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by cesarb 3y ago
It always annoys me when news articles about laws neglect to mention the number of the law (which would allow us to look it up and read it directly). So I went looking, and found it: it's complementary municipal law 993/2023 ( htt
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by cesarb 3y ago
IIRC, latest Minecraft uses Java 17, and won't run on Java 8; on the other hand, IIRC older Minecraft versions (which are still popular) require Java 8, and won't run on anything newer.
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by cesarb 3y ago
> People are unreasonably tribal about file systems. I think it's probably worse than usual with ZFS, mostly for two reasons: a lot of hype (justified or not) early on its life, leading to hype aversion and/or backlash, and a &
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Users aren't going to be dreaming up (choosing a recent article at random) URIs like <long url> in order to get there without some referring party. What about bookmarks? I don't think clicking on a bookmark on your brow
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by cesarb 3y ago
AFAIK, in general, it's not possible; it's a hardware limitation of the CPU. Some architectures like the x86 do allow unaligned atomic accesses, but in a very heavy handed way (doing an unaligned atomic access on the x86 locks the
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by cesarb 3y ago
Could someone from the USA explain to me why all this focus on amendments (later additions) to the USA constitution, while the main body of the constitution itself should be much more important? I never see anybody online talking about the
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by cesarb 3y ago
> unlike on a Boeing (at the time at least) where they're physically connected so you can't have contradictory inputs in the first place I don't know if it's true, but I recall reading somewhere that this physical con
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by cesarb 3y ago
You forgot one: IIRC, Chrome came bundled with some popular Windows applications. > there were a couple of years where you were simply bombarded with ads about a better browser Let's not forget the whole context: Chrome's main
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Branches are pointers to a commit and that pointer is refreshed when a new commit is created. One could say they are a wandering tag (without explaining a tag for now). A good name for these "wandering tags" would be "he
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by cesarb 3y ago
> I don't get why people have no problem paying for Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, etc but are so stubborn about YouTube in particular, when myself and I know many others watch more YouTube than any streaming service. I never used any of t
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by cesarb 3y ago
> The gatekeeper here now is generating MS signed apps. And Valve saw that coming some time ago, and invested in making both Steam and the games sold through it run on Linux.
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by cesarb 3y ago
> ESNI to the rescue? IIRC, it's now called ECH, because AFAIK the focus changed from "encrypt the SNI" to "encrypt the whole Client Hello".
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by cesarb 3y ago
While not going as far as you want, one movement in that direction is NVMe Zoned Namespaces ( https://www.anandtech.com/show/15959/nvme-zoned-namespaces-e... ).
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Gmail account. You don't need an account for youtube . I have a Google account for gmail, and since I use Android I unavoidably have a Google account because of it, but there's no reason to use that account for youtube. In f
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by cesarb 3y ago
> I own several devices that won’t work with a C-to-C cable. Somehow something gets confused. You need to use a C-to-A cable These devices are probably missing the resistors between each of the two CC pins and the ground, which are neces
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by cesarb 3y ago
> And I already have to buy a serial (rs232) adapter, because they removed it for no real reason. RS-232 is a pain, it's one of the few users of negative voltages on a PC (others being ISA cards and PCI cards; PCI Express finally re
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by cesarb 3y ago
Counterpoint: I also bought a new machine, a couple of weeks ago (Optiplex 7010 Micro). It has six USB A ports, four of them USB 3 and two of them USB 2 only, with the option to add a single USB-C port (or instead an extra DP or HDMI or e
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by cesarb 3y ago
> before a kind sales rep advised they did not exist. Plot twist: they do exist, but not like you would expect. Unlike the forbidden USB A to USB A cable (which connects together the power supplies on both ends), there's a special
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by cesarb 3y ago
Having them be USB C would mean they could only be used on USB C ports (adapters from USB C socket to USB A plug are forbidden by the USB standard, because they would allow creating the forbidden USB A to USB A cable), while having them be
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by cesarb 3y ago
> There's no technical reasons for those to be USB A, and the USB C ones work great. There's a good technical reason for keyboards and mice to still be USB A: adapters from USB A socket to USB C plug are allowed by the standard
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Paraguay, which is the size of a brazillian municipality. That's understating that country's size a lot; it's the size of a Brazilian state, not a Brazilian municipality (even if you consider the huge municipalities in t
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by cesarb 3y ago
And even for those who can afford a data plan for their phones, they might have gone over their data allowance for the current month, so the data won't work until it refreshes at the start of the next monthly cycle. And obviously, havi
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Plus, unless they fixed it, if you enable RCS and then regret it and disable it again, anybody who texted with you via RCS will no longer be able to text you at all. On a relative's phone, the messages app simply enabled RCS autom
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by cesarb 3y ago
> and wasn't just interpreted as "ask me again in next week and every week thereafter". It gets even worse; last week, on a relative's phone, after weeks of clicking "not now" it just force-enabled RCS, and
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by cesarb 3y ago
> The only reasonable thing would be having exotic architectures around to ensure the kernel is as portable as possible and doesn't make any weird assumptions. Some of these "weird assumptions" are necessary or useful for
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by cesarb 3y ago
I've seen some videos which show, if I understood the description correctly, chambers which contain the overpressure from these water hammer events. For instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJVBlhgt9j8
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by cesarb 3y ago
While I really like Blake3, for all reasons mentioned in this article, I have to say it does have one tiny disadvantage over older hashes like SHA-256: its internal state is slightly bigger (due to the tree structure which allows it to be h
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by cesarb 3y ago
> At least with Python3, there was eventually Python 2.7 to permit a compatibility layer to move over. [...] IPv6's hard break with IPv4 means that the switchover likely won't happen anytime soon. There was no hard break. The s
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by cesarb 3y ago
> If that's the problem, then the solution would've been just adding more address space to ipv4, preserving all existing addresses and pretty much everything else about it. That's not possible. IPv4 addresses are 32-bit nu
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Sounds more like very simple cruise control, at least for the main leg of the flight. The cruise control (keeping the speed) is the autothrottle. > Does an autopilot "lane keep", in the sense of issuing corrections after h

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