Beermotor

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by Beermotor 1y ago
I became more proficient in one language than any other. Therefore this language is the best language ever and will take over the universe.
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by Beermotor 2y ago
Coincidentally Google Chrome is no longer available on a single computing device I own.
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by Beermotor 2y ago
Adding: the server and client had to both be running vis patched maps to be able to see other players in the water due to the way entity visibility was calculated server-side. The downside to running vis patched maps on a server is it used
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by Beermotor 2y ago
I can see how it might be useful if the AI is only used for research and pointing out existing case law etc. Otherwise it just sounds like another pointless and BS use-case from another rando AI company to keep the money taps flowing.
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by Beermotor 2y ago
Y'all is a feature of general Southern vernacular and has nothing to do with Texas other than most of the settlers of Tejas were from the South.
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by Beermotor 3y ago
IIRC it was initially employed for their payroll system to help print checks.
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by Beermotor 3y ago
I'm going from 30+ year old memories as an intern, but from what I remember: Usually the RS232 was just on the terminal side. Somewhere along the path it got converted to twisted pair. All the twisted pair serial lines congregated in t
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by Beermotor 3y ago
NASA's IT used to be split into the field centers and a central core IT organization. The field centers managed their own stuff, but anything agency-wide was handled by the core IT organization. Central IT also usually won out when the
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by Beermotor 3y ago
RedHat also backports fixes, security patches, and (occasionally) features to existing RPMs without incrementing the minor version. For example fuzzywhatsit-3.0 in RHEL could be functionally equivalent to 3.5 in another distro.
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by Beermotor 4y ago
There's a much larger than zero possibility something (network gear) North of this thing is black-holing ICMP echo and/or your ISP is dropping the responses.
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by Beermotor 4y ago
Yeah I'm going to call this a hard pass until I see third-party benchmarks, power draw numbers, and what AMD has with RDNA3. This is starting to look like a repeat of Geforce FX vs Radeon 9700 Pro all over again.
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by Beermotor 5y ago
It has been multi-threaded since at least the early 2000s and most of the work for handling scaling beyond 32 cores was completed in 2012. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1516/ConcDisSys/2015-Concu...
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by Beermotor 5y ago
If I recall correctly 3D Pipes shipped with NT 3.51 as IIRC 3.5 only shipped with software OpenGL with no support for hardware acceleration. I remember running it on a DEC Alpha box with an AccelGraphics AG500 and being awed by it.
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by Beermotor 7y ago
I've heard it phrased as "a rich man doesn't have to tell you he's rich".
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by Beermotor 7y ago
Google started offering service in Huntsville in 2018 and from what I understand it is a solid gigabit symmetrical. Huntsville just happened to have dark fiber (courtesy of the late KMC) to a good portion of the city and that helped speed t
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by Beermotor 9y ago
Ok so that answers the age question: a study found fluid intelligence starts to decline the 60s and 70s. I think OP's article is talking about people between the ages of 35 and 60 not being able to see ads. What is more likely is that
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by Beermotor 9y ago
Care to cite a source for that, and more specifically what age this begins? Also what level of impairment are we talking about here? You make it sound like everyone over a certain age is a doddering old coot. :)