MenhirMike

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by MenhirMike 3y ago
LiMux (Linux for Munich) was started in 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux Of course, Microsoft did some of their... persuation of politicians and initially killed the project in 2017, but it seems that since 20
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Oh yeah, no objections on the principle: DisplayPort is awesome. The regular DP connector is fine because at least it locks in (sometimes too well), and MiniDP has been pretty great (especially when chaining multiple monitors on systems tha
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Hallelujah!
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
How many 65" Displays with Display Port are there? Also, don't nVidia GPUs only support the nearly 10 year old Display Port 1.4, which doesn't support variable refresh rates for high resolution/high framerate displays? S
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Yeah, the whole Wireguard nonsense showed that Netgate is not a serious company and that pfSense is not a serious project. It's trash that belongs onto the garbage heap of history. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
We already have that ability, both Unity and Unreal can run in the browser (though it looks like Unreal moved their HTML5 stuff into a public plugin). I think Godot also works if you don't use C# and stick to GDScript, or use Godot 3.x
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Even the US Government starts by making a small test transaction because they can't trust to get it right the first time around :D
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Curious, what challenges would git still have to deal with to work with big repos? 500 GB isn't all that much data in 2024, as long as you can resume a broken network connection on fetch (like using HTTP range requests if using http, a
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Looking forward to EEVblog showcasing why this is once again a cash grab that has zero chance to actually work.
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
The question - just like always in cases like this - is which forks will get long-term support. So just like with Terraform, it's probably a good option to stay on the last open source Redis version and wait to see how things shake out
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
I agree, the ROMED8-2T has everything I want and compromises almost nothing. One of the PCI Express slots is shared with one of the on-board M.2 slots, SATA, and Oculink, but even then, you get to choose: Run the slot at x16 and turn off M2
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Only works on the original motherboard (or maybe only motherboards made by the specific vendor the CPU was locked to) - so if you buy a used vendor-locked CPU, there's a risk it's basically just a nice looking paperweight. Serve T
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
It's one of the funny things of the Raspberry Pi Pico W: The Infineon CYW4343 has an integrated ARM Cortex-M3 CPU, so the WiFi/BT chip is technically more advanced than the actual RP2040 (which is a Cortex-M0+) and also has more b
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
I wanted remote management (IPMI), which none of the Threadripper boards offered. I went with the ASRock Rack ROMED8-2T, which also has 2x 10G Ethernet on board, which was another nice thing I didn't have to sacrifice a PCIe slot for.
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
John Tyler was born on March 29, 1790 and served as the 10th President of the USA from 1841-1845. His Grandson, Harrison Ruffin Tyler (Born November 9, 1928), is still alive today.
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Still rocking my EPYC 7282 in my home server, which really sits in a sweet spots: 16 Cores, about $700, 120W TDP (because of the reduced memory bandwidth). Looks like the 7303 fills that same niche in the Milan generation (and should be com
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
I think so too - it must have been a great learning experience for him though, but for me, the idea of "The best C64-like computer that ever existed" died pretty quickly. He also did run into a similar problem that I ran into when
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
I was about to recommend the Parallax Propeller (the first one that's available in DIP format), but arguably, that one is way more complex to program for (and also significantly more powerful, and at that point you might as well look i
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
It's a good point - I was more talking about society as a whole, since we didn't collapse. And we wouldn't collapse if some Quartz mind in North Carolina closes either. But yes, on an individual level, it can be severe. Like
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
I agree that it wouldn't be catastrophic, but we just saw a semiconductor shortage during COVID. For a lot of us end-users, that mainly meant that we couldn't get a Raspberry Pi, but it did affect some industries where a lot of Mi
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
> It strikes me that westerners have lost the roots of their culture and are having to relearn it from elsewhere. Rome defeating Carthage was legitimately one of the worst things that ever happened in history.
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Don't even have to go back to the 90s, just recently Microsoft pulled that with AppGet.
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
I guess that after the Adobe acquisition failed and their leadership missing out on those sweet, sweet billions of exit dollars, they now decided to do what Adobe would've done anyway, squeeze out as much money as possible as quickly a
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Yep, especially because those three people are not sitting at their computers, doing work to advance the investigation themselves. Even when I was still working in an office, coordinating incidents through a Google Hangout and a Google Doc
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Opening up the homepage shows me 1 (in words: ONE) item because it insists on expanding (and autoplaying) images/videos immediately. Old Reddit shows me 9 items (plus one paid ad) on that same screen. Maybe they got rid of some rough e
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
It's one of the reasons I prefer monorepos in practice. Especially if you use something like GitHub Enterprise, the cross-repo experience in terrible. In theory, many repos is better than a monorepo. In actual practice, most tooling on
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
I am honestly surprised that it is still around, I expected them to kill it off once they hopped into the "We want to be Instagram" train with the new design and give it maybe a month or three. Who knows, maybe they just can'
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
> Power is applied to the chip, and the RUN pin is high. The chip will be held in reset for as long as RUN is not high. Is that a typo, or do I not understand this? Should it be "as long as RUN is high"? Because I assume that t
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Oh, nice, thank you! That is pretty recent, so I missed it when I setup my stuff a year ago, but that'll teach me to read the patch notes in the future :)
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Intel's desktop CPUs do not support ECC, you need a Xeon for that. The Xeon E would be their cheapest option, if you're okay with 20 PCIe lanes on a Raptor Lake Xeon. And yeah, AMD's Desktop ECC support is sketchy because it&

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