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by scrlk 3y ago
Back in the 00s, the transition to lead free solder was blamed for the high failure rate of BGA packages found in consoles and GPUs. One of the theories at the time was that the poor thermal design of these devices (the most notable example
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by scrlk 3y ago
When S&P did this back in 2011, the DoJ opened an investigation in to them (regarding their activities in mortgage backed securities), and the CEO resigned pretty quickly as well. Fun fact: Microsoft has a higher credit rating from S&am
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by scrlk 3y ago
> I highly doubt they can preserve their pace of growth for next few decades without significant changes to the regime and liberalization. "Demographics is destiny" also comes to mind. Note how the era of "Japan Inc."
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Curve Finance Reentrancy Exploit Puts $100M+ Worth of Crypto at Risk(coindesk.com)
3 points by scrlk 3y ago|0 comments
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by scrlk 3y ago
From the provost's introduction to Feynman: > The chairman suggested that an annual salary of $3,000 was a bit too low for a distinguished faculty member, and recommended that Professor Feynman’s salary be increased $900. The dean,
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by scrlk 3y ago
Tres Comas was the tequila company owned by Russ Hanneman in the show. For those who have not watched Silicon Valley, Russ Hanneman was based off Mark Cuban.
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Will there be enough cables for the clean energy transition?(ft.com)
4 points by scrlk 3y ago|1 comments
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by scrlk 3y ago
https://archive.is/2slRC
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by scrlk 3y ago
There's a mirror of it here: https://github.com/VernonGrant/gnu-c-language-manual
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How I do my computing (2006-2022)(stallman.org)
60 points by scrlk 3y ago|52 comments
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by scrlk 3y ago
The two main parties do not care about civil liberties or privacy. This will resurface in the next administration under a new name with a few tweaks here and there.
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Railway Mania in 1840s Britain(tontinecoffeehouse.com)
2 points by scrlk 3y ago|0 comments
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by scrlk 3y ago
You might be sitting on quite a good archive of resources for the M7, I'd be surprised if everything in your folder is still avaliable to download.
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by scrlk 3y ago
I prefer to look for the Bart Simpson pattern on my charts. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-03/bitcoin-b... https://archive.ph/teoSo
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by scrlk 3y ago
A series of articles in the HP Journal explained how these algorithms worked: May 1977 - Square Roots (pg. 22): https://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/1977-05.pdf June 1977 - Trigonometric Functions
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Richard Feynman – There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (1959) [pdf](calteches.library.caltech.edu)
5 points by scrlk 3y ago|0 comments
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by scrlk 3y ago
Happy to be challenged on these numbers, as this isn't within my field of knowledge: * UK government value of prevented fatality: £2M [0] * UK government value of a quality-adjusted life-year for a single person: £70k -> ~£192 per d
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by scrlk 3y ago
> The 2009 Greenstreet Berman study, carried out by the UK government, showed that in the period between 2002 and 2007 the UK Furniture and Furnishings Fire Safety Regulations accounted for 54 fewer deaths per year, 780 fewer non-fatal c
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by scrlk 3y ago
I'm inclined to say that those are false positives, given the obscurity of the vendors who are flagging the URL.
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by scrlk 3y ago
Might be of some interest to you: https://annas-archive.org/
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by scrlk 3y ago
FWIW, the author's 914 would be exempt from the MOT requirement, as it's over 40 years old (and assuming that no "substantial changes" have been made in the last 30 years). https://www.gov.uk/historic-veh
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by scrlk 3y ago
I'm reminded of Bryan Cantrill's rant about Oracle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=1981s > "As you know people, as you learn about things, you realize that these generalizations we have
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by scrlk 3y ago
The 12.x" models occasionally make it in to other APAC markets with US ANSI keyboards: https://ap.connect.panasonic.com/sg/en/products/toughbook/to... Shame that they are not more widely available.
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by scrlk 3y ago
Unconventional choice: Panasonic Let's Note. Sadly JDM exclusive and has soldered RAM, but the latest models come with a 3:2 display, decent I/O (e.g. RJ45, full sized SD card reader, even VGA (!)), magnesium alloy chassis and a r
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by scrlk 3y ago
It would not surprise me if carbon nanoparticles could act in a similar way to asbestos, if inhaled.
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by scrlk 3y ago
Thanks. The news articles I read last month regarding Eurozone technical recession mentioned Eurostat as their source. Eurostat themselves used the "2 quarters of declining GDP is a technical recession" line: "The GDP decreas
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by scrlk 3y ago
Depends where you are. Eurozone entered a technical recession (two consecutive quarters of declining GDP) in Q1 this year.
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by scrlk 3y ago
Third party companies were producing retrofit continuous ink systems years before the printer manufacturers introduced introduced ink tank printers. With ink tank printers, you pay extra to escape the "razor and blades" pricing mo
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by scrlk 3y ago
The second interpretation of my comment is what I was attempting to allude to. I am reminded of this particular quote from Orwell's 1984: "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they
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by scrlk 3y ago
Dieter Helm recently wrote an article about scrapping the current water privatisation model, without re-nationalisation: https://dieterhelm.co.uk/regulation-utilities-infrastructure...

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