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1. https://researchdestroy.com/nypd-challenge-coins.pdf

That said vector graphics and extreme sound compression was just how shit got done. In those days gaming and entertainment online was all about CD deployment, extreme delta patching, low bit rate audio (Teamspeak et al) and vector graphics when possible.

I miss those days. On top of it not yet being spoiled by billion dollar businesses, the extreme constraints meant that creative minds could excel far above and beyond corporate types. And that's why the internet had the reputation it did. The ones who were making waves were individuals and small development houses that were founder-driven. It's nothing like today.

I'm always in favor of removing lawyer boilerplate though.

So we were, deep in the shit, fighting fires due to our systems being in a perpetual state of DoS, and we asked if they would rack a machine with a certain overclocked Skylake chip in it. We offered 7 figures to do it. It was worth that much to us to get ~40% more capacity without having to migrate off AWS. They said no :)

It's a nice option, but of course you need to back up this static pw somewhere or program a bunch of keys with it.

The only way this happens is if the prop trading business is over-leveraged somehow and the exchange bailed it out with FTT.

Customer deposits should meet liabilities 1:1. If they don't, somebody is lying.

If this were a planned move, the software would already be ready to replace it. It is not. Cars without radar still aren't at parity with the car that have it, although they "fixed" this a few weeks back by simply turning off the radar on the older cars.

The parking sensors on the Tesla are really good and very useful. They show a rough outline of what is around you and are displayed very nicely compared to some other cars. It is a real shame to remove this, and downright dishonest to characterize it as some kind of leap forward.

The cheapest bargain-bin cars have this feature. Your $100k+ Model S or X will not.

Even more concerning: some features simply cannot be replaced by camera. Tesla infamously does not have a front bumper camera, making it impossible to detect obstructions occluded from view by the hood. For 3/S, which are low, this means it will be impossible to detect low obstructions like too-high concrete wheel stops and similar obstructions. Once the hood has occluded the view from the windshield cameras, these obstructions will cease to exist.

Laughable that this is being done on cars from a high-end brand, and that the remedy for customers who are getting worse cars today than you would get yesterday is to wait for these features to "be restored" at some indeterminate time in the future.

Anecdotally, I feel that experience; consequently, business tasks have become much harder. I don't believe it'll be anything more than temporary, but it is certainly substantial.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-raptor-lake-to-featu...

Like the author, I used the redux code heavily to figure out what I needed to do, but it changed often and it seemed like the authors were also discovering the best way to use it. Combine with a bunch of Facebookisms (they were literally called that inside Flowtype source!) that were half-baked and... yes, we were just doing trial and error to make our typedefs succeed.

Add onto that a severe weakness of Flowtype, its propensity to coerce to `any` without telling you, making your types green but masking real errors and... it was a time. A time with a pain quotient in the neighborhood of doing async module loaders in 2012, or cross-browser DOM manipulation in 2008. It seems, we always find a new problem to tickle our brains.

And there's an honest question to ask: how do you use your computer? If you're just browsing the web 95% of the time and occasionally opening Word/Excel, then short bursts of high power when you need it is perfect. But if you run longer tasks like many programmers or artists do, these machines simply fall down in sustained use.

This is one reason why the M1/M2 architecture has been such a revelation for professionals who primarily work on laptops. It can run full-bore for hours, because the lower-end chips (which are faster than any Intel released at the time) barely hit 10W at max load.

Now, TDP used to mean the max power of the chip, but as Intel's process failures left them holding the bag with no significant performance updates to speak of, they started overclocking their chips more and more so they could claim that the new gen was faster than the last.

Try turning off Turbo Boost on a 2020 i9 Macbook Pro - you actually get a usable machine with reasonable battery life with it off, instead of the hot toaster with 2hr battery life that Intel gave you. But it'll max at something like 2.2GHz when you paid for just over 4.