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by MrRadar 7y ago
What's going on around the Great Lakes on that map? It looks like most of Michigan has been swallowed by them, significantly more land loss than I would think a 2m rise in water levels would cause. https://i.imgur.com/t
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by MrRadar 7y ago
Reading this article brought to mind one of my favorite radio stations, WOJB. It's located in rural northern Wisconsin. I live in Minnesota outside of its broadcasting range, but I always look forward to listening to it on my trips to
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by MrRadar 7y ago
I normally do not just stop like that, however the dig was so out of left field and so wrong it hit me like a cognitive segfault. If the sentence had been more germane to the topic at hand I probably would have continued on (though far more
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by MrRadar 7y ago
> But the real reason it’s as nutty as a AOC’s Green Deal ... I hit this and immediately stopped reading the article. First, it's the "Green New Deal". Second, it's not solely AOC's work (though she is probably
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by MrRadar 7y ago
Signatures absolutely do protect the user in this scenario. With mandatory signatures you can't get (obvious) malware into the browser without having it first approved by Mozilla (who should reject it upon review).
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by MrRadar 7y ago
I'm referring to native malware abusing admin privileges to install extensions without the user's consent, not users deliberately installing malware extensions themselves. This was particularly bad in the XP/Vista era (I know
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by MrRadar 7y ago
> A) Want to use unsigned addons to play around, or tweak your existing ones[1]? Nope, even if you allow them in about:config, you can't; you have to use a special development version and update it separately. Signatures were mandat
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by MrRadar 7y ago
This comment reminds me of one of my favorite pieces of Internet fiction titled Attention Deficit Disorder[1]. The original context was a thread where the OP was arguing for a literal "attention economy" and the story is meant
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by MrRadar 7y ago
> There are strong forces that need people to be in a constant state of worry. Power is derived from it. Who is "deriving power" from sounding the climate change alarm? The people with the most power (the wealthy) seem to be tr
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by MrRadar 7y ago
Ryzen has 24 PCIe lanes: 16 for graphics (can be split to 8/8), 4 for NVMe storage, and 4 for the chipset. So you get 4 more lanes compared to Intel's consumer platforms.
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by MrRadar 7y ago
Given the recent news about Tether's solvency issues I wonder if this is not partially due to a "run" on Tether exchanges. Back in the day just before MtGox collapsed, when its solvency issues were obvious but it was not yet
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What is ZIL anyway?(blog.zarfhome.com)
204 points by MrRadar 7y ago|72 comments
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by MrRadar 7y ago
I think some of that bad game design was economically driven or at least economically influenced. Firstly, if you judge the "value" of a game based on how long it takes to complete then having overly-complex/fiddly/obscu
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by MrRadar 8y ago
If you're never played System's Twilight before you can get a taste for it via in-browser emulation on the Internet Archive[1]. Note that the emulator doesn't support color or sound and the animations don't run at full s
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by MrRadar 8y ago
> The proposed addition of case-insensitive file-name lookups to the ext4 filesystem... Ugh, why? I thought the general consensus was that case-insensitive filesystems were a mistake. The article linked on that line is behind a paywall,
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by MrRadar 8y ago
In addition to this, on the blogs that were migrated to the new platform (such as Raymond Chen's Old New Thing) all of the comments have been purged. That's extremely unfortunate because those comments had a lot of useful technica
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by MrRadar 8y ago
I use them to run ArchiveTeam[1] projects (which consist of downloading data and then uploading it again, usually to the Internet Archive). For that purpose they work very well. When I initially set up my servers a few years ago I did have
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Zip Is Broken, Except It’s Not, Except It Is(blog.archive.org)
2 points by MrRadar 8y ago|0 comments
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by MrRadar 8y ago
I think that's a joke, especially since INTERCAL preceded Javascript even though the former is listed as a descendant of the latter.
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by MrRadar 8y ago
Yes, the safety equipment standards I listed are for new vehicles. Existing/used vehicles only need to comply with the standards that were in effect when they were new (and even then those standards are only enforced in the 15 states w
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by MrRadar 8y ago
It's because there are so many trucks and SUVs which can completely obscure people (especially children) under 5 ft (~1.5 m) from their rear windows when they are too close to the vehicle because the vehicles are so high off the ground
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by MrRadar 8y ago
"Road legal" has a different standard in the US. To sell a car in the US it must have airbags, ABS, electronic stability control, a backup camera (also implying a decently-large full-color display on the dashboard), and it must me
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by MrRadar 8y ago
That one only supports LTE Cat. M1 which is only suitable for IoT devices. As the datasheet indicates max downlink speeds are 300 kbps and there is no 2G or 3G support.
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by MrRadar 8y ago
If they go with that module I will be very disappointed since it has basically 2015-era LTE support (in terms of both bands and speed). Here are the variants and the bands they support[1]: > PLS8-E: LTE (20,8,3,7,1); 3G (8,3,1); 2G Dual
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by MrRadar 8y ago
On the other hand, using the system cryptographic RNG (/dev/urandom, CryptGenRandom) is probably less effort than it took to write this strange half-baked RNG.
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by MrRadar 8y ago
This is one of the reasons I'm looking forward to the Purism Librem 5. Running essentially standard GNU/Linux with mainline kernel drivers for all the peripherals means you're not dependent on any one entity to provide securi
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by MrRadar 8y ago
Objectively you are correct. However, as the rest of my comment indicates there are important marketing and brand-value perception reasons to have a true high-end card: how many professional gamers (streamers, e-sports, extreme overclockers
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by MrRadar 8y ago
I agree with you however as I explained in my reply to hedora there are important reasons why AMD should have a card in this performance class.
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by MrRadar 8y ago
I'm not saying that AMD's current cards are slouches (I'm planning to buy one myself this year when I build my next computer) but they certainly do not meet the performance bar set by Nvidia's current high-end models (th
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by MrRadar 8y ago
> I am definitely rooting for AMD to wow us next generation like they did in the CPU market. Don't set your expectations too high. Their next generation of consumer graphics cards, rumored to be announced at CES next week, are repor

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