skriticos2

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by skriticos2 8y ago
Sounds like you are a bit on the far end of the spectrum, but I can definitely relate. I tend to feel miserable too when it's getting too bright and warm. I don't personally mind short warm bursts when I'm sitting in a sauna
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by skriticos2 8y ago
I think GP meant reasonably acquirable. You can't exactly order a NASA space suit on Amazon, can you?
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by skriticos2 8y ago
Hm, it would probably not be cube shaped though. But I agree, we could even calculate that one. It would certainly be an interesting spectacle. Going back to the sequence of events argument, I think that implies that all universes agree on
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by skriticos2 8y ago
Why? I find it useful to have two pages or terminals side by side. 16:9 matches human FOV pretty good, which is a reason it's so popular.
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by skriticos2 8y ago
yes https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by skriticos2 8y ago
Well, maybe sometimes this happens to me.. "I just go check the headlines on my favorite news sites and then I start my productive day.. and I drink this cup of coffee." .. 2 hours later. "Just this one headline, then I'
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by skriticos2 8y ago
I tend to just write a command in a vim buffer (with all that nice Vim magic), select it and run it with :@" e.g. I write and yank: r!fancy command arg1 arg2 .. Then go to the next line and do :@" This will run the command (well e
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by skriticos2 8y ago
They lease the launch pads, e.g. 39a has a 20 year lease. They can probably do a lot of spacey things on there for the duration. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/spacex-signs-20-year-l... edit: looking at the
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by skriticos2 8y ago
It's a fairly common notation on printed circuit board resistors where a dot could get lost. Better readability. They usually drop the suffix though, not sure if it's common for non-resistance items to use, but I got what he was t
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by skriticos2 8y ago
I read about this as a hypothetical a few days, but it really moved to done deal quicker than I expected. I started to look for alternatives to host private repos and found that Amazon CodeCommit has a plan that's even much better than
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by skriticos2 8y ago
Not only that, but most people dealing with data at non-technical companies have a hard time to build a structurally useful spreadsheet. Nobody ever seems to simply put a pivot table on data and aggregate away gaining insight. A few simple
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by skriticos2 8y ago
Same here. Since I started listening to audio books a few years ago my commute became so much more enjoyable - I even look forward to longer business trips now-a-day, especially with the new genres coming out, like LitRPG. Sometimes I even
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by skriticos2 8y ago
Depends a lot on the lifestyle. A few of my relatives managed to stay relatively fit over 70 with a relatively active lifestyle and probably some luck in the genetic makeup (they do need vision aids, but can manage fairly OK with them). I&#
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by skriticos2 8y ago
There is an experimental feature that enables it on Gnome with Wayland [1]. The result is off in various ways though (blurry things here and there, some weird positioning). At least on my Fedora install I just keep it at 100% on my 4k 30&qu
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by skriticos2 8y ago
I grew up with Esperanto as one of my birth languages - yet I'm writing this reply in English. So yes, I agree - English is the more practical contemporary language as you can communicate with more people with.
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by skriticos2 8y ago
> English is effectively the language of American imperialism I know this is often said, but why? English did not originate in America, but in England and even there it originated as a mix of various other European languages (Latin, Fren
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by skriticos2 8y ago
Use noise cancelling headphones. They shut out the world with a bit of quiet music. I love my qc35. Doesn't fix the primary issue, but makes it more bearable.
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by skriticos2 9y ago
If it'd be pure economics, then yes. But Japan and China are not necessary the best friends, so there is a strong geopolitical factor at play. China has the (quasi) monopoly and China with strategic embargo/tariffs/creative s
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by skriticos2 9y ago
GPU pipelines deal with geometry and spatial vectors to compute final pixels, so arguing about video encoders at this stage misses the point - you can only start encoding after you have an image, not before. This could only be a post produc
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by skriticos2 9y ago
When is this stupid myth finally going to die off? Our body is horrible at processing compounds that are not bound organically, so any pure mineral you take up just taxes your internal filtartion. Your body will gladly take minerals and vit
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by skriticos2 9y ago
He/she probably meant the AI that is perfectly capable of understanding human sarcasm. ps: explanation: AI is at best at simple insect level intelligence and sarcasm is especially challenging for "AI assistants"
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by skriticos2 9y ago
This does not surprise me at all. I have a 4k screen and just thinking about all the fiddly bits between HDMI, HDCP and Freesync/Gsync between the computer and the screen makes it quite difficult to build a switch. VGA was primitive, b
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by skriticos2 9y ago
I can think of two: supply chain management (producing stuff more effectively) and market trend analysis (know what people will buy tomorrow - to build it when it's needed). The first involves a lot of people networking and dealing wit
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by skriticos2 9y ago
I guess the idea is stability. Seconds are defined as a constant pattern for some physical activity of an element. If you are on a colony on Mars, you can measure that with a complex scientific gizmo and the specification sheet and you are
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by skriticos2 9y ago
Based upon human stubbornness, every planet will have it's own time and date system that will be divided based on historically obscure details before/during and after colonization. Stuff like Thursday is essentially "Thor&#x2
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by skriticos2 9y ago
That would be workable if humans would be perfectly rational, but they are not. If I set up a pizza shop with totally fair prices across the board, my pizza will cost 8 EUR and the drinks maybe 1 EUR. The pizza shop across the street will h
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by skriticos2 10y ago
economics 101: they are selling them to third parties for that price (including some profit and negotiation margin). So they likely pay somewhere around 20-25k for internal use. That's ridiculously cheap for this kind of purpose built
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by skriticos2 10y ago
Within Europe (ps: as a European citizen) you can go anywhere with a personal identification card (no passport) and there are no border controls (when walking or driving). There isn't even a border, just a sign: welcome to $country (ps
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by skriticos2 10y ago
The US actions after WWII in the peace negotiations weren't as altruistic as you are trying to make out. In fact it was a reaction to the disastrous result of the peace negotiations after WWI, which greatly contributed to WWII, and wit
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by skriticos2 10y ago
You sound awfully patronizing. The US does like to play world police and other countries do take advantage of this. However if this would not be the case, I'd argue that the other countries would rely more on military alliances like NA

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