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I assume they're referring to offshore detention.
you're correct. I assume they're referring to 8bit per colour (RGB) which is 24bit colour (True Colour) 16.7M
Re:What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die on Saturday January 02, 2021 @05:59AM (#25611941)
I've worked with several Chinese engineers, who are quietly critical of the CCP. Since they still have family in China they know better than to be openly critical of China.
Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective on Sunday November 29, 2020 @03:37AM (#25243831)
mWh? Otherwise that's one hell of a battery.
Re:Upgrade Raspberry Pi 4 with a NVMe boot drive on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:21AM (#25195541)
pictures fail to load when I block the domain
> it doesnt matter what you know, it matters whom you know.

while technically the literal reading of your sentence is not incorrect, the phrase above is referring to nepotism which is not the issue OP has.

I'm not sure how fibre optics could help here, an you expand?
it will look like a parabola (or ellipsis if you read elsewhere in this thread) if you add another dimension to your graph of the balls position.

That could be a physical dimension, such as throwing a ball to your friend across the room and plotting x vs y. Or even plotting the height of the ball against time.

https://imgur.com/a/ccBDZf6

consider the x-axis of this image the distance between you and your friend, or time.

I watch F1 for the engineering, but unfortunately it's not covered much due to the secretive nature of the sport.

> The only pair of teammates on the grid right now who have any legitimate gap are Albon and Verstappen. Other than that, it's par for the course.

Abon and Verstappen are no the only legitimate gaps; Leclerc vs Vettle and Ricc vs Ocon are also substantial.

A better driver can take 250ms off their team mate - something that would take multiple millions of dollars a year to obtain via regular engineering.

That said, I agree that a great driver such as Ricciardo has no chance to compete for the WDC in his car.

Skype in not installed on my Surface Book, so not sure about everyone.

edit: I have some fairly strict settings on my laptop, so maybe that stopped it. I also have Office365 so that could be related too.

> Windows also isn't useful for productivity

Can you expand on this? I think it's the contrarian position to be taking here.

Re:The ‘-ize’ have it (2012) on Sunday August 09, 2020 @08:12AM (#24099078)
Slightly off topic, but since there are linguists here I thought I'd ask. Does the word winningest seem wrong to other people? It's such a foreign word to me that feels absolutely wrong. I only really hear it when watching US sports.

I'm from Australia, where we follow en-GB relatively closely for perspective.

that was the primary driver to me moving full time into a linux VM for work. The corporate crap and antivirus made my overpowered laptop really slow.

I then moved to booting with an external Samsung T5 SSD drive straight into Linux and running Windows in VMs.

I still need the primary Windows for when I need to join the domain.

> how do core data structures like hash maps work without generics

blessed implementations inside the language, slices, maps and channels are built in generics.

sync.Map is what the standard library version looks like. It loses type safety.

https://golang.org/pkg/sync/#Map

Re:GitHub was down on Monday July 13, 2020 @04:12AM (#23818377)
the repo top bar is wider than the rest of the content. It feels unbalanced. Personally I'm not a fan of that part. No complaints about any other change.
automated cars would obviously eventually become faster than F1 drivers, it's just there's no interest in it (unfortunately).

The biggest interest to most people are the drivers and they strongly dislike driver aids. I'd prefer every driver aid under the sun and have a real engineering battle. I'm obviously in the minority here.

Formula E is under very tight budget constraints in order to lower the barrier to entry. I look forward to the day when the series is established and they can start to compete on things like motor construction and battery tech to drive the field forwards.

Tesla's Australian battery was not for storage, it's for power quality.
Oligopoly that monopolises the market
Re:Basics of Pneumatic Logic on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @07:57AM (#23538088)
it will no doubt damage a lot of equipment, it's still cheaper to replace everything than to have incompatible spare pneumatic gear laying around.
Re:Basics of Pneumatic Logic on Monday June 15, 2020 @11:20PM (#23535641)
There's no remote monitoring, they're more complex and expensive. You need either multiple compressors, or run long stretches of hose/pipe.

They're super cool and rewarding to work with, everything feels like steam punk, but there's no real practical reason to keep them there. The electronic stuff is _very_ reliable when installed correctly and quality parts are used, much like the pneumatic systems.

The only place that _might_ make sense to leave them in a little longer is inside a hazardous environment, which requires detailed certification for installed electrical equipment.

Re:Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser on Friday June 12, 2020 @10:03AM (#23499309)
If you haven't seen The Birth & Death of JavaScript, you're in for a treat.

Gimp running in Chrome running inside Firefox

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...