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by mtanski 9mo ago
I know all of the wrist watches experience this issue, but this was extreme like drop from 145->80 for like 60+ min then rapidly shopt back up. Not like a small couple min blip. This was a near the top end model at the time, and after co
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by mtanski 9mo ago
Cane to say the same. I have a Garmin "smart" watch (with every app notification etc disabled) and I love the fact that I can do almost two weeks of exercises (ride, walk, gym) without needing to charge it. The bike computers are
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by mtanski 1y ago
Pre tariffs you could get a whole Carbon bike frame from CN (including stem, handlebar, fork) for $500. And while I'll give that there was variety between vendors, some of them were doing sophisticated layups with multiple grades of w
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by mtanski 3y ago
My knowledge here is rather dated, and I'm unfamiliar with the minio code base... But ~ a decade ago Intel invested a fair amount of effort into optimizing the oss Erasure Coding libraries for Intel CPUs. Back then CPUs had less cores,
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by mtanski 6y ago
Politicians are not in step with the general electorate, they are instep with party elites and primary votes. The primaries tend to select most "ideologically" aligned candidates and by the time you're in the general election
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by mtanski 7y ago
Oh boy. We had somerhing like 5 our of 8 drives fail all at the same time. All of them were affected models bought at begining of summer and failed a couple months later. It was a pretty maddening thing to debug and figure out where the iss
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by mtanski 7y ago
New large generation (Millenials) coming to the housing market. Low interest rates driving folks to refinance. New housing is flat YoY if you look at "House Starts" statistics.
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by mtanski 7y ago
Who is starting, building these factories in Vietnam? Who is lending for capital projects and providing industrial expertise to local enterprises. I'll give you one hint, the name of that country starts with a C.
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by mtanski 7y ago
FICO score for mortgages is not the same score as the modern FIDO score. The mortgage score is often what's called FICO v2 and the modern one is something like v10. They've even branded their different old versions as Insurance sc
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by mtanski 8y ago
So with EUR/USD hedge the assumption is that USD is going to drop or become more unstable in the future? I don't think anyone assumes the opposite, that the EUR will rise as a result of strong economics performance.
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by mtanski 8y ago
Except for the fact that very few large companies are willing to give Facebook their data. That is any kind of data besides their social ad campaigns.
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by mtanski 8y ago
Not a terrible idea to build two campuses along the Accela line. There probably are other opportunities like this for bigger metro areas along the Accela corridor.
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by mtanski 8y ago
It's pretty annoying... but in lot of Intel marketing and spec sheets you'll find small print language that TDP is measured at base clock speed. The base clock has fallen from the 6700k where it was 4.0Ghz. In the end, it seams to
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by mtanski 8y ago
Sadly there is no way to downvote stories. This post is factually incorrect at best... And, the author shows up and just shills harder.
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by mtanski 8y ago
Not a happy place to be... But if politicians choose their constituents and thus stack representation in such a way they need not to be responsible to the population... I don't blame for folks trying to find another way around.
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by mtanski 8y ago
There's tons of towns within towns in NYC. I will not name them here. Everyone please go visit Manhattan.
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by mtanski 8y ago
Yeah, depends if you want 2 memory channels or 4 memory channels.
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by mtanski 8y ago
http://www.try-alf.org/
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by mtanski 8y ago
That's somewhat inherent to LSM tree.
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by mtanski 8y ago
The term third world is often used incorrectly. It was created during the cold war to refer to countries that we're not in alliance with one of the dominant super powers (USA, USSR). [1] People often use when they want to say "bac
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by mtanski 8y ago
Netflix ISP CDN in space. Now that'd be something seriously cool.
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by mtanski 9y ago
>If salaries rise, the expectation is that people will spend more and push inflation higher. Sure sucks to be a worker. When your salary rises your real gains will be inflated away.
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by mtanski 9y ago
The favorite method of centrist leadership in the recent past has been exporting neoliberalization economic policies and the neoliberalizm of trade deals (think NAFTA). That's one of the component that's given the US a lot of infl
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by mtanski 9y ago
On another forum somebody suggested laywer / legal reasons. That if default performance takes too big of a dive the case for lawsuits is stronger. They already have a class action filed against them. A benchmark performance dive would
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by mtanski 9y ago
On a related note. I personally was never able to find a resource for databases analogous to lambda the ultimate for programming languages. So I started a community dedicated to DBMS systems (building, papers, etc) on reddit. So if you&#x27
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by mtanski 9y ago
We pay more into the state then we get back. And upstate/albany often times sabotages us (like the MTA subsidizing some politically ski slopes). Same at the federal level. That's more complex since the region gets bunch of money b
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by mtanski 9y ago
Stop trying to make the analogy fit. It's not a good analogy.
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by mtanski 9y ago
Spectre impacts current iterations of: x86, ARM and Power. It's most likely impacts other archs that have variants of CPUs with out-of-order execution.
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by mtanski 9y ago
In the good old days everybody just used HTTP, FTP and telnet and NIS. Old archs also has other bugs we forgot about / never discovered.
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by mtanski 9y ago
This rant/thread is a good reading as well: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/3/797 It's possible to key the cache in the kernel on CPL so at least there should be no user / kernel space scoopi

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