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> Humans are not always great at self-moderation Humans are never great at self-moderation.

So you are saying that what makes the tactility (the slider moving on the spring) and that what makes the contact (the slider moving the spring until it touches some other metal) a…

A bunch of news sites use similar URL parsing; they tend to not care about the "slug" either. I think this is, in the general case, the best way.

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> or why video codec accelerators are also faster and more efficient than GPUs for video decoding encoders: also much higher quality

> We used simple machines, long before we understood them. There are infinitely many examples of this, from metallurgy to rolling bearings to gears (gear reduction has nothing to d…

> Nope! This is rarely (if ever?) the case. Cherry MX.

Seasoned gamers preload keys they are anticipating to use. On my keyboard I have less than a millimeter of travel from the preloaded point I use (which is right in front of the tac…

> which activate on first key press No, mechanical keys have some travel before actuation as well.

memcpy is done by the CPU core, at least for x86. The IMCs don't process data. The CPU core has more bandwidth than the IMC anyway, so there would be no speed-up from adding this c…

They agreed, but now they regret the decision and wouldn't make it again. To prevent themselves from doing so, they will not speak with OpenBSD until later in the process.

Contra: A 14.5 year old open issue that is genuinely untouched for 14.5 years is most likely irrelevant, either because it was swept up, has become obsolete or is some kind of requ…

> Shirley rejects Leibniz as the first creator of the binary system. I think the idea of single-source attribution of relatively simple concepts is plain stupid. Any number of peop…

"The march toward specialized systems" is an interesting slogan (if you will), since that's exactly where we came from; we (as in: the industry) made a huge point out of doing as m…

Patching the font colours are probably a few lines of diff, adding a QR code to a text-mode display... way more complicated.

I have to agree, VS2010 had the most beautiful icon of any Microsoft IDE.

Over network? Needs a networking stack in memtest. Over serial? Physical serial is rare. SOL would work, but since it is connection-based you can't poll it. This seems like a simpl…

> It's one of the most important projects for the open source desktop, for example GTK (formerly GIMP Toolkit) is one very important outcome. Is it? GTK/Gnome was created over a hi…

On a marginal connection source/sink of a DP link will re-train which interrupts main link operation, causing brief lags in display. If the connection is even worse you'll get the …

Things like passive hubs working poorly were not in the spec. This stuff is .

Grohmann Engineering. And yes, this has happened a few times now - American corp buys some German corp and replaces managers with American ones (or American-styled ones) and a few …

Folks who designed their applications with data reduction and data economy in mind have a much easier time with all of this.