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smalley

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    Comment #48153701

    This appears to treat subscription style games and free to play with in game purchases differently than other games. I would assume if that law passed the simplest compliance would…

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    Comment #47283462

    If we're talking about standard server RDIMMs with ECC (or the prosumer stuff) the CPU visible ECC (excluding DDR5's on-die ECC) is typically implemented as a sideband value you co…

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    Comment #47281100

    The ECC information is stored in separate DRAM devices on the DIMM. This is responsible for some of the increased cost of DIMMs with ECC at a given size. When marketed the extra me…

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    Comment #35050663

    Wow, I feel like you must have a pretty unique specialization because you are doing incredibly well for ICT5 (Congrats!) There are ICT levels above 6 but I feel like in practice th…

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    Comment #34812299

    I reached out to Mercury Research (the company whose research is being quoted) and the articles are missing some clarifying information. The overall CPU Market Share number also in…

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    Comment #34635266

    Additionally Measure Response: Determine what an adversary nation does in response to the violation (what resources are scrambled, where do they come from etc) Messaging: All the p…

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    Comment #34277979

    I would imagine most of the very large companies have a treasury group that's managing their excess cash etc and that those people are probably offering lots of opinions on general…

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    Comment #34242803

    Maybe its better in some programming languages, but my experience with verilog/systemVerilog output is that it generates a design with flaws almost every time (but very confidently…

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    Comment #33988473

    No, that tweet predates the more recent ban tweet by 2 days. I just checked and ElonJet and a couple of the other accounts definitely show as suspended/banned to me.

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    Comment #32990216

    I mean I don't think anybody outside of Siberia is going to try to do nuclear powered ramjets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_Low_Altitude_Missil... (I hope)

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    Comment #32978623

    And they would also include extra cost for things like mandatory warranty and service requirements in some EU countries that do not exist in the US.

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    Comment #32757008

    I think that was an issue on the earlier airpod pros and they had/have a replacement program for that issue: https://support.apple.com/airpods-pro-service-program-sound-...

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    Comment #32557790

    I know you're acknowledging you're joking. For those who do find themselves bothered by this kind of thing, these projects are almost always a few layers deep on what they're actua…

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    Comment #31914988

    I mean isn't the B in ICBM for ballistic reentry, that's probably about as fast a deorbit from the height of the space station as you would get?

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    Comment #31820199

    I could imagine a corporate customer who might be slightly less cost sensitive but have employees that would prefer not to go through a purchase order approval process multiple tim…

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    Comment #31770125

    Definitely not saying that its all smoke and mirrors. Purdue is a great school for a lot of semiconductor related topics and there are a number of scholars I respect who work there…

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    Comment #31757856

    This seems like good marketing but reading this press release and looking at the courses in their degree program I feel like I'm missing what's different here (other than some refe…

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    Comment #29671085

    I believe that is likely their point. Formula 1 racing frequently bans technologies which are advantageous/reduce required skill. In this case I believe ABS is being banned due to …

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    Comment #29469317

    No I agree with that, I was looking at the 2020 peak to 2021 peak magnitude on the Boston Area plots and the same relative magnitude on the SCC plots and being somewhat surprised a…

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    Comment #29467063

    Interesting, looks like the South Bay has some similar numbers: https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater but I suppose having milder weather hasn't seen as serious an uptick…

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    Comment #28557051

    Does anybody know if there's a consolidated list of domains and their various blacklist/deliverability issues compiled someplace? I for one would love to know how broad this proble…

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    Comment #28487279

    There's also https://www.predictwind.com/ which is a (very expensive) commercial service a lot of boat/yacht folks use for planning. I believe they also have some utilities for del…

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    Comment #28022224

    This is also against the backdrop of Navy life extensions for cruisers and other small craft towards 35 years from 25 (and much longer for some systems https://www.defensenews.com/…

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    Comment #22040733

    As a person who is often in a network that enforces very aggressive active content blocking I am very sympathetic to the idea of penalizing content that does not work well without …

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    Comment #21575140

    If you sync to garmin connect its easy enough to manually download many different formats of activity recording for fitness activities. I don't have a vivosmart but I haven't had i…