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sdeyerleon Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)

If I'm not mistaken, wasn't this actually the installer background screen that got repurposed as an option for a wallpaper?

sdeyerleon My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area (1984)

I'm trying to figure out where 539 hurricanes is coming from? That's over an order of magnitude more than there's ever been in a single season...

sdeyerleon Titanic tourist sub photos show wreckage being brought ashore

From what I've been able to find, there were never any actual pictures/sonar scans of the debris field released. Does anyone know any particular reason to not be releasing that to the public?

sdeyerleon Ericsson to lay off 8,500 employees

I had no idea Ericsson had over 100k employees. I did not expect them to be ~2.5x the headcount of Qualcomm.

sdeyerleon Wtfdoesthiscompanydo.vercel.app

qualcomm.com

This website is about a product or company that wants you to enable JavaScript in order to use their services and get access to the app they provide. JavaScript is a type of computer language that helps websites work better. By enabling it, you will be able to use the product or company's services and get the most out of their app.

Not quite there...

sdeyerleon Apple unveils redesigned iPad

Why hasn't the first-gen Apple Pencil died yet? This would be very compelling if it supported the second-gen Apple Pencil.

sdeyerleon MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy

Yeah, they are definitely building SPARC. I had just been under the impression they were trying to do the separable magnets in SPARC, and was curious if I misunderstood their plan or if their plan had changed.

sdeyerleon MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy

In the original proposal for the ARC reactor, they were proposing making the magnet separable so the top and bottom of the reactor could be separated and the vacuum vessel removed. (See pg. 5 of https://library.psfc.mit.edu/catalog/reports/2010/15ja/15ja0...)

It doesn't look like they are targeting that here. Does anyone know if that is ARC (not SPARC) specific, or if that has been abandoned?

sdeyerleon Half of U.S. Smartphone Users Aren't Downloading Apps, Data Shows

Yelp is so annoying on this front. Click on a review and you have to scroll past a full page suggestion to open it in their app. Then to read reviews they have a "Read more reviews" button, but if you click that it takes you to the app store to install their app. If you click "close" you can actually read reviews.

sdeyerleon How your phone is more powerful than ORION

Also, according to the article there is only double redundancy. I thought critical systems like this always employed triple redundancy. It doesn't help too much if you detect a fault during launch and have to reboot both systems...

sdeyerleon Netflix Stock Price Crashes in After-Hours Trading

Anyone is allowed, but there is lower volume and more volatility.

sdeyerleon Ask HN: What do you think about “Halt and Catch Fire”?

I couldn't get past episode 3. The many sex scenes seemed completely unrealistic and out of place, and the characters were almost entirely unlikable.

The intro is pretty awesome though.

sdeyerleon The Ghost in the MP3

I would be very interested in seeing a comparison of codecs and bitrates done in this way.

sdeyerleon How many 32-bit RISC CPUs fit in an FPGA? Now vs. 1995?

It got bought by Data I/O and renamed Azido. I've used it briefly and it made me beg to go back to Verilog.

sdeyerleon The Useless Web

Loved this one - http://heeeeeeeey.com/

sdeyerleon CodeHS Wants To Teach Every American High Schooler How To Code

There are a whole lot of jobs outside of technology. You could just as easily learn to weld and make a living for yourself.

sdeyerleon 'The Hobbit' at 48fps: Frame Rates Explained

Does the same for me, though to google.de