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by to11mtm 12d ago
It depends a bit on context... and scale of scale. At my first software engineering role the system I 'inherited' (The guy who wrote it quit after it launched, I was hired on after) was only used by 5-10 users at a time. On the fl
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by to11mtm 15d ago
One of the earliest 'mountain biking' trails, before real mountain bikes existed, is called Repack because they were using Coaster brakes and you'd basically have to rebiuld/repack the coaster brake hub with grease after
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by to11mtm 15d ago
TBH I don't care for hydraulic disc brakes much. My -favorite- setup for Discs, at least use to be, Avid BB7s with Avid Speed Dial levers, with Flak Jacket Housings. That combination was super simple to 'dial in' (Hydraulic b
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by to11mtm 18d ago
One of the things I liked about my Windows phone, was the relative lack of apps made it very hard to fall into addiction 'traps'. On the flip side, my partner has fallen deep into the cesspit, either seeing her doom-scrolling thro
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by to11mtm 19d ago
> a small point and shoot, Actually the Point and shoot market has largely dried up, even the 'fancier' point and shoots. Apple did a very smart thing, using Sony BSI[0] and Stacked[1] Sensors in their phones. As the 'Ca
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by to11mtm 19d ago
Nuclear, FBOW, has one big advantage. Namely, It's very easy to 'design to load' where you don't need to worry about the next shipment of Coal, or an extended weather event causing excessive cloud cover and depleting y
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by to11mtm 19d ago
I don't think there's a law or precedent for that. The Tucker Act allows for a company to claim damages related to the seizure of property. That is not the same as having a product being stopped from 'shipping'[0]. Als
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by to11mtm 19d ago
I'll be rude/bold enough to say that Canada's ability to argue around 'in-country' made goods has been eroded for decades; I will admit I'm going to point to a specific example; Canadian Bike makers have been a
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by to11mtm 19d ago
TBH I agree with you, even mentioned it in my other reply. Modern China is not like the Soviet Union; it is much closer to a capitalistic society, but instead of private equity there is a (heavier than even the most 'socialist' of
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by to11mtm 19d ago
The thing people tend to handwave about China's manufacturing prowess is that they have spent the last 25-ish years getting really good at 'making things to a spec' at a cost in-line with their labor market, being bolstered
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by to11mtm 21d ago
I tend to agree, it's one of the things I like about this era. My first 'Programming' Job was actually doing automation for CAD drafters. They would ask about a feature, I'd have to estimate the effort to implement versu
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by to11mtm 21d ago
Somewhere in my Dad's house, I think I still have the 'free' DOS 6.22 update disks that came if you registered 6.21.
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by to11mtm 21d ago
> Have you ever heard of an SLA? This "used to be" story about software has never been true. If you can't meet the agreement, then or now, you're done. I will admit, My judgement of 'non-consumer-software' i
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by to11mtm 21d ago
Huh! Didn't realize P2 had THERMTRIP. Thanks for the correction!
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by to11mtm 21d ago
To your point... yeah, Switch was the only 'real' big volume hit for Tegra that I remember (Although I did like my 2012 Nexus 7) with any staying power. Hell Nvidia was so desperate they did the whole Shield thing...
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by to11mtm 21d ago
Eh? Intel and AMD were more or less 'Jitting' since the PPro and K5, and that's ignoring NexGen's Nx586 (which was shipping in hardware about a year before the PPro). All of them are way before Transmeta shipped a CPU. W
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by to11mtm 21d ago
.... I -so- miss RealWorldTech write-ups, I'd love to see what David Kanter would have to say about this thing...
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by to11mtm 21d ago
I'm guessing that they were safe in that it was more or less a 'codename' for a specific product's CPU that nobody else could buy, versus a product out on the market, left enough clear separation to avoid Trademark compl
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by to11mtm 21d ago
It's a little more complex than that, IMO. For starters, IBM did also do the CPU for the GameCube, and that was likely a part of the Wii using an upgraded PPC arch for that. On the flipside, there is the theory (I think even Copetti
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by to11mtm 24d ago
I think that's a different question; i.e. the ratios of 756x504 and 720x480 are both 1.5:1 (or, as we say in the camera world) IMO the most likely factor for camera makers (and/or sensor suppliers[0]) is 'how much resolution
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by to11mtm 24d ago
I always did appreciate the 'nicer' heatsinks that spent the extra bit of cost of materials/machining/etc to provide a proper, safe 'slot' for the screwdriver. That said, my Socket A system that would move arou
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by to11mtm 24d ago
> CPUs now throttle to keep their temp in check. Back then, if the temp got too high they’d be permanently damaged like in the example above. Well, it kinda depended on the CPU. And then sometimes the motherboard. On the Intel side, P3s
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by to11mtm 27d ago
Possibly dumb/silly question.... Are there any sorts of reverse proxies out there that provide their own layer of jittered/exponential backoff based on patterns? (i.e. requesting IP, cookie, etc.) I suppose the main reason I think
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by to11mtm 29d ago
.... Well, As a bizarre counter thought... My work PC, at least with all of the corporate fuckware installed... I tend to see two behaviors when moving between work and home. Either: A - It won't go out of sleep, it basically forces a
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by to11mtm 1mo ago
IDK, I think it's been a bit of a (reverse?) bell curve of sorts. 30+ years ago, You had to be a -lot- more careful about how you handled releasing software. Your stuff was in boxes on shelves, most people didn't have internet acc
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by to11mtm 1mo ago
Well, There's at least this as a start... https://nutrition.org/sugars-created-equal-lets-talk-fructos... Not saying Sugar itself is much better, however, yes, there is research indicating that the two are metabolized
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by to11mtm 1mo ago
... DOS or OS/2? lol I do suppose there are some analogies to be had if we talk about OS/2... i.e. that was supposed to be more of a partnership versus a normal vendor agreement... However my understanding is that there was a lo
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by to11mtm 1mo ago
It really -was-. I actually made the point to keep going for a semester after they said it wasn't required anymore, because if nothing else, it was a 'quiet area' where I knew I wouldn't get distracted like I would in my
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by to11mtm 1mo ago
Well... Again this is far out of NDA time, the documents were not on site anymore. That said, I would be willing to bet that doing such an act, even as a client, would be problematic on other levels. Let's remember; part of this whol
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by to11mtm 1mo ago
.... At least 10 to 15-ish years ago, I would actually be closer to agreeing; You could get Cube or Chuck steak for 3-5$ a pound and potatoes were cheap as hell too. Toss some diced onion in and You'll have a good dinner. How do I know

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