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by ansible 5y ago
> "you don't have a backup plan until you've tested it" Yep. Though that's what makes small-shop disk-to-disk backups easy, depending on the backup software used. We use rsnapshot, which uses rsync and "c
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by ansible 5y ago
Most of their products I would consider too big for thumb typing while standing. The Micro PC seems about right though with a 6in screen. https://www.gpd.hk/gpdmicropc Apparently not for sale new anymore, and it seemed expe
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by ansible 5y ago
Yep. For one game, the launcher screen depends on an old version of a Microsoft .NET runtime that is no longer distributed by Microsoft, and the current version (theoretically compatible) is disallowed because the launcher has apparently ha
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by ansible 5y ago
Ah, yes. If you're standing, then something much more compact makes a lot of sense. I wouldn't mind seeing something with the same form factor as the GPD Win3, but using a relatively low-power processor for better battery life. I
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by ansible 5y ago
I've tried to do work on various pocket-sized computers over the years (HP LX100 palmtop, Motorola Q, HTC G1, Samsung Sidekick 4G) and various netbooks and such. The most productive device I've had is an Acer Chromebook. For me it
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by ansible 5y ago
There should also be a national database for police officers to register with, maintained by the FBI (or somebody in the Justice Department). So you can't have cops that have been fired (for cause) in one jurisdiction just move somewhe
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by ansible 5y ago
In my state, it is the state police that have jurisdiction over all highways. For example, if you have a car accident, Based on where it is, the 911 people will dispatch the city, county or state police.
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by ansible 5y ago
> They totally botched the rewards system... If the stupid, tacked-on reward crap wasn't there, everyone would just be enjoying a fantastic online shooter. Ah, I remember the old days, when you "won" by having your side
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by ansible 5y ago
I view COVID-19 as relatively uniquely able to become a global pandemic. 1. Delayed onset of symptoms. That you can spread the disease for a couple days before you first have symptoms has caused so much spreading. If, instead, people wer
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by ansible 5y ago
Yeah, that one has really thrown me for a loop. Just how willing a large segment of the population can be to "score points" against the other side... by killing themselves. It is kind of funny, the pandemic could have been politi
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by ansible 5y ago
I don't drive a Subaru, but it can be a problem on other makes as well.
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by ansible 5y ago
> ... you can pretty safely ignore any routine oil checking and just change it every year... No, no, no, no, no. Stretch the oil change intervals a little if you have to, but you need to check the oil on a regular basis. The oil level
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by ansible 5y ago
> ... not when the engine dies which is probably the last thing to go. The engine can be the last thing to go, if you are good about checking and changing your oil. If you let the oil run low, or let it sludge up, or don't promptl
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by ansible 5y ago
I am under the impression that no-std code is primarily the concern of embedded systems that might not have much of an OS [1] at all, nevermind a suite of system calls to Linux. [1] Like a typical RTOS, that may provide some basic communica
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by ansible 5y ago
The goal is to get this is merged into Rust's std library, they wouldn't write std on top of Rustix. > Wonder if that means it would be easier to verify the correctness of `unsafe` use inside Rust itself? If you mean usage
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by ansible 5y ago
> Free housing, food, health care ... Shitty housing, unhealthy, often poorly prepared food, and frequently inadequate health care... when it isn't denied outright. Being a prisoner in the USA, especially an elderly one, is terrib
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by ansible 5y ago
Steering geometry on a motorcycle is very important, and getting it slightly wrong will make it hard / impossible to balance and steer. Actually, this is true for a bicycle as well.
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by ansible 5y ago
I was looking at the careers page, but it was the same as the home page. This was Firefox / desktop, and the same on Chrome / Android.
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by ansible 5y ago
> I was more productive with phones that had a physical QWERTY keyboard I miss those too. My favorite was the Samsung Sidekick 4G. I was able to modify the keyboard map to include the missing ASCII characters, and actually did a little
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by ansible 5y ago
Given that they need to be sterile and dust-free when you use them... I don't think so. Otherwise you are just causing more problems for your eyes.
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by ansible 5y ago
I assume that toting along a SFF desktop is a non-starter? Assuming you can get any GPU at a reasonable price, it is possible to build a relatively small and light desktop for less than a gaming laptop, and still get better performance.
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by ansible 5y ago
Yes. If there is economic demand (millions of homeless buying food) even a marginally efficient market will invest in the businesses that service that market. A business servicing that demand doesn't really care if the investment money
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by ansible 5y ago
If whoever "owns" the BTC gets the fork as desired, and then tries to sell the BTC, that will massively decrease the conversion rate to fiat money (like USD). So for everyone in the current network, it is in their best interests
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by ansible 5y ago
> SiFive's primary business is selling their cores as FPGA IP. Their primary business is selling IP to be incorporated into SoCs and other chip designs. The FPGA market is very limited by comparison.
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by ansible 5y ago
Any Lego piece with a clip has been a problem since inception. The worst were those grey pieces with clips on both ends and a 150-degree bend in the middle. So easy to break.
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by ansible 5y ago
> I have no clue about flags but why not just store the flags with the register? Each register would have 32+r bits where r is the number of flags. That sort of design can be done, but that just pushes the problem around. Let's lo
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by ansible 5y ago
> Any hardware adder provides almost for free the overflow detection output (at less than the cost of an extra bit, so less than 1/64 of a 64-bit adder). So anyone who thinks about an efficient hardware implementation would expose
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by ansible 5y ago
Two of the most important settings: Game mode. This turns off most/all the image processing, which greatly increases the lag. Overscan. Also turn it off. This zooms in the picture a little to crop out artifacts around the edge.
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by ansible 5y ago
> It's kind of weird and a little unpleasant at first ... One thing that helps is to warm up the water slightly so that it matches your body temperature.
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by ansible 5y ago
> ... let us know what could be clicked or right-clicked ... Oh my gosh, yes. This is what drives me to distraction with recent Android releases. I'm tapping on things in the battery settings menu that used to do something, but

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