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by 4cao 6y ago
Looks like it's the WPBT ACPI table again. Lenovo was caught doing the same back in 2015: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nas... Windows will just blindly execute the binary from
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by 4cao 6y ago
America attracts top talent from all around the world. China has a lot of domestic talent but struggles to put it to good use, and does not really have a compelling proposition for anybody coming from the outside. This I think is the bigges
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by 4cao 6y ago
The article is an interesting read as far as the history of the plane and various anecdotes about it are concerned but it doesn't really say why it's still so "badass" nowadays, after 60+ years: is it primarily (1) popul
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by 4cao 6y ago
> Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency, our phone lines are currently closed. Never realized they were contactable by phone until now but in any case why are the phone lines closed because of the virus? Does it spread by phone too
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by 4cao 6y ago
What is the point of this acquisition? The article says it's to "beef up Intel's Wi-Fi tech." But Killer's recent Wi-Fi adapters were essentially rebadged Intel hardware already: Killer AC1550 = Intel AC9260 Killer
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by 4cao 6y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something but isn't there already pretty much the same functionality available when you press just [Win] (instead of [Win]-[R]) and start typing? > Keys will be remapped as long as the Keyboard Manager and P
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by 4cao 6y ago
> The users says they hoped to, “shed a little bit of light on just how monopolised Reddit has become.” Seems this is just the latest development in some longer-running controversy regarding the (1) "monopolization" [1] and (2)
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by 4cao 6y ago
AMD motherboards don't seem very cheap. Did vendors really not include enough flash memory capacity so that adding support for new CPUs requires dropping older ones, or was this just a convenient excuse to make everyone upgrade? Anyway
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by 4cao 6y ago
Summarizing the findings: Penguin feces contain nitrogen, which is converted to N₂O, a greenhouse gas, by bacteria in the soil. This further increases the greenhouse effect as glaciers recede and more soil is exposed. Direct link to study:
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by 4cao 6y ago
> In addition to [reproduction number] R, scientists use a value called the dispersion factor (k), which describes how much a disease clusters. The lower k is, the more transmission comes from a small number of people. SARS (2005): k ~=
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by 4cao 6y ago
Thank you. In the meantime I also noticed the following comment from Dave Airlie on LKML [1]: > This is a driver that connects a binary blob interface in the Windows kernel drivers to a binary blob that you run inside a Linux guest. It&#
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by 4cao 6y ago
Is it really "DirectX on Linux," or more like "DirectX on Windows Subsystem for Linux?" Is it going to be useful for Linux in general, outside WSL?
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by 4cao 6y ago
It really seems like an overreaction. Eye, nose, and mouth protection is enough. Hazmat suits and plastic gloves are awful to wear for extended periods of time. And are they going to wear diapers too? Also, according to the photos, the mask
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From Fahrenheit 451 to “Censortech”(ftalphaville.ft.com)
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by 4cao 7y ago
Slight OT: PTT is an oldschool BBS. It's terminal-based (although there are ways to browse it via HTTP, [1] not just Telnet). I find it baffling someone could describe it as "Reddit-like." 1. https://www.ptt.cc&#x2
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by 4cao 7y ago
While it does make for an interesting read, most of the conclusions seem too far-fetched to me. In fact, I expect everything to be back to more or less where it was within a year or two, with only a couple of major lasting changes related t
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by 4cao 7y ago
> Although the repository was protected with a password, a misconfigured setting allowed anyone to register as a new user to log in to the system storing the code.
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by 4cao 7y ago
Ian Cutress's original comment the article is based on: https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1249819270537715719
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by 4cao 7y ago
It was an outlet, so most of the stuff is likely even older. For example there are Pro AudioSpectrum 16 boxes, [1] that's mid-1990s I think (I was on the lookout for Gravis Ultrasound). The reason the inventory was not liquidated earli
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by 4cao 7y ago
A quick reminder how to maintain your privacy while using Firefox (Windows pathnames): 1. Install Firefox with Internet disconnected. Do not install the Maintenance Service. Run once and then close it completely (Ctrl-Shift-Esc to check no
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by 4cao 7y ago
Exactly what I'd expect. There's also: > Don’t refer to Apple devices generically as "smartphones" or "tablets." > Don’t list Apple products that are not compatible with your app. > Don’t display a bla
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by 4cao 7y ago
From the article: (1) Rent for $0.20-1.20/mo - or - (2) Sell for $20-24 Sell/rent ratio is 17-120 months. These numbers seem very different than for real estate. It's as if the cost to rent a $1M property could be as high as
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by 4cao 7y ago
Thank you!
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by 4cao 7y ago
Thank you! Relevant clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXzNo0vR_dU
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by 4cao 7y ago
Great job. Got it! And the presentation that leads to it is hilarious in itself. How did you find it?
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by 4cao 7y ago
It's tic-tac-toe but with a reference that's obscure to me ("Greetings, Professor Falken").
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by 4cao 7y ago
Other than "General Tso's chicken" and "Chop suey," what else do you have in mind?
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by 4cao 7y ago
Telemetry data is stored in: "%ProgramData%\Microsoft\Diagnosis\Events_*.rbs" The paper describes the format of these files, and what data can be obtained from them, including a comparison with other sources of similar information
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by 4cao 7y ago
So much to explore, and so much fun: Defrag is a game of Snake with some old Nokia (I guess) monophonic ringtone playing in the background. "Manifest" is a randomly-generated hilarious equation, for example: "utf8 + doge = we
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by 4cao 7y ago
I managed to do that too (browser freezing until I closed the tab, also in Firefox) but there's supposed to be a proper BSoD. I found a screenshot of it: https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03

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