cesarb

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by cesarb 3y ago
> I've never had hardware damaged by Linux, which I've run almost exclusively. [...] I can't say I've heard of that happening to people on Linux at all other than maybe early days of Xorg. There was that LG CD-ROM dri
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> Do note that ARMv6 and ARMv8 are entirely incompatible ISAs; one is 32-bit and another is 64-bit. IIRC, ARMv8 has both 32-bit (AArch32) and 64-bit (AArch64); yes, ARM's naming is confusing. What's being dropped is 32-bit (AAr
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by cesarb 3y ago
> I’m still running an old AirPort Time Capsule at home because it is so reliable and easy to use It was easy to use, as long as you had an Apple or Windows device at hand. Unlike nearly every other WiFi hardware, it didn't have a w
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by cesarb 3y ago
Wouldn't adding these instructions cause potential patent issues? IIRC, the original designers of RISC-V were very careful to only add instructions which were old enough that they can be assumed to not have any trouble with patents.
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> [...] and the JS did select some text. Fixing this in a way that won't cause UX regressions and can't be by-passed relatively easily might be rather tricky. One possible approach could be to ignore selections made by JS (inst
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by cesarb 3y ago
When you don't have a middle button, mouse chording (left+right at the same time) is usually configured to simulate the middle button (for instance, the Emulate3Buttons option in the classic X server configuration). Once you get used t
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by cesarb 3y ago
Some Dell models too, when you choose the keyboard model with a trackpoint they come with the extra set of three physical mouse buttons above the trackpad.
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by cesarb 3y ago
Keep in mind that these are the same conveyor belts which somehow work even before you built your first electric power plant. If they're magic enough to transport items without any power source, they can be magic enough to transport it
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You're assuming that the work can be split into "smallish chunks", instead of a single large CPU-bound computation. Sure, "injecting a stop package in its stream of work" is the best design, but only if you do have
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by cesarb 3y ago
> That being said, I'm not convinced that Microsoft would push things quite so far, considering how easy it's becoming for users to switch to Linux. Unfortunately, Microsoft is in a position where they can make it harder for us
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by cesarb 3y ago
I recall reading somewhere that there's a height issue (a keyboard with a trackpoint would need more height than what's available). (I'm not a trackpoint user, but I like the extra set of three standalone mouse buttons which
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by cesarb 3y ago
> If you only can buy this or a M2 MBP, which one would you get? The M2 MBP, because it's available in my country (Brazil). I could probably find a way to import a Framework, but besides being a lot of work, and the import duties be
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by cesarb 3y ago
> The power bank was sucking power from my phone at about 3.4 watts. At least on Android, there's an option to change the power direction (IIRC, it's in the same place where you choose the data connection mode). I have to use
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by cesarb 3y ago
> It's always been amazing to me how many different projects I've worked on (not that I've been in professional C for about 7 years now)) that include their own painstaking recreation of this file. How many of them started
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How are these "zeroed"? That is, how did they make sure that the "zero" position for all gears is correct when assembling the device?
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> The annoying thing is more that a ton of the ones that fly into a rage are also ones that have never used it. Even that does make some sense: if, on a first look, you see something you deeply dislike, you probably will also avoid using
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by cesarb 3y ago
> The ones who fly into a rage over it seem to be people who don't actually use it! Well, that does make some sense: if something bothers you so much that you'd "fly into a rage over it", you would avoid using it as m
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by cesarb 3y ago
The trick is to know that the true address of that blog was at blogs.msdn.com. Here it is, complete with comments (which were lost when the blog was moved): https://web.archive.org/web/20050924221736/http:/&
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by cesarb 3y ago
While it might seem that software runs in an idealized domain free of conventional physics, that's only because operating systems and processors try to provide a "padded cell" in which software can live. But it's a leaky
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by cesarb 3y ago
> I don't think Microsoft has anything to contribute to that, [...] simply for the fact that they've never really needed to. The unfortunately still very popular OPC protocol suite (except for the newer OPC-UA) runs over DCOM (
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by cesarb 3y ago
> if we can safely propel hundreds of people in an aluminum tube, 35k feet in the air, at hundreds of miles per hour ground speed, thousands of time day in and day out - why is safely generating power from nuclear so often dismissed as u
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by cesarb 3y ago
According to a recent article in Portuguese ( https://g1.globo.com/am/amazonas/noticia/2023/10/01/icmbio-v... ) "[...] em alguns pontos do lago a temperatura está ultrapassando a marca dos 3
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by cesarb 3y ago
> Its not even summer in Brazil yet! They're just coming out of winter, right? > Are there any Brazilians on HN? Of course! As the sibling comment indicated, the region in question is near the equator, where the "winter&quot
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> Had we chosen to start investing in renewables more recently, like Brazil, we would be buying better and cheaper tech. Brazil has been investing in renewables for nearly a century. For instance, the Henry Borden hydroelectric power pla
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by cesarb 3y ago
> So it might end one day. Only if the mining stops abruptly. Otherwise, the automatic difficulty adjustment allows it to keep working even with a reduced energy expenditure. In the extreme, a single computer running in a museum could be
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Yes, but in the context of this thread ("[...] so I doubt there are any technical hurdles in doing the same with fibre"), that would be like installing a wired phone or network service which reaches only as far as the same city. T
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by cesarb 3y ago
> It was technically possible to wire up entire countries and continents for electricity and phone service, so I doubt there are any technical hurdles in doing the same with fibre. Wiring up some places for electricity is really hard .
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by cesarb 3y ago
> If your car followed the unix philosophy you’d have to bring your own radio I've seen plenty of cars in which you have to bring your own radio. AFAIK, there's even a standard connector in the back of the hole where the radio
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by cesarb 3y ago
> MITM for GitHub or another code forge is one of the things I'm least concerned about, because GitHub to me is a place where things go to be made public. This is not just about secrecy, but also about integrity. Someone who MITMs y
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by cesarb 3y ago
It's implied in the examples on this post, but when using public key authentication, an attacker with a stolen SSH host key can pretend to be the server to the client, but cannot pretend to be the client to the server . Which means

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