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by xenadu02 4y ago
Remember last time we had a nationwide Adderall shortage it was deliberately caused by Shire to force people onto Vyvanse. Prior to Vyvanse Shire has signed a generic supplier agreement with TEVA so generic adderall was just the brand drug
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by xenadu02 4y ago
I don't know the number but the limit is the speed of light and expansion of the universe. In the modern phase of the universe a black hole would only be able to eat its own galactic cluster (or maybe supercluster). Hubble expansion me
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by xenadu02 4y ago
We'll have to agree to disagree. Obviously TDM was known but implementing it for ethernet at a reasonable cost was just not an option at the time (in my opinion).
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by xenadu02 4y ago
The market fluctuates. If those assets are held to maturity most will payoff without losses... even some of the subprime mortgage dreck from 2007 ended up recovering, SVB's assets are far less impaired.
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by xenadu02 4y ago
None of those things could be implemented in the 1970 or 1980s at reasonable cost so they're not actually solutions at all. Hell even making Ethernet fully switched didn't really happen until the 1990s thanks to Moore's law m
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Ethernet is also an example of a tech that has an easy scaling path: hubs with switched uplink ports made it really easy to divide collision domains. In the early days before everything was switched you could instantly reduce collision loss
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by xenadu02 4y ago
No, that is not known at this time. It will take a few years to fully wind down the assets so as of right now no one knows if recovery will be <100%, 100% of deposits, or >100% of deposits (in which case general creditors may get some
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Not really... the system should protect depositors. Frankly I think there shouldnt be a deposit insurance limit or it should be much higher. Depositing cash in a bank should be safe for everyone. SVB's executives and shareholders were
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Yeah but look at the FDIC historical data on "dividends" (FDIC's term for uninsured depositor paybacks). Lots of cases have >90% payback rates... they just take years to do so. This whole operation is just a short term bac
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by xenadu02 4y ago
If you look at the FDIC data for bank closures a lot of times the ultimate resolution is over 90% payback - the FDIC calls these "dividends". In some cases the payback is 100% to depositors and general creditors get some money. It
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by xenadu02 4y ago
The assets will take a few years to fully wind down but are likely to payoff anywhere from 80-98% so the actual haircut won't be that large. The insurance fund will float the money until final resolution, then increase insurance premiu
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by xenadu02 4y ago
> Not in the US (because of the flammability), unless something's changed very recently. I don't know when it changed but R-290 (propane) is allowed up to 13oz. My ice maker uses it. I believe it must also be sealed without ser
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Thanks to solar panels my EV charging has no ongoing cost. Frankly even if solar were even with gasoline I'd still prefer solar because I generate it myself. No supply chain issues, refining problems, or oil disruptions can stop me fro
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by xenadu02 4y ago
CPUs internally are made up of various components connected to various busses. Take a simple example: the registers are made up of latches that hold onto values and have a set of transistors that switch their latches to connect to the BUS l
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Ouch, it sure seems like reinforcement of a window header, short wall, and the surrounding wall studs would be sufficient... with lots of blocking. You only need enough strength to prevent buckling or deformation right there. I see lots of
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by xenadu02 4y ago
It makes some sense to me when you realize the 8080 was salvaging work they did attempting to win the Datapoint contract (which they lost), and making the best of a terrible design in the 8008 by being "source" compatible. The &qu
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by xenadu02 4y ago
3 is called "soft story" and is something San Francisco now requires be fixed or the building is red-tagged - no grandfathering of existing structures is allowed. Buildings like this are all over Turkey, parts of Central & Sou
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Whether it's Manhattan, Brooklyn, or even Paris... none of them would exist as we know them if we cared about "developments often ruin neighborhoods". Neighborhoods change. What was once farm land and a few houses becomes sub
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by xenadu02 4y ago
The vast majority of upgradeable machines are never actually upgraded. Basically no laptop can have its CPU or GPU upgraded to begin with. Upgradability is not free. It has a weight and volume cost. Depending on implementation it can also h
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by xenadu02 4y ago
If folks are not aware you can also use Get Info (Command + I) then drag a new icon onto the existing icon for any drive or folder. This is how I set custom icons for different partitions (I have show drives on desktop enabled).
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by xenadu02 4y ago
> Although LISP is one of the most powerful tools available ... the format of the input language (S-expression) is awkward to use -- so awkward that many errors in programming LISP stem directly from the fact that S-expressions are the o
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by xenadu02 4y ago
In a correctly plumbed system there should not be a significant pressure differential on the hot and cold sides. When done correctly (upsized feed from the utility) with balanced loops or a manifold flushing the toilet shouldn't effect
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by xenadu02 4y ago
You could take this idea further by adding an "array_ref" type to the C standard where it is a length and elements. In practice this would be broken into separate parameters when passed to a function so existing functions could be
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by xenadu02 4y ago
In wilderness parts of the US you are usually allowed, by law, to break into unoccupied cabins/homes in critical situations (eg blizzard, you're lost, etc). You're required to leave identification and contact info and pay for
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by xenadu02 4y ago
You'd think the USB-PD spec would have devices exchange their battery capacity, charge level, and AC power state. There is no scenario where anyone wants a 80-100Ah device like a laptop to charge from a 3-4Ah device like a phone if bot
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by xenadu02 4y ago
The strong nuclear force, electromagnetic force, and even gravity are strong enough to overwhelm the expansion within individual galaxies and even local groups of galaxies. In other words the expansion of spacetime very very very slightly t
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by xenadu02 4y ago
As employee #36 I lived through some of these things first hand and definitely agree with them (I think we were over 200 people when I left). It was painful going through the enterprise focus transition along with a nonsensical reorg impose
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by xenadu02 4y ago
But often the first couple to have kids delays doing so for reasons that come down to money or proxies for money. For example the career impact may be greater or childcare may be proportionally more of your income.
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by xenadu02 4y ago
SQLite is the one project that deserves an exception. There is a near zero chance anyone else can do better with similar quality (and test coverage!) Sometimes you need to be pragmatic IMHO.
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by xenadu02 4y ago
This is extremely dependent on the efficiency of your system and how well it is designed. A 15 SEER heat pump can't compare to a 21 SEER (all else equal). There are heat pumps that do well below freezing, they're just top of the l

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