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by cesarb 2y ago
In that analogy, the /64 is their specific apartment, not the whole building. That is, they wouldn't get banned for something their neighbor did, because their neighbor would be in a separate /64. That is, the whole /64
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by cesarb 2y ago
> a properly configured IPv4 firewall on the other hand would allow no inbound and filter most outbound ICMP by default. A properly configured IPv4 firewall would allow at least the "destination unreachable - fragmentation needed
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by cesarb 2y ago
> There was no MS-DOS 5.11. There was Windows 3.11 which ran on top of MS-DOS 5.0, the two numbers probably got mixed in their memory.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> My Debian server has a mix of systemd and /etc/init.d startup scripts. [...] ok, as of version N due in 3 months, we’re migrating everything and going from 100% old way to 100% new way. You'll be happy to know that this
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by cesarb 2y ago
AFAIK, you still can play offline with alternative launchers like Prism Launcher (you need an account to do the initial setup and download, but once everything is downloaded, you can add as many offline accounts as you want), and the downlo
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by cesarb 3y ago
> How long should hardware be supported? Indefinitely? Should Microsoft still target 286's? Pentium III's? One obvious cut-off point is support for 64-bit software (the AMD64 ISA). Another is a minimum speed and memory capacity
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Would they keep running forever without updates? > > Yes they will work indefinitely. Why wouldn't they? Because the computer clock advanced past a date which triggers bugs or limitations on some component, and it cannot be
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by cesarb 3y ago
> In fact I’d rather it were the default in C++, and there was some sort of an opposite (‘derivable’?) keyword instead Kotlin (which uses the equivalent of the Java "final" keyword by default) uses the "open" keyword
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by cesarb 3y ago
I have recently re-read Snow Crash but, lacking the context (since I live in a difference country), I missed how closely the setting in the book parodied what is described in this article. For instance, the boss of the pizza chain being ex-
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Were they that desperate for funding that they had to come up with some AI stuff for an already solved problem? Path finding is one of the classic AI research areas, back when it mostly meant making robots able to interact with their e
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by cesarb 3y ago
For comparison, here's a nice video (in Brazilian Portuguese, but should be understandable even if you don't know the language) showing a solar farm being built in the traditional way: https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by cesarb 3y ago
> No need for pom.xml, requirements.txt, cmake.txt, or any other kind of dependency configuration. It just works. ...until the project decides to switch to another hosting provider. Which has happened more than once in the past; it used
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by cesarb 3y ago
IMO, the GOPATH itself is a terrible design. It makes you mix together things from unrelated projects in the same directory structure, instead of each project having its own independent directory structure, like on every other programming l
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by cesarb 3y ago
AFAIK, you're still limited by the bandwidth of your analog signal. If you tried to treat it as if it had unlimited horizontal resolution, you'd use so much bandwidth that you'd end up stomping over the color subcarrier (and
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by cesarb 3y ago
Where I live, the common construction for houses is to have reinforced concrete slabs as the floors and ceilings, with the walls being brick except for the load-bearing reinforced concrete columns. The ceramic tiled roof (when there's
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by cesarb 3y ago
> The main vector of attack was patching the code as part of running tests. No, it was not. The test files were used as carriers for the bulk of the malicious code, but running the tests did nothing malicious; the supposedly corrupted te
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by cesarb 3y ago
From that article, "To further investigate, we can try to see if he worked on weekends or weekdays: was this a hobbyist or was he paid to do this? The most common working days for Jia were Tue (86), Wed (85), Thu (89), and Fri (79).&qu
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by cesarb 3y ago
> It’s inconceivable that I’ve would have found the first stage and just given up But what you were looking at might not be the first stage. You might be looking at the modified Makefile. You might be looking at the object files generate
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by cesarb 3y ago
> > People are not ideal money-fed automatons. Even if you're fully paid for your software development, it feels bad to see all your work thrown away. > maybe their career takes a dent but I do not weep for anyone who worked o
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Do we need at least some form of basic identity verification (even in the form of an employer link, LinkedIn, or similar)? Not all free software contributors are employed. They might be too young (it's not unusual to start contrib
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by cesarb 3y ago
> > and when they can finally see a finish line it is just poof... gone in a day. It was two years of effort from at least one guy and more likely a team. > If so, then they were paid for those hours and are perfectly whole right n
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by cesarb 3y ago
Except that this "lots of power" option does not exist. What limits the amount of power used is the circuit breakers and fuses on the panel, which protect the wiring against overheating by tripping when too much power is being use
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by cesarb 3y ago
That's a bad analogy, because in your example, the consumer is using more of a shared resource (the available transformer, wiring, and generation capacity). In the case of the driver for a local GPU card, there's no sharing. A bet
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by cesarb 3y ago
> So, inside Seven Sisters tube station, there’s still a Rabbit base station sitting on the wall, more than 30 years after it last broadcast a radio signal. Is that the base station itself, or is it just the antenna, with the real base s
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by cesarb 3y ago
Some packages are more central than others. For instance, the basic container image for a popular Linux distribution has only around 150 packages (and yes, it includes curl, which counts as two packages because the library and the command a
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Unfortunately not. It's a machine I have at home, with some port of my public IP redirected to it, as I often need it when not at home. Wow, that must have really sucked. It's one thing to have a rented office downtown (a VPS
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Linux btrfs supports raid5 in general, but has known edge cases which make it not safe to use. Basically it's "available, but experimental, for developers only". I recall reading somewhere recently, that the Linux btrfs
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by cesarb 3y ago
> The one thing which most leads me to believe this was an intentional backdoor? The S-boxes. If you look at that HN discussion, you'll find a link to a Mastodon post from an Asahi Linux developer explaining that these "S-boxes
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Most importantly, owning your home in full means that you're not paying landlord each month and it can also be passed down to your children. You can also own an apartment in full, and pass it down to your children. At least where
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by cesarb 3y ago
From what I understand, it wasn't even the performance testing itself that caught the backdoor. The developer wanted to have the machine as quiescent as possible (so that nothing else running on it would interfere) before starting the

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