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by velox_io 7y ago
There's a huge difference between an exercise bike and the real thing. Sure you can add online gameplay, but it is a poor substitute. I'm not sure how much staying power they have. More people seem to like the idea of excerise rat
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by velox_io 7y ago
Wow, I never knew/ expected MS to switch to Chromium. Given how much MS boasts about Edge's battery life over Chrome. Hopefully Google leaves a workaround to enable ad-blocking. Otherwise, I will switch, it will be a bit of hassle
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by velox_io 7y ago
All the gear and no idea... I've redacted this post as I don't want to publicise a gaping hole which renders these measures pointless. You wonder if the security serves a real purpose, or is there just to make people feel safe.
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by velox_io 7y ago
I am quite surprised that they're launching a consumer CPU with 70MB of cache! When most CPUs have ~8MB, I don't think there's ever been such a huge CPU cache jump in history. Those duel CCXs means the 16 core Ryzen could be
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Bleach peddled as 'miracle' autism cure on YouTube(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by velox_io 7y ago|0 comments
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by velox_io 7y ago
Of course you would, this is the same reason ASICs have come onto the market. I'd say the inefficiency is one of the smartest moves in the design of Bitcoin. Not only does it counter Moores law, it also provides a scarcity; the more bi
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by velox_io 7y ago
You could say this about mining any other commodity. Modern mining is literally converting fuel into some metal or mineral. For instance: There's only a finite amount of gold, and until recently (electronics), it had no real applicatio
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by velox_io 7y ago
I've had my eye on this. It settled around £3000 for some time. Then lately it became far more active, fluctuating between 3 to £4K and on an upward trend... I do think media coverage (hype) fueled bitCoin exploding (then imploding). I
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by velox_io 7y ago
I've been in London for five years and don't think I've ever used the printed timetables, the live ones at some bus stops work surprisingly well (and saves me having to whip out my phone to check City Mapper, which started in
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by velox_io 7y ago
Such incredibly sad news that he has passed away, I met Robert Virding a few years ago (small group of us went out for a meal). I had hardly heard of Erlang before, followed much more since, plus many of their talks. It's fascinating h
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by velox_io 8y ago
Sorry, I meant to write crucial (similar word, quite a different meaning..) I believe the reason for MCAS was because the had to lower and move the engines forward. So at lower power, the forward engines make the plane nose-heavy. When the
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by velox_io 8y ago
That's what I was getting at. If the nose is at an extreme angle (or reported to be) and the plane isn't climbing/ or descending - there's something wrong! Just after takeoff while the plane is still climbing. I'm n
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by velox_io 8y ago
I'm just amazed by how poorly this was implemented. Software engineers expect hardware to fail. This wasn't just the work of a newb (or I hope it wasn't). This was planned; both the requirements and the failure modes. Then im
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by velox_io 8y ago
I wouldn't say it's the bandwidth limit per se. A bigger problem is latency, cache misses have a bigger impact the faster clock speeds go. Grace Hopper and her nanoseconds (30cm) of wire, doesn't sound so eccentric these days
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by velox_io 8y ago
Given the Inverse-square law, your phone and wifi network will probably give you more radiation.. I had some bones scans (plus a couple of CTs the same day, just a bit more ionising radiation) last year. They inject you with Technician 99m
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by velox_io 8y ago
The new Ryzens are meant to launch with PCIe 4.0 (this summer, I'm due an upgrade!), so effectively... I'm surprised they don't come with more, especially many of the current ones come with 2-3 x16 slots, AND 2-3 M2s.. Both I
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by velox_io 8y ago
Hi Patrick, Before we had M2/U2 NVMe drives, there were quite a few manufacturers making drives that plug straight into the PCIe bus where they could easily access the full 16 lanes, and they still can... Intel seems to be the only one
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by velox_io 8y ago
Yeah, that's why most PCIe M2 top out at around 3500 MB/s, I doubt it will take long to saturate 7 GB/s (or double that in RAID0). Either way, it's a heck of a lot of bandwidth!
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by velox_io 8y ago
I should have been more specific. Yes, the --strictNullChecks switch almost gets you there.. I forget there's also the 'never' type, and '{}', which are very similar to null (I've seen someone use the string nu
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by velox_io 8y ago
I was kind of hoping that they would get rid of null or undefined (or both). While I understand that null and undefined are not the same, are both truly needed? Seems like a missed opportunity to make the language cleaner. They seem redunda
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by velox_io 8y ago
I don't think there's been such powerful organisations since the East India Company.
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by velox_io 8y ago
Mainly to read articles/ ebooks (I take more in that way), but also to proofread what I've written as things still slip through spell check. I'm not that bothered about speech to text, as products I've tried in the past
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by velox_io 8y ago
Wow, for me it looks like the tops of many of the characters has been rubbed off. These 'fat-bottomed' fonts seem to be a common theme. I do find it strange that a font designed for readability (such as Consolas -my fav for any te
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by velox_io 8y ago
As a dyslexic person, this actually makes things worse. I have a hard time reading caps, I believe it's because the characters have the same vertical positioning so there are less visual cues to go on. A similar thing with serif fonts,
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by velox_io 8y ago
Thought my TV was playing up (Youtube)
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by velox_io 8y ago
I use it for muscle spasms, when CRPS is bad. It's quite amazing how much has come to light with THC et al. recently. I vape CBD daily (never smoked, or vaped nicotine). I can't help but feel that the last 100 years has been lost
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by velox_io 9y ago
Doesn't really say if it was brute force or they're using unsalted encryption.
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Great Western Railway accounts breached (uk)(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by velox_io 9y ago|1 comments
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by velox_io 9y ago
The article didn't really go into detail about how this works within each city. I am surprised they're scanning each city linearly, even a crude index (such as boxing), or a binary search would greatly improve the lookup time. I g
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by velox_io 9y ago
Where's the edit gone? I meant drugs, not drunks (long day).

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