mirroregami

Re:Giant 555 Timer on Monday December 20, 2021 @08:10PM (#29632615)

Feel free to double check my math, but a modern M1 CPU with its ~16 billion transistors would be about 380 million times bigger (imagine a square ~1.7 miles on a side)

Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever on Monday August 23, 2021 @03:42PM (#28280945)

Only time CDC and WHO were anti-mask were when there were shortages. Save the masks for the healthcare workers, essentially.

Re:Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new piec... on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @12:45PM (#28223803)

Really cool. One piece of feedback: Try to get the white balance to better match the warm wight light of the room. The tv will blend in much much better.

Re:The iPad's new cursor and keyboard on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @10:38PM (#23099088)

My only gripe with the smart keyboard is the touchpad uses a mechanical button for clicking. It feels clunky compared to the crispness of the last few mbp generations which use a haptic electromechanical component to (perfectly) simulate a click feel.

Ask HN: What would be the effectiveness of a large strike of IT professionals?

Posted by mirroregami on Thursday January 23, 2020 @03:08AM
from the ask-hn dept.

It's common to see protesters and riots and hundreds of thousands of people marching for many causes. It often appears that the antidote favored by the unpopular is to simply wait it out, for its just some bad press and property damage right?I wonder how effective a general strike by IT professionals would fair in terms of causing action amongst politicians which are most influenced by...

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