patrickg_zill

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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
If I felt that Microsoft was delivering high quality software and was a meritocracy I would cut them a lot of slack, no matter what opinions they espoused and who they favored or excluded. Unfortunately I have to use Skype for Business lite
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
Nothing changes until people start to go to jail.
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
You can do an image search on your favorite search engine and look for someone like Donna Brazile, who has been in politics for a long time and understands appearing on TV. Then you can look at the clothes she is wearing and realize that in
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
Take a raking kind of light, and shine it on a beige to brown colored wall, so that the light will be stronger on one side and gradually fade in intensity (that is, less reflected light) across the field of view. Now place a different shade
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
Not only that but they would change the behavior of a chip between revisions, so drivers for one revision, if they didn't take into account the changes, would suddenly stop working even though you bought the same ( but unknown to you,
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
So basically if you printed a strange design on one of those T-shirts that can be printed on all over, you could fool the AI in most cases... the same way that "Dazzle" camouflage for ships, works... https://en.wikipe
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
Different for sure, but amazing that a $3-5 ESP8266 can output VGA (monochrome) with hardly any additional hardware: https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=564673.0
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
There are zoning laws in many, many parts of the country that prohibit housing under a certain size, usually about 700 square feet, which is enough for 2 bedrooms and 1.5 baths.
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
Everything you say is accurate, but, grad students have to start somewhere. If they can make a 65nm version that runs at say 500Mhz, that would be better. Remember that "real work" was done on desktops on a Sparcv8 chip that ran a
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
If compliant with the Sparcv8 ABI it would immediately have a lot of software and compiler support.
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
Consumes water? What is the water changed into at the molecular level, exactly?
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
What are the sources you are quoting?
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
Summit demands an extraordinary amount of personal information about each student and plans to track them through college and beyond,” If true, then, this info should have been in the first paragraph ...
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
I was wondering how they funded it, in this case with upfront fees. See the "miracle of Wor"gl" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%B6rgl for a different way they addressed the problem.
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
Successful presentation of this idea is left as an exercise for the reader :)
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
For 100 gb that might grow to 1tb: 2x NVME drives, each 1tb in size. Buy pcie adapter as needed. Buy used 256gb RAM server off eBay. Install drives into server. Put all data on the nvme drives and all other files on regular drives. Everythi
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
After abusing the great majority of people in the US for the last 50 years both economically and socially, the elite are now surprised by the fact that some of the people have noticed.
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
I am certainly looking forward to trying it out! ZFS is a great filesystem and being able to possibly have a better implementation than we do at the moment, or at least, be able to spur additional development and optimization, is very welco
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
Nothing will ever change until someone goes to jail, IMHO.
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
"What is the North Atlantic Oscillation?"
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
Greenland glacier called Jakobshavn, the largest in the north Atlantic, is growing in size after decreasing for several years. It's almost like there's a cycle...
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
Thanks for the reminder. I had seen it before, but I now see that it is active, with the last commit 8 days ago. I compiled it on my Linux box quickly and will be testing it out...
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
Alternatively, you can look at the completely free www.Aplusdev.org, "A+" language that was also created by Whitney. There is also GNU APL which I have been playing with and has some good ideas also, including the ability to creat
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
Doesn't this argue against a large amount of immigration by the unskilled, into those countries which are already at high levels of youth unemployment?
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
Check processing went from a building of 700 people to almost none, in one place that I know of. This was driven by the move to imaging checks electronically which I believe is called electronic presentment.
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
It's not that Biden is a 'toucher' but who he touches, and possibly why he touches. Find video of his sniffing the hair of an old man for example ... You can't.
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
Pretty sure that totalization covers this
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
AWS is overpriced in a way, but people justify it. IMHO they justify it more than they should, but...
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
And just like Canada abandoned the Montreal (IIRC) goals just before they were due to take effect and destroy the economy, this law has no force or power until it actually goes into effect, starting 6 years from now. Tldr : it's meanin
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
Why let the facts get in the way of your unexamined beliefs? References a paper from 2009 (classified research could well have been much earlier): https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-u-s-navys-next-hawkeye-... Guess w

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