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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Large police and military budgets create incentives for manufacturers to innovate away from the standard and introduce "high performance" proprietary form factors. extremely few of the calibers out there have ever seen milita
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> In particular, wrt physical dimensions, my - probably naive - take is that (radius x length) seems to go quite a long way in describing a bullet. that doesn't describe much of a bullet, and nearly nothing about a caliber. you can
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by sigstoat 5y ago
what did you think it's supposed to cost? i can't imagine it would cost less than $1000, even just running conduit inside the walls, instead of doing drywall.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Most of these things were once said about sites that used SSL. in the sense that every possible thing has been said about everything, sure. and to a slightly greater extent maybe they were said about trying to SSL-ify _everything_. but
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> But how about you put aside the statistical nuance of this for 10 seconds and acknowledge the fact that real people, when asked, actually consider Facebook -- a piece of software-- harmful. They are saying that. What does that mean? we
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> When have you seen a movie about the USSR winning the WW2? ...almost all of them? the USSR was one of the Allies. who won WW2. so every WW2 movie which doesn't engage in some sort of alt-history has the USSR winning. https:/
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> I'm starting to think analogies never help prove a point. HN is particularly bad for chains of increasingly surreal analogies, each of which the poster seems to think is a silver bullet. the analogies are some of the least useful
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by sigstoat 5y ago
facebook helped me stop visiting, by insisting on showing me absolutely everything from one acquaintance (who is a fine person), all the dog photos from another friend, and effectively nothing else. no idea what sort of failure mechanism th
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> looking at this HN thread, it seems like my assumption may be correct that has got one guy complaining about fdb, and a couple of others saying positive things. so in short, you've got no experience with fdb, wrote a couple of par
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by sigstoat 5y ago
thanks for the references, and the followup comment.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
i've got receipts in my email from kicad, krita and freebsd. i also support that guy working on freecad on patreon. (realthunder? something?)
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by sigstoat 5y ago
what, on an aging audi, _doesn't_ cost half the value of the vehicle to fix? i've heard the same complaint about basically every part of an audi except the tires.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> 100G per wavelength has been standard fare for some time now. fair enough. > You also don’t need 10U worth of rack space to switch 1 Tbps. You can do that with a single 1U switch. how much does that cost?
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> What's preventing the average Joe from enjoying 1+Tb/s broadband? are other responders not seeing the 'T'? it is the rare home device which can handle 2.5Gbps. 10Gbps switches are common enough. the cheapest switch
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> I understand that you have to design the schematic and then get the PCB layout done, but in terms of figuring out which pins to connect, is it just a matter of figuring it out from the microcontroller manual? yes. if you're using
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Most bots aren't marketing bots, wouldn't you need to know how many marketing bots there are to determine that? making statements about goodbots/(goodbots+badbots) is difficult when the good bots already make it clear th
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by sigstoat 5y ago
i interpreted it as "we wanted to turn the shared buffers ~off, but in a hilarious way that would suggest to someone reading the configuration file that something was going on" (bill gates, mumble mumble) but, wtf do i know, i&#x2
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by sigstoat 5y ago
K isn't the abbreviation for kilo, so if you're going to rag on the fellow for the 'b', then you should at least be asking what a Kelvin*bit is.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
Shostakovich's string quartets by the Pavel Haas Quartet are just really amazing to me. Nikolai Kasputin wrote a lot of jazz-inspired, but still "classical" pieces. Won't quite sound like much of the rest of what you&#x2
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by sigstoat 5y ago
the red pro line significantly predates the SMR/CMR debacle. edit: or the plus did? well. they've successfully managed to confuse me, which was probably their goal. apologies.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
Slack seems to be doing fine, and its name hardly sounds like some pro-business virtue.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> All domestic students have to pay AT MOST of 1 year of out of state tuition, because you establish in state residency in your first year here. yeah... universities worked this issue out more than 20 years ago. maybe a couple of folks w
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by sigstoat 5y ago
if i've driven through arizona, it's been 25+ years. is there a lot of rural agriculture?
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> But how long is it going to take me to learn what your ultra-customized, macro-laden particular flavor of Lisp? can you point to any instances of someone actually doing this? (bonus points if you're willing to say "paul grah
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> When they own all the v4 ips ... there won't be any value in them any more. if the only folks left who can use IPv4 are the hosting providers ("big three" or not), then nobody will be using using IPv4 to contact all the
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by sigstoat 5y ago
there was another book published a few years ago with the same title, "Appendix N" https://www.amazon.com/Appendix-Literary-History-Dungeons-Dr...
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Many work environments are similar to each other: there's no written contract and they have almost no unemployment insurance, etc. I don't understand how those anime lovers turn blind eyes to this and still somehow "enjo
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by sigstoat 5y ago
no surprise. the amount of hardware available in azure is tiny. this project probably couldn't get azure to approve them for more VMs.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Imagine this merges with covid imagine the terminator and the alien merge! that's not how anything works.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
as i recall, spectators receive game data, not a video stream. you can spectate in VR. so during real tournaments they could just broadcast from a spectator in the “standard” view.

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