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by zelos 3y ago
I think some unis require students to start as an MPhil student and then transfer from MPhil to PhD via some kind of publication/presentation?
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by zelos 3y ago
There seems to be some suggestion that the sweetness triggers digestive system changes that could be harmful: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3772345/ It’s very vague though
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by zelos 3y ago
For short lived objects, heap allocation is probably about as fast as allocating on the stack. By pooling you can end up moving objects out of the fast eden space into older generations. I worked on optimising a java library a few years b
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by zelos 3y ago
I rewatched it the other day and it is a great ending. My first thought was that they could have cut to black when Truman walks through the door, but actually having the last line as "what else is on?" is perfect IMHO.
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by zelos 3y ago
There is a mix of newer and older OLED and LED TVs in there, and that is 6 months, 20 hours a day of watching CNN. That said, it doesn't look quite as good as the last time I checked on the results. The new QD-OLEDs seem to do worse th
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by zelos 3y ago
I think all Neo-QLED TVs are mini-LED - something like 1000 dimming zones?
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by zelos 3y ago
Rtings are doing a major test which seems to indicate it's not a major issue for the majority of modern OLEDS: https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/longevity-burn-in-test-updat...
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by zelos 3y ago
Love the jobs asking for 6 years experience. I can just hear the HR team saying "See, we go one higher".
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by zelos 3y ago
See also Zero Punctuation’s name for it: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Jiminy%20coc...
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by zelos 3y ago
I boulder every week with my 74 year old dad, which I'm really grateful for. I get the feeling we've got another year or so until he has to stop.
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by zelos 3y ago
I found this a great introduction to 'proper' mathematics. It gave me enough context to be able to read more mathematics without feeling so lost. It also showed me just how bad the mathematics part of my (non-computing) engineerin
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by zelos 3y ago
There are theoretical maximum efficiencies for thermodynamic cycles in combustion engines. I believe the limit in the diesel cycle is around 40%. Petrol engines are lower still.
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by zelos 4y ago
I love these HN Wikipedia links and the rabbit hole of open tabs they always send me down. TIL that rod cells in the eye stop sending a signal in response to light.
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by zelos 4y ago
I believe manufacturers are starting to switch to automotive Ethernet.
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by zelos 4y ago
Exactly. No amount of free food or office social events will make a cramped, open plan office pleasant to work in.
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by zelos 4y ago
PCWs were pretty decent word processing machines in their time, IMHO. We had an 8256 and a 9512 when I was a kid and they were surprisingly nice to use. I still remember the clatter of the daisywheel printer fondly.
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by zelos 4y ago
Yes, I ended up with a Coupe instead of an Amiga as my parents knew nothing about computers and figured it would be a good follow on from my +2. It was a clever machine in some ways, but from the launch it was clearly doomed.
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by zelos 4y ago
Wow, I didn't think there were enough people who'd even heard of the Sam Coupe.
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by zelos 4y ago
I don't use it much, but VSCode's vim plugin seems pretty good these days. I know everyone has a different subset of vim commands they consider essential, but everything I use regularly seems to work: change list, '/&#x2
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by zelos 4y ago
That does depend on how the abstraction is defined, of course. I once worked on optimising a 2D Canvas C++ class which had a nice top level virtual interface so you could replace it with a different implementation. It was also crazily slow
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by zelos 4y ago
Overwatch 2 (for me, at least) seems to be achieving a 50% win rate by alternating between matches where my team wins with no effort and matches where my team can't even get out the spawn room.
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by zelos 4y ago
Try playing TF2. The cheaters aren't exactly subtle - instantly snapping from looking vertically upwards to headshot the instant you walk round a corner.
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by zelos 4y ago
The purpose of the air force is to stop the war becoming 12 months of intense ground fighting, isn't it? What would the early days of the war in Ukraine have looked like if Russia had access to a USAF-level strike capability?
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by zelos 4y ago
Surely there's a startup somewhere working on ceiling mounted AI targeted infrared radiant heaters? It could work like those pixel LED headlights on cars to accommodate different body shapes.
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by zelos 4y ago
You can solve the integer case via branch and bound: solving the relaxed linear problem and then in a tree search constraining integer variables to be 0/1. Potentially they're doing something equivalent to that?
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by zelos 4y ago
He’s a journalist though - his job is to talk to people and ask questions. Surely that’s got to be much easier if you can do it in their native language?
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by zelos 4y ago
> ...with some notifications happening today. I guess there are complexities with huge multinational companies, but that seems kind of designed to make people like your team worry.
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by zelos 4y ago
> everything is named something like Sony XP-3000-ZXS Pro that is exactly like the XP-300ZXS Pro+ except… This drives me crazy. I don’t get how companies get this so wrong. I just spent hours looking for a tumble dryer and they’re all l
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by zelos 4y ago
It seems like there's a massive cognitive dissonance in the UK. Everyone 'loves' the NHS, says nurses are underpaid and decries any attempt to privatise provision. But everyone also has endless complaints about it. Useless do
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by zelos 4y ago
Cash comes with its own costs of course: from a quick google a shop paying cash into a business account pays 0.5-1% in fees. Plus issues with theft etc.

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