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by tcoppi 10y ago
This hasn't been my experience at all with T-Mobile in the Baltimore-Washington area. If anything the experience in terms of coverage and performance has been getting consistently better since Legere took over, even with the introduct
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Rogue Machine Intelligence and a New Kind of Hedge Fund(medium.com)
4 points by tcoppi 10y ago|0 comments
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by tcoppi 10y ago
If this ever ships I'd be interested in getting one. I didn't realize anyone was actually making A1100 in boards you could actually buy, I thought they were all sold to integrators and they were only going to do the next iteration
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by tcoppi 10y ago
Ah yes I forgot about the dual ethernet ports, it might be really nice paired with a good ethernet switch as a router system!
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Oculus defends its efforts to secure VR exclusives for the Rift(arstechnica.com)
1 points by tcoppi 10y ago|0 comments
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by tcoppi 10y ago
The new Beaglebone has eSATA, indeed it will not be that great for high-performance SSDs or many server applications but it could be perfectly fine for a PC.
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by tcoppi 10y ago
It will be interesting to see how that one goes, indeed. I think their timing could be unfortunate, however, given AMD is about to reenter the server market in a big way in the same timeframe.
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by tcoppi 10y ago
You can certainly make a usable PC from a raspberry pi, one of the varieties of beaglebones, etc. Assuming you don't mind early-2000s levels of performance they are perfectly serviceable. There isn't anything a hobbyist could reas
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by tcoppi 10y ago
They seem to have plans to move to a modern GlobalFoundries 14nm process, so it might be more competitive when that happens. The decision to use an older, in-order core is probably based on the fact that their cache and memory controller de
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by tcoppi 10y ago
The trouble is various incarnations of silicon-based transistors are the best we know how to engineer right now and for the foreseeable future. There will probably be a stall for at least 5-10 years after silicon scaling ends in the late 20
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by tcoppi 10y ago
I don't think an ASIC golden age requires fab commoditization, in fact it could benefit from more custom tuning to the individual process as opposed to being developed for bulk silicon.
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by tcoppi 10y ago
I don't think fab tech will become that commoditized. If anything, the end of differentiation on process node size alone will drive differentiation in other areas, such as new types of transistors(tri gate has already become somewhat p
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by tcoppi 10y ago
They also do it on cards that pass the higher-end binning process fine and sell them downmarket anyway when there is more demand there.
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by tcoppi 10y ago
Sure there is, nVidia and ATI/AMD have done pretty much exactly this sort of segmentation of many consumer->pro video cards in drivers practically forever.
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Daddy, Why Didn't You Blog About Trump?(scottaaronson.com)
4 points by tcoppi 10y ago|0 comments
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by tcoppi 10y ago
Minor correction, according to the article it is 1894 not 1864.
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by tcoppi 10y ago
I've seen a couple of people now suggest Ford as possibly taking over Tesla in a similar manner, and the more I think about it the more it makes sense. As soon as Tesla makes electric cars available in quantity with the Model 3, their
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by tcoppi 10y ago
My house and all houses in my development were built in 1995 and have one. Most programmable thermostats recommend using a C wire(or batteries, but if they're being put in a new development they generally put the C wire in), and progra
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by tcoppi 10y ago
You don't lose fan control with the ecobee3 Power Extender Kit. Also, the C wire is not rarely available, basically any house since the early 90s will have one already wired up, and any house that has upgraded hvac unit in say the last
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by tcoppi 10y ago
I've had an ecobee 3 since November, and the UX has been very responsive and intuitive to me. My wife can use it well enough to set manual away and temperature overrides, which is pretty much all that you might need to do after you&#x2
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by tcoppi 10y ago
I did this around 2004-2005 in high school, and it was one of the more educational learning experiences I've had. Sadly the resulting system was nigh-unmaintainable, on the level of old-school Slackware, so my install only really laste
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Why Some People Find Crowded Cities Relaxing – And Others Don't(citylab.com)
1 points by tcoppi 10y ago|0 comments
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by tcoppi 10y ago
I agree, the naming seems really unfortunate. I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla argues trademark infringement.
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by tcoppi 10y ago
Interesting that they went with onboard CNG generators that are directly charging batteries. Those types of generators are a proven reliable technology, and batteries seem to have proven mostly reliable in Tesla products, so I can see their
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Venezuela is Falling Apart(theatlantic.com)
3 points by tcoppi 10y ago|2 comments
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by tcoppi 10y ago
True, and I'm currently enjoying the hell out of Stellaris, so I guess that counts :D
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by tcoppi 10y ago
It is also a lot harder to model these sorts of dynamics and make for a compelling game, IMO. An interesting idea of an "economic rts" type game is Offworld Trading Company(incidentally the brainchild of the Civ4 creator). I think
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by tcoppi 10y ago
> The real interesting part of the game in my view is that conquest is no longer an option Isn't it though? Russia seemed to do OK with the conquest of Crimea. Anyway the suggestion of Europa Universalis is probably the closest you
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by tcoppi 10y ago
If we're talking about political cycles, then yes that counts as long-term. I agree though this has been going on a lot longer than just since 2008, but 2008 was when I think the tide really started turning.
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by tcoppi 10y ago
I suggest you read the two articles posted by chao- to get a better understanding as to why that may be.

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