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mycatisblack

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    Comment #44776657

    It’s who you know that matters, not what you know.

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    Comment #44775252

    I open the vial and tap it slightly so a few fall out. Then I place the on the PCB with paste on the pads. I’m finishing up a high precision impedance meter to be able to sort out …

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    Comment #44775103

    Slightly different take: first you get te generation of caution, followed by the generation of all-in. As with any novelty that replaces “something requiring effort” with “somethin…

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    Comment #44743559

    This looks very appealing. I’m using a google spreadsheet, which also maps to grids in small parts drawers. I will give your software a try. One suggestion: for smd resistors and c…

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    Comment #44657320

    Depends on the branch predictor: correct branch, everything’s loaded and set. Wrong branch: flush it all and load again. If you know the branch predictor algorithm you can optimise…

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    Comment #44590708

    Near-topic: does anyone know of automated deconstruction attempts? i.e. dented car goe in one end, parts come out the other?

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    Comment #44552405

    It starts looks like a solution in the Fermi Paradox: intelligent species that aren’t intelligent enough will cut themselves of from space travel.

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    Comment #44549418

    Has he ever hinted about successors?

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    Comment #44498980

    Offloading the liability for a compiler sounds like common sense to me. How many heads did this company pay? 100, 1000? Related, compiler bugs aren’t uncommon in the arm-none-eabi …

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    Comment #44375436

    You know those cigarette lighters with an electric spark? Start a download over wifi, press the lighter a number of times in quick succession. Wifi disconnects.

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    Comment #44345417

    Well done Sherlock

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    Comment #44345382

    One of the projects I intend to make some day is a metal detector with 2 pickup coils(*), one in or around the sole of each shoe. Instead of an auditory signal, a vibrating element…

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    Comment #44336499

    You’re turning things around. When the largest ad company in the world, which also has the largest fingerprint silo in the world, spews out ads that are 100% irrelevant …

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    Comment #44335914

    Here’s something many people probably don’t know. I live in a west-Eu country with several well-defined language borders. Each time we cross a border (on holiday), the youtube ads …

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    Comment #44335865

    Cool! Had some Japanese song pass by and all the letters were vertically arranged (as is tradition), which made it impossible to find out what artist it was.

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    Comment #44316613

    Does ON Semi have fabs in the US?

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    Comment #44290524

    And each new type of candle becomes a source of fine-tuning or revision, progressing us with new ways to find the next candles - cosmological or microscopic. Which kinda points to …

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    Comment #44197922

    Which means there has been created a solid demand for an LLM that helps in these fields with strong expertise , because there are people who work with this stuff for their day job.…

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    Comment #44149390

    Having lived in both systems and currently living in a country that clearly reflects the European mindset, I feel well positioned to compare the two. Having lived in Turkey, which …

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    Comment #44088932

    I remember things sped up shortly after Saddam became vocal about having his oil paid in euros.

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    Comment #44086691

    I must have completely missed those speeches. Looked it up, At a "Believers' Summit" event hosted by the conservative group Turning Point Action in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Jul…

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    Comment #44086597

    Come to think of it, our societies have a lot of mechanisms to ensure that human fossils will be close to non-existing. In my part of the world, bodies or even the smallest remains…

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    Comment #44075457

    My first thought when reading the title was “divide & conquer”

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    Comment #44069726

    With bitcoins

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    Comment #43988747

    I just hope there’s enough time between an actual AI and the “Let’s butcher this to pump out ads”-version to publish a definitive version of wikipedia. After a few days with gemini…