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by pwg 3mo ago
> Anytime someone is an actual expert at anything, AI output appears insufficient or incomplete or outright misleading. The term for when the press "gets it wrong" is Gell-Mann Amnesia ( https://en.wiktionary.org&#x2F
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by pwg 3mo ago
> very low density (relatively speaking to today) make them more robust against gamma-rays and other radiation problems once outside the atmosphere? Yes. Large size transistors (and other IC components) are less impacted by the radiatio
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Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor(righto.com)
133 points by pwg 3mo ago|25 comments
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by pwg 3mo ago
> Where do you draw the line? If they want me to have some "special device", they pay for the hardware for me to have said "special device". My private phone is not for their use, ever.
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by pwg 3mo ago
Indeed. If $job is not willing to buy and hand me a "work phone" then they are out of luck, nothing for $job gets put onto my private phone. If they think they need this ability, then they also need to add a line item to their b
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by pwg 3mo ago
The article implied (but did not seem to ever state) that they simply added liquid cooled cold plates to all the other components that were previously air cooled. But it did not sound like they were describing a Cray 2 style liquid immersio
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by pwg 3mo ago
Title is inaccurate. The "bill" is not canceled. Trump canceled the "signing" ceremony for the bill (and so far is stating he will not sign it). If he fails to sign or veto it then in about two weeks, it will automatic
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by pwg 3mo ago
Archive link: https://archive.ph/OoDc7
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by pwg 3mo ago
It does not reach headline news because everyone just accepts that the "filter" is imperfect. But, for some reason, little twelve year old Jimmy obtaining access to porn evokes some kind of far more visceral reaction in Jimmy&#x27
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by pwg 3mo ago
> so most people can just charge their EV in their driveway every night. That does presume that those "most people" have a driveway where they can do charging. I.e., all apartment dwellers with cars in parking lots/garage
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by pwg 3mo ago
> This completely ignores the situation on the ground when C was developed. A great many of those replying are many years short of having experienced anything like "the situation on the ground when C was developed". They simpl
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by pwg 3mo ago
> Having no map is weird. Yes, a failure of both the journalist and the editor. Sadly, this kind of failure is all too common. I encounter articles that often omit a photo of the "thing" the article is describing. This (no ph
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by pwg 3mo ago
> I've yet to read a good explanation of why the telcos permit ... They (the telcos) are paid for every message they deliver. So absent regulation forcing them to do otherwise, it is in their best interest (additional profit) to pa
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The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip(righto.com)
140 points by pwg 4mo ago|28 comments
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by pwg 4mo ago
> a surprising number of robot calls match my own exchange number (why? what's the point?). The robocallers have found that if the fake caller id given matches the area code and exchange of the number being called, that more of the
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by pwg 4mo ago
Paywalled.
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by pwg 4mo ago
> new-car-every-three years generation For that generation, getting that "new car" every three years was mostly a status symbol signalling effect.
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by pwg 4mo ago
> Two decades ago I had a better Mac desktop experience than I have today. Two decades ago was 2006. I have the same desktop experience today as I had two decades ago (Fvwm2) and have had the grid virtual desktop layout this author mi
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by pwg 4mo ago
Regardless, reading as if it were "advertising" would possibly trigger the anti-advertising users, and HN is likely to have a slightly higher percentage of "anti-advertising" users than found in the general public. They
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by pwg 4mo ago
Your post reads as an advertisement. That is most likely why the number necessary of users flagged it. Flagging is from normal readers hitting the "flag" button (those with enough karma to obtain flagging rights).
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by pwg 4mo ago
> billionaires have multiple residences. This is new to me. This has been known for years. > your plans may be spoiled if you haven't already left. Not necessarily. The Epstein Class does not have to travel via standard airports
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by pwg 4mo ago
Bots don't [currently] execute JavaScript or follow complicated redirects. They don't now, but enough "high value to the bots" pages turning on JS or complicated redirects will simply result in the bot authors adding JS
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Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange(righto.com)
133 points by pwg 4mo ago|24 comments
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by pwg 4mo ago
Stop buying their tickets.
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by pwg 4mo ago
If you go take a read through the CA bill text that "became law", you'll quickly realize that whomever did write it must live in a very narrow bubble where the only "computers" that exist in the world are tablet sty
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by pwg 4mo ago
Google: how many thousands (or millions?) of employees You: 1 person Consider the dramatic difference in capacity.
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by pwg 4mo ago
> because once you reach a certain (very high) level of wealth, there’s the “buy, borrow, die” strategy that avoids realizing most of your capital gains If that is what is being targeted, then why not actually target that . Apply some
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by pwg 4mo ago
> Why didn't they just put a higher amp breaker in the box? 1) note the word "apartment" -- they rent, not own, and doing so not only would likely be illegal, but might also get them kicked out of the apartment. 2) Unless
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by pwg 4mo ago
The article stated that this was dismissed because the author lives in a rental apartment and he was not certain the landlord would agree to making this change. I did not see any indication that the landlord was ever actually asked, it appe
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by pwg 4mo ago
> If it is an electronic payment, I'm not sure how completing the transaction in front of a police station will help any. That's not the point of going to the "police safe exchange zone". The point is to hopefully pre

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