cesarb

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by cesarb 3y ago
> and use them once they are ready There's always some tiny little thing which is missing for someone. If you demand 100% completion before you can switch, you will never switch. > we need to fund their improvement, and use them
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by cesarb 3y ago
> You may dislike it, but EU law only applies in the EU; Even then, that consecutive 60-day limit sounds bizarre. For instance, someone who has dual citizenship could legitimately switch between an EU and a non-EU country every single mo
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Your receiver is just listening to the broadcast signal from several (usually 4+) satellites and based on the strength of that signal determining how far it is from each of those satellites. GPS doesn't use the strength of the sig
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by cesarb 3y ago
Were you still connected to your local network? Next time it happens, try completely disconnecting from your local network before starting Steam, it seems to use the presence of a local network connection to decide whether to enable offline
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by cesarb 3y ago
In my experience, the Steam offline mode only works if your computer is actually offline (without any network connection); if you're connected to the local network but the Internet connection from your router is down, it still tries to
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Biggest reason not to IMO is of the rumors around an "index2". Another big reason not to buy a Steam Index is "not available in your country". The only VR headsets I've seen in stores here are the Quest 2/
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by cesarb 3y ago
That MSDN documentation is unfortunately silent on this, but the example in the documentation (at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/c... ) only makes sense if the operating system
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by cesarb 3y ago
> CPU’s not running the main thread don’t care about the execution order of the instructions of the main thread. On x86, they do (the x86 family is unusual in having strong memory ordering), but that's not the issue here. > They
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by cesarb 3y ago
> there's no memory barrier instruction to force its new value (5) to propagate to all CPU's running the threads. The equivalent of the memory barrier instructions is there, but it's hidden within the operating system code
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Like trains, autonomous ships fundamentally doesn’t seem to make any sense. Autonomous trains already exist, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driverless_train_syste... for a long list of places where it&#
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by cesarb 3y ago
One unstated part of that "if I don't have root on my device" statement is "...and someone else does have root on my device". On normal Android, Google does have root on your device, while you don't. For instan
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by cesarb 3y ago
> There was a time when if you wanted an app, it had to be for Windows. [...] Desktop computers have never been a free for all. You're not going back far enough (as shown by your statement mentioning only Windows). Back in the MS-DO
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by cesarb 3y ago
> some software package to be installed, presumably in the interest of security, which injects a dll into every process on the machine You don't even have to get that far. Shell extensions (for file open or save dialogs) and printe
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by cesarb 3y ago
Single click to open is great if what you want is to open the folder or file, but what do you use then when you want to select the folder or file without opening it? I've resorted to "vaguely dragging a square around the icon&qu
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by cesarb 3y ago
> HDMI is not packet-based and so when it uses USB-C it takes over the entire cable (alt-mode) AFAIK, when HDMI is used over USB-C, it's actually DisplayPort over USB-C; while a HDMI alt mode was specified, nobody actually implement
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by cesarb 3y ago
> I also paid for the BOSCH drill I use, my 4K monitor, ergonomic chair and other such work tools, so why not pay for SW tools as well? None of these are a useful comparison, since they're physical objects which cannot be infinitely
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by cesarb 3y ago
> As far as I know though, Chernobyl and Fukushima had completely different reasons and don't really clump together apart from "both were meltdowns" A glass-half-empty view of that would be that there isn't a single r
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by cesarb 3y ago
You didn't mention what I believe is the true reason nuclear power got its bad reputation: nuclear weapons. (Tough you could argue that it's your item 3, since nuclear weapons and their open-air testing would be the reason the lef
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by cesarb 3y ago
> if the sun is always directly overhead everywhere [...] Apply whatever multiplication factors you like about what percentage of the year a given real solar cell will generate power A simple but useful back-of-the-envelope estimate woul
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by cesarb 3y ago
I don't think it's that realistic; nuclear simply takes way too long to build. For instance, the most recent nuclear reactor under construction near where I live has been under construction for 40 years and it's still not com
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by cesarb 3y ago
I vaguely recall that the default was to use the current average compression for the default estimation. I always changed it to 1, which is much saner: instead of being surprised that you didn't have enough disk space to store somethin
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by cesarb 3y ago
> And it has been communicated that you should not be using low level concurrency constructs for years. Where has this been communicated? The first I heard that you shouldn't use synchronized statements or blocks was in these virtua
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by cesarb 3y ago
It's not news only if you carefully read that JEP (and even then, it's misleading, it says "Pinning does not make an application incorrect, but it might hinder its scalability" as if using "synchronized" could
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by cesarb 3y ago
The most valuable part is not the land itself, it's the grid connection. That is, the towers bringing the power to a nearby substation, the bay in the substation with the circuit breakers and measuring equipment (adding new bays to exi
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by cesarb 3y ago
It might not have throttled fast enough. Without sufficient thermal mass (or with insufficient heat transfer to that thermal mass, for instance if the thermal paste is misapplied), it might heat up too fast for the sensors to keep up.
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by cesarb 3y ago
> But in a modern day and age, when aren’t you expecting a package? Some people still prefer to buy most things directly in physical stores. For me, would be easier to list the few times when I am expecting a package. And even then, I&#x
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by cesarb 3y ago
And even if you do have a CD drive in your computer, the risk is still lower than a USB stick. A CD contains only data, it cannot do things like emulating a keyboard. The worst it can do is shatter when your high-speed DVD-ripping drive spi
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by cesarb 3y ago
He pulled up the flag and held onto it instead of trying to reposition it. At first, I also found it funny that it was a secret service agent that went there, but then it made sense: with the flag moving like that (it seems it had a somewha
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by cesarb 3y ago
In my opinion, this marks the point where Windows started its slide towards user-hostility. Things like "the file [...] is a simple RC4-encrypted database" show that the owner of the machine was being treated as an adversary. It w
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by cesarb 3y ago
> I've always used .yaml and have never understood why someone would choose .yml. Because it's what the documentation says. For instance, the "Getting Started" example at https://docs.flatpak.org/en&#x

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