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I'd say if there even was a bump between 90s and 2000s it was not the matrix, it was Guy Ritchie. And then Gaspar Noe sealed that. Tarantino was having a smoke nearby.

I applaud your excellent (sorry, cat stole the rest).

Any good therapist should train you in the methods of coping with and eventually overcoming your problem. This boils down to private grad+postgrad psychology/psychiatry course, bec…

Death of Itanium was that it was a) VLIW and b) Intel was too arrogant. So it went to the same destination as later Larrabee and ATI/AMD attempts at VLIW GPUs. That is, nowhere. Al…

Benchmark is by definition gamed. That is the essence of Goodhart's law. Society is a benchmark of sorts. You see where that leads. ---- edit: as in this quote from Gulliver: I tol…

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FB might or might not have a right to exist in someone's eyes, but the question remains: is 0.5c-like latency messaging across the world acceptable? Because facebook or not, given …

having a lab assignment detecting beta-emission from 40-K (potassium-40 salt) is of course unthinkable nowadays. or idk, assembling a interferometer out of a HeNe laser for example…

ofc, you can't even start talking about moderation and not mention cross-sections (which is a simplification in itself, but that's best left until 2nd-3rd year in uni) But for gene…

I can explain what the void coefficient is, why it is a dangerous simplification, why neutron moderation is needed, how it is typically controlled, why BWR reactors are inherently …

I would expect anyone calling themselves an engineer of any field to understand basics of fission power generation. Come on, it's 7th (school) grade material.

Can't express redhead for example. Redhead being not the hair tone, but the translucency of skin that gives the look.

With calls, drop any non-prearranged calls, period. Over a few years I burned that approach into my parents. It was tough, but worth it.

I am sorry, will refrain from commenting for a while. edit: until I get hold of my senses.

You mean 0o2025 that is 1045AD?

I wonder what's the standard for ethanol and, therefore, vodka.

Yeh i see you never went to a location to be surprised by reality. Dream on.

lovecraftian horrors while you chase obscure bugs. and no, llms won't help because there was not enough lovecraftian stuff to train them on.

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If you are rich you have single-use rooms. Hell, even I have a sleeping room, a cat room and a hacking room. It's not that expensive. The cat room doubles as a mini-cinema. Ambient…

It always blows my mind why those rich people even bother with TVs. I'm not rich by any measure, but still I can afford a projector, a screen and a couple KRK monitors.

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idk I had an a1200 in ex-ussr of all places. and upgraded it with 4mb+030 in 90s. ECS/a600 was considered "meh" in our circles back then.

Actually no. Uniform flat surface is tiring compared to a trail even in best shoes. Try walking 10 km on hardtop then compare to walking same distance on unpaved road. For shoes we…