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by Maakuth 6y ago
This is common misconception, but in fact since Windows 3.x there was a kernel that did a lot of stuff but made it look like DOS was in control. This was in effect a virtual machine implementation, to make DOS apps behave correctly under mu
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by Maakuth 6y ago
My understanding is that the major issue with these WD drives is that they try to hide the fact that they are SMR. For desktop workload or similar, it's relatively okay, because there's some part of the disk that's CMR (the t
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by Maakuth 6y ago
Even the cheapest things are, by definition, not available in famine. Being fat is pretty clear indicator that you have not been recently suffering from famine.
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by Maakuth 6y ago
Yes indeed. WSL 2 launched a few weeks ago with the latest Windows 10 version, and it has different sort of filesystem setup. WSL 1 had a Linux-like view of some subdirectory of the host NTFS filesystem, so all the fs IO went through Window
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by Maakuth 6y ago
Not to mention the biggest public company in the world, alternating with Apple.
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by Maakuth 6y ago
His page seems to be melting under HN effect (was: Slashdot effect), luckily IA seems to have a copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20200504111506/https://www.tbray...
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by Maakuth 7y ago
I imagine many are also able to identify with "White and Nerdy": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw
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by Maakuth 7y ago
I've used Jitsi Meet with ordinary (that is, non-IT) people without trouble.I've also recommended it to elementary school teachers, who have been happy with it. It works with desktop browser, on mobile it offers a minimal app inst
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by Maakuth 7y ago
All Office 365 company customers were also dormant Teams customers. There's a lot of these companies and some non-trivial portion of those have now become active Teams users. That probably drives a big portion of the increased conferen
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Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?(snopes.com)
41 points by Maakuth 7y ago|21 comments
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by Maakuth 7y ago
I have used a number of Markus-chairs and they are pretty good indeed, and not that expensive. The most surprising thing was when the cylinder in mine, after years of use, started to slowly drift (some internal gasket leaking or something)
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by Maakuth 7y ago
IIRC the recommended way to provide possibly missing storage drivers to Windows XP installer was via floppy disk. XP was the go to Windows version in practice until Windows 7 release in 2009!
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by Maakuth 7y ago
It's not a surprise to me that there's a manual and that it's even on the device :). But it seems like an iOS design pattern to keep this stuff hidden. I think it's okay for things that rarely happen by accident (multi-f
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by Maakuth 7y ago
> How would anyone ever figure out how to split-screen multitask on the iPad if they didn’t already know how to do it? I actually recently got my first personal iOS (okay, iPadOS) device and this is how I feel about many of the UI featur
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by Maakuth 7y ago
Thanks for the correction. Probably others have also confused these two features.
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by Maakuth 7y ago
The default was to submit all Unity launcher searches to Amazon to populate the desktop search with items sold in Amazon.
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by Maakuth 7y ago
Justin Frankel, of WinAmp fame, founded Cockos, the REAPER company, and is still the leader there ( https://www.cockos.com/team.php )
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by Maakuth 7y ago
On the other hand, what do you think her Pokédex look like!?
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by Maakuth 7y ago
Notepad++ (for Windows, there's similar things for other platforms) at least has ability to transparently deal with remote connections, maybe that would be good option here.
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by Maakuth 7y ago
Also there's likely a lot of bitcoin that's known to be connected with illegal activities, say drug business and ransomware. I suppose there's ways to launder them, but it's not necessarily cheap or easy. That sort of bi
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by Maakuth 7y ago
I think the goal should be to establish open ecosystem for those devices. That way cheap Chinese devices wouldn't be competition, but the entry-level offering to this ecosystem. Then this company would focus on higher-end devices, serv
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by Maakuth 7y ago
It's not really a privilege escalation, but a method for completely bypassing memory protection. So keeping cryptographic verification outside the CPU is not enough, if you end up having your sensitive data in the RAM anyway.
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by Maakuth 7y ago
On the other hand, you could connect 12V lights in series to get them the desired voltage.
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by Maakuth 7y ago
Yes. So there's smaller difference in wind power generation total output when you sum across larger area. The same is true for solar generation to some extent, but of course it's dark in the night across the whole Europe.
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by Maakuth 7y ago
I think increased interconnects are the way to go, but don't mind adding nuclear capacity. It's worth noting though, that Norway is quite an exception in their hydro capacity, as there is so much height differences in their terrai
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by Maakuth 7y ago
Also there's no neat way to unsubscribe, you need to convince somebody via chat that you really don't want the subscription anymore. This seems quite toxic pattern and will keep me from subscribing to services doing this, such as
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by Maakuth 7y ago
Not sure if you intentionally mentioned both, but it's worth noting that G.E. is General Electric, not General Motors.
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by Maakuth 7y ago
Isn't the proliferation of multiple GNSS constellations actually quite positive thing? The smartphone geolocation chips seem to have no problem receiving signals from all constellations. So effectively this competition between the syst
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by Maakuth 7y ago
Here's an article about it. According to this piece, 737 avionics run on a pair of 80286s. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/06/boeings-software-fix-f...
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by Maakuth 7y ago
No car company implies that drunk driver would be safer than myself behind the wheel, and I should let her drive instead.

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