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by LukeShu 2y ago
Western Digital themselves are literally calling the WD_BLACK line their gaming line[1], and their page for the SN850X in particular is dripping with "gaming"[2]. Maybe that doesn't make it a bad comparison, but the SN850X is
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by LukeShu 2y ago
Counter-flow heat exchangers. A parallel-flow heat exchanger would result in the average, as you say; but a counter-flow exchanger means that as the formerly-warm air gets progressively cooler, it is exposed to progressively colder air.
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by LukeShu 2y ago
Counter-flow heat exchangers can be very efficient, without a heater or cooler attached. That said, I don't think I've seen a commercial ERV claim to be more than 80% efficient, so I'm skeptical of the 90% measurement. (I&#x
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by LukeShu 2y ago
Fairly standard language for describing what an ERV does. Low-CO2 outdoor air vs high-CO2 indoor air, if you prefer. Important for how air-tight modern energy-efficient construction is.
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by LukeShu 2y ago
Microcode updates came the very next generation with the Pentium Pro.
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by LukeShu 2y ago
> They were not actually created by the "engineers," as Shaw from Prometheus called the space jockey guys. They were created by David, the first synthetic sentient android created by Weyland, when he and Shaw hijacked an engine
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by LukeShu 2y ago
For those missing context: "Towns OS" was an operating system made by Fujitsu in 1989 (with the last release in 1995) for their "FM Towns" line of PCs. This is a Free clone of Towns OS, so that one can run Towns OS appl
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by LukeShu 2y ago
"$((" arithmetic expansion is POSIX (XCU 2.6.4 "Arithmetic Expansion"). But if I'm not mistaken, it originated in csh.
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by LukeShu 2y ago
This doesn't include the oddest of all: sigma. When lowercasing Σ (U+03A3 Greek capital letter sigma) it is context-sensitive (on whether it is at the end of a word) whether it becomes σ (U+03C3 Greek small letter sigma) or ς (U+03C2 G
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by LukeShu 2y ago
" is imperial inches, ' is imperial feet.
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by LukeShu 2y ago
Sixel graphics on the vt220 (1983) worked by defining a custom font of 10x10 px characters (9x10 in high-resolution mode), which you could then switch to for any given character. As far as I know, there is no terminal emulator that supports
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by LukeShu 2y ago
By default, mpv has vertical-scroll bound to volume and horizontal-scroll bound to scrubbing.
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by LukeShu 2y ago
I don't. Just 3 AI spiders put more load on our servers than all search engine spiders and all human traffic combined. Some numbers I have handy from before I blocked the bots: ClaudeBot drove more requests through our Redmine in a mon
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by LukeShu 2y ago
Sticker Mule is one of the major internet-order small-batch/on-demand custom sticker/T-shirt/swag suppliers. You may know them from "unixstickers". Following Trump getting shot, Sticker Mule send out a marketing em
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by LukeShu 2y ago
I'm not sure what you're thinking of, but there at least 3 prominent and still-relevant awk implementations: nawk (One True Awk / AT&T awk / BWK awk): the original awk, still maintained; is used by macOS, FreeBSD, Op
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by LukeShu 2y ago
But that doesn't refute the parent's point, does it? (If it has been edited since you wrote that, the version I see is "Unix's involvement with the development of the Internet was mainly through BSD, which was a UC Berke
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by LukeShu 2y ago
As far as I know, there were only 5 PPro computers that could take >4GB: Axil Northbridge NX801, Data General AV8600, HP NetServer LXr Pro8, NCR Worldmark 4380, or Unisys XR/6 Interestingly, while the Intel 450GX chipset was design
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by LukeShu 2y ago
Some uses of LD_PRELOAD off the top of my head: - GNU stdbuf (BSDs use an env-var instead of hijacking libc) - fakeroot - gprofng's data collector - For a long time it was necessary to use LD_PRELOADto hack around a bug in flashplayer
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by LukeShu 2y ago
> In this talk—and with this talk—I presented BoVeX, a new computer typesetting system that finally solves the AI alignment problem. It follows the tradition of Knuth's TeX, but with modern amenities such as requiring 128 gigabyte
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by LukeShu 2y ago
This should not have "(2007)" in the title; 2007 is the date of the GPL v3, which this is a 2024 mimicry of (as explained in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65FRxE7uMc ).
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by LukeShu 2y ago
> Fdroid still has the privileged extension Not on modern versions of Android.
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by LukeShu 2y ago
There is a well-maintained in-VCS less-disgusting version of Xpdf. It's called Poppler, and Apple chooses to not use it.
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by LukeShu 2y ago
There are no newer-than-803.11n cards that are usable with a Linux-libre kernel (which doesn't load binary blobs).
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by LukeShu 2y ago
You know what would be responsible scaling? Not DOSing random servers with ClaudeBot as you scale up.
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by LukeShu 2y ago
In addition to the documented+recommended format, it also supports a few others. But yeah, it's pretty picky about how the license statement is formatted.
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by LukeShu 2y ago
Many of us look at https://github.githubassets.com/favicons/favicon.svg at 16x16 every day, and wouldn't call it a blurry mess.
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by LukeShu 2y ago
> “What’s Windows 1.0?” It's a desktop environment for DOS that was released in 1985 :)
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by LukeShu 2y ago
The most obvious answer is `curl | sh`. But also perhaps a network blip interrupting curl/wget, but the user failing to notice and going ahead and executing the file anyway.
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by LukeShu 2y ago
Without a separate CLA or copyright assignment, the contributor retains the copyright to their code, and licenses it to the project under the terms of the GPL (or whatever license). The license is basically a legally-binding promise not to
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by LukeShu 2y ago
I think you're reading that backward. I'm reading it as: - (think the alt-transport or credits are good) -> accept -> don't get refunded - (think the alt-transport or credits are worthless) -> do not accept -> get

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