Maakuth

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by Maakuth 2y ago
In my case I tried to work on Windows with some ThinkPad 5ish years ago when I got annoyed of unrealiable docking behaviour on Linux. It turned out it was flaky hardware of firmware on the Lenovo dock and it didn't work appreciably bet
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by Maakuth 2y ago
I went through the list of open source licences in my VW ID and was pleasantly surprised that bash-completion is included. So when I gain shell in my car, I should be able to use tab completion! These lists are often quite interesting.
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by Maakuth 2y ago
Seconded. 1.44 megabytes is not that much, DSL was very impressive on that storage budget. I wonder how small a Linux system is possible these days, even without any GUI functionality.
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by Maakuth 2y ago
Intel connection was not the sole reason for Nokia's demise in phones, but it contributed on the failure of their effort to recover from the tailspin. Symbian their old mobile platform was clearly due to be replaced and they had a pret
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by Maakuth 2y ago
I would imagine OpenTTD also has a number of similar "rule tweaks". The OpenTTD engine AFAIK started as a direct reimplementation, but I think that too has evolved quite a bit.
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by Maakuth 2y ago
OpenRA – which is open source reimplementation of Red Alert, Dune 2000 and C&C Tiberian Dawn - has solved this by offering to fetch the shareware game and extracting the assets from there. Fully libre distributable assets would offer ev
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by Maakuth 2y ago
Is that true though? I think a bit part of the algorithm evolution is to combat undesirable forms of SEO. I would rolling back the algorithm to some older generation would make the results quite spammy.
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by Maakuth 2y ago
https://d07riv.github.io/diabloweb/ here's another one that's more integrated
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by Maakuth 2y ago
That's right, though deduplication feature is not the way to do it. The VM template would be a zvol, which is a block device backed by the lower levels of ZFS, and it would be cloned to a new zvol for each VM. Alternatively, if image f
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by Maakuth 2y ago
Certainly it makes sense to not have deep copies of VM base images, but the deduplication is not the right way to do it in ZFS. Instead, you can clone the base image and before changes it will take almost no space at all. This is thanks to
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by Maakuth 2y ago
And certainly it would require active cooling. TV with audible fans could be a hard sell!
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by Maakuth 2y ago
Yes, yes it is. My understanding is that it used to be spoken in a way closer to the written form, but it has drifted. And then there are all the loan words that retain at least some of their original pronunciation. Here's a fun clip a
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by Maakuth 2y ago
Element X is a totally new implementation, done in Rust. It's fast and nice but for now some features are missing compared to the old one.
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by Maakuth 2y ago
Thank you for the correction.
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by Maakuth 2y ago
You double the voltage and halve the resistance. With longer cables you can invest more in more expensive stuff at the ends to deal with the high voltage.
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by Maakuth 2y ago
With Spotify subcription hikes, one could buy a lot of music. Does a decent MP3 or FLAC store exists nowadays? For some specific albums it's nice to have the physical object of a CD, but in general I'd rather not buy the plastic d
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by Maakuth 2y ago
The electric motor is at least four times more economical in converting the stored energy into motion, so make it four battery swaps. Still bad for many uses, but not quite 16-fold.
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by Maakuth 2y ago
While that's technically correct (the best kind of correct!), I doubt a lot of natgas heatpumps are being installed in homes at the moment. I suppose the real economics are going to be better, as you probably need to make gas more expe
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by Maakuth 2y ago
Are heat pumps economical heating sources in Germany? Power there seems very expensive and natgas cheap. No wonder if there's pushback if you have to do expensive renovation and you don't even end up with lower operational expense
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by Maakuth 2y ago
For some fringe use cases one could drop a readily installed (and defragmented!) OS image to the tape and boot it up. I've only had some floppy tape drives and parallel-port attached Ditto. They didn't support random access, or at
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by Maakuth 2y ago
Even if we decided to stop all these and curtail datacenter power usage in other ways, decarbonising is certainly going to require increased electricity generation. Most oil and gas usage will be replaced with electrical alternatives. As th
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by Maakuth 2y ago
How long did it take? Seek times for tapes can be minutes, so fragmentation matters a great deal here.
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by Maakuth 2y ago
Those are impressive numbers. According to Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_commercial_batte... ), NMC goes up to 205Wh/kg and NCA up to 220Wh/kg. It's the same ballpark as LCO, the
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by Maakuth 2y ago
The batteries shouldn't be taken apart without proper equipment and processes. Disconnecting them from the vehicle though is not that complicated. I think the decommissioned batteries are going to be sent to specialized facilities whil
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by Maakuth 2y ago
Windows on ARM is a direct descendant of Windows RT, so I wouldn't say it has nothing to do with the latter. But it's a good to hear that the bootloader lock is no longer mandated.
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by Maakuth 2y ago
In Windows RT (Win8 for Arm) times, the "Designed for Windows" label specification had a requirement for locked down UEFI firmware, that only booted Microsoft signed kernels. That made Surface RTs Windows-only. I wonder if this is
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by Maakuth 2y ago
And we did, half a century earlier!
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by Maakuth 2y ago
Trolltech, whose main product Qt was, was listed in Oslo stock exchange from 2006 to the Nokia acquistion of 2008.
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by Maakuth 2y ago
Digia actually spun it off and Qt again is an independent publicly traded company. I suppose KDE community is the place to start looking for Qt open source resources.
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by Maakuth 2y ago
Could be! Adam Tooze's book about the Nazi regime's finances was a good read and there were details about this, but I might have misremembered ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/711592.The_Wages_of_Dest

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