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541.
by smolder 3y ago
Yes, if you want the video game analogy to play for people who don't know squat about video games, Mario is the safe choice.
542.
by smolder 3y ago
More people leaving means less FOMO. Or perhaps they want to harm reddit in some karmic justice way.
543.
by smolder 3y ago
The number of comments that start with "I had" or "I have" is crazy, but cool. I think I got some version of my own at one point, but mainly remember playing with one belonging to a sibling.
544.
by smolder 3y ago
I have always enjoyed all the little towns named identically to other places. Maine, New York; London, Ontario; Mexico, Maine. There are a lot of others. "Where are you from?" "We came from London." "Oh, all the way
545.
by smolder 3y ago
For anyone curious about the buried mini-monument: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/washington-mini-monument
546.
by smolder 3y ago
Anything salvageable from the architecture likely has been used again by this point.
547.
by smolder 3y ago
It doesn't seem plausible to me, based on my anecdotal experience with an ASD child who played in the woods all the time.
548.
by smolder 3y ago
I know a Google operations guy who has occasionally complained that the developers act like computing/network resources are infinite, so this made me chuckle.
549.
by smolder 3y ago
Short term profit focus is arguably what led to Intel's engineering decline in the 2010s, despite what you say. An HN comment once recounted how they had spun off engineers into a another company and then merged with it again in a play
550.
by smolder 3y ago
You can remove the heat spreader, AKA delidding the CPU. It's a significant bottleneck in cooling modern, power-dense CPUs like this, if you're relying on a fluid at ambient temperature.
551.
by smolder 3y ago
Not quite: even single threaded, the workload matters.
552.
by smolder 3y ago
I suspect quite the opposite: modafanil is going to interrupt your sleep such that your body doesn't dispose of waste from the brain as well.
553.
by smolder 3y ago
It's really simple to buy drugs in general. It's incredibly weird to see people pretend like a fully documented medium is a viable way to carry out illegal and ostensibly undesirable drug sales. Actual, unabated nasty drug sales a
554.
by smolder 3y ago
Huh? It cleans the brain? Care to elaborate or provide a source?
555.
by smolder 3y ago
Yeah, over-consolidation leads to fragility, and to market abuses, and together those make it not really worth the efficiency gains of shedding "redundancies". Redundancies are often good for robustness...
556.
by smolder 3y ago
Morality is not exclusive to theism. This is obvious. And if some people need to be scared into behaving morally, instead of reasoning their way to it, you can do it by other means than preaching fire and brimstone. So, no.
557.
by smolder 3y ago
Cutting down trees to build housing or furniture or whatever is a carbon sink. More trees can be planted.
558.
by smolder 3y ago
I assume you mean the move to 16 bit color framebuffers, not systems with 16 bit CPUs? That was about the point where palettes and sprite and tile based 2D acceleration stopped being relevant.
559.
by smolder 3y ago
There's a big difference between serving up static documents (I wouldn't call this "rendering") and dynamic documents. Then there's also a difference between using a templating system for dynamism or a more programm
560.
by smolder 3y ago
I have someone in my family history that underwent electroshock therapy, and by all accounts was only traumatized and destabilized further by the ordeal. YMMV, I guess.
561.
by smolder 3y ago
Wherever "there" may be, meditation is a much healthier path, for sure.
562.
by smolder 3y ago
No. Alcohol can't work independently of its downsides. The next-best but also-bad thing is probably GHB or ketamine or something like that. Basically any CNS depressant is going to have some significant dangers, short or long term.
563.
by smolder 3y ago
Well, I appreciate your efforts to set the record straight --I was just parroting what I had read there, which is a bit lazy.
564.
by smolder 3y ago
> they iirc slaughtered the perfectly good GNOME 2.x UI to cater to those devices specifically around a decade ago - and for what? There was a recent article on here that explained GNOME 2.x was windows-like enough that there was fear Mi
565.
by smolder 3y ago
I haven't personally seen any credible evidence to explain that, which is a bit spooky.
566.
by smolder 3y ago
> No native apps had collaboration that smooth either. Games have generally been way ahead of business apps in this sense.
567.
by smolder 3y ago
Yes, the overclockable chips are better-binned/faster chips even without enabling overclocking. (Unless you're talking about X3D chips, which have most overclocking features turned off due to thermal limitations of stacked cache.)
568.
by smolder 3y ago
Possibly. I would start swapping parts around at that point. Different memory, different CPU, or different motherboard. Just 1 more anecdote, but my r7-7700x has been a dream (won the silicon lottery). It runs at the maximum undervolt &
569.
by smolder 3y ago
Heat pipes sort of do that naturally without any active "spraying". They contain a fluid that phase changes and carries heat away. Closed loop water coolers have the active flow of water you want for maximum effect. I don't t
570.
by smolder 3y ago
I wouldn't call Class A "standard", unless you're including class AB in that? Pure class A is a bit esoteric since it's wildly inefficient compared to D or even AB.

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