yzmtf2008
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Comment · 1 month ago
This would require a vPro CPU and compatible motherboard, right?
Comment · 1 month ago
Time being UTC and init times are both meteorological standards, so I'm not sure why those are problems.
Comment · 4 months ago
I thought really hard about coming up with an actual response, but no, you don’t deserve one.
Gee, the aviation world would be so much safer if everyone just listened to pixl97.
Comment · 1 year ago
Garmin's GI-275: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/719027
This one 3-1/8" inch instrument displays more than 15 pieces of information, is somehow perfectly legible even in turbulent flight, _and_ is more reliable and accurate than a whole 6-pack[1]. Synthetic vision unlock is only $500. This is all without switching different pages.
Get two of them, and the FAA considers the possiblities of both of them failing at the same time so low, that you can cover one of them to satisfy partial panel failures in a checkride - well, all you do is to switch the "working" one to the PFD page, and you haven't really lost any capabilities!
Comment · 2 years ago
> The first batch of very high performance RISC-V chips are dropping soon, and there will be servers, as well as Android devices.
Is this the new "2024 is the year of linux desktops"?
Comment · 2 years ago
As always, when running time series predictions on financial datasets, one need to use daily return (including dividends, corporate actions, etc.) rather than end of day price.
Simply outputting the last value (as more or less shown in these charts) is a pretty good end of day price predictor!
Comment · 3 years ago
Let me put it this way.
I put the majority of my cash in one of the smaller banks. The news that has transpired in the past few days had me mulling moving those funds to a larger bank, likely Chase (one of the too big to fail ones).
Even with the FDIC guarantees, I was not at all confident that :
1. they actually had the funds to cover _many_ bank runs; and
2. it won’t take weeks if not months for me to recover my funds, if my bank fails.
It’s entirely possibly that these lines of thoughts will motivate many more people to consider this exact move, putting even more stress in the system.
Comment · 4 years ago
Agreeing to be bought doesn’t create any obligation on Twitter’s part to do anything that’s not in the contract. Especially for things that Musk has explicitly waived.
Comment · 4 years ago
$TSLA declined ~25% since this “deal”. Musk is the one trying to get out here, because his “deal” just got a lot more expensive.
Comment · 4 years ago
Assuming it is not hard (it is). Why? It’s not like Twitter is asking to be bought here. Musk voluntarily waived his rights to due diligence. Presumably his representatives have reviewed this agreement?
Comment · 4 years ago
Tangantially related, I remember reading the Asahi Linux wiki [0], and was shocked by this statement about Apple Silicon machines. It's fascinating that Apple has a reputation for being anti-libre, yet the hardware they built is arguably very libre-friendly.
> This puts them somewhere between x86 PCs and a libre-first system like the Talos II in terms of freedom to replace firmware and boot components; while a number of blobs are required in order to boot the system, none of those have the ability to take over the OS or compromise it post-boot (unlike, say, Intel ME and AMD PSP on recent systems, or the DMA-capable chips on the LPC bus running opaque blobs that exist on even old ThinkPads).
> From a security perspective, these machines may possibly qualify as the most secure general purpose computers available to the public which support third-party OSes, in terms of resistance to attack by non-owners.
[0]: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Introduction-to-Appl...
Comment · 4 years ago
> Thankfully San Francisco was never turned into https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~2...
I'm definately not one for more highways, but this map doesn't look _that_ different from SF today?
Comment · 4 years ago
OLED monitors do exist, just at a very much unreasonable price and size:
- https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-32ep950-b-oled-monitor
- https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07XTZ45T2 (this one is more of a laptop screen than a monitor)
I’m simplifying here, but essentially no one has figured out how to make OLED panels affordable at a reasonable form factor for monitors yet. The type of panels used in phones (and tablets/laptops) are very different from those used in TVs. LG is making inroads with their 42 C2s, but those will also have a high price and is still way too big for normal monitor use cases.
Comment · 4 years ago
> interface implementation is implicit
Fun fact: this is true for python too! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40764347/python-subclass...
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