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rocket_surgeron
3y ago
I was a software engineer for just long enough to realize that it was killing my soul and so I scammed my way into being an engineer in aerospace. Protip: if you do some solidworks tutorials on your off-time to get some experience with it a
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3y ago
Sometimes it seems that if any effort takes Intel more than a year or two to show results, they cancel it. If AMD had done the same, Intel would still enough enterprise marketshare to let products breathe. Maybe they're right? The fact
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rocket_surgeron
3y ago
> However, ink chemistry is not some straightforward mixing and the risks are largely downplayed by 3rd party ink manufacturers. Exactly and precisely 0.0% of printer manufacturers make their own ink. Almost all printer ink in the world
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rocket_surgeron
3y ago
I can't even spend $3 let alone $3k on the App Store without biometric authentication and my kids are grown and gone. Why would someone change this? Handing a 10 year old your AMEX and dropping them off at a mall is a bad idea. This is
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3y ago
What amount of money needs to be on the table for someone to take a meeting with a convicted solicitor of underaged prostitution? It seems that my number is a hell of a lot higher than some of the "luminaries" that walk among us.
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3y ago
If San Francisco is in a doom loop right now, what was it in back in the 60s-00s? An ultra-hyper-mega-doomloop-of-death? Hell in the 90s the violent crime rate routinely topped 1,800 per 100k. Today it is 1/3rd that. I remember San Fra
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3y ago
>125W And that is a lie, to achieve those scores it turbos and consumes 300W+ at turbo. Today, right now, is a moment where AMD's enterprise product are outperforming Intel's in benchmarks. Except for a very small set of specif
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3y ago
I have alcohol delivered to my house because it is the year 2023. People who have trouble with self-checkouts remind me of drivers who never get an oil change and then complain about how crappy their car is when it breaks down, or people wh
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3y ago
> cheap powerful batteries Advances in energy density, reliability, and safety have revolutionized batteries over the last 30 years. There are entire market segments where you are only as competitive as your battery and participants scra
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3y ago
Millennia of sectarian strife in a region that has always exceeded the population of the "white" world since Europe was covered by hundreds of meters of ice? I suppose you could measure a star against a lightbulb... ...I mean, the
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3y ago
>I'm fucking sick of dumb motherfuckers saying a microscopically-minuscule annual statistical blip is SHIT GOING TO HELL. >Things are just about as good as they've ever been in the history of the United States of America. Ba
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3y ago
Considered harmful considered harmfuls considered harmful!
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3y ago
Are they going to make more than 7 of these? Usually they only manufacture 7 examples of what they sell. Five to give to YouTube review channels and two to actually sell. When those two sell out they wait 29 months and then make two more. O
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3y ago
If your primary care provider won't do at least one vitamin-d test per year, and then periodic tests once a deficiency is identified, you should get a new primary care provider. If that's not an option, non-prescription at-home te
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3y ago
It doesn't bother me. Every single one of my ancestors for the last 3.5 billion years has died. It is part of existence. 50, 60, 100 more years? Great! Then I can pile on knee, hip, back, and wrist regeneration surgeries. Then extensiv
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3y ago
>I'm not saying the pundits are wrong in general The pundits are wrong. The FDA follows the instructions given to them by Congress. What went right is that there was broad bipartisan support for the 2017 FDA reauthorization act whic
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3y ago
Most people rejected His message. They hated mjburgess because He told them the truth. The amount of actual goods and non-crypto-related actual services purchased with crypto in the last year probably wouldn't fill a high school basket
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3y ago
I was born in Germany and have lived there off and on for several years. I've also lived all over the US. It's my general impression that the "typical" speed on unrestricted stretches of the autobahn and long, flat, rura
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3y ago
Don't worry, the control of external bleeding is basic first aid, no EMT training necessary. What I said is the exact same stuff they teach you in Lifeguard training, and if 15-year-old me can learn it, anyone can. Never took it, but b
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3y ago
Antinatalism views reproduction as immoral. This article isn't antinatalist. This article states the irrefutable fact that as certain events occur, birthrates tend to decrease, and that it is not a cause for alarm as individuals and sy
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3y ago
I like Murakami. I've read practically every word he's written. I have almost every novel he's published and look forward to new releases. He's got some very unique ideas and I like unique. But that dude's got some
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3y ago
>Hoover Institution It is not a fallacy to assert that economic analysis from the Hooverites is about as likely to be correct as medical advice from a hobo who lives in a culvert behind the nail parlor in the strip mall. The hobo may be
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3y ago
They just didn't read the article and are knee-jerking. I don't comment unless I read the article, and then read most if not all of the links within the article. Cook Medical isn't a coal mine, and Pike Place isn't a com
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3y ago
For the most profoundly addicted, the acutely dying, and those who are mentally ill to the point of being unable to participate in society these are luxuries. For everyone else, they are mandatory. Exercise is the easiest. Exercise isn'
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>What changed is the Queen’s Gambit got popular I'm not sure if The Queen's Gambit is popular viewing with the 11-14 year olds obsessing over chess in my local middle school. Twitch? Yes. They had to stand up four separate ches
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3y ago
An IC marking is not the same as a brand logo. AMD has etched/printed their arrowhead logo on practically every product they've produced since the the AMD2901, but the brand logo for Ryzen is the enso. Intel did market some produc
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3y ago
They still make bus systems similar to S-100. VME was a successor, and I use VPX which has PCI Express (or any switched fabric if you're ambitious enough) on the backplane, at my day job every day. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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3y ago
I am a volunteer EMT who has run thousands of calls. If someone is "bleeding out" in that they have an uncontrolled hemorrhage driving faster is never the preferred option. Generally speaking there are two types of hemorrhage: 1.
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3y ago
I ordered an instant pot on Amazon on March 30th, 2019. I received it Sunday, March 31st, 2019 and upon receiving it I discovered it can make yogurt. It made me very excited to learn that it could automate the yogurt-making process because
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3y ago
This incident does not seem a common-enough occurrence to change my behavior. That would be like euthanizing every dog on earth because a person might be killed by one. ~30,000 people are killed by dogs every year. How many times annually d
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