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by soneil 6y ago
> The SI base unit for mass is the kilogram. This reminds me of something I was unaware of until very recently; the decibel (dB), is one tenth of a Bel. The discussion was that you'll never confuse a B(byte) with a B(bel) because w
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by soneil 6y ago
I've never disputed that this was the convention for RAM. But it never has been for harddrives. To borrow your C64 example, the most popular harddrives to add to a C64 were Lt.Kernal(Fiscal) drives. The first model, sold as 10MB, was
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by soneil 6y ago
Whats inherently power of two about them? I have two PS/2 era drives that predate your "rebranding". One, 20MB (actual 21.3MB or 20.3MiB) has a CHS geometry 612x4x17. The other, 40MB (41.5MB or 39.5MiB) has a CHS geometry of
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by soneil 6y ago
There was never one commonly accepted meaning for a MB. Storage has always been base10. Linespeed has always been base10. RAM is native to a matrix, and lazy programmers like to pretend that means everything is. The first commercial drive
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by soneil 6y ago
I've been involved with hiring (although at a company that's far from a household name), and the second half at least, sounds perfectly reasonable to me. They've taken the stuff he claims to know in-depth and explored it. T
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by soneil 6y ago
Apache makes sense - it's a bit of a mammoth with complex packaging (as different components arrive in different packages). A cruise through the relevant list thread shows he's looking for a gradual handover, soliciting help, but
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by soneil 6y ago
It's not - I'm not trying to pretend this is the only problem or the only solution. It's just one facet of a wider problem (as is winterizing). Anyone who tells you there's only one problem here is either being naive,
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by soneil 6y ago
There's a lot that can be solved there just by adding storage. I won't pretend it's a silver bullet, the only silver bullet here is the much more vague "invest in your infrastructure like your economy depends on it&quot
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by soneil 6y ago
Worth noting MrLlamasc hosted the d2 dev "round table" at blizzcon this evening. Not to disagree with you in the slightest, just that it may lend him a little more credence than commenting on streams.
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by soneil 6y ago
I fear that would be a cynical but possibly accurate take on it. However I must note I've seen people begging for this ever since D3 released. I think Blizzard are well aware that there's plenty of us who have grown up with their
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by soneil 6y ago
I think this is a little more notable because 1/2/3 do run on Mac (or era-appropriate macs, at least). This will (absent of future news) be the first in the franchise not to.
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by soneil 6y ago
"the darkening of Tristram" is what you want to google for. It's every January. I'm not sure I'd call it a remaster, but it's novel.
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by soneil 6y ago
For an interesting definition of "most"? I see, what, 3 lines that weren't direct answers to direct questions? One of those was pretty legitimate feedback, which seems sensible when the rep tells you feedback is why they&#x
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by soneil 6y ago
It's a common way to express "things that are unix-like" and avoiding the pedanticism of what is & isn't an actual UNIX™
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by soneil 6y ago
You might be interested to dig deeper around the archive and see what they're doing. Each record is transferred using four different styli, and then an engineer at GB picks which recording to use as the example - but all four are in t
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by soneil 6y ago
I believe gun ownership in Switzerland is very closely tied to compulsory military service. It's very much an outlier as statistics go - issuing every adult male a rifle isn't so much a gun culture as a military strategy. (Czechia
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by soneil 6y ago
Especially when the loading bar is broken - It's telling me 0.21%. I'm assuming it means 21%, but I'm going to instant-nope if you tell me this is only 1/500th of the wait.
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by soneil 6y ago
I really don't understand why spatial audio has to depend on the device having gyro (mems). I often stick my ipad under my monitor, plug it in, and then pop the headphones on. The ipad doesn't move. It doesn't need to move
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by soneil 6y ago
That's a much-abused talking point. Freddy Mercury died of Pneumonia, but that doesn't really tell the whole story, does it. It's like blaming the tree in a car crash. To put it plain and simple, his age put him in the high
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by soneil 6y ago
If you watch his videos from this summer, he genuinely believed they were undervalued, and would talk for hours about why - and essentially became a laughing stock for putting so much behind a failing bricks'n'mortar highstreet re
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by soneil 6y ago
It is replaceable, just one of those silver foil + gold tape packages you see everywhere - but with a funky connector. It seems readily available, I'm just hesitant to throw good money after bad.
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by soneil 6y ago
I had a GPD MicroPC. I fell in love with the idea of having something with a real serial port I can sling in my bag. Terrible "typing" experience (you type with two thumbs), but it did what it claimed, for a while. 9 months late
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by soneil 6y ago
I love the beeb, but I’m happy enough for people to criticise them too - just because I think it’s great, doesn’t mean it can’t improve. I used to think the TV licence was oppressive, until I moved to the US - and quickly realised I’d happi
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by soneil 6y ago
I believe that’s exactly the problem - that licence is only good for the UK. When shows are exported they’ll gut them. Top Gear is the best example I know of, on the netflix & bbc america versions, most the recognisable songs have been
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by soneil 6y ago
Their device limit gave me my reason to leave them. When they started haemorrhaging corporate customers, they attacked their consumer users. I can't say I find the result hugely shocking.
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by soneil 6y ago
Honestly, no. The analogy I've been using amongst friends/family, is that "big tech" has gone nuclear. The Bomb has gone from being a hypothetical to a reality. And no matter how much we do or don't agree with thi
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by soneil 6y ago
Besides the obvious correlation to an external event, I think another major factor here is the rolling stone effect - "x, y, and z removed $(abhorrent content), why didn't you?". No-one wants to be left holding this hot pota
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by soneil 6y ago
I still have mixed feelings on deplatforming, but the technique itself was interesting (obvious in retrospect, but retrospect usually is), so it gave me something to think about - thanks.
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by soneil 6y ago
(opinion) Allowing incitement as free speech only makes sense if you can/will hold them accountable for the results of their speech instead. It's either/or, but not neither/nor. If I say to you, "please shoot john
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by soneil 6y ago
A good number appear to be straight-up logistics; there's a worrying number of "and Ireland", where the only issue shipping to Ireland from the continental EU is the physical logistics of the UK "land-bridge".

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