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by arghwhat 20d ago
That is not what relative privation fallacy is. The topic at hand is repeated exposure to low radiation does, I gave examples or negligible to high dosages. Disagreement does not make something a fallacy. Twofold response: 1. It was not dir
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by arghwhat 20d ago
I see the good intent but I cannot agree on several points. First point is that even though radiation can cause cancer, radiation is part of life. If my basement has higher levels of radon, who should compensate me? What about the radiation
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by arghwhat 21d ago
Whether the disasters are worse depends on your metric. The deaths from Fukushima was, to my knowledge, only a few elderly individuals who had stress-induced heart failures. And that's a worst-case scenario with corruption, old designs
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by arghwhat 1mo ago
Yes, but terminal escape sequences are a very, very small surface. It's just a few opcodes like "wipe screen", "switch to buffer B", "move to X,Y". All process output regardless of whether it is a terminal
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by arghwhat 1mo ago
People understand that such "reverse hacking" can happen when their browser connects to any site (including all the indirect connections from dependent resources), right? Or when resolving any domain name? Or when even just ping
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by arghwhat 2mo ago
Large objects (≥ 32 KiB) does not use these categorized arenas, they instead allocate an integer number of 8KiB pages from a heap.
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by arghwhat 2mo ago
Also note that drivers are made far harder than screws, so it will take many screws turned rivets before a driver becomes said artisinal hole punch.
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by arghwhat 2mo ago
Excuse me? That derogatory tongue-in-cheek way of referring to that company is not "mealy mouthed nerdery", as everyone and their mother understands who I am referring to. The lawsuit mitigation communication I suspect you're
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by arghwhat 2mo ago
They describe it as a feature in their later 1942 patent (US2474994A), in the description of which they mention it to protect against powertools with poor torque control, claiming that a better screw would only be possible if power tools an
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by arghwhat 2mo ago
Am European, yeah but pozidriv was never used for tiny screws. We have also pretty much migrated all screw sizes to torx nowadays, so I only ever really see pozidriv on older appliances and hardware, while Philips mostly happen on imports.
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by arghwhat 2mo ago
You got the wrong standard. JIS B 1012 type H is Philips equivalent, but what people refer to as the JIS screw is JIS B 1012 type S . JIS B 1012 Type S ("JIS") and ISO 8764 (Philips) are entirely different screw and scredriver pr
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by arghwhat 2mo ago
As mentioned elsewhere, it's also important to remember that the batteries were fully serviceable - available for purchase, nicely compartmentized and with easy connectors. The products were definitely not designed to die with their
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by arghwhat 2mo ago
To be clear, all the mentioned Nintendo products are already designed for battery replacement, with well-contained battery units and easy connectors, and the batteries are available and problem-free to replace unlike for a certain fruit com
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by arghwhat 3mo ago
To my understanding (which can be wrong) these gas turbines are not backup generators, but used as primary or supplementary power sources during normal operation where the grid cannot supply (or when grid cost is unfavorable). In one clip (
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by arghwhat 3mo ago
Three ways: 1. Build your datacenter near supply. If there were consequences to ignoring the rules or being a bad neighbor with municipality, state or federal government baring their teeth, more optimal locations with regards to supply and
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by arghwhat 3mo ago
We should also keep in mind that the problem isn't datacenters, but how they are built. Datacenters do not have to be noisy. Datacenters do not have to cheap out on cooling solutions. Datacenters do not need to be powered by mobile gas
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by arghwhat 3mo ago
> Then maybe install the strobe lights in all important rooms What are important rooms? > Most people have there phone on silent/vibration anyway and recently everybody uses noise-canceling headphones outside to not be bothere
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by arghwhat 3mo ago
I have previously had to install simple things like doorbells for deaf people, which is done through a very strobe light that can be seen from almost the entire apartment... if you're not behind a closed door at least. The idea of it
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by arghwhat 3mo ago
A shrinking deaf community has nothing at all to do with ethnic cleansing, and social support does not shrink for less common diseases - it's usually the opposite, with support proportional to how rare and inconvenient the disability i
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by arghwhat 3mo ago
There is no path that turns "I would like to terminate my pregnancy if the outcome is unfavorable" into "I would like to commit genocide on everyone whose genetics I do not like". Granted, someone who already wishes for
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by arghwhat 3mo ago
A problem is that some see 2 as a subset of 1, upset at the idea that parents would wish to terminate pregnancies early that have strong indications of defects. I do imagine a good chunk of those people are of the horribly broken belief tha
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by arghwhat 3mo ago
Hmm, yes I was conflating a few things there. However, I'd hold that this is an extension of the USB 3 mess that predates USB-C, even if the x2 mode specifically was a USB-C addition. The important thing for people to know is that supp
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by arghwhat 3mo ago
Well, this is about USB 3.2 Gen 2x2, which is a mess created by USB IF for good old, blue USB A connectors. Not USB-C complexity. USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 is the very rarely supported 20Gb/s variant of USB 3, and making devices now that requi
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by arghwhat 3mo ago
That's not quite true, as every SoC requries quite significant software bringup for an OS that makes other software engineering tasks seem miniscule in comparison - macOS and iOS just share enough common code that it's not as big
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by arghwhat 3mo ago
No, rather that they focused on peak performance, i.e., "churn out the most raw throughput at 400W+", rather than "get as close as possible to 0W when idle or in common uses". Very different metrics - the former is about
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by arghwhat 3mo ago
TL;DR: Low power draw for laptops and phones is about who can reduce to the lowest performance, with the most hardware turned completely off while still just barely performing the task at hand. Completely different ballgame. Peak performa
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by arghwhat 3mo ago
No, the cursor just uses an overlay plane, and mobile architectures usually have far more planes (sometimes even an arbitrarily configurable amount), and more flexible hardware compositioning overall than desktop GPUs for efficiency reasons
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by arghwhat 3mo ago
The display controller and render device are completely distinct logical devices, even though they are often grouped in a "GPU". On mobile architectures they are quite far separated, leading to annoying problems surrounding what w
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by arghwhat 3mo ago
Grid voltage had no real impact, but the field rate of early monochrome broadcasts were locked to mains frequency, hence regional differences in frame rate. NTSC was gamma 2.2, and PAL/SECAM was gamma 2.8, which was indeed initially pa
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by arghwhat 3mo ago
Just a nit: Post-CRTs, there is no longer a "standard gamma curve", but many different transfer functions and many errors stem from misunderstanding this. Even within "SDR"/"sRGB", many mistakes crop up fr

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