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by axiolite 6y ago
The way to keep your open source code relevant and working is to submit it as a patch to a large project. If "printvideo" had been written as a video output method for mplayer, ffmpeg, vlc, etc, somebody would have been doing all
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by axiolite 6y ago
This is the wrong way to go. Put together a battery, monitor, keyboard and pointer in a foldable package, with an open space to drop-in and connect one of the many mini PCs out there. The "laptop" part could last for decades, whi
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by axiolite 6y ago
Beside natural gas, heat pumps have become popular. Ballpack a heat pump at about 1/3rd as much electricity for a given amount of heat, compared to a resistive heater. Even (larger capacity) hot water heaters come with heat pumps now
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by axiolite 6y ago
PDF.js is a nightmare. Horribly slow to load large documents, slow to scroll or search, and utterly fails in the bigges thing PDF has going for it... PDF.js often doesn't display or print out the PDF like the original (cutting off pa
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by axiolite 6y ago
Sounds like you reinvented mbuffer. http://www.maier-komor.de/mbuffer.html Why not publish yours as well? For other file systems (not ZFS), spd_readdir.so can offer a good performance boost. https://kernel.google
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by axiolite 6y ago
> Autocracies seem to be the most efficient form of governance Efficient in achieving a particular goal, sure, but the wisdom of crowds (and the market) is a thing, too. When the autocracy decides X will be the next big thing, and it is
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by axiolite 6y ago
> But the BASIC cartridge? It was the one cartridge, the one cartridge out of hundreds, perhaps thousands that existed at the time -- THAT WAS NOT A GAME !!! What about ET? Pretty sure that was some form of proto high-tech torture devi
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by axiolite 6y ago
> At some point, whatever's watching the watchers is going to be vulnerable to bitflip One advantage of microkernels is that the "watcher" is so small that it could be run directly from ROM, instead of loaded into RAM. Q
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by axiolite 6y ago
> 1. Keep your cat indoors. The low estimate for the number of birds killed in North America pet and feral cats is one billion birds a year. If your pet cat is spayed/neutered, it should be fine to allow them outside. They will not
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by axiolite 6y ago
> thought I made clear, MPEG-1/2 were unsuitable for streaming on consumer hardware of the era. The lowest practical bitrates for either was far higher than common dial-up rates. Neither spec supported Sub-QCIF frame sizes or frame
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by axiolite 6y ago
> “do your neighbors have basements?” If the answer is “no”, then it’s probably because digging is more trouble than it’s worth. Basements are popular in cold climates because footings already need to be dug several feet down to get belo
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by axiolite 6y ago
> Both MPEG-1/2 were unsuited for streaming as they didn't support variable frame rates and handled low dial-up bitrates poorly at best Nonsense. Variable frame rate is nothing but a very minor bandwidth saver. MPEG-1/2 h
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by axiolite 6y ago
Or maybe they have a bad reaction to a different ingredient common in Chinese restaurant food, and simply mis-identified it as an MSG allergy? And why exclude Asians who believe they have an MSG allergy? They should have an equal opportuni
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by axiolite 6y ago
"In modern-day digital terminology, NTSC VHS is roughly equivalent to 333×480 [...] while PAL VHS offers the equivalent of about 335×576 [...] S-VHS improved the horizontal luminance resolution to 400 lines" https://en.
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by axiolite 6y ago
> if your business model is free software, it needs to be monetized some other way Mutual self-interest is a good, solid business model. JPEG was developed long ago by a bunch of companies who needed a good, standard image format. Now
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by axiolite 6y ago
> And people fucking love it. That's their biggest "buffer". Yes, Apple has a strange cult appeal. Their customers are happy even when they are being exploited. > Disc drives, legacy ports, headphone jacks, blinking li
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by axiolite 6y ago
Market cap is just public opinion, one bit of negative press can destroy it. To handle failures you need cash on hand, which can't get suddenly erased. Apple has plenty, but not 2T.
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by axiolite 6y ago
> I will not take a pay cut to work on COBOL for a bank. You're probably just not the right type of personality. It seems that COBOL programmers have nice, slow paced, easy and safe jobs. That could be why there's so little hi
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by axiolite 6y ago
Those mechanical timers were bad. I remember having to turn them way up and then down, and their timing drifting and needing compensation. Sharp still sells commercial microwaves with a dial, but it's digital and so just works, like t
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by axiolite 6y ago
> The early 2000s is right on the steep upslope of DVD sales, famously encumbered by DRM. DVDs had weak DRM that was cracked in 1999. It was perhaps less of an encumbrance than the hassle and degredation of analog VHS tape, plus Macrovi
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by axiolite 6y ago
> If for example a credit card company changes one word in their terms & conditions PDF, it seems like 90% of document changes at the binary level. Convert to text with: pdftotext -layout
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by axiolite 6y ago
There's nothing special about PDF. Only reason PDF is useful is because it's easy to convert to/from Postscript and Adobe was pushing out a free viewer for PDFs but not Postscript files. That, and the difference in fees the
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by axiolite 6y ago
Downloading a Youtube video with youtube-dl IS NOT violating copyright in the USA. Downloading videos may violate Youtube's TOS, but that's civil/contract law and not criminal and so the DMCA can't be used to enforce suc
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by axiolite 6y ago
Water is not a constraint, it follows the same laws of supply and demand as other resources, and even when in demand, remains among the cheapest. It's actually very easy to reduce consumption (0.5 GPM faucets, 1 GPM showers and 0.7 GP
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by axiolite 6y ago
I started hitting issues quite some time ago. Such as generating long-term self-signed certificates for internal services. openssl x509 -req -days 7000 -in site.csr -signkey site.key -out site.crt Lots of software on 32-bit Linux sy