xt00

24 ms·

211.
by xt00 6y ago
Yea I definitely remember that being discussed previously. Basically the amount of current in the wires was large enough to cause deflections that that particular group did not have a good way to account for so my recollection was they ment
212.
by xt00 6y ago
And in case you didn't already know, there is a parallel implementation of gzip called "pigz" that functions just like gzip, but is super fast on a machine with lots of cores.. like many modern PC's! Say for example you
213.
by xt00 6y ago
TLDR: the guy was selling tips on the “dark web” in 2017 about stocks going up or down totaling 27k in Bitcoin. Sounds like he was caught when he purchased some personal info of people and used that info to open new trading accounts.
214.
by xt00 6y ago
Is there a write-up anywhere that explains the likelihood of Intel actually figuring out how to keep moving down the process nodes again? At this rate AMD with TSMC will be 3-4 nodes ahead of Intel in a couple of years. If you believe the c
215.
by xt00 6y ago
For the case of multiple else if’s using the below case would you need to start nesting them to get the same functionality as #elif?
216.
by xt00 6y ago
Very cool. The basic principle is that a conductive wire is coated in EL material. Those wires run one direction in the weave of the matrix -- lets call them columns. And then the other direction is another wire that is relatively flat that
217.
by xt00 6y ago
I think a reasonable option for people that do this for a living would be a back-park worn battery pack that has an inverter to drive leaf blowers that typically use a 110VAC input, since the backpack could house the equivalent of maybe 10
218.
by xt00 6y ago
I hate to say it, but this slow pace feels like Blue Origin is being run by the folks next door to it from Boeing.... If people didn't already notice, you can spell Boeing from the letters in BluE OrIGiN (a bit out of order)...
219.
by xt00 6y ago
Use of A/B tests does feel like an organization where the leadership is not there to either help make hard decisions or the culture doesn't allow people lower down the ranks to make these decisions. The excerpt mentions "good
220.
by xt00 6y ago
The thinking in this article also explains the logic behind the solid metal fuel -- like iron powder for example. Basically oxygen reacting with iron (rust formation) results in heat generation. One important detail around use of hydrocarbo
221.
by xt00 6y ago
After reading the paper it looks like they are saying that even smaller galaxies that they observed appear to follow a relationship that appears to be fairly general for describing the distribution of stars and mass in various galaxy types.
222.
by xt00 6y ago
Definitely feels like a challenging philosophical question -- if you have a superintelligence how much more room is there above it in intelligence and what does that additional intelligence buy you?
223.
by xt00 6y ago
Currently humans are super intelligent compared to machine intelligence, so if the super intelligence can give rise to something more intelligent than it, could the super intelligence give rise to something more intelligent than it? The ans
224.
by xt00 6y ago
Likely here is the thinking process for carriers right now. 1. how do we make our service as good as possible so we can provide the most value to customer / (and make the most money) 2. when you get home your phone switches from 5G to
225.
by xt00 6y ago
For going from text to spirv cant you just use?: glslangValidator -V shader.vert -o shader.vert.spv glslangValidator -V shader.frag -o shader.frag.spv
226.
by xt00 6y ago
I think he's exaggerating here, but there are definitely examples where people especially in China have setup huge operations with the help of local officials who give them sweetheart deals on the electricity prices -- seems likely tha
227.
by xt00 6y ago
There have been countless examples of police organizations using surveillance in ways beyond their initial use -- so certain people like the mayor or judges might think "the police would be too dumb to try to use this against somebody
228.
by xt00 6y ago
ACLU just needs to file a briefing asking "could this data be used to track the movement of judges, or city officials around the city?"
229.
by xt00 6y ago
One of the basic principles of taxes if you want the populous to keep paying them rather than move out of state is to help the people feel that they actually get something for their taxes. Clean, safe public areas, people who commit crimes
230.
by xt00 6y ago
Played Lode Runner on commodore 64 -- had lots of fun -- was a simpler time..
231.
by xt00 6y ago
I wonder why the mac mini M1 seemed to sometimes underperform the macbook air M1 -- shouldn't the mac mini be outperforming the mac book air essentially across the board due to the better thermal envelope?
232.
by xt00 6y ago
They will still be paying Qualcomm for licenses but likely they will target higher levels of integration and low power usage. Basically if Apple gets into this area they will say what are the things that matter with cellular tech.. data rat
233.
by xt00 6y ago
The various angles in that image reminded me of the silicon cutting planes... I wonder if they were trying to message that..
234.
by xt00 6y ago
Moving the entire logic board from one phone to another is not the same thing as just replacing one of the cameras. They may do some cross camera calibration. So one camera is used to help the other camera. So if you replace the whole set a
235.
by xt00 6y ago
Thats a great video
236.
by xt00 6y ago
yea good point.. that would be a challenge for sure.. yea it would only take a couple of performance reviews before people got the message that they either need to move back to an on-site job situation or time to find another job.. so as a
237.
by xt00 6y ago
I would guess based upon my own experience and talking to others: 1) the first 3-5 months were hard to figure out a good rhythm and is super impacted by how busy your house is (do you have kids, live-in parents, special needs kids etc) 2) m
238.
by xt00 6y ago
Relevant snippet from article: “H1B applicants will need to be earning a salary equivalent to the 45th percentile of their profession's salary if they're an entry-level worker, rising to 95th percentile for higher-skilled workers.
239.
by xt00 6y ago
An important dynamic very little talked about is the fact that in the majority of industrialized countries within a very short time populations will be decreasing. The battle of the future will be who can bring in a continual stream of peop
240.
by xt00 6y ago
Yea that video is helpful and it looks like mechanical energy or thermal could be used to deform the graphene film to do some work on that film which them stores it. So it seems like what’s happening is that thermal energy is being used to

More ›