cesarb

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by cesarb 2y ago
> Do not put your money into Pix You do not "put your money into Pix", your money is in your bank account. Pix is just a bank transfer mechanism; if you have a Brazilian bank account, you can send and receive through Pix.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> It can take you to a fake site that looks just like the original. At least with PIX, you scan the QR code directly on your online banking app, so there's no risk of going to a "fake site" (and the app also displays the i
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by cesarb 2y ago
> you can also make payments using the user unique key, which can be its phone number, social security number, email or a random generated key. And you can also use the bank account number, effectively replacing older bank transfer mecha
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by cesarb 2y ago
> The JEP says: [...] The JEP also says: > The sun.reflect.ReflectionFactory class only supports deserialization of objects whose classes implement java.io.Serializable. In my experience, most classes being deserialized by libraries l
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by cesarb 2y ago
> [...] and only ran briefly. Atop is a different long-running version used to create logs of the same data to understand trends. atop is also normally only ran briefly. It has an optional mode (enabled by default in some, but not all di
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by cesarb 2y ago
> atop seems to run persistently as root, which may be the reason for preventing it from running/uninstalling. Some distributions (like Ubuntu) enable that service by default, but some others (like Fedora) don't.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> major versions are intended to be mutable and be updated to point to new minor versions as they are released [...] because you "can expect an action's patch version to include necessary critical fixes and security patches [..
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Zstandard is faster and compresses better. However, keep in mind that zstd also needs much more memory. IIRC, it uses by default 8 megabytes as its buffer size (and can be configured to use many times more than that), while zlib uses a
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Is there such a boundary? How do you know a function doesn't call unsafe code without looking at every function called in it, and every function those functions call, and so on? Yes, there is a boundary, and usually it's eith
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by cesarb 2y ago
> There is no guarantee that sizeof(long) > sizeof(int), in fact the GNU libc documentation states that int and long have the same size on the majority of supported platforms. That used to be the case for 32-bit platforms, but most 64
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by cesarb 2y ago
> C has to make a syscall to the kernel which ultimately results in a BIOS interrupt to implement printf, That's not the case since the late 1990s. Other than during early boot, nobody calls into the BIOS to output text, and even th
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by cesarb 2y ago
> They’ll just fire the team responsible for maintaining the birds and then act surprised when they degrade. AFAIK, the GPS system needs constant corrections, uploaded periodically from its ground base stations. Without these corrections
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by cesarb 2y ago
> I know this could be said of any country at any time, but please don't conflate the current administration with the whole American people. [...] and I know I'm not alone in being perplexed by how he won the election. The curr
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Restructuring the elections, congressional seat allocation, etc. would require Constitutional amendments. Unlikely to happen. As a Brazilian, I think it's unfortunately more likely than you think. Here in Brazil, we got a complete
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by cesarb 2y ago
> It's a tool. Do you complain when the bank requires you to sign something with a pen? Every single time my bank requires me to sign something with a pen, they also provide the pen.
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by cesarb 2y ago
For things like that, I always like to go to the source, and read the original order. It's the PDF at the bottom of this page: https://noticias.stf.jus.br/postsnoticias/stf-determina-susp... (it also has a link to
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Perhaps this is layman's understanding, but afaik all CPU operations are only done on registers, so any variable has to be moved to registers when it's operated on From the CPU point of view, yes, but many instructions set ar
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by cesarb 2y ago
> In the most commonly (almost exclusively, in case of end users) deployed setups (call them NAT Masquerade, NAT Hide, NAT Overload, NAT Many-to-One, PAT, whatever) it does block incoming connections, only allowing replies to internally-
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Adoption will slow down and my guess is that we'll be stuck with a long tail forever, and only time will tell if that happens at 50% adoption or 90% adoption. But that long tail will probably look like figure 4 of that link, only
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by cesarb 2y ago
Using / as the delimiter with day/month/year is also very common. Here in Brazil, dd/mm/yyyy (or sometimes dd/mm/yy, which used to be more common before year 2000) is the standard.
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by cesarb 2y ago
To me, that payout felt quite high; it's bigger than the average monthly salary for a senior IT professional where I live. To put it another way, that bounty alone would be like being paid for several months of full-time employment.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Day-Month-Year is the standard everywhere in the world apart from the US. IIRC, Japan uses Year-Month-Day, which is the other order which makes sense.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> they'd have to convince the whole industry to agree on new PSU standards. We already have a new PSU standard, it's called ATX12VO and drops all lower voltages (5V, 3.3V), keeping only 12V. AFAIK, it's not seen wide adopt
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by cesarb 2y ago
> At these wattages just give it its own mains plug. You might think you're joking, but there are gamer cases with space for two PSUs, and motherboards which can control a secondary PSU (turning both PSUs on and off together). When
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by cesarb 2y ago
I wonder how much the perceived advantages of generational GC are only due to Java's tendency to generate a lot of short-lived garbage.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> No, that does not suggest none exists, it only says they don’t have access to it. They could have chosen or have been ordered to give the keys to the government agency but not keep one themselves. The whole definition of "end-to
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by cesarb 2y ago
To see what was changed, I use the option to download a backup of the configuration, and compare it with an older copy I had downloaded earlier (it's a set of text files, it can be unpacked and compared with recursive diff).
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Remember boot-sector viruses? The TPM helps prevent those. What prevents boot sector viruses is Secure Boot, not TPM.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> My hope is that Linux gets wide enough adoption to prevent that from becoming a feasible option for them in the future. This has already happened: Linux had wide enough adoption that Microsoft could be convinced to allow alternative op
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by cesarb 2y ago
One thing I've observed is that people who started using Linux a long time ago (which is my case) tend to slide into the command line, even when there's a perfectly good GUI alternative. Want to rename a file? Why use F2, just ope

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