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811.
by pavlov 2y ago
The German stock market produced excellent gains in 1933-41. When the Nazi government closed the stock exchange after Stalingrad, the index was near its all-time high. (When the market finally reopened in 1948, German companies were valued
812.
by pavlov 2y ago
I wonder if someone has written a GPU shader that can play a game of chess inside a 8x8 checkerboard texture.
813.
by pavlov 2y ago
That’s incredible. Illustrates how incomprehensibly big galaxies really are. There’s a thing 2.5 million light years away which still appears 4x bigger than the Moon.
814.
by pavlov 2y ago
Yes, OS/2 had DPMI support starting from version 2.0, already in 1992.
815.
by pavlov 2y ago
CSS didn't support constants and derived values for a long time, so a generation of web designers grew up thinking this is something quite difficult to achieve. And now there's a layer of design consultants who sell complicated wa
816.
by pavlov 2y ago
It's missing the one solution I see fairly often: a single table with a JSON-typed column that serves as a catch-all dumpster for subtype data. The question and answers are from 2010 and the PostgreSQL JSON data type was introduced in
817.
by pavlov 2y ago
> “I get paid in all kinds of tokens, and it's nice to see some coins rise after I get paid, which makes freelancer work feel a tiiiiiny bit more like being an employee with stock.” This is the very definition of a security in US
818.
by pavlov 2y ago
This is also the story of cryptocurrencies. From Silk Road to ETF-wrapped investment products where no actual crypto ever moves when you trade it. For 99.9% of crypto investors, the Patrician knows exactly what kind of horse they ride. Soon
819.
by pavlov 2y ago
And if you get lucky this way enough times in a row, you'll start believing yourself a genius who deserved the extraordinary success. Journalists will call you up to hear your excitingly contrarian views on topics you know nothing abou
820.
by pavlov 2y ago
I do miss the days when French and Italian cars were recognizable even across brands. Even Alfa Romeo is now a pale shadow of its former proud self. In my opinion, the 2005 Alfa Brera was the last truly beautiful mass-market production car.
821.
by pavlov 2y ago
At least in Europe and the Nordic systems I have experience with, that typically applies to the very expensive novel treatments. There are gene therapies which can cost $2-3 million per patient and those aren't covered by any public he
822.
by pavlov 2y ago
Why should the system accommodate people who refuse to defend themselves? I understand that in a system like Russia where dissidents face made-up charges and their attorneys are harassed by the state. But Alex Jones isn’t in that kind of po
823.
by pavlov 2y ago
When the DVD format was new, a 300MHz Pentium II CPU could just barely decode the MPEG-2 stream. And that CPU cost almost two thousand dollars at launch: https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/pentium-ii-release-d
824.
by pavlov 2y ago
As a Tesla customer I’m inclined to agree. I paid in full for FSD six years ago, but never received anything even remotely usable in my region. They just took my money and kept lying. The feature is actively dangerous.
825.
by pavlov 2y ago
Low refresh rates. 50Hz for European TV (PAL), 60Hz for American (NTSC). On an LCD, each pixel lights up and illuminates constantly without flicker. On a CRT, an unrefreshed image immediately fades away. For desktop computing, the minimum e
826.
by pavlov 2y ago
Maybe it’s just my own bias because I love prototyping… But I feel in software engineering there’s a fifth D that combines the first and last items on this spectrum. (Sort of like magenta is a color that’s produced by the mix of wavelengths
827.
by pavlov 2y ago
That's even crazier than my habit of writing notes in macOS TextEdit and never saving them. (Currently at "Untitled 235")
828.
by pavlov 2y ago
That only works if you control the data that gets parsed. Imagine you’re a HTML parser library author in 1998. You’ve been happily skipping comments. Now you get complaints that your parser doesn’t see JavaScript. Turns out that everyone ha
829.
by pavlov 2y ago
Oh. Well, the stock already tanked. If a stock loses 75% of its value and you barely notice, then the remaining 25% doesn’t matter either. For most passive investors, an individual stock’s weight is a technical detail that’s handled by auto
830.
by pavlov 2y ago
> “No government ownership? No public funding” And since everyone should play by the same rules, this would apply to SpaceX and Tesla too. Right?
831.
by pavlov 2y ago
What do you mean, holding the bag? Intel’s products have compatible alternatives from other vendors. If they went away, AMD would surely continue providing x86 compatible chips.
832.
by pavlov 2y ago
In an ironic twist, Intel used to make the highest-performance ARM chips until 2006. They were popular in PDAs and early smartphones, but not x86 and therefore strategically embarrassing. So Intel sold the Xscale family, just before iPhone
833.
by pavlov 2y ago
It’s better than having to deal with the ad hoc out-of-band data formats that people would inevitably have stuffed into comments if given the opportunity. Remember how JavaScript used to reside inside a HTML comment?
834.
by pavlov 2y ago
> “I drive Curiosity” “What kind of SUV is that? He can’t mean… Oh, he does…! Holy s**t”
835.
by pavlov 2y ago
Voight-Kampff test but it’s just staring at stereograms with sweat glistening on your forehead. It’s unfortunate that so many humans were initially retired, but it was also helpful in motivating the population to finally figure out Magic Ey
836.
by pavlov 2y ago
That’s kind of my implicit point. Employers don’t want to think of themselves as renters. It’s offensive to their unquestioned self-image as being the ones who hold the cards and deign to interview candidates. But if you can give up on thos
837.
by pavlov 2y ago
Employing someone is renting their labor. How do you find an apartment rental in a large city with thousands of options? You can’t expect to visit them all. And you certainly can’t come up with increasingly bizarre torture tests for landlor
838.
by pavlov 2y ago
Why bother with this style of interview where the candidate is under extreme time pressure and isn’t allowed to use any of the research tools they would normally use in their job? What is this controlling for? It barely made sense when thes
839.
by pavlov 2y ago
> “Originally I'd planned on posting this on Aug 24” For context, Aug 24, 1995 was the release date for Windows 95. It was a huge deal back then. Microsoft was spending hundreds of millions on marketing, which was unprecedented in
840.
by pavlov 2y ago
It sounds like the grandparent poster is maybe talking about OS/2 1.x, which was definitely hamstrung by 286 compatibility. But OS/2 2.0 was practically a 32-bit rewrite of the entire system with a new GUI too. It certainly was co

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