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by cesarb 2y ago
> The utility company fuse between the property and the 240 V distribution system should prevent overcurrent. If the frequency or phase of the inverter is wrong the inverter might die first unless the network is already down. To put it m
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by cesarb 2y ago
> the author is looking at nameplate capacity, which is a completely useless metric for variable electricity production sources For solar panels, the nameplate capacity is usually also the power generated at the peak production time, whi
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by cesarb 2y ago
> You change your phone every year? Because I have this Android phone sitting on my desk for development. When I bought it it was almost as responsive as iPhones (and much cheaper). 4 years later the UI is a lagfest [1]. As a counter ane
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by cesarb 2y ago
> I was on mobile data with like 300mb high speed data left. After opening the page and reading the article I got the notification that I have no data left. That's the reason I configured uBlock Origin on my phone browser to disable
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by cesarb 2y ago
> If this would be the case, then a SIM-enabled Windows notebook would also be competition for the iPhone. Can that SIM-enabled Windows notebook do phone calls using the cell operator network (that is, not over the Internet)? If not (tha
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by cesarb 2y ago
It's mentioned in part 1 of this post, that the PSP is what actually boots the processor (among other things, it sets up the memory controller), so it's used in the real world every time you turn on your AMD-based computer.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> It's the only number we all get, since not everyone gets a driver's license; ID; passport; or other identifier. Unfortunately, it's been used to identify us for everything, and until recently was typically in plaintext o
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by cesarb 2y ago
I recall only once seeing Flash being used to do something "out of the ordinary". It was a video at YouTube (back when it used Flash for its video player), which in the middle of the video "escaped" its container and exp
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by cesarb 2y ago
I've seen some creators on Patreon "pause" their monthly subscription when they have nothing to release on a given month, so that patrons won't be billed for that month. That could be a workaround for your use case.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Is there any path for software engineers to reach this level of accountability and norms of good practice? Yes, time. Civil engineering has thousands of years of history. Software engineering is much newer, the foundations of our craft
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Its crazy my iPhone only has 128gb of storage. It's crazy to me that the word "only" can be applied to 128 gigabytes of storage. It's over a thousand times more storage than what I had on my first computer, and th
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by cesarb 2y ago
> You could probably blow circuit breakers in MV substations with a vulnerability like this if there are enough batteries under control in the same area and you get them to all discharge at max current at the same time. Serious, expensiv
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by cesarb 2y ago
None of this would have happened, if the token were a traditional strong random number backed by a database on their API server. I've always disliked JWT for that reason: it keeps too much state in the untrusted client, depending solel
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Any sources for this? https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512 "Contents of counter notification [...] The subscriber’s name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the subscriber
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by cesarb 2y ago
That's still the case in pure Java code. The "Class.newInstance()" method is a public method on the core Java API, calling "MyClass.class.newInstance()" is mostly equivalent to "new MyClass()". And the gen
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by cesarb 2y ago
It goes beyond just doxing yourself; to legally respond to a DMCA notice, AFAIK you also have to consent to the jurisdiction of the USA courts. Which might be acceptable to a resident of the USA, since they're already under the jurisdi
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Java has the first part down, for the class of checked exceptions: a function that doesn't throw can't call functions that do (except in try/catch blocks, but that's largely irrelevant). That's not actually tru
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by cesarb 2y ago
> There are numerous stories of machines where the heatsink was not in contact with the CPU for some reason, yet they remained perfectly stable (but slow) for many years. I once had a laptop, which came from the factory with the four scr
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Mechanical parts likely still work Towards the end of this article, Ken says that the mechanical parts did not work: "The printer had many mechanical problems, mainly because the rubber rollers had turned to liquid and gummed up
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by cesarb 2y ago
> I recommend doing some experiments before considering no register allocation unbearingly slow. I once tried running Gentoo with everything compiled -O0 AFAIK, register allocation is one of the few optimization passes which are always e
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by cesarb 2y ago
> I presume you had the special plug for your 200 range outlets? The same type of socket is used for "110V" (usually 127V) and "220V", sometimes in the same building, sometimes right next to each other. The "220V
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Not just UK, the whole world except North America and Japan. Brazil is also an exception. The standard socket is only 10A (with a 20A alternative for things like air conditioners), and the voltages vary depending on the city (and the b
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by cesarb 2y ago
> How would it break any code? You have to explicitly use virtual threads, normal threads are not touched at all and will work as they have always did. You often have no control over what kind of thread the caller of your code is using.
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by cesarb 2y ago
One annoying detail of this proposal, is that it swaps the meaning of the nullness markers compared to Kotlin, which uses ! to mean "it came from Java and had no nullability annotations so we don't know" and no marker to mean
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by cesarb 2y ago
> But now consider the potential impact of a malfunction: if the car engine fails to start, you might be inconvenienced, but you will be fine. On the other hand, if the rocket engine fails to ignite in space, you can't perform neces
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Thumb-2, [...] are mandatory instruction extension sets for ARM64 Isn't Thumb-2 for 32-bit ARM only? AFAIK, having 32-bit ARM is optional, you can have 64-bit only ARM nowadays. (And 64-bit ARM no longer has what is IMO the least
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by cesarb 2y ago
> because those two memory channels on the consumer AM5 socket There are actually four memory channels in AM5, because DDR5 doubles the number of channels.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> crc is recalculated using corrupted bit Why would it need to recalculate the CRC? The correct CRC (or other hash) for the data is already stored in the metadata trees; it's how it discovered that the data was corrupted in the firs
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by cesarb 2y ago
> and the device not booting means you'll actually notice and take action. How often do people reboot their systems? IMO, if it's running (without going into "read-only filesystem" mode) with X disks, it should boot w
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by cesarb 2y ago
> AV software is not a crutch, it's an extra level of defense. The issue is that it's the only "level of defense" which introduces arbitrary non-deterministic behavior. An executable which correctly follows all the AP

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