throwaway1X2

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by throwaway1X2 8y ago
The part comparing "Intel Xeon E3 1320 V6" [sic] with older "Intel Xeon E5620" as having the same memory bandwidth, same TDP, more L3 cache, etc., so having "the same performance characteristics" is just plain
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by throwaway1X2 8y ago
> People need to do more research when they think about taking on these gig economy jobs full time. I also think "they do" - but on the other hand, do not forget the human nature. No amount of researching, reading it or hearing
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by throwaway1X2 8y ago
That may be yet another use case of delays: makes bruteforcing (or even plain guessing a few common codes) a lot slower.
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by throwaway1X2 9y ago
> have an appropriate extinguisher and a plan for quickly getting failed cells outside and onto an inert surface like concrete. There are two problems: a) There is no appropriate extinguisher when you have a thermal runaway on 20 kWh of
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by throwaway1X2 9y ago
I guess it's that people are walking since their first months after being born, so they are pretty good at it and even when you are older, unwell, intoxicated, etc., unless you are dancing on the edge of subway platform or right on the
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by throwaway1X2 9y ago
Tokyo has an average of 0.5 cars per household, which is on par with NYC. So, how will banning cars suddenly in NYC turn NYC into Tokyo, where cars aren't banned?
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by throwaway1X2 9y ago
> Can you use bitcoin to pay for some food? Or to get your roof fixed? This is a bit of false argument. One of the most universally recognized value stores is gold. Yet, can you use gold to pay for some food? Try marching into Tesco, gra
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by throwaway1X2 9y ago
> Taxi's are usually exempt From local laws. From physical laws they are not. As a kid long time ago, I was sitting in a Fiat 124 when a bus driver wasn't paying attention to the road ahead and hit the stationary car on interse
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by throwaway1X2 9y ago
Wow... Apart from the NPT (which is just a piece of scrap paper anyway, see Israel, India, Pakistan), last time someone thought putting nukes near adversaries on the other side of the world was a great idea, the world almost ended. The enti
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by throwaway1X2 9y ago
> Go look at sci-fi from the 60s and you'll see flat screens hanging on the wall. This of course happened but flat screens were one of the critical developments for laptops and, more importantly, modern smartphones. Star Trek: The O
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by throwaway1X2 9y ago
Excellent point, in the heat of many discussions whether even a studied being of the same species [human] would get the hydrogen state reference, it never occurred that even without decoding anything nor putting any styluses anywhere, just
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by throwaway1X2 9y ago
While I cannot put a label on it right now (but surely it has a name, read about it somewhere), it is some kind of paradox that sufficiently advanced civilizations will broadcast themselves openly and detectably only for a very very tiny fr
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by throwaway1X2 9y ago
I'm not anywhere near being well-versed in astronomy, so I cannot judge how hard that problem actually is, but let me present a counterpoint/food for thought: 40 years ago, we launched a probe with what we though as of then as bei
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by throwaway1X2 9y ago
Well, with background in the darker parts of the internets, I'm still against all forms of domain squatting, typosquatting, etc. Others would also describe me as a heavy EU-skeptic. But! If you are a company registered in whatever EU c
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by throwaway1X2 9y ago
Well, .com-bubble came and went, but mind the settings. Yes, nowadays, new buildings in every larger city come with gigabit ethernet wiring and several ISPs' fiber connected to the basement switches as standard. Older flats (pre-revolu
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by throwaway1X2 9y ago
> > written in Macintosh Common Lisp needed 20 MB RAM > At the time when computers had 32/64 MB of RAM. That's non sequitur. Lets quote the entire context: > the Dylan IDE written in Macintosh Common Lisp needed 20 MB
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by throwaway1X2 9y ago
And what precisely do you mean by "seeing and avoiding"? Ugo the caveman sees a slowly rising river, Ugo runs to the village, village safely runs away? Erm, no. When you see a flood wave several stories in height, you may have a f
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by throwaway1X2 10y ago
I think you are grasping it from the wrong end. If we are talking about artificial general intelligence or super intelligence, we are not talking about some procedural computer program, which, e.g., has a goal of wiping out humanity, so it
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by throwaway1X2 10y ago
"at least when jobs start to dry out, people will realize that an intermediate solution to increasing unemployment is letting people work less -- hopefully for similar pay" That doesn't check out. Either working shorter hours
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by throwaway1X2 10y ago
Well, running the engine (or not to) with empty AdBlue tank has nothing to do with topping it up yourself. - You can let the tank go empty and not turn up to the workshop for the fill up, how does disallowing to top it up yourself prevent t
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by throwaway1X2 10y ago
Yes, 'offshore' is a race. Every critique is a racism. Coming from said 'offshore' (at least in regards to the US), I see that 'quality' people work remotely for monies comparable to the onsite workers, launch
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by throwaway1X2 10y ago
Don't know if you are talking about network play or not, but our poor man "multiplayer" in that era was like this: - Let's play, I walk, you shoot. One got the arrow keys, the another got the CTRL and spacebar... :)
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by throwaway1X2 10y ago
> Honestly speaking, I have enough of our politicians of disregarding scientific studies and expert analysis, but this is somewhat accepted. The problem is, the linked article is not scientific. Yes, it links some studies and cherry pick
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by throwaway1X2 10y ago
> If you build a road through downtown the same way you build a superhighway, people are going to drive on it at superhighway speeds, which is unsafe for pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers because downtown has more intersections and inte
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by throwaway1X2 10y ago
> 2. States that only laptops with 32GB is as heavy as 17 pounds and bulky. But Dell XPS 15 comes with 32 GB and weighs only 4.5 pounds. That point blew my mind, too. I have 32 GB RAM in a 6 pound laptop (a third of that 8 kg beast prese
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by throwaway1X2 10y ago
PS: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Ayw4GsAAAAAJ
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by throwaway1X2 10y ago
If it is a con, it is the longest long con you could ever invent. 1) Work hard, become a chief of anti-abuse team at Google. 2) Work harder, publish several papers ranging from self published papers about hacking Heartstone to multi-author
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by throwaway1X2 10y ago
While true in general, let me present a counterpoint to that. With mechanical watches, it is not easy at all. Maybe if you take a simple hand wind large pocket watch (fewer parts, larger parts are easier to work with, higher tolerances), th
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by throwaway1X2 10y ago
Interesting observation! I actually lower the brightness to about 10-20 % on each display I use (the default settings are ultra high for a sunny day in a fully lit store) and while I have two CCFL panels (a 1000 USD 24" from the past a