cesarb

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by cesarb 2y ago
> use "second half of ", "begin of", 3 quartal of, etc. And they sometimes use their internal fiscal year, which doesn't align with the calendar year. So sometimes, when they speak of the "fourth quarter&quo
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Why do chis degrade? Is this due to the whiskers I’ve heard about? No, tin whiskers are a separate issue, which happens mostly outside the chips. The keyword you're looking for is electromigration ( https://en.wikipedia.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> You would "just pick the previous kernel from the boot menu". That's funny, cause in this case you could "just delete the file causing the issue." Anything can sound easy and simple if you state it that way. On
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Yeah I don't get where this "Linux is more secure" thing comes from. It comes from the 1990s and early 2000s. Back then, Windows was a laughingstock from a security point of view (for instance, at one point connecting a
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by cesarb 2y ago
> And then to further extend, why pay the supermarket when I can just grow vegetables at home? Because I can't? I live in a building on a dense urban area. There's not enough space in my home to grow the necessary amount of veg
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by cesarb 2y ago
It's something common to all modern GPUs, not just NVIDIA: most of the logic is in a user space library loaded by the OpenGL or Vulkan loader into each program. That library writes a stream of commands into a buffer (plus all the neces
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by cesarb 2y ago
> When Firefox started is was not a copy of existing browsers. IIRC, when Firefox started, it was very similar to the full Mozilla Suite with some features removed (which is not surprising, since it started as a Mozilla Suite derivative
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by cesarb 2y ago
I've suffered through the opposite situation: a neighbor I was helping lost access to an important account because the automated selfie authentication always failed with an error saying that the image is "low quality", no mat
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by cesarb 2y ago
> > One is the shifting sigils, accessing @x with $x[3] instead of the logical @x[3] > $x[3] is perfectly logical when you think of the sigil as typing the value and not the variable. Unfortunately, that doesn't match the intu
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by cesarb 2y ago
> either set a global variable IIRC, the rule is also that said global variable must have the type "volatile sig_atomic_t".
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by cesarb 2y ago
> If you ship alongside your binary a bundle of eg .o files You might even be able to use partial linking (ld -r) to ship a single .o file instead of a bunch of them.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> This is an absolutely absurd argument against spying. Should no one ever spy on Russia or North Korea just because they make a law against it? It's not an argument against spying. It's an argument against saying that spying &
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by cesarb 2y ago
A bit tangential to your argument, but > Especially if its not even something illegal in the first place (like spying on Angela Merkel). There's a good chance that this was illegal according to German law, and depending on the exact
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by cesarb 2y ago
> the direction that Intel currently wants to take is apparently quite the opposite. It's not just Intel. It's clear that ARM is also going in the same direction, by allowing newer cores to be 64-bit (AArch64) only, dropping co
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by cesarb 2y ago
> I am assuming (hope I am right!) that the RISC-V board doesn't have the equivalent of the IME on it Actually, it does! Check the block diagram on the first PDF linked to by this article, it has two RISC-V "monitor cores"
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by cesarb 2y ago
> and these guys can't even remember to define their acronyms first? DJI is not an acronym, it's the name of a company. And DJI is the most famous drone company; asking to "define DJI", on an article for a site about
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by cesarb 2y ago
> In the event of a war, all of the drones could be grounded or used for nefarious purposes. That's only an issue if the drone somehow depends on an external Internet-based server, instead of just a plain radio link between the dron
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by cesarb 2y ago
I do the same, except for the "x" (that is, "set -euo pipefail"); depending on what you're doing, "set -x" might be helpful, might be too much noise, or it could even break things which were not expecting
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by cesarb 2y ago
> One big factor is for performance reasons in shell scripts. At the time, the switch decreased boot times for Debian by 7.5%. And that should no longer be a relevant factor, since most of the boot process is now implemented directly in
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Wood construction [...] requires fewer and less stringent inspections I would expect the opposite. I don't have to worry about the concrete of my home rotting because of a water infiltration, or being eaten by termites.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> I think few of us would display word choice patterns reflecting the US, England, and Australia within a single piece. Someone who learned English mostly through books and the Internet could very well have such a mixture, since unlike n
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by cesarb 2y ago
> But consider something like crypto, libssl ... which is linked to almost everything, or libxz, zlib, etc. AFAIK, the reason most Linux distributions have an allergic reaction to static linking is because of zlib. There was a vulnerabil
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Conceptually it seems like the average of all human texts would be distinct from any users because it would blend word choices and idioms across regions That's only true in the aggregate. Within a single answer, LLMs will try to g
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by cesarb 2y ago
> online text editor that logs every keystroke and blockchains a hash of all logs Do you really think it would help? The kind of people who believe an "AI detector" works will just ignore your complicated attempts to prove othe
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by cesarb 2y ago
Changes made in the name of security have a higher chance of being allowed to break backwards compatibility. If changing that API name fixed some security issue, or even reduced the security exposure of some part of the browser, it might be
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by cesarb 2y ago
> where if you plug in another appliance on the same breaker the car will decrease its draw to prevent triggering the breaker. That's alarming. There's no way the car can know that there's another appliance on the same bre
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Still interesting that the stations increase demand enough that grid stabilization can occur by simply disabling battery charging. That trick is not limited to battery stations. Another thing which is done in some places (at least my c
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by cesarb 2y ago
> [...] are a bit more knowledgeable of what those Assembly instructions are actually doing. Not only that, they are able to provide proper error messages when the opcodes are badly used. That's only possible if the compiler knows
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by cesarb 2y ago
> > In GCC, inline assembly has insane syntax. Probably on purpose, to discourage writing it. > Certain folks will mention it is because the compiler needs register usage info, yet PC compilers could and can, infer the usage as wel
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by cesarb 2y ago
> I'm inclined to think the serious stuff is all Celsius and SI units and Fahrenheit is used in the social write ups [...] There are two photos in this article which show thermometers (search for "Temperature of the "), wh

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