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by to11mtm 4y ago
My concern, even if it doesn't pan out, is the disruption as everyone tries to jump on the bandwagon. I saw this at the end of last decade with 'low code' tools; lots of Directors/CIOs trying to make a name for themselve
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by to11mtm 4y ago
Well, yes and no. Single Income Married families have some benefits, or if one party makes a lot less than the other. However there are other disadvantages in some cases; after my first wife got married to me, her financial aid went into
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by to11mtm 4y ago
The problem was Intel started the problem by worrying more about their margins; As it stood it cost them close to half a Billion to replace the chips. (Not at all agreeing with their initial response of 'If you can show it impacts your
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by to11mtm 4y ago
1. Leaded Petrol was known to be harmful for a long time. In fact, some TEL Additives were very pointedly marketed as 'Ethyl' and did their best to leave the 'Lead' part out. 2. Ethanol was known to have Anti-knock prope
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by to11mtm 4y ago
TBH The ending of that musical ruined it for me; The people 'take back control' only to squander the water and die of thirst. Sooo... Corporations are bad, but people are bad anyway so it doesn't matter? IDK. Might be a produ
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by to11mtm 4y ago
> Yeah I can just about get a decent crop of the moon on my Nikon Z50 with the 250mm lens on it that looks reasonable, if it’s on a tripod. Yeah 300+ is more comfortable for moonshots on APSC sensors, unless you are in -really- good cond
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by to11mtm 4y ago
> This is a lot like the ages-old trick of a compiler being rigged to recognize particular source file (benchmark program) and pulls out a hand-optimized assembly program. I never knew compilers did this, but I remember it being the ca
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by to11mtm 4y ago
Big guess here (I mostly know CPU design from what EE I gleaned from college) but my guess is that the L3 is shared per CCX, which probably makes it harder to properly power down/up when only one core is in use.
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by to11mtm 4y ago
I'm a Nokia fanboy and will sadly admit that you're right. They made a -lot- of stupid decisions, both in sticking to 'what they knew' and bad decisions with cutting-edge tech (N900 comes to mind, you couldn't get o
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by to11mtm 4y ago
I was never a fan of the 3dfx dithering/filtering, personally. Things usually looked just a bit too muddled for my taste in most games. It wasn't as bad as others (I remember the Matrox M3D having some very interesting features, b
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by to11mtm 4y ago
In the era of that kind of PC, I remember the boot loaders being a bit more touchy. I never 'totally borked' a PC with LILO but definitely had to fix some things at least once, and that was with a nice thick Slackware 7.1 book to
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by to11mtm 4y ago
No, they are pointing out that for all of your bolstering, China today is doing things that the global purview thinks are far worse than what the US is doing, again, today. Please remember that comments on HN are meant to be in good faith t
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by to11mtm 4y ago
> and in the last 300 years, it's hard to find a country that has abused more human rights. Surely, between: - The Armenian Genocide - The Holocaust - The Holdomor - Pogroms - Apartheid regimes - Purges of the Bourgeoisie - One Chi
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by to11mtm 4y ago
> China is friendly. As long as you play by their rules which include but are not limited to: - As a business, living with the likelyhood that any govt forced partnerships with local 'private companies' are a huge risk of IP le
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by to11mtm 4y ago
Tesla actually used 3-phase motors in the past. Their newer motor (not the one in the article) is not a 3-phase induction, but is ~2% more efficient which is important when considering overall vehicle cost/range.
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by to11mtm 4y ago
There is a Micro-op cache in play in many cases like Zen [0], but I'm not entirely sure what it does. [0] - https://chipsandcheese.com/2022/11/05/amds-zen-4-part-1-fron...
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by to11mtm 4y ago
> If I had to guess, I wonder if they are data relay nodes to collect information from Chinese/Russian bugged equipment that cannot transmit over the internet (eg. compromised equipment in secure military facilities). An interesting
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by to11mtm 4y ago
I'll bite. You have to find the right one, and the right dosage. Otherwise it's like having the wrong air/fuel mix in a car. Unfortunately a lot of doctors will just throw out whatever they think works [0]. A competent MHD, i
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by to11mtm 4y ago
> I remember playing Turrican 2 on the Amiga and being rather upset that it was just impossible to replicate on the PC which was what I considered "home" at the time. I think for a long time PC games had a rough problem; '
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by to11mtm 4y ago
Zoom still does a lot of stuff better. At least the last time I used MS teams, Zoom had a much better 'upper limit' for participants in a call. Both from a 'hard limit' standpoint as well as an 'after this number th
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by to11mtm 4y ago
The concern with a former CIA employee is that the concern they are not truly a 'former' CIA employee is much higher. Although, ex-mil psyops are not much lower on the list...
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by to11mtm 4y ago
It's buried behind the engine. They'd be better off stealing the whole car and parting it out.
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by to11mtm 4y ago
Also I was talking about TOS era films which had much more proper sets.
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by to11mtm 4y ago
> I can only imagine the horror felt by the people whose therapy notes were made public. I might be in the minority here, but frankly I'd be -happy- to actually be able to see a therapist's notes on me. At least in my region, o
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by to11mtm 4y ago
For how bad much of the computer imagery has changed, the overall bridge sets in the TOS films look a -lot- better to me than all of the fancy CGI stuff. All of that said... There's a certain correctness in my head to the idea that in
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by to11mtm 4y ago
Which -does- raise questions about a diminished value claim by the owners, since the resale value will reflect that.
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by to11mtm 4y ago
Ehh, some cars are already working around this. In my newer vehicle, the Catalytic converter is actually in the engine bay. This has an emissions benefit in theory[0], since the cat will heat up faster. But as a side effect, GL trying to ge
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by to11mtm 4y ago
> They realized they could make expansions smaller and smaller and smaller and still ask for a similar amount of money and effectively print money. Oh I 100% agree, might have worded it too cynically/nihilistically. They get to make
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by to11mtm 4y ago
> It does mean that in the US, businesses sending SMSs to individuals are supposed to go through a "double opt-in" process and have really easy opt-out procedures, on pain of the FCC having some kind of punitive actions availab
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by to11mtm 4y ago
It is sad in it's own right, as it causes class divides to broach into video games [1]. Loot boxes should probably be outright illegal for children [2] [1] - Try being the kid who has everything second-hand in a school of 80s-90s Autom

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