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by cesarb 1y ago
> but you could (at much increased weight) put wheels on both the top and bottom of the carriage and have a transition point. A fictional example of this is the monorail on the Half-Life games, which transitions between straddle-beam and
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by cesarb 1y ago
> Compilers are deterministic. Given the same input you always get the same output Except when they aren't. See for instance https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-15.1.0/gcc/Developer-Opti... or the __DA
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by cesarb 1y ago
The integer numbers can be divided into "negative" (less than zero), zero, and "positive" (greater than zero). When one says "non-negative", they are excluding only the negative numbers, so zero is included; wh
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> your desktop pc already is inside of metal enclosure designed to minimize EM emissions, per UL/CE requirements for electronic devices. Many desktop PCs have enclosures with one or more sides made of glass or acrylic. That does not
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by cesarb 1y ago
> Smartphones were financially viable from day 1, though. Also, they were nothing more than the combination of two things which already existed, and which were already successful and financially viable: cellular phones and PDAs. In fact,
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> Is there a term for “skeptics just haven’t used it enough” argument? It's not an exact match to what you want, but "you're holding it wrong" is the closest I've found. (For those too young to have heard of it,
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by cesarb 1y ago
This article does not touch on the thing which worries me the most with respect to LLMs: the dependence . Unless you can run the LLM locally, on a computer you own, you are now completely dependent on a remote centralized system to do your
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by cesarb 1y ago
I've heard of it happening here in Brazil. In the simplest variant, something is glued on top of the screen to hide the higher digits, making the value appear to be lower; supposedly, some more advanced variants of the scam have a dama
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by cesarb 1y ago
Does anyone still use the magnetic strip? I think it's been over a decade since I've seen a credit card without the chip, and terminals have been able to read the chip since forever. I think the last few times a store tried to use
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by cesarb 1y ago
> Such a scheme does not work without cookies in the first place, so the optimal strategy for scrapers is to keep any (likely multiple) session cookies until they expire. AFAIK, Anubis does not work alone, it works together with traditio
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by cesarb 1y ago
> How does that work? I thought that this vulnerability was independent of the curve that is used. The trick is that this value in Ed25519 is a deterministic hash of the private key and the message, which means that for the same message,
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by cesarb 1y ago
> I have used only whole-disk XFS SSDs and HDDs for more than a decade. I wouldn't recommend that. It makes the disk appear to be empty to many tools (and possibly some operating systems), which could lead to data loss. That's
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by cesarb 1y ago
> You'd need to run strlen first. I might be a bit rusty in my x86 assembly, but wouldn't "repnz movsb" be the x86 strcpy opcode, for zero-terminated strings?
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> At least opening PRs is a safe option, you can just dump the whole thing if it doesn't turn out to be useful. There's however a border zone which is "worse than failure": when it looks good enough that the PRs can b
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by cesarb 1y ago
> Today it's... video card and that's it. Every other PCIe slot is a 'waste' Made worse by the video cards being ridiculously fat. As an example, the one I have is two slots wide, and protrudes over the third slot; my
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by cesarb 1y ago
> Replying to your specific point about virus scans. For some (naive) reason, I expect them to run a single time against a binary app that is never changed. Playing devil's advocate: the executable might not have changed, but the da
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by cesarb 1y ago
At least ext4 (and its predecessors ext2/ext3) uses 32-bit seconds for the timestamps, and has separate fields (available only when the inode size of the filesystem is greater than 128 bytes) for nanoseconds and for extending the secon
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by cesarb 1y ago
> I think Microsoft just went with the idea that C++ was an improved superset of C so should be used even for C-style code. And as a consequence, for a long time their official C compiler was stuck on C89, while other platforms already h
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by cesarb 1y ago
> Google’s response also appears to go against the advice of the Belgian court, which required the DNS providers to redirect users to a dedicated page, presumably to provide further detail. That advice made sense in the plain-text HTTP e
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by cesarb 1y ago
> Everyone should just start running their own authoritative DNS servers like Unbound. I used to do that, but it caused some odd issues at my former ISP, which I suspect were due to connection tracking state table exhaustion on their CGN
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by cesarb 1y ago
> Those 2 asymmetries are A) clients have lower bandwidth than servers and B) IPv4 address exhaustion and the need/insistence on NAT. There's a third asymmetry: C) power-constrained clients which are asleep most of the time. An
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by cesarb 1y ago
> According to my friend, the freq drop was caused by a sudden large supply surplus over the instantaneous demand. Wouldn't a supply surplus cause a frequency increase , not a frequency drop?
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> I don't think ISP caching would be a thing without https. It would bring a lot of additional complexity and resource requirements for them. I can hardly imagine that being worth it to save some bandwidth. Maybe it made sense in a
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> The cause is the frequency drop that was not compensated by the inertia of rotating turbines due to increasing use of photovoltaics. But what caused the frequency drop? Large-scale grids are designed and operated in such a manner that
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The difficulty is still the same: for each piece of the puzzle (substations, high voltage power lines, transformers, generators, loads), they have to wait until enough power is available at the connection point, and carefully manage the pow
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by cesarb 1y ago
> probably with the usual suspects popping up to blame renewables Renewables were a factor in the blackout here in Brazil a couple of years ago: the models used by the system operator did not correspond to reality, many solar and wind po
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> JS and Python wouldn't be what they are today if you had to `./configure` every website you want to visit, lmao. You just gave me a flashback to the IE6 days. Yes, that's precisely what we did. On every page load. It&#x2
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> I don't know his exact job, but if it involves programming, or even scripting, he is faking his way with AI, not understanding what he's doing. That is frightening. That could be considered malpractice. I know our profession
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> And the tiny 16px icons and labels would actually look quite nice in a basic 640x480 resolution. For those who didn't live through these days: the physical size of common computer monitors wasn't very different from what we h
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Is there any confirmation of the persons name? Yes, and it's a small privacy leak in Pix: it shows the person's name and part of their CPF.

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