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by samplatt 2y ago
Boats typically don't scan local RF unless they need to for the simple reason that boats - especially LARGE boats - are absolutely godawful environments for wifi. Metal panels between each deck and most of the walls, instruments and en
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by samplatt 2y ago
They also moved the servers from Steam to Epic around the same time, and it's unmitigated rubbish ever since. Match-ups are a joke. People with a lower ping than you basically have superpowers. With the addition of machine-learning bot
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by samplatt 2y ago
I've taken apart a Toughbook to try to resurrect a dead hard drive. It was the most brutally annoying laptops I've ever had to tear apart. I have SO much respect for those machines, but if it's being sold without a HDD, be pr
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by samplatt 2y ago
They mess a lot with your sleep in general, altering your lucid state, to the point that what might otherwise have just be a dream becomes something closer to a trip.
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by samplatt 2y ago
Armchair speculation from an avid scifi reader... I wouldn't be surprised if at 30 g's we start to see mass destruction of capillaries as blood pools in loops and kinks and then bursts. Which is extra bad when some of those are in
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by samplatt 2y ago
>The mean (and standard deviation) age of 2016 decedents was 50.0 (±11.4) years and 52.3 (±16.8) years for the 2024 decedents. 27 organ material samples from 2016 and 24 samples from 2024 - but they don't say if they're from di
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by samplatt 2y ago
You're saying both of those no longer exist on streaming services? That's a goddamned tragedy (though I have local copies of both). Side note, I first watched Strange Days on a VR headset (the Gear VR) while on a 6hr flight, havin
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by samplatt 2y ago
Mind citing a source on that? What ad scheme? What vested interest?
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by samplatt 2y ago
This is what you guys are talking about when you say you see a lot of ChatGPT-made comments, right?
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by samplatt 2y ago
I don't have this particular problem, but maybe they want YT to support these creators, even if they don't have time to watch it all.
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by samplatt 2y ago
Not just many suppliers of generic products, but suppliers come and go on an almost weekly basis thanks to always choosing the cheapest, suppliers going out of business, etc. Hooray capitalism.
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by samplatt 2y ago
It's thought of that already; you just keep inserting new disks into drive A:\
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by samplatt 2y ago
Naval boats cost a fortune. The telemetry from the onboard engines/machines/computers needs to be in sync, and they don't always have compatible timekeeping systems, so sometimes it needs to be translated into a common format
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by samplatt 2y ago
qntm, I know you're reading this. As someone working on software that works on ships (aka, software that needs to change timezones and locations often and still maintain contiguous millisecond accuracy of all shipboard equipment events
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by samplatt 2y ago
>Nvidia had nothing to do with their failure, unless they had some sort of high-level mole in AMD's driver teams. You're pretty close, but it's one level of abstraction away from the truth: NVidia spends absolutely earth-s
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by samplatt 2y ago
Loudest sound in air is 194. In water it's ~270dB.
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by samplatt 2y ago
In chat programs today and all the way back to my early IRC years, I've been putting a space between a ? or ! and the preceding word, if the word is at the end of the line/paragraph. Coffee? Yes, please ! It's probably just a
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by samplatt 2y ago
Many humans spend their formative years learning that they can overcome most obstacles with enough effort and willpower. This optimism carries over to their adult life, despite the newer obstacles being infinitely more difficult and complex
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by samplatt 2y ago
Cavitation for motorised propellors is to be avoided at all cost... a lot of engineering exists to do exactly this. Cavitation is a destructive force and eats away at the edge & surface of the prop blades, making it VERY inefficient.
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by samplatt 2y ago
Devil's advocate or just trolling? I can't bloody stand using Apple's unintuitive garbage. I have great admiration for the hardware, but trying to drive their O/S I've always found to be a horribly frustrating exper
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by samplatt 2y ago
ICT departments in many large companies often force dev teams to use certain tools, because it's what's on their list of 'approved tools for devs'. Getting new tools on this list is often stonewalled for usually office-p
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by samplatt 2y ago
This is something that definitely chafes. Even in a large-company enterprise environment, so many worthy & legitimate projects never end up shipping due to financial or office-politics reasons. Putting up paywalls between devs and their
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by samplatt 2y ago
Eh. He's learned the lesson from Gates, that enough money can buy you into heaven, regardless of your past (or present) sins.
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by samplatt 2y ago
Charging 10 pounds a day per vehicle will certainly go a long way towards upgrading infrastructure, if that's the idea behind it. Hopefully it'll be spent appropriately.
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by samplatt 3y ago
Imperfect graphics drivers and an environment that changes screens and resolutions a lot means that once every few months some fucking application is going to wander off where I can't get to it, and no amount of Windows+directionkey wi
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by samplatt 3y ago
I wonder how long it'd take for life to leave after Earth leaves the goldilocks zone. How much life would there be after the oceans have evaporated and stripped into space? If life could evolve to not require water at all, maybe it cou
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by samplatt 3y ago
Little of column a, little of column b. Yes, nostalgia is a factor, BUT: - The lack of overhead required by security and 'features' like querying an internet search when you click the start menu or showing advertising in the calcu
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by samplatt 3y ago
I must have had the wrong matcha. I've never found one that has much of a taste at all. It's nice, of course, but like chamomile or earl grey - subtle delicacies to be savoured, rather than reveling in the glorious boldness of it
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by samplatt 3y ago
Okay: "naturally wants to share experiences with each other." Or is that too web 1.0? VR/AR has the capacity to bridge technology platforms that have hitherto been kept separate, sometimes by cultural forces, and sometimes fo
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by samplatt 3y ago
You're right that we need to be aware of this because we can and WILL be exploited via these avenues, but for now at least, it's kinda the other way around - a family that stays together naturally wants to share content with each

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