iClaudiusX

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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
I only use Amazon to browse selections, and then buy direct from the brand's site. Buying only from Amazon made sense in the bad old days when most sites didn't have their act together with payment processing and shipping. Thankfu
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
It used to be that a release was tried and tested. Now everyone's an unpaid QA tester months after the official beta period is over. And the folk wisdom of "wait until x.1" keeps getting pushed further and further back to the
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
That's interesting because otherwise tedious chores like washing dishes or cleaning can feel meditative and therapeutic after I've had my coffee.
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
I came to a similar crossroads when I realized I did not want to switch from windows7 to 10 once security patches end in 2020. I've been using Kubuntu 18.10 since January and have found it so much easier to get things done. I don'
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
The opt-out for rerouting is a truly awful design choice. One time I was driving up through NYC during a heavy downpour where visibility was only a few car-lengths ahead. Traffic had slowed to about 30 mph on the NJTP and most people thankf
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
The increasing sprawl of non-search widgets invading the search result page reminds me of the AOL years where "the web" was funneled through a narrow portal controlled by one entity. Having to scroll down past ads, unrelated news,
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
Fully informed consent should be a bare minimum for this kind of work. Tech should take a cue from the biomedical research community and adopt an institutional review board that can independently assess the ethical and privacy implications
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
The "hole" is a part of the ventricular system that produces cerebro-spinal fluid that circulates within the brain and spinal cord. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular_system
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
Most of it is useless (I also prefer minimalist hardware). However the new x570 chipset for AMD motherboards requires active cooling as the TDP has increased from 5-7W to 11W in order to support PCIe 4. https://www.anandtech.com&
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
The root problem is the culture at Boeing and the FAA has shifted from safety first to profit first. The investigative reporting from The Seattle Times[0] indicates that safety engineers were pressured to avoid delays to rush out a competit
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
I'm most excited about the modern A72 cores, upgraded hardware decode, and up to 4 GB RAM. They really listened and delivered what most people wanted in a next gen RPi.
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
Technically, the Zune bug didn't kill the device. The bug sent it into an infinite boot loop until the following day when the leap year calculation could return. But yes, the difficulty in verifying a correct implementation of date and
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
I would trace it to a few factors; most important is the rise of the influencer advertising strategy. It is vastly cheaper to simply pay streamers to hype up your game on Twitch or youtube than it is to give an honest, sober demo live on an
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
Indeed, design choices accounted for the biggest difference by far. I like that the title frames it as a language shootout to pull people in to see if their favorite language wins (and I'm partial to Python having rewritten tens of tho
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
Even a brand new, unlocked, $1000 Samsung Galaxy S10 comes riddled with adware and spyware, some of it unremovable: "There are apps from Flipboard and Spotify as well as a unremovable version of Facebook. McAfee Anti-virus is baked int
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
The use of such a vague and overloaded term as "anomaly" is deceptive. The purpose of communication is to inform the audience, and rather than clarify what happened, this statement obscures the truth to the public. The test capsul
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
I also had the overheating RROD. The problem with the 360 was the CPU heatsink mounting hardware was insufficient to maintain contact and the board would warp. It was easy enough to fix with a set of screws from the hardware store to replac
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
I found this to be the case for mid-level espresso machines as well. Luckily it is fairly simple to add a PID controller and a more accurate platinum temperature sensor to hold the brew temp to within a few degrees Celsius for a much more c
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
Here is 500 fps film of the Saturn V launch for Apollo 11, narrated by Mark Gray. It explains the sequence of events over the course of 8+ minutes (30 seconds real time). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKtVpvzUF1Y
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
Using the search/filter options on the site is useless now. Most recently I was looking for a countertop hot plate/burner to replace one that finally broke (filament burned out after 15 years). Searching within the Appliances &#x2
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
Sony tried to do the same in 2005 when Microsoft released the XBox 360, only they kept pushing back the release date. Thankfully their E3 2006 press conference was such a flop that in a bit of karmic justice it forced them to stop resting o
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
All the major SSD NAND flash producers finally hit volume production of 3D TLC NAND at roughly the same time last year which sent prices falling precipitously. I'm not aware of a similar pattern in DRAM, which if anything has been susp
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
| social on their own terms I think that is the key insight. Phone calls and instant messaging before smartphones meant that you had to make a deliberate choice to be available at a given time, and to give that communication most of your at
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
That was the first time I had heard the name Nixon and prompted me to learn about Watergate from the dead-tree encyclopedia in first grade. I've always pondered whether this could be an effective way of tricking children into learning
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by iClaudiusX 7y ago
It's curious that they pitched this curated experience by openly admiting their app store experience is terrible and full of scammy games that are "free" w/ ads and egregious microtransactions. Of course they could fix t
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by iClaudiusX 8y ago
See also the multiple eyewitness accounts of what brought down TWA-800, many involving a surface-to-air missile. The most likely explanation supported by evidence turned out to be faulty wiring igniting fuel vapor in the center tank. Howeve
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by iClaudiusX 8y ago
The motivation is the same for re-branding 4G-LTE as 5G (or 6G). Sell the same thing with a new name so customers are tricked into thinking you're selling something newer and better based on the spec sheet without context.
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by iClaudiusX 8y ago
I was just thinking about this while reading about a (the?) company that produces extreme ultraviolet lithography scanners. Intel, Samsung, and TSMC all buy EUL scanners from this one company, ASML, to make their ~7nm chips. Only 31 of thes
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by iClaudiusX 8y ago
A few things I would add: brace expansions combine for combinations {a..c}{1..3} # a1 a2 a3 b1 b2 b3 c1 c2 c3 step size {0..10..2} # 0 2 4 6 8 10 mapfile to read lines from file to array mapfile -t arrayname < f
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by iClaudiusX 8y ago
That is insane, like the worst of the Pentium4 NetBurst era when AMD was competitive at the high end and Intel decided to try to clock their way out of the problem. Granted this is a one-off chip to grab headlines and not a long term micro-

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