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  1. Daedalus685

    AMD Polaris Thread: Radeon RX 480, RX 470 & RX 460 launching June 29th

    Yes it is possible and is certainly the case. There is one more pascal chip to be released to gamers (edit: one more "larger" chip) (1080Ti/Titan). AMD has 2 more chips to release bigger than this Pascal (Hawaii and Fury replacement - Rx 490 and Fury 2 if you will). For the few that insist on...
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    AMD Polaris Thread: Radeon RX 480, RX 470 & RX 460 launching June 29th

    I don't understand the negativity, but I suppose I rarely do. There are usually 4 or so chips (sometimes more if notebooks get their own dedicated parts) in a full generational lineup, we have known for some time that this would be the case for AMD with polaris and vega (a big and small of...
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    Physics homework help - that's right I admit it upfront

    http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2783 Also, I'm glad my physics degree allowed me to solve the question correctly (using momentum conservation)... even if I'm way too late to the party to be helpful.
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    Drug test at possible employer - just tell them I've smoked pot before?

    It is more complicated here in Canada. You can't just randomly test people as a condition of employment (Supreme court ruling 2013 - RE:Irving Pulp and Paper Ltd.). Though it varies by province. It is considered a medical test, which is only permitted for positions where health may affect the...
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    What first world problem did you have today?

    My employer (more a customer who is purchasing our services) is trying to do away with business class flights!! There is no way I am flying to China (from Toronto) in the cattle car! I'd rather die!!! (or stay home, whichever)
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    I'm not saying it's aliens,...

    Oh man, what if it's a giant death stare that shoots black holes?!?! We're doomed!! Doomed!!!
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    Whoa - nature reclaims the Fukushima Exclusion Zone

    That is elevated, though not scary at all. Over a year the natural background would give you about 2mSv (depends on where you live) or 0.22uSv/h. My yearly maximum allowed by law over the background (in canada as a nuclear worker) is 20mSv (technically this is the 5 year max divided by 5...
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    Anyone remember the Beanie Baby craze? ie 250K USD beanie babies?

    Oh man, I had lots of those when I was a kid. I was a strange child... Played with them along side transformers and GI-Joe. General Hawk would occasionally ride the black bear into battle, scaled well with the early-mid 90's GI-Joe toys... lol I played with them though, and they look rough...
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    Narcos Netflix original series

    Good show so far. A few cringes at the expected violence. As far as the historical accuracy. Well, it is a drama show, first and foremost.I try to ignore the fact that it really is quite 'loosely' based on reality.
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    Canadian Federal Election 2015

    I miss Jack :(
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    Whoa! New type of space drive discovered

    You are correct about the neutrinos. The lag is expected due to how we expect the collapse to occur. Photons interact far more on the way out, thus escape the star only after the rebounding shock wave reaches the surface. That article is talking about a second neutron pulse that occurred even...
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    IQ test

    Shrug, Seemed pretty tricky on the last few. Very arbitrary patterns, I guess that is the point. It gave me 130, but I left a lot of time on the table.
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    [FZ] AMD Fiji 390x Model Now Packed With 8GB HBM Video RAM

    Fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) I'm not sure why Fuad called his site that, likely supposed to be cheeky.
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    St. Patty's 2015

    Wait, there are times when living near a university DOESN'T result in having drunks wandering around at all hours of the night?
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    St. Patty's 2015

    March 17th I board a plane bound for Shanghai in the morning. Maybe business class will get green beer? No party for me though :(, just a month of work.
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    What do you do & how much do you make?

    I make 70K base, with 10-20k(ish) a year in extra per-diems, overtime, and travel pay. Not counting benefits and pension. Non destructive testing inspection and R&D in the nuclear industry. I work at one of Canada's national labs (out in the boonies) where my fluffy government job title is...
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    DoD screwed up, AN/UDR-13 radiation detector units dumped on ebay. Review of unit.

    This is not technically true. Mostly all of our information about stochastic effects of radiation (your long term statistical risk factors, such as increased chance of cancer) is based on huge acute doses (epidemiological studies on atomic bomb survivors and radiation treatment recipients)...
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    What color is this dress??? (the interwebs are asploding)......

    Isn't it soo cool? I know I'm a dweeb. The guy with the magic eyes on his wall at work. I'm sad that it didin't work on me. I love the WOW moments when illusions flip. It almost never happens that stuff like this hits the limelight. I look forward to more professionally done illusions because...
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    What color is this dress??? (the interwebs are asploding)......

    The 'true colour' (from paint or whatever) doesn't really matter. That is the fun. Some folks minds are interpreting that colour as being from the surroundings, the illumination, the shadowing. Thus they are ignoring it when the image is presented to the conscious mind. It appears white to...
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    What color is this dress??? (the interwebs are asploding)......

    The bottom stripes appear identical to the cow patches, the upper ones a bit lighter.
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    What color is this dress??? (the interwebs are asploding)......

    I posted the exact illusion... It is a bad picture and bad lighting. But that is the whole illusion, that is what causes the illusion. It is not a magic dress. The picture is just shot in such a way as to cause some people to interpret the colours 'wrong'. Semantics I suppose. you can say...
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    What color is this dress??? (the interwebs are asploding)......

    It would be very difficult to construct a shirt that was context independent in its fun illusions. I am not the person to be asking that question too. I studied optics and have a collection of illusions. I understand that many people don't get that our view of the world is subjective and...
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    What color is this dress??? (the interwebs are asploding)......

    It's an optical illusion. It has less to do with the actual photon proportions (the 'true colour') and more to do with how our brain interprets it. Colour is subjective in many cases, and can be affected greatly by context and lighting. Our minds try to filter out the affects of lighting and so...
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    What color is this dress??? (the interwebs are asploding)......

    Yes we have. #Redandyellow Edited for communist colours.
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    What color is this dress??? (the interwebs are asploding)......

    This is the best part for me. How hilariously self centered and arrogant people are. I experience life in this way therefor that is the only way life can be experienced correctly. Applies to so many things in the world; politics, science, health, sports, etc. But it takes a silly picture to...
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    Searching for short video cards for ITX gaming build

    I bought my brother the zotac 970 pictured above for Christmas. It is quite quiet during gaming and so far it has remained quite cool (when I installed it and tested it it was peaking in the low 70s during short gaming and was not audible , especially compared to his old 6950). This is...
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    Fake WIFI Hotspots

    The other day a coworker was telling me about a device their kid (well, grown up now) saw in a snow bank outside of a busy retirement home. Now they are not all that tech savvy, but the description "a box with blinking lights on it and a wire up to something on a telephone pole" immediately...
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    Intel Takes Lead In SV Diversity Push (What Will Happen To CPU Design)

    The write-only-memory joke was 30 years old when I was in school. I'm glad it is still shown around and laughed at today. Good times.
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    Intel Takes Lead In SV Diversity Push (What Will Happen To CPU Design)

    You are correct. It was a bit of a stretch and certainly an emotional response, not a rational one. Though I think that in this day and age believing that tripe requires irrational hatred or dislike it is not necessarily evidence of the hatred or dislike.
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    Intel Takes Lead In SV Diversity Push (What Will Happen To CPU Design)

    Of course I don't, but you hear stories like that frequently enough from women in the field. It may not be utterly common but happening once is too much. It was all over the news last summer that almost a quarter of women in the field have suffered sexual assault during work, and 2/3 harassment...
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    Intel Takes Lead In SV Diversity Push (What Will Happen To CPU Design)

    P&N is over there <--- I can't fathom that someone could seriously be this sexist in 2015. Edit: in light of sleeping on it, others are right that using mysogonistic to describe ignorance like that isn't correct. Mind numbing it may be, he never said anything that requires hatred of women for...
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    No, you may NOT have a Big Bang. Singularity? Forget it!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsPheErBj8 But cool stuff. The stack of physics books from undergrad that are largely no longer relevant grows every year (well, its not like optics changes but boy are the semiconductor examples hilarious now) :) I always new us Canadians had a great...
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    Intel Takes Lead In SV Diversity Push (What Will Happen To CPU Design)

    These programs are not about (at least at intelligent companies) putting mandated numbers of particular minorities into positions of technical skill. They are about making the field you do business in more attractive to those highly intelligent groups that currently choose not to follow that...
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    Wheel of Time TV pilot

    The human condition, summed up so concisely. I admit that I read all of them, and loved the world and story so much I basically skim and ignore most of the literary failings. High literature it is not, but I've never read a series that better fosters fun escapism. It is after all supposed to be...
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    taking vacation when quitting a job

    As far as I'm concerned vacation is part of the pay and anything you earn you should get. That is a legal requirement around here (at least to a minimum). The last time I left a job there was not even a debate with HR. I got a cheque with my last weeks pay and a buy out of all of my vacation.
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    Four Retailers told to stop selling herbal supplements

    Huh, I knew there were certain things you could buy in the USA that you can't get here in Canada but I didn't realize how different the regulations were. They are quite strictly regulated here, requiring both a manufacturing/import license and a product license for (legal) sale granted only...
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    Our public schools suck! Adults that cant do math...

    http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2208 That comic hangs on my wall at work for me to point to when someone gets pedantic (i.e. several times a day) I assume that anyone who doesnt realise 3(4+5) is (usually) short hand for (3*(4+5)) and not 3*(4+5) has never studied physics :) My grade 5 teacher...
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    Many theaters pull The Interview due to hacker threats

    wait wait wait. Hackers prevented another Seth Rogen film from being released and we are upset? I'm afraid I don't understand. Could someone explain how this is bad using paint and smaller words maybe?
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    SoA bit-part actor kills/eats girlfriend's pet rabbit...

    There is a wee bit of a difference between hunting a rabbit and, allegedly, killing someone's pet rabbit out of spite, and then threatening them with the same fate...