple is not opposed to payment systems that load money from a website into a platform like Spotify or Amazon. They are opposed to payment systems that bypass their Apple payment system from an app.
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by pacetherace 6y ago
So we have a new king in the North
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by pacetherace 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if citizens sue governments for loss of housing. I am not saying it was unwanted but if people are forced to shut down their businesses, it is obvious that many of them will eventually default.
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by pacetherace 6y ago
While I agree with not using very advanced IDEs. It is important to have the means to quickly navigate standard libraries. MSDN gets my vote for that.
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by pacetherace 7y ago
Fooled!
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by pacetherace 7y ago
In the 90s and 2000s, cars had too many buttons and knobs. And car reviewers started using that as a criterion to judge the dashboard. So less became better. OCD!
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by pacetherace 7y ago
It’s ironic that Covidien was the name of the company that screwed up the ventilator supply.
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by pacetherace 7y ago
The feeling of wetness is something that you get used to once you realize that your butt clean. On the flip side, most people who use toilet paper think their butts will get completely clean. That is actually not the case. But either is not
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by pacetherace 7y ago
Viruses do mutate. So for many people, the body may never develop complete immunity.
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by pacetherace 7y ago
The city will also require bringing electrical, plumbing, mechanical up to code.
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by pacetherace 7y ago
Universities want to generate royalty from the patents. Their motivation is not to block others from using their patents.
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by pacetherace 7y ago
May not be required for gaming but for their GPGPU market that is going to be a big win. Another use case is the Cloud gaming market where a single GPU needs to serve multiple users.
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by pacetherace 7y ago
Deplaning is not a very significant problem because there are other things that are being taken care of while it is happening. However, you can't start boarding until a certain point and from there until the plane leaves the gate, a lo
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by pacetherace 7y ago
Nobody but they themselves are to be blamed. I don't think they revamped their business model as much others who survived did. Their website and newsletter feels like it is from the 2000's. The stores are just too big and unintuit
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by pacetherace 7y ago
If he was not able to manage that kind of money the first time, he will not go very far the second time. Most likely he will come up with a similar Ponzi scheme and burn all his cash.
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by pacetherace 7y ago
Apps that use deepfake like algorithms to enhance photos can fall into that category.
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by pacetherace 7y ago
In the last 4-5 years, Softbank basically caused hyperinflation in the startup world.
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by pacetherace 7y ago
Our IT has told us to not upgrade macOS because the wireless keyboard/mouse combo most of us use stops working.
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by pacetherace 7y ago
Actually, the biggest incentive for SpaceX to reuse the parts was to bring down the costs to compete with the incumbents on pricing after factoring in their R&D costs. The older launch vehicles and their payloads are pretty much standar

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