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www.youtube.com 6mo ago

Hug of Death – Giraffes? Giraffes (2018)

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www.youtube.com 7mo ago

Minecraft, but It's a Wayland Compositor

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www.bahjeez.com 1y ago

On the capacity, performance, and reliability of microSD cards

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w6aer.com 4y ago

Building a 10MHz GPSDO Using the Trimble Thunderbolt

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twitter.com 4y ago

Qplasma vs. Qtotal of MCF Devices

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www.whitehouse.gov 4y ago

White House: Developing a Bold Decadal Vision for Commercial Fusion Energy

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there.oughta.be 4y ago

There oughta be GTA5 for the Game Boy

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www.theverge.com 4y ago

Analogue Pocket Review

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cfs.energy 4y ago

CFS Raises $1.8B in Funding to Commercialize Fusion Energy

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

In defense of “Q-plasma” – a response to Sabine Hossenfelder

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medium.com 5y ago

True randomness from your Apple device with thermal entropy (2017)

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immerhax.com 5y ago

Creating a BKM-129X compatible board

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tools.ietf.org 5y ago

IETF RFC 8375 – Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.' (2018)

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www.anandtech.com 5y ago

Xbox Series X SoC: Power, Thermal, and Yield Tradeoffs

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www.nbcnews.com 5y ago

Investor sues video game studio over buggy 'Cyberpunk 2077'

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news.utexas.edu 5y ago

Unmet Job Expectations Linked to a Rise in Suicide, Deaths of Despair

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www.npr.org 5y ago

Metallic Monolith in Utah Vanishes Just as Mysteriously as It Appeared

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www.anandtech.com 6y ago

The Intel Comet Lake Core i9-10900K, i7-10700K, i5-10500K CPU Review

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help.realvnc.com 6y ago

VNC Viewer for iOS 3.9.0 – An Apology

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youtu.be 6y ago

Rubidium frequency standard Extreme Teardown

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youtu.be 6y ago

Sega MegaDrive Synthesizer

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www.eetimes.com 6y ago

Dual Cameras for Image Fusion (2017)

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www-pub.iaea.org 6y ago

Fusion Physics (2012) [pdf]

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medium.com 6y ago

Generating entropy from a phone camera (2017)

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ECC and DDR5 2 days ago

I am disputing that cosmic ray showers are the obvious dominant source of terrestrial DRAM bit flips.

ECC and DDR5 2 days ago

That's a much weaker statement than "the primary source of uncorrelated bit flips is cosmic radiation".

ECC and DDR5 2 days ago

The ECC on the GTX 1080 let me figure out the optimal overclock with the only feedback mechanism being benchmarked throughout.

ECC and DDR5 2 days ago

The primary source of uncorrelated bit-flips is, effectively, cosmic radiation.

This gets said a lot but with little evidence. The mario speedrun bit flip has been replicated with marginal connector insertion.

https://youtu.be/vj8DzA9y8ls

We could probably get the same results by offloading 20% of obviously smaller / simpler / well defined tasks to smaller models and keep the 80% for ones that benefit from the big iron. Not the 80/20 they were referring to, but still it's something.

I find myself wasting time on smaller models or wasting money on frontier models. I only have so much of either.

Docker compose + systemd, automated backups (bonus points for coordinating with restic/borg + rsync cronjob), and ram disks. Ram disks in particular are a game changer for game feel. For the backups you'll need to leverage a feature that exports the world. This used to need to be a mod, but it's possible it's been folded into vanilla.

Flatten would mean there is a profitable business model. It's been years since people have been too tired of repeatedly asking "where will the profit come from?" with no answer. This shit has exactly one direction it will end and it's not flat or up.

OSHPark is bare board fab only but JLC does turnkey. I've enjoyed working with CircuitHub for turnkey prototypes. I'm not in love with the web interface (source files must be uploaded so if you have silkscreen that has dynamic parameters you need to make a ticket and the BOM parser misses stuff very often so every project needs an audit).

USAA doesn't operate its own mortgages anymore. They sell them day one which usually results in another sale or company acquisition within a year. The cure? Take your business elsewhere. FCUs don't have this same reputation and generally open with less predatory rates.

USAA had a great run of building trust and is speedrunning torching it.

Valve is a similar size to id tech. They have two tricks: be in a business other than games and be privately owned. The former gives them the ability to weather storms and the latter keeps the dagger away. This would not have happened if id were privately owned.

Notably MS is in a business other than games, so another way to frame this is "MS is losing and Valve is winning".

I can tell you that the fact that id tech 6 engine games look as good as they do and pump out 200+ fps is pretty novel in a way that the massive epic games and their flagship UE5 (and no painstakingly optimized case studies one may conjure) come close to matching even a decade on. The reward for lapping the entire industry? Early retirement.

What they're really asking the authors is "can you not lie about performance cost and do proper accounting?". You can spin any story if you cherry pick your framing sufficiently. Stopping right at the silicon packaging boundary is as meaningless as it seems.

The article is highly qualified but the headline is not. If they are not making general statements then they shouldn't open with them.

I think it goes further than that. Since IPO a huge number of subreddits have been shut down and the disappearance of many moderators. I don't have any way of proving what happened, but it seems awfully coincidental and the result of some private policy change. Reddit has a huge thumb on the scale on their own platform and it is not healthy.

Discourse has been really nice for about a decade. I'd go as far to say that the remaining challenges are not technical.

Back in your day education was not sold as a financial transaction to a prosperous life. The honor system is idyllic and requires idyllic circumstances: people who pursue education for no reason other than curiosity or self improvement. If you want the honor system back then you need to offer more stable safety nets. It's not "kids these days", it's the natural result of the systems adults have made.

I have a very similar setup. On Ubuntu (wayland only) I had to build sunshine for support. There is also always the bootstrapping issue for logging in when locked. Yes, I can physically log in, but I'd like something a little easier. Remote desktop is actually quite a bit of a headache and locked down in annoying ways by gnome.

With blackjack and hookers.

In all seriousness, the payoff of a real competitor not in the cartel entering at some time in the next five years would be huge. They would have business through the busts because people would go to them first. The challenge will be fighting corruption every step along the way. They would have to keep a sharp legal team on staff for all the litigating necessary to defend against anti-competitive practices and even then would only succeed in a legal and political environment accepting of anti-corruption enforcement.