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by williadc 6y ago
... and then acquired the team that made those modems.
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by williadc 6y ago
Cold start? You had 13 years!
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by williadc 7y ago
Intel dropped FIVR for the Skylake generation[1], though it's back on Ivybridge[2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_(microarchitecture)#Fe... [2]: Used to work there, played a minor part in enabling IDC
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by williadc 7y ago
One of the world's largest hardware companies uses the line continuation feature to help make stuff you've almost certainly used today. Whether that is the best way to solve their problem is another story, but that feature does ge
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by williadc 7y ago
The processor in these board is about to celebrate its 4th anniversary, and its performance wasn't world-beating at the time of its release. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products&
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by williadc 7y ago
Why does a laser have to work in the visible light spectrum? Lithography lasers have been drawing at 175nm for over a decade.
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by williadc 7y ago
Another way to think about this finding is that operating at the tipping point could be like entering a state of "flow" as defined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, where there is a balance of subject mastery and passion that drives gre
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by williadc 7y ago
Fahrenheit seems to be a good scale for weather. It would be a pretty simple matter to make a human friendly scale based on Celsius - halve the unit. Freezing is zero degrees, and boiling is 200 degrees. I call this unit Celinheit: Here&#x2
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by williadc 8y ago
It seems like you're leading to a conclusion. Could you be specific about what that conclusion is?
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The Trump-Kim summit is overshadowing a big moment for Taiwan(qz.com)
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by williadc 8y ago
I wonder how much of this article was written by Bloomberg chasing clicks from those of us who are older than 30 and work in the tech industry who want to preserve our status.
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by williadc 8y ago
For those who were annoyed by the inconsistent units in the story: "International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation reporting about 7000 tonnes of crude oil spilling from tankers into oceans in 2017 alone." ".. explosion on
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by williadc 9y ago
I don't have anything I can point to. I also struggled to give up caffeine on my first couple tries. On my last attempt, I noticed that I stopped getting migraines, which gave me all the motivation I needed to stick with it. I only hav
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by williadc 9y ago
I just completed a 3 day water-only fast, eating breakfast yesterday morning. The reason I fast is not like what is being described here, but more as a way of reminding my body that hunger is not going to kill me and to be more mindful abou
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by williadc 9y ago
If there's a valuable insight here, I couldn't get to it. The childish name-calling put me off.
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by williadc 9y ago
TCL is really great for throwing syntax errors at runtime, having no real data structures, and an inconsistent API!
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by williadc 10y ago
Outlook
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by williadc 10y ago
Finance people do.
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by williadc 10y ago
Withings Steel HR gets the first two: http://www.withings.com/us/en/store/details/steel-hr
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by williadc 10y ago
> I get the pragmatism but we also need to be realistic I think what you mean is "I get the idealism but you also need to be realistic." It's not pragmatic to stand your guns and ask a multi-million dollar company to chang
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by williadc 10y ago
You're correct that most of these are asking for prison to be a more tolerable place to live. Making prison a rough experience should encourage inmates to avoid crimes which will send them back. The article's author contends that
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by williadc 10y ago
Impeachment doesn't mean she will be forced to resign. Look at what happened with Bill Clinton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton
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by williadc 10y ago
OneNote + Outlook works okay for what you're asking, but I have a hard time sticking with it because the interface isn't well-refined. I like OneNote a lot more than I like Outlook, but the integration is reasonably good. You can
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by williadc 10y ago
Life is really short -- there is very little time to leave your thumbprint on this place. If you ever look back, I wager you'll come to wish you could use that time doing something different.
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by williadc 10y ago
> Large scale change of driver habits is a simple solution... I'm not sure how your proposed solution would work without a large scale change of driver habits.
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by williadc 10y ago
I'm not familiar with the "packing" concept. How does one go about manual packing? How does it affect maintenance?
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by williadc 10y ago
> I'm also a little surprised there hasn't been an attempt to launch a completely new Firefox from the ground up. Check out Servo: https://servo.org/
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by williadc 10y ago
From the article: > the team’s carbon nanotube transistors achieved current that’s 1.9 times higher than silicon transistors
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by williadc 10y ago
Seems that would only be an issue during manufacturing and disposal. CPU manufacturing already deals with hazardous materials, so that should not be a huge hurdle. On the disposal side, the hazard could be reduced by stepping up efforts to
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by williadc 10y ago
It is not clear to me how the parent comment is misrepresenting the conclusions of the article. I interpret that sentence to say "The difference between the shooting of unarmed blacks and whites cannot be explained by differences in cr

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