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by tcbawo 2y ago
I had heard about Z80’s 4-bit ALU (2x for 8-bit math). Is this considered a major bottleneck? Were there later extensions that added higher bit integer math? I’m curious whether an open source version of the chip will enable new features
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by tcbawo 3y ago
That is unfortunate. Does anybody know what options are open after the main acceptance window? How many people hire education consultants these days, especially for the competitive schools? And at what age? College applications seem like
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by tcbawo 3y ago
I once went to a drive-up ATM and withdrew $100. It deducted $100 from my account, but the machine gave me $300 instead. I walked into the branch and returned the money. They were thankful, but I never followed up with what happened. It
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by tcbawo 3y ago
It’s good to recoup some energy. But in a cold climate, you could be using a heat pump to move 2-5x more heat into the home for the same amount of energy as electric resistive heat.
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by tcbawo 3y ago
The backstory of the Tomy Tutor is interesting. This seems like it was a tremendous longshot, financially. It’s hard to imagine how this would be greenlit in today’s age. There are so many weird architectures of the 1980s — I appreciate
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by tcbawo 3y ago
They ought to bring in some Dutch firms. AFAIK, nobody is better at water management and engineering.
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by tcbawo 3y ago
Not advocating. Very few companies can be overhauled in a significant way while remaining public. Boeing is a strategically important company from an economic and military perspective, so I have to imagine it will be treated as a special
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by tcbawo 3y ago
If a Private Equity group decided to buy them out and restructure, it would make a fascinating case study. If some radical restructuring does happen, I hope they bring along a film crew to make a documentary in the process.
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by tcbawo 3y ago
> This caused an explosion of computer variety in a few short years for a single platform. The impact of this point can not be overstated. 99% of businesses make a much larger investment in software (and people!) than hardware. The ide
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by tcbawo 3y ago
With cppfront, Sutter is explicitly not trying to create a successor language. His goal (like TypeScript to JavaScript) is to provide a complimentary, parallel language which provides complete forwards/backwards compatibility with C++
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by tcbawo 3y ago
IMHO, Herb Sutter was spot on in his talk ( https://youtu.be/fJvPBHErF2U ) that it is impossible to walk back features of a language once they are in the wild. His cppfront is an interesting and refreshing approach. I think
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by tcbawo 3y ago
Judging by my nine year old, Epic will be doing fine for some time. They have an ecosystem of other tangentially related games available, including a Lego RPG-type game all built on top of their v-bucks payment system and their account&#x2
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by tcbawo 3y ago
> The GP's example of needing to reinstall because they wanted to change desktop environments is nonsensical I agree that trying out a new desktop environment by selecting a distro package would not normally require a reinstall. H
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by tcbawo 3y ago
I was not familiar with Silverblue. It looks very promising. The idea of creating a fundamental, shared base system should make troubleshooting significantly easier — possibly an exponential reduction in the possible installed permutation
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by tcbawo 3y ago
> wiped the hard drive and went back to Manjaro I think this is the reason Linux hasn't penetrated the desktop more than it has. “Just reinstall” is too often the solution to issues. Starting over will often throw away hours of som
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by tcbawo 3y ago
Zero. At this point, I don’t see upside.
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by tcbawo 3y ago
Any weighted Nasdaq ETF will have a large component of NVDA.
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by tcbawo 3y ago
I was recently reminded about an urban environment that I have known for more than twenty years — that cities are living and evolving organisms. Neighborhoods change composition as children grow up and adults change jobs or retire. Bars,
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by tcbawo 3y ago
The article is paywalled, so it’s difficult to check the sources. Are there any links provided or surveys cited? The article matches my guy feeling, but I am curious about geographic and socio-economic variance. It wouldn't surprise
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by tcbawo 3y ago
I’ll ask for more details and report back.
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by tcbawo 3y ago
I know someone with a 6 year old Tesla X that now has a range of around 120 miles. This is becoming a serious impediment for them. What happens to all the buyers of these vehicles when their range is halved before their life expectancy is
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by tcbawo 3y ago
This might be correlation rather than causation. Perhaps Alzheimer’s Disease is associated with mental changes earlier in life that reduce the desire/need for Viagra. In that case, staying sexually active with a partner later in life
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by tcbawo 3y ago
That seems like a very ambitious rate of return, given that India seems to have ~4% inflation rate.
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by tcbawo 3y ago
I get the sense that many Americans feel like they are personally doing well, but are convinced that on average, Americans are not doing well. It’s hard to tell when many numbers are used to spin/promote an ideology or attract eyeball
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by tcbawo 3y ago
In college, I knew someone who went on to become a quartermaster for the US Army. They were in charge of a group that packed parachutes. As CO he was required to periodically jump with one of the parachutes that his team had packed. Havi
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by tcbawo 3y ago
Isn’t it in both the FAA and Boeing’s interest to produce safe and reliable airplanes? It seems like the regulatory picture is not effectively fulfilling its duties, but the ultimate responsibility is with Boeing’s leadership structure for
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by tcbawo 3y ago
I am sorry to hear about your dog. Pets can be an integral part of one's family, which often (sadly) goes unacknowledged. My first dog died of hemangiosarcoma. There were no treatments besides chemotherapy at the time. From a curso
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by tcbawo 3y ago
I’m not sure about the loss of flavor, but we have definitely seen waves of homogenization with macro beer producers. From what I’ve seen, this led to an explosion in regional and local microbreweries. There are lots of eclectic options o
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by tcbawo 3y ago
Even the most deranged employees likely won’t have weapons on them. Most of the workplace violence seems to happen when a disgruntled (ex)employee returns to their place of work some time after the fact.
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by tcbawo 3y ago
Can anyone tell me who the big consumers of used recyclable plastic materials are? Are any of these uses repeatable? If not, then we should stop pretending that recycling plastic is good for the environment and convince people that they s

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