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Re:Diamonds Suck (2006) on Monday April 05, 2021 @11:08AM (#26700030)
This page is from 2006 when the Charles and Colvard patent on silicon carbide gems was still active and there were no other sellers.
Re:Cheap FPGA Development Boards on Saturday August 08, 2020 @06:00PM (#24095591)
I recommend the Terasic DE10-Nano. Because of the MiSTer (https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki) project, a cottage industry has formed around addons for this board which makes it a good choice for hobbyists who may want additional peripherals.
Re:FFmpeg 4.3 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @01:19PM (#23541601)
If you're on Windows or macOS there are good premade builds available at https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/. If you want to build it yourself look at https://github.com/rdp/ffmpeg-windows-build-helpers (this supports more than just Windows).
Re:Buffer: Composable Buffers for Go on Sunday April 05, 2015 @06:35PM (#9325567)
If anything this is just a nomenclature problem. It's common for Go packages to have New* functions for common use cases and this is one example. After looking at the source it is very clear what it does.
Re:How to Ramen-ize Dried Pasta and Rice on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @12:54AM (#8951446)
That's exactly what it means. It's called baker's percentage[1]. I find it useful for getting repeatable results when scaling a recipe.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_percentage