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by velox_io 7y ago
It's quite a change going from not exporting any F22s to the F35s, which feels like they'll sell them to anyone that wants some (minus the usual suspects). Especially when the F35s stealth technology is said to be more advanced. I
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by velox_io 7y ago
Here's a good video on the problems of transmitting power, and why we need such high voltages. How do Electric Transmission Lines Work? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjY31x0m3d8
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by velox_io 7y ago
That does make sense, especially for IoT devices (literally anything low power). However, I haven't seen PoE used outside of business use. The problem is that Wifi is becoming ever more prevalent (on my network I have 12 devices using
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by velox_io 7y ago
Reading the title has affirmed to me that we are living in a bubble (and it doesn't look good). I just can't get it through my head how an investment of that size will EVER pay off. A major reason people buy dogs is because they w
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by velox_io 7y ago
I'm surprised this concept died out. Take the next-gen consoles, they're supporting games at 120fps/120hz. They could target 60fps (what the vast majority of users will use) and daisy-chain another console for the serious gam
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by velox_io 7y ago
Re-inventing the wheel is a funny idiom itself. In 99.9% of cases it holds true, it's easier/ cheaper to use existing/ off-the-shelf solutions. The other 0.1% (not absolute numbers), it makes sense to innovate. Quite a few id
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by velox_io 7y ago
This is a tricky one; maintaining people's safety/ privacy while giving drone pilots 'freedom' is quite a balance. For instance, in the UK you must maintain a physical line of sight with the drone at all times, this make
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by velox_io 7y ago
I'm also in the UK, I've had the same phone number for at least a decade. It has been easy to carry your phone number to a new provider for as long as I can remember. You just contact your existing provider, tell them you wish to
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by velox_io 7y ago
I find it interesting that the article is targeting vaping in general rather than buying tainted products. (My money is on THC extraction using Butane that is meant for fuel (that's heavily contaminated) rather than lab-grade/ pur
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by velox_io 7y ago
That picture is bounced off a 2.4m mirror from nearly 400km away, calling it flawless would be an understatement! The image has also been heavily compressed (after it was annotated), so we're looking at a very poor version of it. So ye
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by velox_io 7y ago
On one hand, I think that Boris is flexing he power to prove to [the rest of] Europe that he is willing to take a hard Brexit if the EU is unwilling to negotiate (you can't negotiate unless you're willing to walk away). On the oth
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by velox_io 7y ago
This sounds similar to Fleischmann–Pons 'Cold fusion' in 89 [0] (Could be related as the 30th anniversary?). It would be great if we could easily spit water to hydrogen and oxygen (unlimited clean fuel), but it comes down to those
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by velox_io 7y ago
Shortening patents (when it can take years to gain traction) or making them more expensive only plays into the hands of large companies
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Mexico court approves recreational cocaine use(bbc.co.uk)
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by velox_io 7y ago
I only wrote about the GPUs initially (as I had been looking at them in the last week). Then I released the comparison to CPUs, which even included the same company. It just seems strange that two similar markets are functioning very differ
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by velox_io 7y ago
I have a feeling AMD wants some of Nvidia's market share too. In fact the reason Nvidia recently released all those 'Super' cards was to counter AMD's release, it's also rumoured that AMD had to reduce their prices
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by velox_io 7y ago
In a way, yes. I don't fill up the whole tank when I buy fuel (as do most people who don't travel large distances day to day). It's easy to add more fuel before I make a long journey. It makes more of a difference for EV as b
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by velox_io 7y ago
I thought about upgrading my GPU recently (an rx480 8gb from 2016), I was disappointed to find that even the rx5700xt was only double the performance of an rx580/rx480 (they're essentially the same GPU) [0]. It also costs double,
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by velox_io 7y ago
It would be great if they standardised battery packs and made them configurable. So you don't need all that weight being carried around when it isn't needed, or you could rent more batteries for long journies if you rarely travel
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by velox_io 7y ago
Apple has a good thing here. They limit repair and parts to only those who they authorise, keeping parts off the second-hand market. And why replace a cable when you can replace both boards, then maybe the cable too. They do seem very quick
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by velox_io 7y ago
The was quite a while where iPlayer was covered by their law, there was another loophole where if your watching it on an untethered device (on a battery with wifi) that wasn't covered either, but I'm not sure now... The whole law
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by velox_io 7y ago
I recently found out that Bedbugs are still a thing (I thought they were largely eradicated). I also found out that I'm allergic to them, and While a mosquito will bite once of twice (until it finds blood), these guys leave a line of b
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by velox_io 7y ago
I believe this is mainly down to the FAT16/ FAT32 filesystem on the SD cards. Those filesystems have never been particularly reliable, when those were the dominant hard drive formats, MANY users back then lost data (and backing up to f
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by velox_io 7y ago
There's a fascinating documentary called: 'The Lost History of Cannabis'. It goes through how religion seems to be intertwined with cannabis. For instance the 'anointment oils'. How it probably wasn't Mer gifte
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by velox_io 7y ago
It's also safer than buying it off the streets (aside from dealing with gang members), there is no telling what you are buying (they probably don't know either). While it's true that everyone mistrusts each other. Sellers are
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by velox_io 7y ago
There is quite a big difference between the prescription Fentanyl patches and the crap coming out of China and co. It is actually a very effective pain medication for those who need it, I've taken it before and lived to tell the tale.
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by velox_io 7y ago
AMD did have a huge amount of catching up to do after Bulldozer. One of the things that has been keeping Intel ahead is their fabrication has been going smoothly, generally ALWAYS ahead of what AMD had available to them. Here's the fir
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by velox_io 7y ago
There is a little confusion whether it is 40 lanes or feels like 40 lanes. PCIe is a serial interface so they only need an additional wire per lane, per direction. So it is feasible as CPUs generally have spare pins. As DDR5 is coming out n
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by velox_io 7y ago
They've not had the IPC of Intel for Sometime (I haven't owned an AMD CPU since the Athlon days, even though I was a fan of AMD as they were better value than Intel). Where AMD does compete is thread-count. A higher number of slow
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by velox_io 7y ago
I think it's aimed at people who do specialised tasks such as video editing without the extra expense of moving to HEDT hardware. Plus, these chips with two CCXs also has double the PCIe lanes 40! So a number of NVMe drives, GPUs, 10Gb

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