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901.
by pdpi 4y ago
Seeing as this is photography for geeks : Colour temperature is exactly that, a temperature. Things glow when hot, with the colour of the light depending on the temperature and the material. When you say "a colour temperature of 6200
902.
by pdpi 4y ago
There is the old joke that, when you increment each letter in VMS, you get WNT.
903.
by pdpi 4y ago
Modern x86 CPUs typically have three layers of caching, where L1 and L2 are per-core, and only L3 is shared across all cores. You still have to solve all the cache coherency issues, and everything in the article still applies, even with jus
904.
by pdpi 4y ago
Proton helps you run Windows games on Linux. A few years ago, the problem with Mac games on Steam was running 32-bit Mac games on 64-bit only macOS builds. Now, it's running x86 Mac games on arm64 Macs. Often, we're talking about
905.
by pdpi 4y ago
The post actually mentions what map they used for benchmarking, and linked to a bunch of other benchmarks on the same map[0]. They quote around 200 UPS average. It's hard to compare to the linked benchmarks because those quote p75 numb
906.
by pdpi 4y ago
Lehrer's song about von Braun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio Also topical, his song about nuclear apocalypse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs
907.
by pdpi 4y ago
It's a testament to Peter Sellers's skills that you can genuinely fail to notice that he plays three major characters.
908.
by pdpi 4y ago
You don't get elected on your personality alone, but rather on some sort of electoral platform. Presumably, your platform aligns with your personal position, and part of your mandate is precisely to make good on those promises.
909.
by pdpi 4y ago
Yes, and at a really low resolution. That's okay, it's expected. Make It Work, Make It Right, Make It Fast. I personally didn't expect Asahi would get this far on steps #1 and #2 nearly as quickly as they have. It's bloo
910.
by pdpi 4y ago
If you adapted it for software, it's almost the same as saying "don't focus too much on the happy path, make sure you limit the blast radius for the failures cases", which just sounds like sensible advice. You really hav
911.
by pdpi 4y ago
If you think about it in terms of syntax, then sure. Markdown is a superset of HTML. I think it's much more meaningful to compare their semantics instead. From that point of view, Markdown is a nicer, more human-readable syntax for a v
912.
by pdpi 4y ago
A PhD in maths is _incredibly_ valuable. Anything abstract algebra related, and the likes of the NSA are all over you. Anything numerical analysis related will find plenty of opportunities in finance, and the industry just calls statistics
913.
by pdpi 4y ago
For one of the most frustrating projects I ever worked on, my net contribution was in the vicinity of -1k to -2k LOC in a service that weighed in at around ~5k LOC in the end. The guy who started the project came from an enterprise Java bac
914.
by pdpi 4y ago
> But not being able to apply consequence to speech prohibits me from doing even this simple act. Going a bit further: not being able to apply consequences to speech is itself curtailing your speech, so you literally can't have on
915.
by pdpi 4y ago
The first amendment isn't even particularly strong protection - it only forbids Congress from restricting freedom of speech, but doesn't set out any specific rights, or preclude states from setting their own laws restricting right
916.
by pdpi 4y ago
Most countries in the Euro zone aren't on their third government since the summer, and didn't have one of those governments collapse in the fallout of introducing a tax cut for the rich, funded entirely through borrowing, which ma
917.
by pdpi 4y ago
What do you mean? View finder, sensor, control surfaces, motherboard, heatsink, chassis+case. What exactly do you think is excessive complexity here?
918.
by pdpi 4y ago
The number is probably overinflated as all hell, but the article does arrive at that number as the lifetime total, not yearly sales.
919.
by pdpi 4y ago
That number is pulled from deep inside somebody's bowels. The one spare cable per two devices attach rate seems pretty high to me. One, because people won't necessarily buy apple-branded cables when they can buy cheaper third part
920.
by pdpi 4y ago
For an SD card, “store something you care about” will very often mean photos or video. You have no choice but to trust the SD card for the time it takes you to get to your computer where you can dump the contents into something more reliabl
921.
by pdpi 4y ago
This whole thing seems increasingly unlikely. The moment Apple makes a serious play in the ad market, they open themselves up to a double barrel dose of antitrust litigation from Facebook and Google, they'll have the mother of all PR n
922.
by pdpi 4y ago
Gas doesn't do much for Cybil resistance, it's largely meant to stop you from clogging up the network by publishing a transaction that executes the busy beaver function on some nasty input, or something similarly hostile.
923.
by pdpi 4y ago
There's plenty of really good criticisms of cryptocurrencies, but that's not one of them. The whole point of proof of work is Sybil-resistance. Because your voting power is tied to your hash rate, you can't just conjure up a
924.
by pdpi 4y ago
At least circumcision is performed because of a misguided belief that it’s better for the baby. What we’re discussing here is a procedure done to make a woman more pleasing for the husband .
925.
by pdpi 4y ago
Is there an Any% category for government? I mean, her strategy did involve a crash.
926.
by pdpi 4y ago
> Is an Algebraic Data Type (ADT) in rust an enum or tuple? It's the combination of both. Tuples are Product Types . If you treat types as sets of values, then the type (A,B) is the cartesian product of types A and B. For all pract
927.
by pdpi 4y ago
Going mainstream is the paradigm shift. OOP was invented in the 60s/70s, but the paradigm shift came in the 80s/90s.
928.
by pdpi 4y ago
Scala, Kotlin, Haxe, Swift, and several others. The search term you want is "Algebraic Data Types" Erlang has the superpowered version of this - binary pattern matching, that lets you pattern match on a bitstream directly.
929.
by pdpi 4y ago
> Rust's enums and exhaustive match statement are just amazing ADTs + pattern matching are the killer feature set that makes the more popular functional languages so damn pleasant to use, and they're starting to spread to more
930.
by pdpi 4y ago
> Presumably, wherever his skills lie, they don't lie in envisioning a better state This is possibly the single best example ever of how Computer Scientist and Software Engineer are different jobs with different skill sets.

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