foobard

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by foobard 7y ago
> In a media briefing ahead of today’s announcement at Oak Ridge, the partners revealed that Frontier will span more than 100 Shasta supercomputer cabinets, each supporting 300 kilowatts of computing. So 30 megawatts of computing, plus c
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by foobard 9y ago
"States' rights" is a racist dog whistle. Nothing more.
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by foobard 9y ago
Lets Encrypt is adding wildcard support in 2018 https://letsencrypt.org/2017/07/06/wildcard-certificates-com...
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by foobard 9y ago
(Some?) modern cars expose a CAN bus via the OBD port. There typically are pins that adhere to the OBD2 spec as well as additional pins for the CAN bus. On my car (Mk6 VW) there are multiple CAN buses which are separated by a gateway devic
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by foobard 10y ago
Because it's "Muslim majority countries in which Trump doesn't have business ties" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/opinion/who-hasnt-trump-b...
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by foobard 11y ago
When I was younger, I loved physics because it bridged the gap between pure maths ("when are we ever going to need this stuff?") and the physical world. I didn't pursue it beyond high school Now, as a full-time software engi
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by foobard 12y ago
I recently phone banked for my party for the first time and found that the voter rolls the party was working from had age, gender, race, and how many out of the previous 3 elections the voter had actually shown up to the polls. It is no won
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by foobard 13y ago
I seem to recall reading they made money on each Prime customer and a quick search turns up several articles[0] confirming as much. [0] http://business.time.com/2013/03/18/amazon-prime-bigger-more...
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by foobard 15y ago
I can identify. I don't watch that much TV, but my SO does, and the hard drive on our DVR is so small that if I queue something it can delete something of hers. I have a Playstation 3 which I used for Netflix, and went through the same has
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by foobard 15y ago
With equipment prices dropping, and tax incentives to subsidize capital investments, these trends seem likely to continue. Sounds like skewed incentives.