williamDafoe

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by williamDafoe 3y ago
Did you ever hear of groups.google.com? About 30Y older than reddit, the original Usenet groups system started in the late 70s ...
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
This used to be false! I have my dad's copy of the ~1910 encyclopedia Britannica and they were still trying to cover the entirety of the field of mathematics in those years!
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
World Book was always the most terrible Encyclopedia when I was growing up 1968-1984. Overly short articles and tons of color pictures; only suitable for 10-yrs and younger. When sent to do a book report in my elementary School library I k
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
Not really. It was Lisa's decision to stop shipping CPUs with locked clock multipliers! She also made the decision that eight cores and 16 threads would become the industry standard for laptops and desktops! These are major strategi
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
NVidia loves to cite steam surveys to mislead customers but the truth is they have 0% market share in consoles (not in steam surveys) and the new AMD M780 iGPU (7940hs APU) just wiped out NVidia's entire MX product line and is literall
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
Obviously you stopped buying AMD products 4Y ago when Raj Koduri left. Without his corrosive effect, many reviewers are saying AMD adrenaline tools are NOW MUCH BETTER than NGreedia ...
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
Rx 7900xt is $760 and it's an incredible bargain now, IMHO ...
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
Jim Keller had nothing to do with the rx6000 series of AMD graphics cards and this is the best series that AMD has ever produced! I think you have the credit Lisa Su with firing Raj Koduri who went to Intel to make his flaky-driver hot gra
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
AMD wasn't very profitable until 2018. The company's debt to equity ratio was terrible (due to previous CEO mistakes 2000-2012) until they paid off their huge debts with Ryzen 3 in ~2020. Be patient, grasshopper .. https:/
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
AMD's focus was always on pure compute power at a good price. And they always beat NVidia at that game. AMD cards always had the highest hash rate per dollar in crypto mining. AMD has 100% of the console market and the fastest iGPUs
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
The real point of CPR is to bridge their life while you rush to get them an AED. Without the AED the chance of their heart restarting permanently is vanishingly low ... Last few times I had first responder training it was said to be less th
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
My favorite thing on the TI SR-50 was to calculate 69! ... It was the largest number that the 2-digit exponent could hold and also the slowest calculation. I also discovered the 1 hidden digit of precision (13 digits) by subtracting know d
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
Their massive early investment in Uber distorted their reality and they expected ride sharing to be incredibly successful in other markets when it's not even successful in the USA - it's a fraud that pays below minimum wage off th
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
You have too much of a reliance on fake info from stale web articles. The only active ingredients in current chloraseptic are benzocaine, menthol, and dextromethorpan hydrobromide. I have a box of the useless kind in front of me. No actua
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
That is NOT chlorascepric. It's new "this doesn't work" -a-sceptic. AS I SAID, medical professional have been moving to castrate OTC medicines. I have a hoard of original chlorasceptic with actual working, antiseptic
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
Nurse practitioner prescriptions have to be reviewed by a superior doctor that's how the AMA keeps its Union controlling everything! My former employer Qualcomm hired about three people to have an employee-only GP medical department.
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
Do you think AMA would allow Congress to increase residencies? It's a union after all. The AMA might just stop performing deluxe congressional healthcare if the Congress crosses them! And those Congresspeople are a very unhealthy bu
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
I use horse medicine (burow's solution / used to be star-otic but now that stuff is reformulated to remove any active ingredients) for an ear infection. The ear nose throat medical profession is so corrupt. They got the only medi
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
Deregulate medicine. The AMA restricts the supply of Doctors way too much to achieve $500,000 salaries . . I am currently suffering from a torn Achilles tendon and the medical system in Palo Alto responded instantly (2hr walk-in care wait)
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
Wrong, it's 5%. https://www.bls.gov/cpi/
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
For regular P/E ratio regression to the mean would mean a P/E of 15x. Right now the regular P/E is 24x. So we could still see a 33% drop in stocks due to all the bubble blowing from the fed. https://www.multpl.co
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
I'm from Missouri, the show-me state. Show me a fed funds rate that exceeds the inflation rate by 1% or more, because that's what it took last time we had high inflation to kill the beast. 5% fed funds is not enough to kill 5% in
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
You are talking about the foxes that killed all the hens when Powell printed his 15 trillion dollar bubble in April 2020 and exactly that fox is now guarding the inflation hen house. Of course he's going to say "one and done&quot
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
In return for this feature a class of lower income users are able to buy hundreds of millions of phones and pay for them over an extended period using monthly payments on their phone account. This is the trade-off Google makes.
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
This would only be a problem not when you first buy the phone but only if you buy a very very old used phone that has never had the OS replaced and google has exited the phone business and if you wanted to replace the OS.
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
I was in the chrome dogfooding program at Google, testing pre release hardware and I used panopticon. They locked it down a short while later. I could see all the acer Chromebooks in the wild before the lockdown. I imagine they renamed i
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
Google has a console called panopticon where they can see every Chromebook in the world. This monitoring facility is used to measure bug / crash prevalence in e.g. 802.11 driver software and to determine how much of each fleet is runni
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
I have to agree that Heathkit instructions often carried completely bogus theories of operation. I remember my 3-transistor experimental circuits set. When the manual tried to explain transistors it had a little guy at the top of the stai
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
I am wondering if 2-3% of GDP is accurate? 2-3% of GDP was spent on 0.2% of the population ... Really?
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
Cruise missiles have an incredibly good terrain following navigation software - I don't think it's hard to navigate without GPS people get fat dumb and lazy because of GPS...

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