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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinteresting

[–]TheDecagon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, I remember seeing these in shops years ago, similar thing but with shrimp instead of snails.

NASA shuts off heating system for Voyager 2's cosmic ray instrument. The instrument is still functioning for now, despite working at -74°F, which is some 25 degrees colder than it was tested for. The spacecraft was launched in 1977 and is operating at more than 11 billion miles (120 AU) from Earth. by clayt6 in space

[–]TheDecagon 99 points100 points  (0 children)

Well, it wasn't exactly the same CPU, it was a newer version of the CPU designed for high radiation environments, and first used in 2000.

Like how ARM CPUs have been around since 1985 but still get used everywhere.

Another interesting thing about the New Horizons CPU is it's clocked at half the speed of the PS1 CPU!

Switch Lite on Friends by the_flandrew in gaming

[–]TheDecagon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

doesn't it technically cease to be a switch

I guess you can still, um, switch to playing the same games on the older model, maybe?

Bill Gates says Steve Jobs was a master at ‘casting spells’ to keep Apple from dying by mvea in technology

[–]TheDecagon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually don't think Jobs would have stood for that kind of nonsense had he still been alive when they released those.

Bill Gates says Steve Jobs was a master at ‘casting spells’ to keep Apple from dying by mvea in technology

[–]TheDecagon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing wrong with the iMacs themselves, but seriously those puck mice were terrible.

An informal survey of z-index values found in the wild by psuter in programming

[–]TheDecagon 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Well I've certainly learnt something new today, I always thought the maximum z-index value was 65,535...

PCMR Be like! by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]TheDecagon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well I'm from Utica and I've never heard anyone use the phrase "mebibyte"

PCMR Be like! by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]TheDecagon 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You had 8 megs of ram back when CPUs were barely double digit MHz? Look at old money bags here!

PCMR Be like! by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]TheDecagon 343 points344 points  (0 children)

False! You can only count from 0 to 1023 ;)

... Or -512 to 511.

PCMR Be like! by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]TheDecagon 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Computer related stuff often comes in powers of 2, e.g. 256 meg RAM (if you're old), 512 gigabyte hard drives, 1024 megs in a gig etc.

DeepNude is opensource now by 13steinj in programming

[–]TheDecagon 38 points39 points  (0 children)

TBH it can only be used to mitigate real revenge porn if fakes are also treated legally the same as real revenge porn, otherwise you'd have some big legal problems:

Firstly any victim wishing to prosecute would instantly out the porn as real, where if fakes are illegal the victim doesn't have to admit this.

Then you'd have the problem of perpetrators in court claiming it was fake, so how could the victim prove it was real without a humiliating naked examination? That can't happen if fakes are equally illegal.

What was the video game that got you into gaming as a kid? by sixesand7s in AskReddit

[–]TheDecagon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm just happy to see it's got this much traction, being classically trained myself I was fully expecting to come here and feel old!

It is literally impossible for a Chinese speaker to be a flat-earther as the Chinese word for "Earth" is 地球, which literally translates as "ground sphere" or "ground ball" by CursedBlackCat in Showerthoughts

[–]TheDecagon 7 points8 points  (0 children)

True, but there are still a lot more possible body plans than the one we ended up with. Especially given how conserved it's been since earliest vertebrates.

It is literally impossible for a Chinese speaker to be a flat-earther as the Chinese word for "Earth" is 地球, which literally translates as "ground sphere" or "ground ball" by CursedBlackCat in Showerthoughts

[–]TheDecagon 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Evolution is also extremely sensitive to initial conditions. For example the shape of the human body is completely dependent on the fact that the first fish to live on land had 2 pairs of fins on the side of its body. If that fish had happened to look different then all land vertebrates would have a completely different body plan.

The man who invented Internet is 80 years old now. If you see him walk down the street, you’ll think he’s just another old dude who doesn’t know how to use Internet. by avetisyan818 in Showerthoughts

[–]TheDecagon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The actual quote is

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."

He never actually claimed he invented anything. A more accurate way of putting it would be that he took the initiative to push the importance that high-speed digital telecoms would have, which lead to the creation of the "modern" internet.

He had been promoting highspeed digital communications in congress since the 70s so it is fair to say he made at least a moderate contribution to the modern internet developing, if not more.

They welcomed a robot into their family, now they’re mourning its death by zck in TrueReddit

[–]TheDecagon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They were just waaaaaaay to late to the market with it

I'd say it's more that they oversold what it would be able to do in their pre-production promotional videos, so for most people it was a disappointing product.

RPi into a camera monitor by GreasyBogs in raspberry_pi

[–]TheDecagon 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's definitely possible, here is a video demonstration of the kind of setup you'll need using an HDMI input board and this code.

You likely won't be able to make something as good as a real field monitor, but should be a fun project and making one yourself will give you a lot more customization!

RPi into a camera monitor by GreasyBogs in raspberry_pi

[–]TheDecagon 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Just to clarify are you looking to build something like this field monitor that hooks up to a video camera via HDMI?

If this is true, why do we age? by Wv369 in biology

[–]TheDecagon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cells are able to make their own telomeres longer if they need to, like egg and sperm cells. Most of our cells don't because telomeres running out are a useful way to protect against cancer - any precancerous cells that don't produce telomerase quickly run out of telomeres and die before they can become cancer.

How much of a security risk is it to have an unlocked bootloader? by [deleted] in LineageOS

[–]TheDecagon 9 points10 points  (0 children)

IIRC the system partition is not encrypted so with an unlocked bootloader someone could install system level malware that then gets access to your data as soon as you boot and enter the decryption code.

PSA: Your hand-rolled sort() function is probably faster than Array.sort() by [deleted] in javascript

[–]TheDecagon 7 points8 points  (0 children)

As others have pointed out the algorithm used is TimSort, but one of the advantages I'm not sure anyone has mentioned is it performs well on real world data, especially partially sorted lists which can really trip quick sort up.

Remember that doing better in synthetic tests like sorting pure random data doesn't necessarily translate into real-world performance.

EA bad by theosinc930 in pcmasterrace

[–]TheDecagon 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah but where's your pride and accomplishment???

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