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by bArray 3y ago
My guess is that part of the error handling is appending to the logs. Maybe something like (I can't remember C#, so thinking about Java instead): try{ try{ windows_update_function_that_saves_to_disk(); }catch(
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by bArray 3y ago
Not really, I think it would be better to implement a series of smaller functions and utilize the stack [1]. That way you avoid lda and sta'ing tonnes. I much preferred the 8086/8088 instructions though [2], pop and push are nice
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by bArray 3y ago
> It’s not personal in the same way Nazis organizing hate against Jews is not personal. I don't think such a comparison is useful here. That said, there is a clear difference between group and individually focussed hate. For some r
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by bArray 3y ago
> At the risk of being shouted down, this is another one of those products that looks great on impulse buy, but when you try to use that tiny keyboard and screen to do any real work with it, the chore of use becomes apparent. I purchased
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by bArray 3y ago
> In 2018 a Russian design based on 2-micron thick nickel-63 slabs sandwiched between 10 micron diamond layers was introduced. It produced a power output of about 1 μW at a power density of 10 μW/cm3. Its energy density was 3.3 kWh&
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by bArray 3y ago
> In one of the previous ones, they said there was high suspicion it related to 'hatred against a transgender developer in the company' or something like that. It's a lot of resource to expend for a personal vendetta. Tran
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by bArray 3y ago
The company I'm speaking for is one of these government customers - and they are absolutely necessary with no competitors. I still think that given all that, they may be allowed to go bust simply because it is run so poorly and it migh
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by bArray 3y ago
> After last year's layoffs they told us they were "done" and it was "all behind us". Last year then turned out to a better year financially than 2022 (we have access to the top line numbers) I've seen a man
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by bArray 3y ago
> 1) Price seems too low for unlimited LLM usage and there's no monthly fee... so maybe you are the product? It only needs to last a few months until all the devices are palmed off to kids. There is a 0% chance this makes it to year
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by bArray 3y ago
> [..] but 2g was launched in 1991. For me that's the value - a low bandwidth network that is reliable and continues to be supported.
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by bArray 3y ago
I have a 3G device still able to watch YT and a very old Kindle Fire that has NewPipe [1] installed for watching YT in bed (whilst my phone is on charge). I don't see why not either - if the device was capable of H264 when it was relea
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by bArray 3y ago
> Furthermore, the study also reveals 21% of those with a 3G handset aren’t willing to upgrade, and will simply continue to use their phone without internet connectivity. My bet would be that these are mostly devices given to children to
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by bArray 3y ago
I'm aware that I'm making the case for my niche use-case, and that's going to be controversial for whatever reason. I could sit here and explain exactly why certain decisions have been made, but ultimately the point is that t
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by bArray 3y ago
Please see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38914961
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by bArray 3y ago
Please see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38914961
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by bArray 3y ago
Please see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38914961
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by bArray 3y ago
> These are not the installer ISOs, they're ISOs containing the _sources_ for all packages in Ubuntu. I'm aware, you can install from source [1] [2]. My application is embedded devices that cannot connect to the internet that n
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by bArray 3y ago
The real reason is buried: > It was also raised that Snap packages also aren't currently included as part of Ubuntu source ISO builds anyways so these source ISOs are incomplete and have been so for years. To be completely honest, I
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by bArray 3y ago
> The Irish State announced [..] It's interesting how quickly the EU went from a Trade Union to a Government consisting of states.
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by bArray 3y ago
> Of course, the fact the NSA was aware of differential crypto analysis some years before the rest of us is another thing… It is more a case that somebody else discovered it and they were forced to get in-front of it.
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by bArray 3y ago
"NSA grade" irks me - to think these guys have your best interest at heart. In the 1970's they weakened DES [1]. In 2015 the NSA created a backdoor and pressured companies into installing it [2]. In 2016 you had the leaked to
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by bArray 3y ago
Technically true, but in the UK they refer to themselves as "first responders", "emergency services", "the force", etc. And they do technically have powers beyond that of a civilian (for better or for worse).
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by bArray 3y ago
Gah, I just ordered one on impulse [1]. I've wanted to build out a WiFi PDA for quite some time now and I like this hardware. I'm quite liking the idea of running tulip MicroPython [2] on it, or going back to pure MicroPython [3]
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by bArray 3y ago
The interface could return with a "suggested revisions" to overcome over-restrictive spam filters. For example "morphine" -> "morph-drug".
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by bArray 3y ago
One of my favourite ongoing jokes is Word, the program that exists for typing, 'randomly' deletes what you type: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/word/word-online-web-... https://answers
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by bArray 3y ago
> > MS Teams > I really do empathize here, after having to use Teams for around 2 years. It's amazingly slow, confusing, buggy (it would crash the tab quite regularly), and just generally a perfect role model for what software
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by bArray 3y ago
> They mention it buffers with a gain factor of 0.1, but I don’t understand how the four op-amps play together to eliminate the hiss. I'm not entirely sure, but it appears that this is setup to amplify the ground noise. I'm als
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by bArray 3y ago
I've used Dear PyGui [1], which is based on this, and it has been a mixed bag. It's fast and basic functionality is super simple. The documentation is somewhat lacking when you wanted to start doing something non-standard. I would
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by bArray 3y ago
> perhaps a they meant a zener diode, which can be used to clamp a voltage? The downside being that it dissipates the excess energy across it's self. Maybe in conjunction with a self-reset polyfuse - buys just enough time to trip th
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by bArray 3y ago
To be completely fair, those power banks should have a diode (or some protection circuitry) to prevent their damage. A loose cable could easily put higher voltage on the port than 5.25V. That said, what an awful USB port to come across. A

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