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by aduitsis 5y ago
But let us please note that the choice of α (low pass filter gain constant) in the original round trip estimator of the TCP congestion avoidance algorithm by Van Jacobson is not arbitrary.
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by aduitsis 5y ago
dig +trace messenger.com shows that all is well with the root DNS servers and dig @a.ns.facebook.com messenger.com ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached and also ping a.ns.facebook.com 3 packets transmi
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by aduitsis 5y ago
Hah, Greek time zone eh?
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by aduitsis 5y ago
One would dare say that an overwhelming majority of people does have morals. But a very small minority that doesn't have morals, is causing the illusion that it's most people that don't have them.
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by aduitsis 5y ago
Greek here, I nearly spit my coffee with this :).
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by aduitsis 5y ago
I live in an urban area in a EU country. Some thoughts: * There is a huge subset of motorized vehicles that are spending a considerable percentage of their daily time on the road. Thinking about taxis, buses, trucks, etc. * A large percenta
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by aduitsis 5y ago
Oh! "Apple I" is considered obsolete :)
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by aduitsis 5y ago
A staggering percentage of applications today, regardless of platform (native, mobile, web) can be fully implemented, as regards their UI, with the usual set of UI widgets such as text boxes, dropdown lists, radio boxes, buttons, etc. These
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by aduitsis 5y ago
Control the volume? How about having sound at all? :) Intel mac, usb-c sound to an external 4k monitor used to work flawlessly in Mojave. Big Sur, stopped working.
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by aduitsis 5y ago
Quite correct, both sides are clearly visible and there might be some point to using containers anyway. But there's a bigger issue here. The comments the OP received, are heavily worded to the point that they explicitly state that the
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by aduitsis 5y ago
Mildly off-topic note, the parent is the author of CloudABI ( https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudlibc ), which was (in my opinion) a truly brilliant approach to running untrusted code in a FreeBSD system.
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by aduitsis 5y ago
Correct me, but I'd dare say admins have been rebooting their machines and running services without geographic redundancy for decades. Uptime was still very high.
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by aduitsis 5y ago
Very insightful comment on the data rate, if you can't feed the LTO properly, it may be stopping and starting all the time, which could have a detrimental effect to its mechanism. But this is probably easily fixed by spooling (using ba
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by aduitsis 5y ago
Please take a look at Carton too.
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by aduitsis 5y ago
I can see in the page that last PDL release was on February, okay. Probably the presence of activity indicates that there are people using PDL, and more than that, maintaining it. Since PDL existed for many years, I would speculate that the
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by aduitsis 5y ago
Hey fellow European. Please allow me to thank you deeply for that. You cannot be held responsible for anything that some people 3 generations before yours did, but nevertheless your sense of responsibility is really truly inspiring.
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by aduitsis 5y ago
Yip, same here, 4K is not affected, but QHD is.
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by aduitsis 5y ago
I know you're not going to like it, but you can make it go away by switching to a slightly lower resolution. So the external monitor will be doing the scaling. It's slightly fuzzy, but the quietness is golden.
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by aduitsis 5y ago
Regarding the point in the article mentioning the fans starting to spin at the drop of a hat: The macbook pro i9 16", albeit a fabulous device in almost every aspect, has a bug: Connecting an external monitor at QHD will send the discr
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by aduitsis 5y ago
Allow me to say it's slightly different, because you could basically tell the difference by just looking at the connector carefully. The knowledge that if it connects, it'll 99.9% work is too ingrained in all of us. Usb-c breaks t
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by aduitsis 5y ago
I dare say the important part is being able to come up with experiments that, if successful, would disprove a theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
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by aduitsis 5y ago
First of all, congratulations to the team of Ansible and these tools have benefited us in numerous ways that cannot be understated. Having said that, this caught my eye: > There may be backwards incompatibilities in the core playbook lan
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by aduitsis 5y ago
> Pretty much the only case shared libraries really make sense is for truly standardized system libraries that are everywhere, and are part of the base distro. I dare say this also adds credit to the approach of FreeBSD, where the base s
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by aduitsis 5y ago
I remember Sun Solaris workstations where the Display PostScript logo was visible when the X server was starting!
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by aduitsis 5y ago
Hello, it's not like every venue will be hard pressed to accommodate QUIC quickly, right? Please consider that today, in 2021, IPv4 is still the only thing supported in many venues. It took almost 20 years for IPv6 to become universal
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by aduitsis 6y ago
The fact that XWayland's "performance should be roughly on-par with native X11" probably solidifies rather than weakens the position of X11 as the de facto display protocol. If everything that uses X11 today can be used on to
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by aduitsis 6y ago
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
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by aduitsis 6y ago
Now people are getting worried Python may become like Perl :). With all due respect to your (otherwise perfectly valid) argument, "there's more than one way to do it" was never a real problem with people using Perl. I dare sa
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by aduitsis 6y ago
I would hazard a guess that fork is nowadays implemented by the clone(2) system call, which does use copy-on-write depending on its arguments. It's possible that there are deep assumptions in the Linux code that some fundamental softwa
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by aduitsis 6y ago
I started using Perl in 2000 to rescue my diploma thesis (which was Java and C). I was working on a piece of software that was to communicate with another system that was the subject of another sister-thesis. The person working on the siste

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