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by afwaller 6y ago
I know nobody reads the articles but what about reading the title?
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by afwaller 6y ago
Looks like they’re killing off the beats brand…
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by afwaller 6y ago
Yeah redstone in Minecraft is pretty good. Very visual. Few people have made entire CPUs https://youtu.be/ydd6l3iYOZE It is still just connecting blocks though as pierrec says below so it can take a lot of connections to ge
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by afwaller 6y ago
They said ISO, so that’s one file.
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by afwaller 6y ago
Anything the cache doesn’t have, causes a cache miss, which passes it through. So when you request the large file, the CDN (cache) doesn’t have it, so it immediately passes through to the original source. The details of how this is implemen
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by afwaller 6y ago
Apple is in FAANG. For some reason (likely related to 2015-17 era SWE compensation) FANG just includes Netflix (with amazon facebook and google) and not Apple.
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by afwaller 6y ago
This is useful to increase plays by reducing “ladder anxiety”
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by afwaller 6y ago
Texas Instruments still sells graphing calculators with 68k processors (TI-89 series, most commonly)
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by afwaller 6y ago
The hacks were not the problem. They engaged in financial shenanigans because they had a bankrupt management culture. Their decline and fall were the direct result of their human problems. And, briefly, their human problems stemmed from the
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by afwaller 6y ago
Completely insane behavior. How do you wake up one day at a corporate environment and think any of this is OK?
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by afwaller 6y ago
Wow imagine if you could exploit mail rates between various countries with some kind of international mail pricing arbitrage ~~ Charles Ponzi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ponzi
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by afwaller 6y ago
They did not try to lower the gear on their first landing. It would have lowered. They raised the gear. It was in the commanded gear up (stowed position) when they landed and the indicator would have shown it was up.
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by afwaller 6y ago
And it was even easier before VPC, just public instances with RDP (obviously a big security issue, but a decade ago not uncommon)
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by afwaller 6y ago
No AVX is fairly brutal
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by afwaller 6y ago
Bitcoin is a pretty reasonable story for how this occurs - first you start on CPU, then GPU, then custom ASICs. If the financial motivation is there, companies will build custom hardware. Companies like Apple and Google (TPUs) are building
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by afwaller 6y ago
Sometimes losing that information is very useful however, to arrive at a representation that has a specific meaning. For example, an x-ray computed tomography (CT) image volume in 3D may be projected into various 2D synthetic planar x-ray p
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by afwaller 6y ago
There’s already BLAS and JVM for ARM.
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by afwaller 6y ago
Yes. This is the reason cloud is popular. You don’t have to pay for computer janitors.
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by afwaller 6y ago
Yes, it’s a common “gardening leave” strategy.
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by afwaller 6y ago
Apple’s announcing their desktop ARM strategy next week. Given how many iOS and Mac devices (many Macs have an ARM processor for things like the touchbar) Apple ships, they’re already one of the larger custom high-end ARM licensees. It will
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by afwaller 6y ago
You only make insurance cheaper by charging risky people more. Right now it is mostly laws that protect categories of people that keep insurance companies from charging people more. What’s the plan here, use machine learning in a “hands off
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by afwaller 6y ago
We had to deal with the sectigo / addtrust expiration. It was annoying because we reached out to our cert vendor and they had claimed it would not affect us (only affecting “legacy” systems or old browsers), but then of course it did a
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by afwaller 6y ago
Instead of blurring you should add a significant amount of extraneous information (random noise) and then mosaic (downsample). If you’d like to have a smooth looking censored image you can then blur the mosaic result to have a smooth transi
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by afwaller 6y ago
Japan is a first world country.
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by afwaller 6y ago
FWIW, Innolitics has a better data dictionary (information object definitions) for DICOM than the official standards website. https://dicom.innolitics.com/ciods DICOM has its issues, but it’s much better than HL7.
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by afwaller 6y ago
Hey, thanks for all your work.
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by afwaller 6y ago
Zoom probably benefits heavily from access to the lobbyists and lawyers which form oracle’s core product offering.
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by afwaller 7y ago
The content is super wholesome as well.
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by afwaller 7y ago
I, personally, have picked up sand, shells, even seaweed from the ocean, and lifted it out of the water and looked at it with my eyes. I have released this technique to the world, patent free.
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by afwaller 8y ago
This "off by one" issue, combined with the problem of words related to latin "mille" for thousand in many languages, is why in money people often use K for units of "1,000", MM for units of "1,000,000&quot

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