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by Nursie 1y ago
> never sign any executable that can boot on shipped hardware unless you'd be ok with everyone running it on shipped hardware. How about if, when the lead engineers are on holiday, you ship the first batch of production units with a
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by Nursie 1y ago
Look at what happened with PCBs… in much of the world, nothing. I was pretty shocked to discover quite recently that in the UK you are advised to eat two portions of oily fish per week, for your health. But no more because of the levels of
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by Nursie 1y ago
> If there exists any number of people willing to buy small phones, then the statement "you have people who want them to fit in your hand" is true. But the subtext is that this is enough of a population to make a viable market,
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by Nursie 1y ago
I just bought my third dock/hub thing. I've been on a Macbook M1 Air for the last few years and wanted multiple screens, so I got a USB 3 hub (Dell D6000) which does DisplayLink. I had almost everything hooked in there, but still
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by Nursie 1y ago
When I first saw the ad on tv, my reaction was "Holy moley, wow, who's going to buy that monstrosity?" And then a few weeks later I bought one. All the guys in my office laughed and said "Wow, look at that huge thing, it
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Yeah fair enough. At the moment the pro max is a sweet spot for me, but we'll see over time.
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by Nursie 1y ago
I don't think it's meaningful. There are not enough people who would buy such a device to make it profitable to design and manufacture. Your priors - "You have ... people who want them to fit in your hand" Are incorrect.
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> Does everyone use their phone with two hands A lot of us do, yes. > and carry a bag everywhere? As a guy in 36" waist jeans (yeah I need to lose a few kg)... I can fit an iphone 16 pro max in my pocket pretty comfortably. >
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> What's going on? You're in a minority, it's not profitable to cater to you, and most people don't care. That's the cold hard truth of it.
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I want larger phones because I am at that particular stage of middle age where I should probably start using reading glasses, but I'm also damned if I'm going to start carrying reading glasses everywhere with me. Larger screen = e
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Also wanted to add that while I think this is very clever, and I am a big fan of Mr Tatham's work, that by the time we're talking about the 'advanced' version at the end we're edging towards using a stack-based syst
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Sure, I guess I just wanted to point out that regardless of method, people have been building these sorts of facilities in C for a very long time. It doesn’t lessen the achievement of course, but it amuses me an in “everything old is new ag
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Cooperative multithreading via setjmp and longjmp has been around in C since the 80s at least. I’m not sure this is so much hacking as an accepted technique from the old-old days which has somewhat fallen out of favour, especially as C is f
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It’s very US-centric for a start. In other countries we went from “that looks bad in China” to “shit, it spread to Italy now, we really need to worry” And with masks we went from “we don’t think they’re necessary, handwashing seems more imp
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You’re not wrong, I guess my point is that “the community” that produces guides and tools may be wider than the specific popular device, whether deliberately or by accident. Everyone does start somewhere, and as much as the breathlessness o
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On the one hand, sure it has a big effect, especially with hardware addons. But on the other, I think this is overstated, I lose count of how many "How to X on Raspberry Pi" pages I've seen that were really "How to X on
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Reading mode in Firefox worked fine for me on this one.
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I guess it's a piece of history now!
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Ha! I hadn't thought of it that way but you have a point :)
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It's interesting to think about, and yes, I would think it's more accurate to consider that homo (sapiens) neanderthalensis are part of what became us, and in that case it seems odd/wrong to talk about them being outcompeted
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How so? Not that I disbelieve, I just wasn't especially picking that up from the article.
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LOL. I’ll take declining relevancy over (in order of badness) AI results that - Badly summarise articles. Outright invent local attractions that don’t exist. Gave subtly wrong, misleading advice about employment rights. All while coming ac
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by Nursie 1y ago
I used to run a zfs setup with an ssd for L2ARC and SLOG. Can’t tell you how it worked out performance-wise, because I didn’t really benchmark it. But it was easy enough to set up. These days I just use SATA SSDs for the whole array.
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by Nursie 1y ago
> writing emails or whatever, I want it to be my voice Right?! One of the ads I saw for AI assisted comms recently was an example of making copy for a newsletter for a cupcake shop, who have a new flavour. You tell it that and it spins a
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It’s right I don’t want AI in my email client. Gmail now summarises threads, but I didn’t ask for that, and I have no reason to trust it any more than the frequently bullshit AI search results. It still astounds me that the dominant search
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by Nursie 1y ago
What if the view is "advertising should be within the law of the country it's being displayed in and not contain fake celebrity endorsements or blatant lies"? Because AFAICT some of the big platforms are failing at this, befo
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I'm a fan of the Gibb River Road in northern Western Australia, it's around as long, has some beautiful gorges along the way for a little swimming, there's a river crossing at the Pentecost. There are a few campsites along th
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Yeah, Western Australia. And of course not! As mentioned - the rule has even recently been extended to 'protect' people like us who live semi off-grid, with rainwater capture for drinking and a septic system. Australians really se
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I went as far as to look up the last ‘consultation’ on this, and yep, all down to the plumbing lobby, expressing their horror that the general public could be ripped off, scammed even, by unqualified “handymen”, so it must remain illegal to
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Yeah, here in WA at least, there are signs up in the plumbing section of Bunnings saying “Stop! DIY plumbing is illegal! Only buy this stuff if you’re getting a professional to fit it!” The reasoning is often “people might contaminate the w

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