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11,075karma·1,697submissions·February 6, 2014
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Archive: https://archive.ph/Azysn
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Don't forget about environmental studies and approval.
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Interesting, I had no idea that KDE predates GNOME by more than two years. I would have assumed that GNOME release years before KDE. It's not important who came first, I'm just expressing …
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A small note, in ICD parlance "subsequent encounter" refers to a doctor seeing a patient again after the initial diagnose.[0] [0] https://www.cmadocs.org/newsroom/news&#x…
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> IIRC till DOCSIS 3.1 (or 3.0?) data downstream was actually framed inside mpeg segments (or something like this) . Please tell me that's not true. That would either be the worst possible net…
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Make sure you check out his other videos including other compositions he's done. Star Wars theme: https://youtu.be/3KS02q0BUnY I Wat to Break Free: https://youtu.be&#x…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCCXRerqaJI
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32089013
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It could be like SGI's fsn[0] file manager but for tech news. "It's a Unix system, I know this." [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager) …
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I don't even trust FedEx to deliver my packages and that's supposedly their core competence.
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I'm not an expert on the protocols I can't imagine there's any reason you couldn't serve near-live content using HLS or MPEG-DASH over BitTorrent.
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In defense of Sony's software/firmware team I'd argue that we've also been repeatedly burned by Sony's flawed hardware full of their endless NIH proprietary BS (e.g. Memory St…
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A few years ago ESR started on an open source/hardware UPS project called Upside.[0][1] I can't vouch for the design as I haven't looked at it in a long time. [0] http://esr.…
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> I’m pretty sure PCIe isn’t 5V. Probably more like 1.8V, so already starting with a much smaller range. I'm fairly sure the most modern PCIe standards are all the way down to 1.2V. Prior to 1…
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I'm no expert but I bet some users would enjoy RAM over a switchable PCIe fabric. They'd take a latency hit but would have the potential for massive amounts of memory.
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I don't know, it was impressive every time Usain Bolt beat his previous record.
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Isn't this pretty much exactly what the 'Cascading' section of the post already, at least partially, addresses?
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> I must admit I feel quite a bit of irrational fury when this happens (similarly, when DNS lookups hang). Neither of those reactions are in anyway irrational. In fact, they're not only perfec…
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This reminds me of a 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 by CurryFriedSquid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLSMRp1ARUc …
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> Someone should make a business out of selling them pre-flashed with valetudo for a less technical audience… From Why Valetudo[0]: First of all, please do not try to convince people to use Val…
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Though, it does have a useful lifespan which is more or less equivalent to wear in an economic sense.
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"FreeDOS assumes a BIOS, and does not work with UEFI."[0] [0] http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/UEFI …
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It was absolutely possible to fry old fixed-frequency monitors by specifying an improper HorizSync in your XF86Config.[0] Fortunately, for most of us fixed-frequency CRTs had been largely replaced by …
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Don't forget about GNU Hurd. ;)
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Maybe you could do something like Holoplot[1] does with their full size beamforming speakers. [1] https://holoplot.com/technology/ …