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  1. Cool guys don't look at [market] explosions.

  2. Re:The new 'Classic IntellMouse' for 2018 on Microsoft Re-Launches Its Classic 'IntelliMouse' (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, still have my Intellimouse Explorer v1. The only thing I've done to it is unscrew it and cut the internal harness back and reattach it after it started having some intermittent connection problems a few years back.

    It's a tank.

  3. https://www.materialstoday.com...

    CO is the gas that coking produces to actually reduce iron in smelting. Seems like those two could go hand in hand for at least increasing efficiency.

    Bake limestone -> CO2 -> CO through catalyst + iron ore -> iron

  4. Re: Getting mine Monday! on Tesla Opens Orders To All US and Canadian Model 3 Reservation Holders (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe not feeling like a middleman is trying to milk every penny they can out of you.

    You go to the website, choose the model you want (the S and X have been available for a while, the 3 is still working through the deposit holders), pick your color, interior, wheels, option packages, and the price is right there.

    Order, and there you go, that's what you pay. Why we're still paying dealers to make the process actively uncomfortable, I have no idea. Even taking my wife's old Fit in for an ECU update, they sent me through a "specialist" to try and get me to upsell me to a new car.

    Fuck those guys.

  5. Re: Getting mine Monday! on Tesla Opens Orders To All US and Canadian Model 3 Reservation Holders (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything about this post is perfectly accurate. Amazing how gloriously descriptive you were in such a short sentence.

    Not sarcasm, this was a dense, informative, funny post in a single line.

  6. Re:90% on Science Fiction Writer Harlan Ellison Dies At 84 (variety.com) · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Lucky guy on Science Fiction Writer Harlan Ellison Dies At 84 (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a Jack Handy

  8. Re:posting to undo accidental moderation on Microsoft Removes 'Sets' Tabbed Windows Feature From Next Release (groovypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Same

  9. This thing is 300mm^2?

    That seems huge considering a Ryzen 1800X is 213mm^2...

    I mean, I know it has all the system on a chip stuff in there, too, but still, that's giant.

  10. Vernor Vinge's localizers, maybe?

    First in A Deepness in the Sky, then again in Rainbow's End.

    "Localizers were a basic tool of a technical civilization. The tiny devices chirped their impulse codes at one another, using time of flight and distributed algorithms to accurately locate each participating device."

    They could work like a mesh-networked computing cluster too.

  11. Interesting. Didn't know that...

  12. Re:Just create a spam email address on Facebook Will Harass You Mercilessly If You Try To Break Up (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Even easier...

    Facebook email? Mark as spam.

    Do that to three of their messages and your gmail box will be forever FB free.

  13. Make that Terry Crews and I'm sold

  14. It's a Sprung Structure, manufactured by Sprung Instant Structures, LTD:

    http://www.sprung.com/structur...

    They refer to it as a prefab building.

    Sam

  15. This is a Sprung Structure:

    http://www.sprung.com/structur...

    The people at Sprung call it a "building."

  16. Re:Thoughts from a diver on McDonald's To Test Plastic-Straw Alternatives in US Later This Year (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Too bad short sighted fuckwits aren't the only ones hurt by their asinine and selfish behaviors.

    *cough*antivaxxers*cough*

  17. Re:cool project on New IBM Robot Holds Its Own In a Debate With a Human (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, that was the only thing I was looking for in the article and it wasn't there.

    Disappoint.

  18. Re:slashdot is a showcase for narcissists on Linux 4.18 Preparing Many New Features While Dropping 100k+ Lines of Code (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    Whoosh

  19. Re: Does Windows Explorer do it differently, or Li on macOS Breaks Your OpSec by Caching Data From Encrypted Hard Drives (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    So do Konqueror, Dolphin, and Thunar.

    To ~/.thumbnails

  20. Re:CAD, 3D CG, Scientific, GPGPU, HPC Needs It on Laptops With 128GB of RAM Are Here (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, I do scientific computing... my DDs are desktop with 32 threads (one DP with 16 Xeon cores, one DP with 32 AMD cores) and 128GB of RAM.

    I've been looking at the new EPYC processors for our next upgrade. On the other hand, this machine isn't so much a laptop as a luggable...

  21. Re:If unlike nVidia, they provide open source driv on Intel Says Its First Discrete Graphics Chips Will Be Available in 2020 (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know man, I've got a system with a Radeon HD 3450 in it (crappy base discrete card Dell put in everything a while back) and it is absolutely rock stable, the uptime is... well, I did a kernel update last week so it's a week, but this has never crashed once except some weird condition where accessing a file on a mounted SMB caused a GPF once and left the system in a weird state.

    The older Radeon cards are extremely well supported and stable, although I sure wouldn't want to game on one...

  22. Re:First discrete graphics? on Intel Says Its First Discrete Graphics Chips Will Be Available in 2020 (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    "Intel also sold the i740 to 3rd party companies, and some PCI versions of the accelerator also were made. They used an AGP-to-PCI bridge chip and had more on-board memory for storing textures locally on the card, and were actually faster than their AGP counterparts in some performance tests."

    Seems totally discrete to me.

    Probably most of the uses of this new chip will be similar... sold to OEMs to integrate as they will.

  23. Re:Are you fucking kidding me? on Judge Rules AT&T Can Acquire Time Warner (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    This deal will be great for all of us!

  24. I mean, you can buy an AMD processor that runs at 4.7ghz with turbo to 5ghz right now at newegg:

    https://www.newegg.com/Product...

    Released 5 years ago, June 2013.

  25. Re:Um...non-fanboys use Skype on Should Apple Let Competitors Use FaceTime? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I just use Hangouts, since pretty much everyone has one of: an Android phone or gmail account that I know.

    If I want to do a video call with someone clueless, I tell them to go to hangouts.google.com in the web browser and off we go. Most of the people who have iPhones (that I know) are afraid to install any apps from the store or lost their apple id login info post-it note 2 years ago anyway.

    Sam