Melkman

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by Melkman 2mo ago
For intra-city trips the car is not a superior mode of transport in the Netherlands. Cars take longer, often can't get as close to your destination, and cost a lot more. And you can't even get a few drinks. The only advantage of a
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by Melkman 3mo ago
I vote for Slop Kiddies or Vibe Kiddies. And yes, I think most of them are unconsciously incompetent for the task they are trying to execute. I've seen LLM being compared to calculators and I agree. They are great time savers for peopl
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by Melkman 4mo ago
I worked with embedded systems in the 90's and we used pSOS. Today I learned that there are two operating systems named that way that are targeted at different problems. The pSOS we used was heavily targeted to hard realtime performanc
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by Melkman 4mo ago
They are not really comparable are they. One is a rail connection over land and the other is a 130ft deep tunnel for rail and road traffic.
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by Melkman 2y ago
More information on the software side of CERN storage can be had here: https://indico.mathrice.fr/event/143/contributions/174/attac...
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by Melkman 3y ago
American minks will solve this without need to enlarge the sewers....
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by Melkman 3y ago
I really like this picture that demonstrates this size difference: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ramonkok/27081197680
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by Melkman 3y ago
Socat doesn't support STARTTLS. If you want to debug SMTP submission "openssl s_client -starttls smtp -connect server:587" is awesome. Just take care not to use upper case "R" or "Q". Man, why did they imp
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by Melkman 3y ago
Size, speed, features. You can have a small FPGA for about 2$. You will however be limited in the complexity of the design you can implement because it has limited gates and pins. And limited speed. Like normal processors if you want faster
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by Melkman 3y ago
Philips isn't really dying a slow death. The company has been split into pieces. Some of which are very successful like ASML. Some are doing OK like NXP and Signify. Some are struggling like the leftover Philips that only does healthca
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by Melkman 4y ago
To be fair it is 100m vertical. Stand on a 25 story building and look down. That's not a small distance.
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by Melkman 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230220204315/https://ares.jsc....
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by Melkman 4y ago
Because IANA started delegating prefixes starting with 2. And haven't done enough delegations to go to 3. Prefixes starting with 0 of F are also in use for mapping IPv4 addresses to IPv6, link local and multicast adressing and other sp
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by Melkman 4y ago
For transport, yes light is more desirable. For computing, no. The fact that electrons interact with each other is the basis of computational circuits. The article is about how to get photons to do the same.
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by Melkman 4y ago
The reason you can not build a 0% tolerance resistor is the laws of physics. A very high precision resistor can certainly be build but it will never be perfect. Increasing precision has a cost to it. For normal resistors the shape and thick
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by Melkman 4y ago
To rephrase te question: why would somebody be annoyed with the fractional metric size of A-n sizes ?
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by Melkman 4y ago
Indeed, Almere is a sleeping city. Many inhabitants moved from Amsterdam to Almere since gentrification has made housing in Amsterdam almost unobtainable for people with a median income. Almere is comfortable enough and you can get by witho
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by Melkman 4y ago
It's 250k and a bit: the launcher is reusable.
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by Melkman 5y ago
Also what drinking water are they comparing to that gives 99% of the chlorine intake ? In dutch drinking water chlorine is not used at all, neither for primary disinfection nor to maintain a residual disinfectant in the distribution network
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by Melkman 5y ago
Being able to sideload is a double edged sword. Yes, it would be a barrier for Apple to go to far overboard on monetizing the ecosystem. It would also give companies like Microsoft a means of ONLY distributing their applications via their o
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by Melkman 5y ago
A blunt front isn't that bad for aerodynamics as long as it's rounded enough for the air stream not to separate. A lot more can be gained at the back of a truck. Like this: http://learntoflyblog.com/wp-content&#x2F
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by Melkman 5y ago
If you only use your PC one day a month then yes, you may have to wait sometimes for updates. If you use your PC a few hours every week, nope. If you only use your Quest 2 once a month you've demonstrated my point: there is a barrier t
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by Melkman 5y ago
Ehh, the content is the problem because there is a lack of bad content ? There's a heap of 3D content and growing. Like last years Marvell movies, James Bond, Dune. And movie theaters still show those in 3D. Which works because people
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by Melkman 5y ago
That doesn't explain why someone who has an Index doesn't use it. The setup and expense is just one time. The updates are all automatic via Steam. It's just a matter of putting on the headset and go. And yet, just like @wayou
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by Melkman 5y ago
As much as I like VR I have to agree it will stay a niche product. The need to wear something on your head is a major hurdle. Like 3D TV's that have mostly disappeared. Also when you are in a VR environment you want to interact with it
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by Melkman 5y ago
Take up a hobby ? Preferably one with a club in your neighborhood. Good way to meet people with at least one common interest. Or do volunteer work that's different from your paying job. You get to know different people and talk about d
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by Melkman 5y ago
I don't think it works like that. Constant attrition does not prevent your company from relying on individuals. You don't fire you good employees and they won't leave if it's a worthwhile job. With constant attrition you
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by Melkman 5y ago
Many brands are part of a holding. Like "Just Eat Takeaway.com" Which also owns Grubhub and SkipTheDishes in North America. Mostly active in Europe though.
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by Melkman 5y ago
Why would it be necessary to have an engineer on call 24/7 ? If you do your risk calculations and an outage of 12 hours is acceptable in the expected frequency you just let the engineer have a nice evening and night an deal with the ou
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by Melkman 5y ago
Not every location does the same thing though. ASML has bought other companies that were key suppliers to them. Like Berliner Glas Group in 2020 which is located in Berlin and is where the accident happened. No other location of ASML will b

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