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by bartvk 3y ago
That's interesting, so it doesn't expect you to work directly on a PNG?
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by bartvk 3y ago
It could also be that Valve subcontracts the CodeWeavers people.
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by bartvk 4y ago
Keep in mind that they first focused on young people just finishing college. These typically don’t yet have a family, nor experienced lifestyle inflation, so may be less focused on security.
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by bartvk 4y ago
> in the future I'll always book directly with the location through their website I've tried this with a hotel in Italy, and found out that the price was actually higher. I couldn't believe it. I actually asked the recepti
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by bartvk 4y ago
And the '80s style sweatbands, genius.
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by bartvk 4y ago
Indeed quite cool. The page says that the images come from the Context Camera ("CTX") on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. There's a nice picture of the camera in a lab setup. https://mars.nasa.gov/mro/mis
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by bartvk 4y ago
Micro financing; Kiva.org
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by bartvk 4y ago
It comes out of the woodwork with a $9 million grant from the US Army, that is true. On the other hand, the article states "LiquidPiston has been working on these X-engines for nearly 20 years now, with numerous prototypes already test
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by bartvk 4y ago
Can’t you set page size to 100 emails, sort on attachment size, and delete the biggest offenders?
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by bartvk 4y ago
The current crop of electric motorcycles are like that.
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by bartvk 4y ago
Yes, it's a shame. I'm guessing Apple takes care of that with their own custom SSD firmware, but I'd love to take the additional precautions. For now, I add par2 error correction/detection to my pictures.
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by bartvk 4y ago
When it came out on Mac, I had a Mac Mini with a tiny internal drive (120 gigs). I tried to make an APFS Fusion drive where I fused the internal plus a fast USB-attached thumbdrive together. That seemed to work but would then fail upon rebo
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by bartvk 4y ago
Fascinating. If I read the Wikipedia article, initial capital is paid in dollars. However all the bonds they issued are RMB-denominated. I wonder who the buyers are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Development_Bank
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by bartvk 4y ago
The alternative offering is this: "BRICS nations launched the New Development Bank as an alternative to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund".
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by bartvk 4y ago
They could be living in an abusive environment. I don't know, I'm just guessing here.
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by bartvk 4y ago
Do shortcuts count? Meaning, the grid that Firefox shows on a new tab?
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by bartvk 4y ago
Exactly, the summary states "these findings suggest that a high intake of sucralose can dampen T cell-mediated responses". They fed mice the equivalent of the maximum advised dose for humans, 250 mg per kg body weight. So don&#x27
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by bartvk 4y ago
> At market rates, it should cost the same as selling the bonds now. You assume that the spread is zero and that there are actually buyers. But I might be wrong here, I don't know about the liquidity of these bonds.
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by bartvk 4y ago
Wow, you authored bc? It’s incredibly useful. I have to admit that since Spotlight now supports quick calculations, it’s my second step. But it used to be my first. Thanks so much for your work.
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by bartvk 4y ago
Why, though? Do you just feel yourself agreeing on an emotional level? Does it match your experience at a particular firm? Or something else?
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by bartvk 4y ago
> This is already done by MacOS with its incessant "app X wants to access files in Y". Of course this happens a lot after installing a new machine. Once I have my machine running however, I don't encounter this anymore. I
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by bartvk 4y ago
> You can do things via MDM on iOS for example and install spyware “monitoring” apps Can you name one?
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by bartvk 4y ago
Have you checked Simple Analytics? https://www.simpleanalytics.com/ They have a great blog, very vocal about GDPR and related issues.
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by bartvk 4y ago
I always do this with new USB sticks. Write one random file, fill the drive with copies and then test for the checksum, for example for a 16 gig thumbdrive: $ cd /path/to/thumbdrive $ dd if=/dev/urandom of
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by bartvk 4y ago
I use iStat Menus on macOS, and configure it such that it displays the MacBook power draw. It only works on Intel-based laptops; on the new ARM-based M1 MacBooks, that sensor no longer available. Probably a security thing (rowhammer?). Such
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by bartvk 4y ago
You seem to imply that the brew formula was made by the same developers. But I'm not sure that's the case. Using brew doesn't seem to be the recommended way, the website just gives you a download link.
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by bartvk 4y ago
I have the feeling that I'm missing something here. Reading the headline, I expected a real, genuine and directly applicable advantage for a software engineer. But I couldn't find it. While it leads to an interesting life for sure
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by bartvk 4y ago
In case you’re not joking: I don’t. It’s the one and only line of defense.
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by bartvk 4y ago
My most precious personal data are my family pictures. I protect them with par2. These are basically checksums for your files, but they provide so much added information that you can also repair your files if they are damaged. Once I coded
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by bartvk 4y ago
I once read a statistic that said: the greatest predictor of your own family size is what your friends' family size is. When I read that, I thought to myself: if I don't take others into account, what do I personally want? We now

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