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by pezezin 2y ago
Modern DWDM systems use a channel spacing of 75/100 GHz, so you easily fit more than 50 channel in a single fibre.
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by pezezin 2y ago
If I am not mistaken, it is the same connector as the one used by the Sega Megadrive 1, although with a different pinout. In principle, you should be able to get a Megadrive cable, cut it, and reorder the pins.
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by pezezin 2y ago
I have seen the word "defenestration" many times before, but I think that your comment is the first time ever that I see "fenestration" o_O
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by pezezin 2y ago
True. Nowadays it is not a problem, but it makes me wonder how they could make 60 Hz television run on a 50 Hz grid.
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by pezezin 2y ago
A difference in frequency is not that big of a problem... except for the fact that you can't easily transfer power across the two grids. Japan has some power conversion stations, but when the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011 knock
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by pezezin 2y ago
Maybe in Tokyo, but here in Tōhoku it looks like half the cities and roads were never very good to begin with, and now are falling apart.
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by pezezin 2y ago
Mmm, I was there three months ago but I don't remember clearly. I will visit again in two weeks, so I will check it.
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by pezezin 2y ago
Of the stations that you mention, I find Akihabara to be actually quite nice and reasonably well organized (for Japanese standards). But I agree with you that the others are a mess. Shibuya and Ueno look like half the stations are falling a
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by pezezin 2y ago
Yes? I did it many, many times as a kid, it is not that difficult.
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by pezezin 2y ago
> However, the videogame industry in its entirety was dead-lifted from its premature grave by one "Nintendo Family Computer". Consoles maybe, but I don't think that the early 8/16-bit microcomputers were affected by t
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by pezezin 2y ago
How is that even legal? Don't such practices violate the Digital Single Market?
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by pezezin 2y ago
No, the vertical resolution was fixed and imposed by the TV standard: 525 lines for NTSC, 625 lines for PAL and SECAM, interlaced of course. All the analog video recording systems like LaserDisc, VHS or Beta have exactly the same vertical r
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by pezezin 3y ago
Not to mention that in most (all?) spoken languages numbers are big-endian.
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by pezezin 3y ago
I just tested it on Copilot. It starts responding and then at some point deletes the whole text and replies with: "Hmm… let’s try a different topic. Sorry about that. What else is on your mind?"
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by pezezin 3y ago
Judging by the pictures at the end of the article, it looks like the VRM are under the board o_O
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by pezezin 3y ago
> The NES was a little unusual in that it basically had no video ram. The PPU (the graphics chip) rendered sprites and background tiles straight off of the cartridge at 60fps as if the cartridge was an extension of the CPU's address
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by pezezin 3y ago
I have met many foreigners from Northern countries who made fun of siesta... until they stayed in Spain for a summer, then they understood it very quickly xD
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by pezezin 3y ago
I am from Spain and your last paragraph made me chuckle. Not that long ago gin and tonic was considered an old person's drink and there were very few brands available, but 10~15 years ago it exploded in popularity. All of sudden you co
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by pezezin 3y ago
CRT can also suffer from burn in. I have seen some retro arcades with text like "insert coin" burnt in.
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by pezezin 3y ago
I love visiting retro arcades every time I get the chance, but after an hour of playing I get a headache. And let's be honest, many CRT don't look that great, they tend to suffer from bad geometry and color aberrations.
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by pezezin 3y ago
Back in the day, 85 Hz was the absolute minimum that I could tolerate. Less than that and I would get serious eye strain very quickly.
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by pezezin 3y ago
I have been living in Japan for a while, and in my experience you can feel the earthquake coming a few seconds before the big shaking start. I don't know how to describe it, it is not a sound, more like a very slight movement.
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by pezezin 3y ago
European power outlets don't have switches either.
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by pezezin 3y ago
2 meters is enough to connect a server to a leaf ToR switch. Now, connecting the leaf switches to the spine is a different story...
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by pezezin 3y ago
Is there any Infiniband vendor left other than Nvidia?
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by pezezin 3y ago
But Itanium was not compatible with x86, it used emulation to run x86 software.
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by pezezin 3y ago
> European languages are all related to each other, so of course it's easier to figure things out by roots. I guess you have never visited Finland, Estonia or Hungary...
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by pezezin 3y ago
Those cables definitely exist for Ethernet, and regarding cross talk, that's what shielding is for. Although not for 200 Gbps, at that rate you either use big twinax DACs, or go to fibre.
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by pezezin 3y ago
I strongly disagree. Yes, speaking is more important than reading, but being illiterate in a modern society is not fun. And as the other comment said, having to use your phone all the time gets old really fast.
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by pezezin 3y ago
> Japan is also somewhat difficult for foreigners to live in because of the language barrier, but Germany isn't that different here In the case of Japan, you also have the insanely difficult writing system, probably the most difficu

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