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by xhrpost 4y ago
> A simple mode 0x13 demo app plotting pixels while waiting for a keypress Been wanting to check out DOS programming for a while but tooling setup always seemed overly daunting. If this works on an M1 it would be amazing.
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by xhrpost 4y ago
Looks like reinvesting dividends from SGOV. M1 doesn't provide market level APY for cash in their investment accounts unless you pay for the Plus package. Investing in SGOV appears to provide similar yield so I'm doing that with s
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Do protons contain charm quarks?(bigthink.com)
8 points by xhrpost 4y ago|0 comments
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by xhrpost 4y ago
I feel like content and internet use was wildly different back then. I did the same thing in that timeframe with a similar result. But I was constantly constructive with what I did. Not because I was a workaholic, I was just really curious
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by xhrpost 4y ago
Thanks, so circling back, what does it mean for the US government to back/backstop these mortgages? Especially given your statements above that there is still risk of default for the lender.
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by xhrpost 4y ago
Thanks for the reply. Wouldn't that cause the rates to be really close to the federal funds rate then? Why are mortgages hitting 7%? If the funds rate top is 4%, wouldn't even 5% - if guaranteed - still be better?
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by xhrpost 4y ago
I'm struggling to find a definition of what "backing mortgages by the government" means in practice? Does it mean private entities who buy the mortgage always get paid? If someone stops paying their mortgage, they get to keep
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by xhrpost 4y ago
I was gonna say, there must be a million more of these.
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by xhrpost 4y ago
Yea that seems rather confusing. Is "modest" different than "significant"?
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by xhrpost 4y ago
The other definition I've seen is "a substance that changes how the body functions" which I think is a bit easier to categorize.
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by xhrpost 4y ago
This is mostly my opinion but I think an overlooked reason for the death of the LAN party was the shift to console gaming during this time. This was a dark time in the PC gaming world. Console use was rising exponentially with some dev shop
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by xhrpost 4y ago
I didn't know about doomgeneric. Sounds like it might be an easy way to hack on doom without having to get a whole DOS environment set up.
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by xhrpost 4y ago
Heh I just ran across this sort of thing yesterday. A 200+ page book on "how to delete a book from your kindle". Written by an apparently very prominent author with over 100 reviews that are all verified purchases. Some of them ac
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by xhrpost 4y ago
I used to save everything I thought was important to my del.icio.us account back in the day. How many times did I go back to look something up? Not a single time.
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by xhrpost 4y ago
It's a good question, seems like corporations have more power to do so now, from linked article: >Corporations have the power to raise prices without losing customers because they face so little competition. Since the 1980s, two-thi
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by xhrpost 4y ago
Haven't seen this site, thanks for posting. Interesting seeing so many boxes using NAT for IPv4, wonder how that gets shared, just one person gets port 80 and too bad for everyone else?
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by xhrpost 4y ago
/r/tipofmyjoystick
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by xhrpost 4y ago
> It's sad how little the US has invested in maintaining its public transit infrastructure compared to other countries. I'm on the fence about this, on average across the US, I'd agree. But where we do have decent transit,
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by xhrpost 4y ago
I'm sure that's part of it but I've also directly observed their bias towards fear exaggeration at times. Claiming certain things are happening in a neighborhood I visit frequently and unable to confirm anything they are stat
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by xhrpost 4y ago
Yup, I imagine most people living outside NY/NYC probably don't know to read NYPost articles with a heavy grain of salt.
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by xhrpost 4y ago
Is it possible then to perhaps experience some of the effects via other anti-inflammatory supplements that are both legal and maybe carry fewer risks?
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by xhrpost 4y ago
Lower interest rates are generally caused by loose monetary supply which has been the case up until the last several months. That looseness ultimately eats away at the middle class, they end up paying the "interest" in the form of
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by xhrpost 4y ago
Yes most everyone says the symptoms need to be present in childhood as well. But apparently the structure of school and just being a little smart can mask the performance symptoms in childhood. Then once the structure is gone in adulthood a
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by xhrpost 4y ago
Of course it's impressive but this isn't the sort of work the average dev ends up doing day to day. We spend our time digging into dependencies (this had zero) both internal and external, interfacing with stakeholders and looking
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by xhrpost 4y ago
This sums up mostly what I've been feeling for the last 10+ years. When I started "web 2.0" development in 2005, there was a much smaller library ecosystem. I had to use what tools were available, most of which were developed
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GPU Mining Is Dead, Where Are My Cheap GPUs?(techspot.com)
3 points by xhrpost 4y ago|1 comments
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by xhrpost 4y ago
IIRC, a gallon of gasoline is about 37,000 calories. So that's a lot of energy he utilized, all through his body burning fat and carbs!
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by xhrpost 4y ago
About to turn 41. Amazing how old you can be as a runner and still be world class in some metric.
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by xhrpost 4y ago
John Carmack was also constantly working on the cutting edge. I think that makes a big difference. IIRC from reading MoD, he was the first person to get true side-scrolling working on an x86 chip, before it was thought to not be powerful en
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by xhrpost 4y ago
Yea I wasn't completely clear I the description, not remembering exactly at the moment. Thanks for pointing out. I was referring to the option some employers will offer to convert ISOs to NSOs after 90 days. So yes you're technica

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