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penagwin
7y ago
What I mean is that Nintendo is going to DMCA that link, but it's fine, we've got other copies. In situations like this I highly recommend anyone with a spare 15.2MB of disk space to download this just to help preserve it.
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penagwin
7y ago
At both universities I've been to you had to login through the central thingy with your student info to access journals. (From Michigan)
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penagwin
7y ago
It made it to r/datahoarders and I'm sure the eye will have a copy. There's no way we're letting this slip. If anybody can't find a copy PM me and I'll help you track one down.
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penagwin
7y ago
He has a drive that most people can only dream of. I have a bunch of projects, drones, 3d printers, computer clusters, a bunch of programs I want to make - I have all the tools, I already own all the things I mentioned. But I suffer from de
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penagwin
7y ago
Thanks, those were the numbers I was really interested in. I figured there's no way it would be as fast as say V8 who has Google+others working for years to make it as fast as possible. Not that it's a bad thing! They just have di
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penagwin
7y ago
From my understanding (SOMEBODY CORRECT ME IF IM WRONG) Eevee is designed for realtime rendering in mind - it uses tricks similar to videogames to get high quality renders without raycasting everything. So it performs FAR better than blende
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penagwin
7y ago
Windows can't extract tarballs unless you install the linux subsystem or install 7-zip or similar. Macos can decompress them natively without installation. > No idea if mobile ever crossed their mind. If it was released on github&#x
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penagwin
7y ago
The parent is pointing out one possible motive for a large carrier, who has to deal with what I call the "general public". > Which is why I prefer to buy my phone independently from the carrier service. You're clearly a te
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penagwin
7y ago
> Did CI save Google from the networking outage or tests prevent a global Cloudflare outage? This is not a fair statement. This is like saying "Did seatbelts save the victims who died in car accidents X/Y/Z?" Just bec
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penagwin
7y ago
I know this is controversial but I've always felt the entire universe is Deterministic which would make it just a massive State-Machine. We as humans might be missing the right equations/right measurements/precision to actual
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penagwin
7y ago
I feel like you're going to run into lots of speed bottlenecks that aren't feasible to calculate. > Right, I was mainly thinking in terms of speedups from not having to switch tasks and the gains from specializing in one kind o
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penagwin
7y ago
I wonder if since it's the same "chip" they have the same TDP listed, even though some of the cores are turned off.
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penagwin
7y ago
> not a problem if they are maintained in the way the SpaceX sats are going to be. Aka - Not a problem if they are well thought out, well planned, and maintained. Are there international agreements that specify this is the case? Just cur
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penagwin
7y ago
Satellites also have to be specialty built for their purpose. You can't just take a small communications satellite, attach a small camera, and have a spy satellite. Well you "could" but it would be so crappy that it'd be
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penagwin
7y ago
Given the small surface area of the roofs, the efficiency of existing solar panels, and how much car companies exaggerate when it comes to miles (do they mean 27.7mi with all the seats removed, etc.) I would expect it to be a practical no-g
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penagwin
7y ago
Oh man passenger reactions would be so awesome. Suddenly the driver just says "divert life support to propulsion" - and the passengers are like "WAIT WHAT LIFE SUPPORT?!"
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penagwin
7y ago
"Stopping abuse" isn't actionable - e.g. You can't say today I'm going to "stop abuse"(Unless you're an abuser). Banning images is an actionable measure - with the goal of stopping abuse. Not saying i
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penagwin
7y ago
> What are real world use cases for kafka? He covers it under the introduction "Why bother with async messaging?". Basically in the analogy the belts are queues. Factorio doesn't require queues, but it quickly leads to pro
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7y ago
For some of the older pi's it was kinda a "free performance" that you may as well use for a lot of applications. The zero w still needs it for decent camera streaming. The problem with the Pi 4 however is that it's on th
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penagwin
7y ago
Ha, bet somebody wrote < 32 instead of <=32
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penagwin
7y ago
> Not supporting special characters I can kinda understand IIRC this is mostly done to prevent SQL injection attacks. In a modern system there is 0 reason not to allow any characters in the password (within whatever encoding you support)
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penagwin
7y ago
This is the biggest failure point for mining cards, they're easy/cheap to replace though.
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penagwin
7y ago
At least for me and I'm sure for some others it's a hobby and just kinda excepted the higher electricity cost as part of my hobby's expenses. And as the others said, at idle you'll be using a lot less power. That said yo
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penagwin
7y ago
Nah what you're doing is closer to r/datahoarder . It's legally grey, but a lot of people wouldn't really consider is real "piracy" in your case if you purchased a CD. I more consider it datahoarding in your ca
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penagwin
7y ago
I've seen several talks where they demoed showing access to hydroelectric dams, etc. I'm thankfully not this person, but at a basic level I could see some bored teen turning off a dam just for fun. Honestly the only reason I don&#
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penagwin
7y ago
Right? Every new web developer that first learns how to do animations REALLY over does them. It's like how elementary school kids write their "papers" in comic sans (and eight other fonts half-way through) and each word is a
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penagwin
7y ago
> Age and birth date don't match I hate you.
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penagwin
7y ago
Serious question. I've been hearing about industrial applications/medical etc. having default passwords exposed on the internet for years. How have they not been exploited/fixed already? Shodan's made it clear for years,
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7y ago
I'm curious what benchmarks you've seen that actually show a 3x compute improvement? Most of the benchmarks I've seen show a ~30% improvement in CPU compute, while I/O has improved tremendously, as well as the memory. Bu
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7y ago
Keep in mind most "smart home" technology is marketed at consumers who have no idea what SSL/TLS is (nore do many care sadly even though they should), and are meant to be as cheap as possible. While I have no clue what the se
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