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by variaga 2y ago
It is true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and...
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by variaga 2y ago
Same. Especially for backfilling your collection, used CDs are incredibly cost effective and DRM free. Try BookOff, yard or estate sales, or "friends of the library" events. You will burn some time searching, but the hunt can be
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by variaga 2y ago
"The largest known prime is two raised to the power of one hundred thirty six million two hundred seventy nine thousand eight hundred forty one, minus one" only took me 8.2 seconds to say aloud at a normal speaking pace. :)
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by variaga 2y ago
>I remember learning back at the beginning of my career that at places like Bell Labs and IBM, everybody who was anybody had the title "Member, Technical Staff" which was designed to be a low key humblebrag Ha! I learned that w
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by variaga 2y ago
Here's a link to the MSDS https://www.fishersci.com/store/msds?partNumber=AC419175000&... > But is rosin really that toxic? The LD50 is pretty high, so it's not likely to kill you, but I don't th
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by variaga 2y ago
Call this a cautionary tale about 'rethinking' school design. The high school I went to was designed/built in 1973 by some people who "re-thought" school design. Their idea was a 'flexible learning space&#x27
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by variaga 2y ago
FTA, the ship crossed the international date line on December 31, 1899 so briefly the front of the ship was on Jan 1, 1900 while the back of the ship was still in Dec 31, 1899. Both of these dates are still in the 19th century, however, so
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by variaga 2y ago
This was probably the first game I really loved and played to obsession (on an Apple ][) It was also where I discovered my first 'wall hack'. The apple version only loaded the current tile into memory - every time you stepped off
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by variaga 2y ago
The main page for the site says: Chatting sucks with AI. Now You can start graphing with AI. Built on top of OpenAI, youre getting the best AI model with the best user interface The Smarter Way To Interact With AI Built On OpenAI Use AI L
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by variaga 3y ago
Thec phrase "used Y in anger" means "used seriously" or "used for its intended purpose". The origin phrase/trope-namer is "never fired its guns in anger" applied to a naval warship in peacetime
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by variaga 3y ago
Semver will never "solve" the library dependency problem, because it is not a problem that can be "solved". We want 2 things out of dependency management. 1. If a new version of a dependency contains a desirable/n
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by variaga 3y ago
And there was a time when we used them in the not-too-distant past! In the '80s, processes were all in microns, not nanometers. In the '90s nodes were described as 'sub-micron' and 'deep sub-micron' processes.
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by variaga 3y ago
Look up "normalization of deviance". Perversely, a bunch of near-disasters can reduce people's concern and make them less likely to demand fixes because "it did that last time too and everything turned out okay" i
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by variaga 3y ago
>Now Ithkuil introduces a new word that is defined as that concept. You are assuming the consequent. How exactly did Ithkuil 'define' a new word as that concept if the concept can't be expressed in Ithkuil ("any langu
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by variaga 4y ago
I haven't read that book in 30 years, but the description of experiencing the launch from inside the craft was so succinct and evocative I still think about it from time to time. "God was knocking and he wanted in bad ."
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by variaga 4y ago
Doc, note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on Cod.
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by variaga 4y ago
There's a deterministic sequence that will beat it every time, which you can calculate as follows. - it assumes your first selection was preceeded by 5 consecutive 'left's - each press, look at the last 5 bits you selec
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by variaga 4y ago
In theory practice and theory are the same. In practice they are not.
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by variaga 4y ago
Migration services exist today. Almost any of the ASIC backend service companies would take a contract to do a fab port. (Won't be cheap, though) But these are services, not products. There's no one-size-fits-all way to move des
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by variaga 4y ago
You understand correctly. (Source: 20 years of asic design)
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by variaga 4y ago
In almost all cases, switching processes means a complete redesign. 28nm vs 60nm isn't just "we can draw smaller parts now". Lots of other things (silicon doping levels, choice of metal for the routing layers, operating volta
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by variaga 4y ago
It's the classic mistake of comparing stocks and flows
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by variaga 4y ago
I've used Square checkout. I honestly have no idea what "network effect" you're referring to. It has literally never occurred to me to select/deselect an online store or purchase/not-purchase something based on
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by variaga 5y ago
There's prior art: see Spock's burial in Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
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by variaga 5y ago
Fortunate Son is a perfectly good song to for draft dodgers: Yeah, some folks inherit star-spangled eyes They send you down to war And when you ask 'em, "How much should we give?" They only answer, "More, mor
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by variaga 5y ago
Recording real-world data may be cheap (not "free") in some circumstances, but properly labeling real-world data so it will be useful can be incredibly expensive. Even if you're doing completely unsupervised learning, you wil
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by variaga 5y ago
Every single scenario in this is a false dichotomy. If the only choices are "plow through a bunch of pedestrians, killing them" and "swerve into a fixed obstacle, killing your passengers", your self-driving car has alre
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by variaga 5y ago
You're missing the distinction of power vs voltage. dB is defined in terms of power. Power is proportional to voltage squared. So a 10x increase in voltage == a 10^2 = 100x increase in power == a 20dB increase in power.
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by variaga 5y ago
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/cry+uncle
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by variaga 5y ago
It's a great visualization. Can any geologists out there explain the isolated earthquake cluster under Puerto Rico? It doesn't seem to be part of a fault line.

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