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by aftbit 2y ago
I really _want_ to like WezTerm but the font rendering just looks bad compared to Alacritty. I understand that this is a very personal feeling and plenty of people like the WezTerm way better... but not me. The author is not interested in t
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by aftbit 2y ago
I'm just saying, it's a strawman argument to claim that Apple is doing this to "protect users". That's what they want you to think, but they're actually doing this to make a massive amount of revenue at the cos
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by aftbit 2y ago
But then Apple could use their market power to remove those cheating apps from the app store, just like they are doing for the billing changes.
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by aftbit 2y ago
As a Patreon user who primarily subscribes on a per-creation basis, I will be ending all of my affected subscriptions if they make this change. That was kinda the whole point of Patreon for me. I can support my creators but only if they act
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by aftbit 2y ago
For example, with this part: https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data...
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by aftbit 2y ago
That's kinda weird too, as DEFCON does electronic badges every other year, so they would not really be able to delay this project until 2025, but would instead need to delay to 2026 and hire a different vendor for 2024.
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by aftbit 2y ago
Can I buy a badge or similar hardware after the con?
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by aftbit 2y ago
It's relatively cheap to get there from most places, and they have the space and facilities for conferences of this size.
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by aftbit 2y ago
My 2019 Subaru Outback will at least display things like "low fuel" and "low tire pressure" on the center display as well as on the drivers mini display. I haven't gotten into any check engine situations, or anythin
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by aftbit 2y ago
My understanding is that transport-class aircraft (i.e. large passenger jets) are typically landed differently than smaller planes like a Cessna Skyhawk or a glider. In my brief flight training experience in a small plane, I was taught to s
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by aftbit 2y ago
I'm not entirely sure I understand your comment, but "small molecule" is a drug discovery term of art, and includes things with relatively high molecular weights and complex formulae. Anything sub-1000 daltons is generally co
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by aftbit 2y ago
I'm not sure why this was flagged but I vouched because it does seem like an interesting point. I didn't finish The Americans but as I remember, one of the key tensions was between the dad who was coming to care more about living
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by aftbit 2y ago
IMO my expectation is that they not do that. If they want to offer hot-swappable batteries, they should either do it right (with a more functional battery management IC or a little homebrewed FET-switching circuit), or they should at least
734.
by aftbit 2y ago
Does anyone remember when the TVs on airplanes hung down from the ceiling and there was only one or maybe two movies on the flight? There was either nothing on the back of the seat, or there was a very expensive satellite telephone. I still
735.
by aftbit 2y ago
Now that I'd pay to see. If that happened where I worked, I would be so tempted to run the program again with my phone camera out. After telling everyone down-range to get lost of course. Now would I do it? No... definitely not, as lon
736.
by aftbit 2y ago
Well in a purely laissez-faire sense, of course. They can legally decide to refuse service to anyone for any reason, with a few narrowly protected exceptions like race. But that doesn't mean they _should_. They could choose to refuse s
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by aftbit 2y ago
The result of running the same on st for me: Benchmark 1: st -e true Time (mean ± σ): 35.4 ms ± 6.9 ms [User: 15.1 ms, System: 3.8 ms] Range (min … max): 24.2 ms … 65.2 ms 114 runs This is on awesome-wm
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by aftbit 2y ago
That's what eBay is for.
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by aftbit 2y ago
They basically do copyright enforcement in two cases: 1. Automatically, based almost entirely on sound, using ContentID - this is heavily weaponized, gamed, and generally over the top. 2. "Manually" (but really automatically) in r
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by aftbit 2y ago
For the same reason that every movie ends up ripped on piracy sites, but you still can't watch Netflix in 4k on Firefox on Linux. DRM doesn't work because it only takes one person to bypass it to make a copy, and caller ID verific
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by aftbit 2y ago
As someone who habitually roots my Android phones, I'm always somewhat annoyed when I can't use features like tap-to-pay, but I'm really annoyed when apps refuse to start, especially when they are for things like McDonalds. I
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by aftbit 2y ago
Upvote just for teaching me about the existence of `hyperfine`. $ hyperfine 'alacritty -e true' Benchmark 1: alacritty -e true Time (mean ± σ): 84.1 ms ± 4.9 ms [User: 40.1 ms, System: 30.8 ms] Rang
743.
by aftbit 2y ago
100% - banks were just a specific example that popped to mind immediately. If this bug had affected Linux Crowdstrike, we might have seen the opposite - people hard at work on their laptops trying to fix the production server outages. Proba
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by aftbit 2y ago
On the flip side, there are a lot of physical production systems (think CNC mills or 3d printer farms) where remote observability and management would be very handy, or where you'd really like to upload gcode files directly from your w
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by aftbit 2y ago
One interesting feature of this outage was that "PROD" was generally fine, on account of mostly running on Linux and/or ancient proprietary software, while "CORP" was generally wrecked, on account of mostly running
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by aftbit 2y ago
Well all you'd really need to do to avoid this outage is not run auto-updating proprietary kernel modules in the early anti-malware environment. Bare Windows 11 would have been fine - the problem was Crowdstrike.
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by aftbit 2y ago
Are you a lawyer with expertise in Philadelphia commercial law of the 1950s? I'm sure not, so I wouldn't want to take that fight. It was apparently easier for the company to just write the guy's name correctly. Or maybe Wikip
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by aftbit 2y ago
What if you want to create transcripts for 100s of hours of private recorded audio? I for one do not want to share that with the cloud providers and have it get used as training data or be subject to warrentless search under the third party
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by aftbit 2y ago
There's also a very real chance that commercial aviation may find itself operating in a GPS-denied environment, at least in various edge cases. For example, combat zones often employ GPS spoofing and jamming, and because radio waves do
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by aftbit 2y ago
He allegedly told the utility company that he wouldn't pay his bill unless they spelled his name correctly, which caused them to print it on three lines. Maybe this guy is just a walking software test case?

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