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by verall 6y ago
I worked there about 5 years ago, but I have heard that since then, they have struck deals with some manufacturers - they might actually have a partnership with Samsung now, and send the LCDs back to them (still for $$). We certainly didn&#
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by verall 6y ago
I worked at a uBreak for a time and the manager encouraged us to mention they were signing a TOS regarding the phone repair, if they don't come pick up their device after 90 days they abandoned it, etc. The receipt was really long and
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by verall 6y ago
But only in America (still due to FPTP, btw) is the ratfucking so bad that the biggest supporters of libertarians is the democrats and the biggest supporters of the greens are republicans. RC voting (or proportional representation) doesn&#x
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by verall 6y ago
Good cliffhangers work with the plot, using a limit like a weekly release schedule or break between seasons to lengthen tension. I would say most American television is really bad at this and likes to create fake tension between episodes th
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by verall 6y ago
SRAMs are catching up, but they are still much less dense, and are normally configured for smaller line sizes and lower latencies than DRAM. DRAM requires sense amplifiers and capacitors which have scaled both scaled slower than transistors
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by verall 6y ago
> The thing that's gotten smaller is the minimum feature size on a silicon wafer. No, even minimum feature size is improving much slower than in the past. Fabs are focusing on specifics that are still giving gain: lower power transi
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by verall 6y ago
DRAM is not transistors. Transistors have gotten much smaller much faster than DRAM.
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by verall 6y ago
This is a bad comparison. DRAM margins are razor thin and unlike transistors, DRAM has not gotten much smaller, which is the main cost savings gained from process improvements. Instead, server and accelerator vendors want ever faster and hi
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by verall 6y ago
18.04 was the last Ubuntu LTS before very recently, and python3.6 is system python3 for Ubuntu 18.04. These are both Ubuntu examples that Nvidia just left as the default. When 20.04 comes python will upgrade with it.
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by verall 6y ago
> Especially when that money will almost certainly end up mismanaged or end up in the pockets of cronies. This attitude is toxic. It is possible to find charities that fit your own definition of well-managed and it is worth it.
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by verall 6y ago
> Who cares where he was born? Some people do, obviously. In this case, it's a bit on the nose...
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by verall 6y ago
I think there is a big difference between this and the parent. If you are working on projects where the "primary language" is Ruby or Python or Elixr than sure, use that, but if your project's primary language is C++, like mo
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by verall 6y ago
This guy is a professor? He talks like he's very inexperienced in the law. Especially: > This kind of stuff makes my head hurt, because the court seems to imply that Amazon could avoid liability by taking fewer steps to protect cons
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by verall 6y ago
There are lots of jobs in systems software that almost all C and C++ with some scripting languages. I think in this field the most important things to understand are operating systems, Linux pthreads / syncronization, some hardware fun
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by verall 6y ago
Not neccesarily - I know tons of people happy they waited for GTA V on PC since they really took care to beef up graphics and work out bugs. PC gaming is at a huge high point in the last decade or so, thanks in large part to twitch.
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by verall 6y ago
Samsung and TSMC are both worth more. America's largest chipmaker.
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by verall 6y ago
I don't think that's what they're saying - what I read (and experience sometimes...) is old C++ programmers that have only known imperative styles get access to functional techniques and don't see the problem sticking st
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by verall 6y ago
It's not a dog whistle - it's a description of the effects of racism. Areas with homogenous populations consistently have more political support for providing social services. This is because most people have greater empathy for t
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by verall 6y ago
This is silly. ILP doesn't matter because the HW has kept the same basic ISA with the same memory guarantees since forever. A lot of stuff goes on under the hood to make C code execute quickly (also to make Java code execute quickly, e
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by verall 6y ago
In real life it would be subsampled 4:2:0 and 1000hz is nonsense because it's not divisible by 24 or 30. So a more reasonable 8k@960hz 4:2:0 is (7680 4320 960) * (8 + 2 + 2) = ~356Gb/s or only 35.6Gb/s if you pick a reasonabl
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by verall 6y ago
The shield will happily push 4K@120hz at 4:2:0 subsampling if your display supports it. The shield supports hdmi 2.0b.
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by verall 6y ago
I think you are underselling yourself. As far as I can tell, at a globally distributed engineering org, clear written communication is probably more important than the code you write, because it has more impact - it has an effect on how eve
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by verall 6y ago
It sure makes an easy dirty bomb when stuck on a regular bomb though.
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by verall 6y ago
I think there needs to be real storage plans for radioactive water before terrestrial fission is a major power source but it is certainly telling that in 3 of those cases the radioactive waste was from fracking and not a reactor.
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by verall 6y ago
This is a strawman and false equivalence. The "extreme left" believes the President definitely sexually assaulted at least one woman and additionally probably raped someone. The first part having been admitted to several times. No
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by verall 6y ago
Yea, it will get done, but it will take a bunch of years. One of the best things I feel like I've learned in systems eng is that this stuff is just too disorganized and difficult. It's not enough to steal all of the plans - you&#x
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by verall 6y ago
That makes no sense. Maybe normally ordering at my favorite place nets them about $5. I don't want any gig economy startup cutting into that profit, when I pay it. I understand it is worth it for the restaurant to take GH orders and ne
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by verall 6y ago
Silicon is bodybuilding-hard. It is extremely hard so there are few competitors, but it is inherently a series of extremely expensive coordination problems. To churn new architectures every couple years takes an oiled machine of thousands.
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by verall 6y ago
But there's still not enough of those loans to go round, so it is still very meaningful who gets them.
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by verall 6y ago
I really don't know how people think these are safe, I have a "ozone-free" UVC disinfectant light and it still produces enough ozone to smell pretty bad. I can only imagine how an O3 generator smells.

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