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by dabiged 3mo ago
Don't forget snap, crackle and pop, and quantum teleportation. Physicists get a failing grade for naming things.
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Making RAM at Home [video](youtube.com)
2 points by dabiged 5mo ago|0 comments
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by dabiged 6mo ago
My goal this year is to finish his 40ish hour course. Excellent quality course at a good pace.
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by dabiged 6mo ago
Australia reporting in. We have private emergency rooms. We call them urgent care and you can go and see a qualified physician with allied health services (radiology, pathology). If they can fix you up they will. If not you get transferred
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by dabiged 9mo ago
I took read it this year and invested about 8 weeks getting through it. I found the story disjointed, repetitive and very hard to follow. It was only after finishing it I discovered I had read the abridged version that cuts out a number of
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by dabiged 10mo ago
I made the same mistake and blew $60k. I have never understood why the S3 endpoint isn't deployed by default, except to catch people making this exact mistake.
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by dabiged 10mo ago
Why not use a faster hashing algorithm like xxhash? This code is using sha256 which, whilst cryptography secure, is a massive burden for computation.
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Space junk falls on Western Australian minesite(abc.net.au)
58 points by dabiged 11mo ago|14 comments
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by dabiged 1y ago
As someone who does tape recovery on very very old tape I largely concur with this with a couple of caveats. 1. Do not encrypt your tapes if you want the data back in 30/50 years. We have had so many companies lose encryption keys and
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Japan opens osmotic power plant(japantoday.com)
18 points by dabiged 1y ago|1 comments
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by dabiged 1y ago
I suspect they do a radon transform of the paths to determine the infrared transmissibility value. Similar to how CT scans are constructed from 1000's of micro x-rays.
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by dabiged 1y ago
Not from North America. But I disagree that the exceptionalism started post WWII. How do you explain the country's ability to perform civil engineering feats prior to WWII. The Erie Canal, Trans-continental Railway, Panama Canal, Brook
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by dabiged 1y ago
Liquid hydrogen can also cause hydrogen embrittlement. Not ideal in a high performance machine.
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by dabiged 1y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43457666
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by dabiged 2y ago
Last year my company read in excess of 20,000 tapes from just about every manufacturer and software vendor. For modern, LTO/3592/T10000 era tapes the failure rate we see is around 0.3%. Most of these failures are due to: cartridge
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by dabiged 2y ago
Curious to hear more details about your previous job? What were you doing to require 100k tapes?
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by dabiged 2y ago
> breaking the forever chemicals down into harmless, inorganic fluorine. It's sentences like this that make me question if the author has even a basic grasp of chemistry.
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by dabiged 2y ago
There was a large company in my city that had around 30 floors of staff and a dedicated full time contractor managing the expensive coffee machines on each floor (running dishwashers, restocking beans/milk, cleaning/servicing the
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by dabiged 2y ago
> Radio communication within caves is problematic because rock is a conductor and therefore absorbs radio waves. It's funny, I would have bet my house that rock is an insulator.
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by dabiged 2y ago
Thanks for taking the time to write this. I was under the incorrect impression the power consumption would related to the rendering of the image (ala CPU/GPU work). Having it related to brightness makes much more sense.
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by dabiged 2y ago
> RTINGS measured the Samsung QN800A as consuming 139W typical, with a peak of 429W. Can you explain why does a TV's power fluctuate so much? What does peak load look like for a TV? Does watching NFL draw more power than playing Fac
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by dabiged 2y ago
I have to respectfully disagree here. You place far too much stead in "individuals freely interacting" and none in "micromanaging bosses constantly hassling you at ridiculous hours for pissant assignments that can wait until
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by dabiged 2y ago
Clearly this pdf is a couple of years old. It is missing Turkey -> Türkiye (2022)
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by dabiged 2y ago
Year of the Linux desktop at last!
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by dabiged 2y ago
> We baselessly claim a log-normal makes sense... I personally loved the semi cropped ChatGPT screen shot in figure 8 that has "Can you write me a paper on the game theory of names".
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by dabiged 2y ago
The best bit: They recursively reference the paper to provide proof that too many parents choose the same common names: > For instance, a parent might anticipate the name “Kate” would be a pleasantly traditional yet unique name with only
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by dabiged 2y ago
They don't exist in the bucket name space, but they sure as hell exist in the bucket bill!
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by dabiged 3y ago
> he was administered 28 vials of antivenom intravenously at a cost of $3,400 per vial. As someone who lives in Australia, who grew up with aggressive and deadly snakes, what the actual hell? Nobody is out of pocket in Australia followin
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by dabiged 3y ago
QANTAS has, for the last 10+, had a CEO who was not part of this culture and did everything he could to drive costs down. He laid off huge swaths of engineers, outsourced key maintenance contracts to the lowest bidder and left the airline w
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by dabiged 3y ago
The rumor is that Russia sold Iran information on the Gaza wall protection technology in exchange for the Iranian made drones they are using in Ukraine. This is a rumor I heard, I don't endorse it.

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