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by ansible 2y ago
If you don't need components on the bottom side, it saves money to not do so. That means the board doesn't need to go through another pass on the SMT machine. Even if a board is double-sided, it is common to avoid putting major IC
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by ansible 2y ago
> `... they did invest in Uber, but also have many bad investments.` The one I really don't get is that they funded Adam Neumann's new company after the collapse of WeWork. How stupid do you have to be to give that guy any mor
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by ansible 2y ago
You can insert arguments into an SQL statement with the (?1) style syntax. See the example here: https://docs.rs/rusqlite/latest/rusqlite/
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by ansible 2y ago
Well, that would be an awkward DM to write. "Hello, you invited me to the website, but I don't actually know who you are." Modern problems...
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by ansible 2y ago
You can look on your user page, or search for your username on the user tree page.
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by ansible 2y ago
I requested an invite from a guy I have only known via Reddit, we've never met IRL.
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by ansible 2y ago
That is basically the idea behind https://lobste.rs/ . There's approximately zero spam or other bad behavior. You can look at the full user tree ( https://lobste.rs/users ) and see if there's anyone
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by ansible 2y ago
Why do you want to stick your opinion into something that you hadn't previously known about? What are you going to positively contribute to the discussion that will move things forward? How does that help?
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by ansible 2y ago
The high-voltage side should be separated from the electronics, so it shouldn't be dangerous if you are observant. It may be sufficient to just disconnect the antennas from the WiFi module, that will help prevent any network connection
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by ansible 2y ago
This is an interesting and fun project, I was glad to read about it. It was a bit of a bold move to base this on a Model I. That system had an unreliable expansion interface, limited memory options, and emitted a lot of EM interference.
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by ansible 2y ago
The museum has "Columbine III" (a slightly newer Super Constellation), which was also used by Eisenhower. It was delivered to them soon after it was retired in 1966. https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Mus
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by ansible 2y ago
Yes. The ARM Chromebooks suffer from long term support issues just like phones. Qualcomm and the other chip vendors will only support a given chip for a few years, and then that's it. For x86-64, the peripherals are mostly standard, w
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by ansible 2y ago
You can do this sort of thing easily with an old Chromebook as well. You can re-flash the BIOS from https://mrchromebox.tech , and then install a standard Linux distro on it. You can use an SD card or USB drive for additional sto
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by ansible 2y ago
There's a lot of quackery around these days, especially with regard to tech and finance. There's quite of bit of quackery just with nutritional supplements, too. And people and companies try to bypass the FDA all the time with fak
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by ansible 2y ago
> Syntax highlighting code visible on the screen That... does not work in most programming languages. Especially so for showing indent levels correctly. Generally speaking, the language server (or whatever) is parsing the entire file.
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by ansible 2y ago
> If I start parsing from an arbitrary offset in the code, ... Why would you ever do that? What's the point? There are many other examples, but in C and C++, if you don't start parsing at the beginning, you're definitel
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by ansible 2y ago
It doesn't really look like it can handle weather or ordinary dirt getting into the belt drive and rails. Automating the watering isn't hard with existing technology. if it can't remove weeds, I don't see what's the
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by ansible 2y ago
I also don't know why MOND remains so popular. Angela Collier talks about Dark Matter here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbmJkMhmrVI And talks more about how often MOND is brought up in comments on her own video: h
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by ansible 2y ago
At least one company I know of (though this was 15 years ago) had ridiculously high prices for their products. But they had extensive after-sales support, and the warranty was such that you could basically run over the unit with a car, and
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by ansible 2y ago
Huh, interesting. I've never used our Alexa for shopping. If I said something like "Alexa, buy more filters", even being very clever and looking at my order history, it would still get something wrong. And then I'd need
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by ansible 2y ago
> Having a corporate job is usually a 'mediocre success'. Eh, that is doing OK to me, which is better than some nebulous "mediocre success". If you are at least saving for retirement, and able to support a family, t
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by ansible 2y ago
So of course I have to ask... What version of NFS are you running, and are you disallowing the older versions? How are you handling user accounts? LDAP, Samba PDC (which is also LDAP), something else?
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by ansible 2y ago
Without knowing the specifics of that platform, it is likely that the BASIC interpreter was not fast enough to generate the desired effects and animations.
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by ansible 2y ago
Generally speaking, layout for modern DRAM (LPDDRx, etc.) is a giant pain. Trace width, differential trace length matching, spacing, number of vias, and more. And all this is needed even though the DRAM signaling standard has extensive meas
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by ansible 2y ago
> And on Whatsapp, I want to talk to people on Whatsapp directly, without a chatbot in the middle. They're doing this with Skype too. It annoys me. I have a list of business contacts, and that's all I use it for. My friends a
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by ansible 2y ago
Mustard did a video on this. Nebula (subscription required): https://nebula.tv/videos/mustard-escape-in-an-inflatable-air... Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ-4uWwQ5HA
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by ansible 2y ago
Didn't you guys have filesystem backups of a shared git repository? This is exactly what backups are for.
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by ansible 2y ago
I presume no one is building new motherboards for those processors either. While there is old stock laying around, you really need to run those systems close to as-is for them to be useful.
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by ansible 2y ago
It is playing on the psychology of the bidders. You want the bidders to be invested , to want to win the auction. To compete to win the prize. Also, consider this: if the reserve is too high, and no one bids on it, then everyone looking at
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by ansible 2y ago
Yes, the notion of an airship as aircraft carrier was really only viable for a short time when aircraft engine technology wasn't good enough for high-altitude flight. With the incorporation of superchargers and turbochargers in aircraf

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