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soundarana

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    Comment #38768185

    > Some of you want to keep working without being paid, because that feels a bit like communism within capitalism, it makes you feel good to contribute to the greater good while not…

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    Comment #38752067

    For one Ramanujan you have 1000 cranks.

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    Comment #38749992

    Crazies say they validate and test their idea, but they actually suffer from severe confirmation bias where they summarily dismiss any counterexample or problem.

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    Comment #38749939

    On Windows many use VoiceMeeter with OBS for basic audio mixing.

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    Comment #38719352

    > Whoever does it basically gets a free nuclear test that the other nuclear powers would probably be jealous If Russia/China/US/France/... want to do a test, they do it. There is n…

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    Comment #38711203

    Does Linux use the RNG inside Intel/AMD CPUs?

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    Comment #38707231

    One sample: > Religion plays a significant role in influencing corruption levels [26,[29], [30], [31], [32], [33]]. While all religions encourage good moral conduct and ethical beh…

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    Comment #38707052

    They still make good hard drives.

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    Comment #38706800

    You also need to take religion into account - Catholic vs Orthodox. Orthodox countries are statistically more corrupt due to relation to God and it's translation to relation to aut…

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    Comment #38706544

    The basic display interface used by UEFI and low level boot loaders these days it's called GOP - Graphics Output Protocol. It replaced VESA.

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    Comment #38694772

    When you run a tight hot loop, GC has no impact. Just like you wouldn't allocate smart pointers in a tight C++ loop. You can do dumb slow things in both languages, and yes, C# prog…

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    Comment #38693746

    > Another thing you can immediately see is that the QML version of the algorithm is generally much slower than the JavaScript version. As noted above, this is due to it being built…

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    Comment #38693143

    You can do network analysis. He should appear in the contact list of relevant people (Apple employees, press, ...)

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    Comment #38693113

    Buying a private phone number and contacting it for support could be considered harassment.

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    Comment #38679913

    CPUs have been growing their register files too - AVX512 has 32 x 512 bits registers.

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    Comment #38677932

    On NTFS Everything reads the MFT, which is sequential on disk. Then on subsequent starts it reads the NFTS update journal to see what changed.

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    Comment #38677914

    For example it updates after every character you type. Sometimes you don't know exactly what you are looking for or you are exploring.

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    Comment #38662406

    You might want to google the South Park version of the human centipede, now that you know.

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    Comment #38662278

    If you build more housing in NY and rent goes down, more people will move to NY because they can now afford it and push rents back up. London is also very expensive to rent and it'…

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    Comment #38637319

    Many physicists believe that no singularity can phisically exist in nature and that they are just our lack of a better theory.

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    Comment #38621299

    Isn't two pass encoding similar? In the first pass you collect statistics you use in the second pass for bandwidth allocation? Possibly Netflix statistics are way better.

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    Comment #38590602

    I didn't use Bing chat that much, but everytime I've added "do not search" to the prompt it respected it.

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    Comment #38583860

    Have you tried indian vegan food? for example the "Sagar" restaurant? Some Indians have hundreds of years of vegan experience and they perfected it. I'm not vegan, but this was the…

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    Comment #38580401

    Not in the field, but don't forget the grid is dynamic and has feedback loops, control algorithms and humans in the loop. It's closer to an unstable chaotic system which needs cons…

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    Comment #38566036

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