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811.
by soneil 8y ago
It's commonly understood (but possibly wrong?) that this is how they bin multicore processors. That it's highly likely that a quad-core and a dual-core CPU began life as identical twins, but one or two cores on the dual-core SKU
812.
by soneil 8y ago
I was given one of those "portable ashtrays". A little padded pouch that felt somewhere between foil and plastic. It worked, in that you could put out a cigarette in it and store the remains. But it stank to high heaven. I don&#
813.
by soneil 8y ago
Everything I’ve read (which is not exhaustive) put that as speculation based on the time spent aloft. Behaviour-based but not evidence-based.
814.
by soneil 8y ago
Would they benefit? Assuming it's amazon packages that are being returned (I can't see any other approach that's remotely logical), then either: a) they re-attempt delivery, and it's zero-sum (with slightly raised logis
815.
by soneil 8y ago
As long as the incentive to actually deliver them is higher, it seems sensible enough to me. It's the loophole that allows him to return things that weren't his to return, that sounds like it may be more problematic than intended
816.
by soneil 8y ago
It seems sensible enough to me. If you steal $item from a shop, you're a shoplifter. You stole it from an abstract corporation. If you take the same $item from /my/ doorstep, you stole it from /me/. I don't
817.
by soneil 8y ago
If it's true, it does seem like a bit of a loophole. Perhaps returning too many of his own packages raises a red flag. Or perhaps it's $x per delivery and $y per return, and returning his own packages would eat into his $x. I mea
818.
by soneil 8y ago
My understanding (and I could be entirely wrong) was that compiz was never actually meant to be as big as it was. Compositing was desirable for perfectly mundane reasons, and compiz was a rather cheesy tech demo. I always found it amusing t
819.
by soneil 8y ago
I'm just distrustful of drives. All storage is essentially cache, and should be treated like it. I'm of the opinion that harddrives don't actually function, they just maintain the illusion while they wait for a more interest
820.
by soneil 8y ago
That's the big difference for me. Drive's making tictictick sounds? Kernel log full of bigScaryErrorsLikeThis? It's time to ditch that disk before the disk ditches you. Make it happen. Panic-Backup if you need to. etc.
821.
by soneil 8y ago
Things like that always irrationally annoy me. In Bratislava, Slovakia, there's a similar rose set into the floor (under the tower at Michael's Gate). One of the type that indicates the direction and distance to various internati
822.
by soneil 8y ago
How's this a secret? I used to work in retail/service. Not something with data and metrics, just a mom'n'pop. But we knew our customers. We especially knew our regulars. And you did try not to piss off a regular. But
823.
by soneil 8y ago
There's a defacto code here (UK), yellow is labour, blue is trades. white is engineers, grey is visitors. green is safety (H&S/medical), pink is the noob who forgot his hardhat.
824.
by soneil 8y ago
It's turtles all the way down. You can host your own services, but better hope your colo doesn't decide you're more trouble than you're worth. Build out your own datacenter, but hope your ISP(s) don't decide you&#x
825.
by soneil 8y ago
And a suspiciously clean white hard hat.
826.
by soneil 8y ago
I'm not sure it even boils down to doing the right thing for the customer. Apple want you as a customer. Google want you as a user. It's that simple.
827.
by soneil 8y ago
The wording is cringeworthy, but essentially I agree with him. It doesn't need to be Apple specifically, but I'm glad we have competition. If either of Apple or Google were the only real option, we'd be much worse off than w
828.
by soneil 8y ago
I still watch it, but it's more like comfort food now. I couldn't honestly say whether I think the show itself has declined though. When I first started watching, a member of the family had got cable TV (a rarity in those days),
829.
by soneil 8y ago
That does appear to be where some of their more outlandish pricing comes from. They'll either do a repair that brings the machine up to snuff (bar normal wear), or they won't. So that bent pin is now a substandard, weakened part.
830.
by soneil 8y ago
It is sensible, on the face of it. It just doesn't appear to scale. Once you and your partner are both on shifts, any semblance of a weekend is gone. I worked 3-on 2-off for a long time, it was fantastic. Then once I got a live-in p
831.
by soneil 8y ago
Stored hydro & nuclear solve entirely different demands. Nuclear's core strength is providing a strong, reliable, but relatively constant base-line. Wind/Solar can supplement (or even replace it) depending on costs and geogra
832.
by soneil 8y ago
I don't think this pertains to homebrew at all, they're covered separately under part 15.23. The bigger worry is modified devices - devices that would have had a type-acceptance, but it's been invalidated by the operator. Th
833.
by soneil 8y ago
I often take a sale just to the checkout, to get an accurate picture of what shipping & taxes will be added. "Shopping cart abandonment" is a specifically targeted "thing", and it's not unusual to get emails &qu
834.
by soneil 8y ago
I think the analogy holds. The numbers in the article assume constant usage (there is a nod to the cost of static storage, but all the math is done on $3/hr gpu usage, not $0.1/mo/GB storage). So if your usage is 4 hours pe
835.
by soneil 8y ago
I think we do - advertising is still a perfectly legitimate way to pay for 'free' content., plus subscriptions where they make sense. The current problem isn't that we can't or won't pay, or we can't or won&#x2
836.
by soneil 8y ago
Every system we've come up with has winners and losers. Sad but true. But basically I don't believe we're on a healthy path at the moment. While I don't think this system would work for us either, from a purely nerd st
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by soneil 8y ago
I'm genuinely curious to see how this works out. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I'm not part of it - but I can't help be fascinated. Growing up, we cared what the neighbours thought. They were our "social score
838.
by soneil 8y ago
I've seen things like this first-hand, where it all goes horribly wrong with the best of intentions. It starts when you hit a Neccessity, look over at The Pot that you're supposed to be safeguarding, and think .. I could pay it ba
839.
by soneil 8y ago
This is always my pet peeve. If there's a car coming, and I'm trying to cross, I can see there's a car coming. Simple. But if there's 10 cars coming, and most of them have their lights on - the one that doesn't l
840.
by soneil 8y ago
I've had a lot of fun with the rc2014 (rc2014.co.uk). You still gotta solder it, but it's all through-hole 0.1", so nothing scary. It's a very (very!) modular gig, so you can pick'n'mix what to match what you&#

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