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by scrlk 3y ago
This sounds like motherboard manufacturers pushing aggressive OOTB performance settings, likely in excess of the Intel spec.
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by scrlk 3y ago
> I also think short selling is a net negative and should be banned Why? The potential losses for shorting are infinite whereas the profit is capped, so entering a short requires high conviction. Stock markets are also a market for infor
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by scrlk 3y ago
> I typically like Motorola offerings. Motorola/Lenovo are one of the most notorious Android OEMs for poor software support. Android Enterprise Recommended devices used to have a 3/5 year software update requirement, but this w
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CorsixTH: Open-source clone of Theme Hospital(github.com)
274 points by scrlk 3y ago|47 comments
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by scrlk 3y ago
openttdcoop's Wiki and blog is a great way to learn how to build these types of junctions: https://wiki.openttdcoop.org/Line_hierarchy https://wiki.openttdcoop.org/Backbone_Hub If you prefer a video:
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by scrlk 3y ago
The Soviets used to reverse engineer and clone DEC VAX computers. When the DEC engineers heard about this, they added a message in Russian to one of their CVAX CPUs: "VAX - when you care enough to steal the very best" https:&#x2F
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'Enshittification' is coming for everything(ft.com)
50 points by scrlk 3y ago|9 comments
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by scrlk 3y ago
https://archive.ph/KCElF
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by scrlk 3y ago
On a tangent: the screenshot of the deprecation banner brings back memories of a time when the internet still felt relatively free, before the rise and dominance of mega platforms in the 2010s. I still mourn the loss of community forums tha
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by scrlk 3y ago
The Fiat Panda 4x4 and Skoda Yeti are good examples of small SUVs that are incredibly practical. Shame that Fiat discontinued the Panda 4x4 and Skoda never released a true successor to the Yeti.
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by scrlk 3y ago
YIFY encodes were notorious for being bitrate starved to the point where good SD encodes trumped YIFY "HD".
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Claude Shannon(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by scrlk 3y ago|0 comments
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by scrlk 3y ago
"Inertia" in the context of power systems refers to the kinetic energy stored by rotating generators (coal, gas, nuclear, hydropower). If the system frequency (a real time measure of supply and demand) were to suddenly change (e.g
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by scrlk 3y ago
> You simply can't buy a toaster that is manufactured in Europe or America anymore. Dualit Classic toasters are still made in the UK: https://www.dualit.com/collections/classic-toasters Other Dualit toasters ar
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Is Beethoven worth eight times Mahler?
1 points by scrlk 3y ago|1 comments
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by scrlk 3y ago
Active sidesticks have been around for a few years now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sXXx8rgeeE
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by scrlk 3y ago
Some forum classics: * "PM'ed you the fix." * "Ignore this thread, I figured it out." * Find a thread discussing the issue, reply to it, then "Thread closed, don't necropost" from a moderator. * Open
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by scrlk 3y ago
Doing a bit of searching led me to: https://darklantern.proboards.com/post/16119 https://acousticsfirst.info/tag/ken-fritz > The general thoughts that went into the overall plan in designing th
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by scrlk 3y ago
> Doesn’t treat his room. From the article, it sounds like he did have some room treatment: > In the 1980s, Fritz launched his project by blowing up the living room into a listening room, a 1,650-square-foot bump-out based on the same
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by scrlk 3y ago
Not all private trackers run a "hard" or "soft" ratio economy as described in this article. Some run with a ratioless economy: seed a downloaded torrent until 1:1 or for X hours, otherwise you receive a "hit and run
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by scrlk 3y ago
The most infamous incident with a cockpit window is probably British Airways Flight 5390. An incorrectly installed window blew out, causing one of the pilots to be partially ejected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britis
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by scrlk 3y ago
For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could b
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by scrlk 3y ago
Trading firms?
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by scrlk 3y ago
You can create a bookmarklet to only show items sold by Amazon: https://old.reddit.com/r/amazonprime/comments/13nyl2k/amazon...
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UK government plans further nuclear power expansion(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by scrlk 3y ago|0 comments
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by scrlk 3y ago
> I haven't found any more recently published than 1995. See the text above the filter - "486 Declassified Book Reviews". I assume anything newer than 1995 is still classified.
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by scrlk 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240110204508/https:/www.sec.go...
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Spot Bitcoin ETFs will begin trading on CBOE tomorrow(cboe.com)
2 points by scrlk 3y ago|0 comments
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by scrlk 3y ago
> "Careful what you read on the internet. The best source of information about the SEC is the SEC." https://nitter.net/SECGov/status/1714020932509982771 ...until the SEC's account gets hacked?
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by scrlk 3y ago
What happens when these robotic systems fail: https://youtu.be/NGFhc8R_uO4?t=1490 :^)

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