anilakar

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   by anilakar 3y ago

   Looks like they ninja edited the header picture. While the controls themselves were properly formatted, the Japanese text used normal horizontal left-to-right glyphs. Now four hours later they seem to be vertical as they should.
2. 242.▲
   by anilakar 3y ago

   But not an Enigma ciphertext, as it cannot map back to the same letter.
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   by anilakar 3y ago

   If exporting said pesticide was banned, people would be blaming EU for famine instead. Regarding your example, I have a concrete counterexample: Companies are already receiving blame for throwing expired food in the trash compactor instead
4. 244.▲
   by anilakar 3y ago

   I'm going one step further and arguing that if a function has no physical control, it's not essential but just a distraction and should be done away with.
5. 245.▲
   by anilakar 3y ago

   I tried the Microsoft Launcher and loved its functionality but hated the way they pushed Bing and other MS services and Android apps. Just like Outlook for Android is one of the best mail clients but the only way to get rid of ads is to sub
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   by anilakar 3y ago

   The CPU is a Ryzen 3700U so the accompanying GPU is RX Vega 10 as far as I can tell. FWIW, most of the issues happened with an alt mode display and/or USB-C dock plugged in. Very few issues when undocked, but as it is a work machine, i
7. 247.▲
   by anilakar 3y ago

   An AMD GPU on a Laptop that will primarily be used to run Linux? Gonna be a hard pass. I have been using a T495 since spring 2020 and only after upgrading to Fedora 39 in December have I been able to run it without having to reboot at least
8. 248.▲
   by anilakar 3y ago

   Ansible vault, anyone?
9. 249.▲
   by anilakar 3y ago

   Positioning of nozzles in the video suggests they're experimenting with a BLC system, not just nozzles placed in the extremities like in the Harrier jets.
10. 250.▲
    by anilakar 3y ago

    They checked in on the tower frequency after the landing clearance was given so they likely were on ground until that point.
11. 251.▲
    by anilakar 3y ago

    And suddenly the comment section is full of professional aviators.
12. 252.▲
    by anilakar 3y ago

    How so? Is there a sharp gradient in the boundary layer effect that makes it an on/off control system?
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    by anilakar 3y ago

    Hangs latest Firefox developer edition, could not get past the loading(?) screen.
14. 254.▲
    by anilakar 3y ago

    The player has five guesses. Four are enough to do a brute force binary search. Where's the fun?
15. 255.▲
    by anilakar 3y ago

    You just need to memorize this handy song then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpKbR_iHwio :-)
16. 256.▲
    by anilakar 3y ago

    Spawning a screen session by default is a good habit indeed. Especially on remote hosts when you are doing something critical.
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    by anilakar 3y ago

    Russian and Chinese ISPs are blocked on out network in the name of "security" as if real attackers would not use AWS or a western VPS provider. It is a pain when you need to download material from your hardware suppliers' web
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    by anilakar 3y ago

    They are apparantly allocated in a non-writable section. Non-const qualified string literals cannot* be modified in C either. The following snippet will cause a segfault: int main(void) { char *s = "abc"; s[0
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    by anilakar 3y ago

    Technically it is a self-certification program, since it's the device manufacturer who signs the certificate, but that's not the whole truth. A manufacturer still needs to prove compliance (in the case of the EMC directive, either
20. 260.▲
    by anilakar 3y ago

    Seeing that both the devs and target audience are in mainland China, they're used to rules and regulations being more like suggestions anyway.
21. 261.▲
    by anilakar 3y ago

    ...nor scammy AI generated videos. This morning I came across a bit clickbaity and alarmist netsec video in my feed. Watched it for a minute before I started to wonder why the otherwise completely natural voice said "asterisk" bet
22. 262.▲
    by anilakar 3y ago

    EBay is full of UK sellers who source stuff from China in bulk and then pass it off as genuine. This is in no way limited to electronic components.
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    by anilakar 3y ago

    I don't get it, are you supposed to have absolute pitch?
24. 264.▲
    by anilakar 3y ago

    You might have misunderstood what the list is for.
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    by anilakar 3y ago

    A ton of military aircraft flight manuals are unclassified but it does not mean you can freely buy them.
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    by anilakar 3y ago

    Good old summer cottage bath. Ours must be the luxury version since two buckets and a large scoop is the norm though.
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    by anilakar 3y ago

    I personally love blister packs, not for the packaging but because it makes great crafting material (for, say, plastic shims)
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    by anilakar 3y ago

    Please dont bring free speech into this. As everyone very well knows, it trumps everything else including basic human rights in a certain country.
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    by anilakar 3y ago

    >> Laws generally don't allow you to sell or otherwise relinquish your rights, > If you want to use it and not give up rights, pay money. Ahh, we are not asking you to sell. We are asking you to give them in exchange for servi
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    by anilakar 3y ago

    Or even worse, localized error messages. Good luck trying to 1:1 translate it back to English while remotely troubleshooting issues on your parents' computer.