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by Qub3d 7mo ago
For monitors at least, if you plug in to the wrong port you will get a GUI prompt advising you to use the other one [1]: > while the ports aren’t labeled, if you plug an external display into the “wrong” port, you’ll get an on-screen not
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by Qub3d 2y ago
Its a great compliment to The Big Short (2015). The Big Short gives you a nice explanation of what the heck is going on but mainly follows "outsider" points of view, while Margin Call gives a sense of the thoughts and concerns of
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by Qub3d 2y ago
The context is that Jeremy Irons' character knew exactly what was going on, he wanted the risk analyst to state it to everyone else in the room, and keep him on track and focused. Right before that meeting, there is a scene as the char
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by Qub3d 4y ago
In the featured article, it delves into this a bit: > Earlier, I said that 'Widevine-in-Chrome-on-Linux-on-aarch64' is not an officially supported platform. > I lied. > Chromebooks exist, many have aarch64 CPUs, they run
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by Qub3d 4y ago
My jaded opinion is that Musk may not really care about remote work, but it turns out return-to-office requirements are a useful way to get people to leave without having to fire or lay them off, and bypass stuff like the WARN act. > “Da
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by Qub3d 4y ago
I had to look it up too, pretty sure grandparent comment meant "if I understand correctly".
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by Qub3d 4y ago
Over 14 years of QE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#United_Sta... And Quantitative Easing is a "refinement" of the Greenspan Put in the late 1980s. So yeah, 30+ years at this point.
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by Qub3d 4y ago
My Dad told me a story from the dot-com bust: To save money at the time he drove a van for a carpool service (he could use it for free as a result). A lot of the guys on his van were in tech. When the first rounds of layoffs hit, guys would
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by Qub3d 4y ago
What does “EEE” mean in this context? End to end?
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by Qub3d 4y ago
The link is that Ad Tracking Transparency (ATT) happened relatively close to FB's numbers going south, and its a great scapegoat. https://daringfireball.net/2022/08/ft_effects_of_app_trackin... > What I th
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by Qub3d 4y ago
It's a good counterpoint to the equally throw away argument that "if you disagreed with x you should have shorted it". The problem with shorting is you can't just be right about the eventual direction... You have to be p
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by Qub3d 4y ago
FYI, the description of that addon says its unmaintained: "PLEASE READ THIS FIRST ! Invidition is now deprecated and is no longer maintained. Please, use Privacy Redirect by Simon Brazell instead." https://addons.mozill
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by Qub3d 4y ago
The interesting question to be answered now is if "web3" skills are an effective substitute good (in the pure economic sense) for employers looking for developers. I suspect a lot of pure web3 devs won't actually make a mor
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by Qub3d 4y ago
DuckDuckGo uses Apple Maps, which has quietly become a solid alternative the past few years. ( https://xkcd.com/2617/ )
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by Qub3d 4y ago
We've made machines so much faster that a lot of old software is unusable because its too fast. One of my favorite examples: Lego Island's driving mechanic is tied to frame rate, so on a modern machine tapping left or right will
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by Qub3d 4y ago
This is actually what lichess does - if it flags you as a cheater, you are silently paired against other cheaters. They have almost the entirety of the lichess system source code publicly available, but from what I can gather they have a pr
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by Qub3d 4y ago
I host my blog using GitHub pages and hugo. Its all still markdown, but it also allows people to go to my vanity url and see stuff formatted exactly as I want it to be.
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by Qub3d 4y ago
That is a fascinating thing to me - I have noticed that a lot of people arguing that the WMF is out of control and needs to cool it are editors . It really feels like there is a fundamental disconnect between project contributors and the t
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by Qub3d 4y ago
I use one on my full-duplex gigabit connection and it generally sits in the 800-900 Mbps range. This will vary depending on things like if you decide to enable smart queue management (SQM) or other features. There are some recommended tweak
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by Qub3d 4y ago
Interesting. Is there a US variant out there, too? (This one looks promising: https://github.com/jceloria/recruiter-spam/blob/master/list.... )
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by Qub3d 4y ago
Absolutely, and if I had an iPhone at the time I probably wouldn't have bought it. I only started bothering with discrete amps when I picked up headphones with a 600 ohm impedance.
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by Qub3d 4y ago
Objectivity and audiophile in the same sentence always makes me suspicious, especially when you are looking at the 100s to 1000s of extra dollars for 3-5% improvement on measurements (and good luck detecting that in an ABX test). I moved to
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by Qub3d 4y ago
Jason, the cofounder of Schiit Audio (its pronounced exactly as you think it is) regularly posts updates about the company to an audiophile forum, and his posts regarding the supply chain problems they've fought in the past 2 years are
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by Qub3d 4y ago
> What you experience in the very few tech hubs in USA is absolutely not what you'd experience literally everywhere else in the world. I'd push back against this. I have worked for a few tech companies in pretty small midwest t
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by Qub3d 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/743/
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by Qub3d 4y ago
Wow, I am really getting a lesson in how inaccurate our memory can be. Thanks for the info!
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by Qub3d 4y ago
Nice! I personally have been amazed at my own increase in energy and weight loss simply by using a sit/stand desk and getting a fitness tracker. The hourly reminders to move really do show the science is right on when it comes to how e
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by Qub3d 4y ago
My bad, I was working from memory. I probably did an s/Microsoft/Amazon/ in my head.
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by Qub3d 4y ago
Randall thought similarly: https://xkcd.com/1045/ I think there are places for both. However, reading up on a lot of business case studies, I noticed that a major tipping point for a company is often when they decide t
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by Qub3d 4y ago
This is all brushing up against the central theme of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", which approaches its core thesis by dissecting the process of teaching college students how to "write Quality".

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