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by berti 6y ago
> “this installer will run a script _to determine if the package can be installed_” Why would the user expect that script to install the application, or even modify their system in any way?
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by berti 6y ago
I feel like there are a handful of people on HN we could call "NUMA scientist".
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by berti 7y ago
Mazda began doing this last year [0]. If anything Honda are jumping on the trend they started, and I'm really happy to see it. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20200335
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by berti 7y ago
Top Gear actually did that experiment too [0], and you are proven correct. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUZJVY-sHo
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by berti 7y ago
When new, before a couple of the clips on the rear cover get broken etc.
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by berti 7y ago
This case works well with iOS' built-in Apple TV remote, at least with 1password. Any text field selected on the ATV brings up a keyboard on the iPhone, and if it's a password field 1password works as it normally would for any oth
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by berti 7y ago
The way I read it patches for the LTS versions stop being available to open source consumers when the next minor release occurs. That means open source Qt applications are forced to deal with all the new bugs that come with a new Qt release
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by berti 7y ago
All but one make for an undesirable UX during initial setup before WAN is up, which is probably the only time most users login to their router.
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by berti 7y ago
Keep in mind that RAID5 isn’t feasible with multi-TB disks (the probability of failed blocks when rebuilding the array is far too high). That said, RAID6 also suffers the same write-hole problem with Btrfs. Personally I choose RAIDZ2 instea
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by berti 7y ago
> There is no on/off switch but there also are no penalties for blocking Internet access to the device, dropping traffic to this host, and/or blocking it via DNS. Sigh. More junk that requires micro-management.
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by berti 7y ago
> So hopefully this cheat will be VAC / PB undetected for ever ;) That attitude really grinds my gears. I'd much prefer to see something like "here's how we think Valve could fix this permanently".
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by berti 7y ago
Aside from the sky glow aspects, I really dislike cool blue lighting. I've just had my office upgraded to warm white LEDs and it's really noticeable every time I walk into a colleague's office with "cool daylight" c
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by berti 7y ago
I’ve been using it almost exclusively for a few months and I think I’m going to switch back. DDG is really bad at showing results from my own country near the top, which is really annoying when I wish to purchase something. I imagine the ex
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by berti 7y ago
It's an excellent way to download Linux (or BSD) ISOs. Much faster than the nearest HTTP mirrors.
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by berti 7y ago
gn had the same problem when I looked at it in 2017. I was working with breakpad at the time (a Chromium subproject), and unfortunately they had only partially ported some platforms to gn, and I didn't feel like plumbing in 3 different
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by berti 7y ago
Last time I checked meson still doesn't have great Qt support e.g. it can't track rcc dependencies [0]. Funnily enough that issue is about rcc not making dependencies available to the build system, but I believe it actually starte
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by berti 7y ago
And then when you bring a KVM switch into the mix... sometimes it works well, the rest of the time it does what you described, or just gives up and decides there are no monitors until you replug them.
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by berti 7y ago
> The longer people have their phones, the more photos they have. And with them a whole lot of meta data such as location etc. Stripping location metadata before handing photos off to apps would be nice too.
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by berti 7y ago
You seem to have made an assumption that the mainframe is “legacy hardware”, on a thread about the latest generation of mainframe hardware... As long as IBM keeps building mainframes the business case for anything else will remain unattract
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by berti 7y ago
That would break the internet for many innocent souls behind firewalls.
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by berti 7y ago
> It allows me to be a purely 'casual' chatter, I can close and open slack anytime. I don't have to keep irssi running in a screen in the background. I don't have to have a bouncer. What's the barrier to a SaaS I
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by berti 7y ago
BP is currently distributing a thumbs up display along these lines in New Zealand [0]. I've yet to see one in the wild. [0] https://www.bp.com/en_nz/new-zealand/home/products-and-servi...
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by berti 7y ago
Looks a better than a regular CC after that long.
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by berti 7y ago
glibc goes to some length to ensure software linked against an older release will always run unmodified when a newer release is loaded so your comment surprised me a bit. Turns out it was actually an LLVM linker bug [0], fixed in Electron w
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by berti 7y ago
> but it could equally just be IAG trying to get into a stronger negotiating position with Airbus. And Airbus are negotiating from a much stronger position than they were a year ago. Selling a plane that is actually airworthy does that f
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by berti 7y ago
I remember reading a few articles about a US mobile carrier successfully going IPv6 only with 464XLAT. Turns out my memory was correct and it was T-Mobile [0]. [0] https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/deploy360&#x2
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by berti 7y ago
> Truth is, right now iot devices are protected by nat (your router) and maybe cgnat too (if your isp is good enough and provides that service). With ipv6 those devices will lie exposed to the wan. I hardly see how that’s an improvement.
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by berti 7y ago
KiCad is an excellent example of CERN doing exactly that. I’m cautiously optimistic about this project!
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by berti 7y ago
Both Chrome and Firefox are noticeably heavier than Safari on macOS. The most obvious sign of that is battery usage.
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by berti 8y ago
Well Boeing wanted it just as much. If you need to retrain all your pilots anyway, Airbus becomes much more competitive.

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