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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
I've seen a few instances of an arrow pointing down into a box/tray. I'm not sure how I feel about it. It seems appropriate, but the only caveat is that a lot of applications already represent 'download' with a simi
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
MIPS was a genuine attempt at creating a new commercially viable architecture. Some of the design goals of MIPS made it conducive towards teaching, namely its relative simplicity and lack of legacy cruft. It was never intended to be an acad
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
We've made an inconsistent and confusing system even more inconsistent and confusing. How apropos!
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
Save your sanity, don't bother learning the conversion factors. Did you know that most of us don't even know how to convert between our own units? I invite you to go around and ask 'how many pints are in a gallon?'. It t
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
As an American, I finally relented and purchased a Metric measuring tape after the ordeal of trying to measure the dimensions of the rooms in my house. When it comes to interior decorating, trying to figure out how to evenly space items tha
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
Perhaps, but I think it would be incorrect to say that I didn't understand what the class was trying to teach me. I may be an obstinate person, but I wouldn't attribute a lack of zeal for a particular subject as an overall lack of
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
I agree, and the most enjoyable semester of English was one where the professor took this approach. The only downside was that the books to select from were limited and there were no non-fiction options to choose from. However my teacher di
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
My take on the average American high school English curriculum is this: Your teacher approaches the class and says, "I love this book, it is one of the greatest works of literature ever produced and you are going to love it as well.
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
Higher up the Venusian atmosphere is surprisingly earth-like. Interestingly though, once a probe gets deep enough into the atmosphere a parachute becomes unnecessary because the atmosphere has gotten so thick that a probe can simply soft-la
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
It would be a tragic shame for life to inhabit such a vast universe only for faster than light travel to be impossible.
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by BitwiseFool 1y ago
Did the Latin students have a rivalry with the goth kids and the vandals?
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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
Be sure to sell chips and biscuits - but always refer to the biscuits as wafers. Then describe adding toppings to them as wafer-scale integration.
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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
I guess it's time to start a company called mVidia.
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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
AMD's competitor to CUDA is ROCm. Historically, AMD has been hobbled by the quality of their drivers and because they sold less performant hardware. AMD has traditionally been the budget option for both CPUs and GPUs. Things have chang
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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
What are the odds that it gets renamed to Microsoft One?
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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
I also copied over the 'old' windows photo viewer. The delay in loading simple screenshots was such an annoyance that I couldn't stand it. Folks on forums suggested turning off any analysis plugins, such as those meant to ide
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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
>more bloated. I cannot believe how slow and laggy even the most basic of Microsoft applications are on Windows 11. Launching something as simple as the calculator takes a second or two to load in. What could it possibly be doing to warr
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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
This process is known as Sortition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
I hadn't considered y'all the English equivalent of vosotros, but this makes perfect sense.
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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
>"You put in text, you get out an image, no more need for discernment or skill or labor." This sentiment is reminiscent to the attitudes around photography when it first became practical. People wondered how photography could b
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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
>"What’s Your Favorite Invasive Species?" Homo sapiens! Their only natural enemy is themselves.
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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
Describing those who have lost trust in journalists as "postliterate" is not going to engender any reconciliation between the two. I for one, roll my eyes whenever journalists elevate themselves as the keepers of truth and democra
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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
>"People just need to stop eating garbage food, and too much of it." Easier said than done. However for the vast majority of the people taking these drugs, these drugs enable them to finally do that.
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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
My absolute favorite example of this is the suppression of "podcast" in favor of the far more romantic "audio à la demande".
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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
I jokingly suggest that, by definition, the only person who uses English properly and speaks without an accent is the King.
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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
If I had multi-millionaire or billionaire money I'd put a satellite in low earth orbit with high definition cameras just to livestream the view in VR.
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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
I'd be surprised if this hadn't happened at some point. Rocks from Mars found their way over to Antarctica. However something to consider is that whatever biological material that ends up landing elsewhere probably wouldn't b
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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
Maybe the main melt probe could leave behind little RTG powered relays as it descends. They'd get frozen in place as the main probe continues melting its way down.
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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
I'm more surprised they didn't call it Microsoft One.
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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
I would very much like to see an even faster "turbo" option because even though the current max speed of 1,000 tickets a second really drives home the point of how long it would take to actually win, I still want to see the simula

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