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Gell-Mann ammnesia.

Both were by Gearbox, IIRC, probably best known recently for the Borderlands series.

I would say in addition. Black Mesa has rather uneven difficulty which detracts from the experience.

Black Mesa is beautifully done but combat is not as well balanced as the original game; there are odd spikes in difficulty at certain points that will have you cursing. Players new…

> older devs had to go into management to keep their career trajectory ... FAANG companies seem to have figured it out for people they've already hired. The FAANG companies and oth…

> A perfect vacuum is a perfect insulator. If that were true, vacuum tubes (used for radio and early computers) wouldn't work.

Email works just fine for that.

The homebrew RFID tags in the articles you link to are LF (125-134 kHz) RFID tags. The ones described in the video are UHF (860-960 MHz) RFID tags, which differ considerably in des…

Compilers, embedded systems and similar low level work, reverse engineering where you don't have the binary (e.g. malware), and that kind of thing.

There's the ACM and IEEE already though?

> Or you could argue that it originated with Unix coming out of Bell Labs and being passed around universities on reels of tape, with new extensions contributed along the way. That…

Perhaps use the pattern used by rotary encoders? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_encoder#Ways_of_encodin... See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc5hIxdCMZ0 for a visual exampl…

> Didn't Star Trek essentially pioneer the concept of technobabble? Hell, no. Technobabble has been a staple of science fiction all the way back to its origins.

> I kind of expect that the "let consumers be the beta testers and fire all our QA" approach is going to majorly bite them in the ass at some point and lose a lot of goodwill. I wi…

Nice to see some competition in this space. For those curious, the Xeon Ds are designed for low-power servers; one can get a 8 core/16 hyperthread D-1541 that has a TDP of 45W. Mak…

> I guess what I'm saying is that by allowing a device to upgrade in software to more power-efficient designs, you might claw back some of the efficiency lost by using an FPGA when…

There wasn't any real reason to use the 80186 in a PC; it was meant for embedded devices. The only major feature that it had was some additional hardware for timers and DMA built i…

Seems to be based on this paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3089523 There appears to also be presentation slides for a preview of this paper at: https://si…

> The functioning of chemistry in individual cells definitely are influenced by quantum effects. So? Transistors used in modern computers directly depend on quantum effects (semico…

> I'm not sure why you think the underlying physics is deterministic. If conclusive evidence were found that human consciousness is fundamentally dependent on QM processes to funct…

"HPE straps AMD chip into 2P/2U server box with Epyc results" - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/21/hpe_brings_amds_epy... "Microsoft Announces Azure VMs with Dual 32-core AMD…

> They pretty much dominate mobile OSes, they have the top used browser, they dominate email There's no direct value in any of those. Google gets very little direct revenue from th…