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> Unfortunately, I don't know a single person that remembers their six-digit PIN that's required for that feature... IIRC, enabling that feature is optional (disabled by default), and if you never enabled it, you don't eve
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> It's too many zeros for people to work with on a daily basis. I think what will happen is that, at regular intervals, the old hyper-inflated currency will be replaced with a new currency that's, say, 2^32 times less than the
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> Overall interest in computing freedom seems to have declined from where it was a couple decades ago. Did it decline, or did the demographics change? Us old-timers are probably still as interested in computing freedom as we were back th
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> And only "authorized" persons can download IDEs and dev tools. Just in case someone hasn't read it yet, I have to post a link to this classic short story: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read
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> only has 128GB of storage Am I the only one who feels that 128GB is a huge amount of storage for a phone? Or is it because I still remember when even desktop computers had storage sizes best measured in megabytes?
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> > No advertiser needs to know anything about me. > They do if they want to deliver ads that are relevant. There's a simple (and much older) alternative: deliver ads relevant to the content being seen, instead of tracking t
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> Or do they just enumerate the other processes handles to that file and close them? AFAIK, that's exactly what they do. And it can cause problems, see for instance https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-ver
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> They didn't create Chrome out of the goodness of their hearts: it was created to impose their rules on the internet. IIRC, it's the opposite: Chrome was created to prevent other browser manufacturers (in particular, Microso
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> Chrome is not installed on any desktop computer system by default except for ChromeOS that has 3% market share. Chrome is installed by default on the handheld computer system most people use, with AFAIK over 50% market share. Given tha
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> > Due to log retention policies, [...] > Are we still budgeting storage like it’s the 1990s for logs? Retention policies are not necessarily about storage space; sometimes, they are there to avoid being required to provide that o
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> Did you check if there are background processes draining your battery? These kinds of problems are often not background processes, but instead parts of the hardware which haven't been powered off or power gated correctly; even a s
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> I've dreamed of a browser that supports multiple stacks, instead of the HTML/CSS/JS monopoly. These existed. You could have used VBScript instead of JavaScript (Internet Explorer). Or, perhaps, you might have wanted to g
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> The Linux downloads come in around 200-220MiB, but the Windows downloads are around 320-350MiB. Weird. I think I can guess at least part of the reason: MSVC redistributables. On Windows, each program is supposed to distribute a copy of
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> > Typing 'write' in the Run dialog still opens WordPad today > pbrush also opens Microsoft Paint. And in both cases, the reason was most probably backwards compatibility, so that programs which directly called WRITE.EXE
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> VMs are the only reason I sometimes struggle with 32GB, It's always annoyed me that the memory allocation for VMs is so static. If I allocate 16GB to a VM, it will fill these 16GB with its own filesystem cache, even when the host
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> For starters - a typical 15amp outlet is only supposed to have a 1,440W continuous load, 1,800W peak. Luxury! Where I live the typical socket is only 10A, and the most common standard voltage is 127V (it varies by city, some places hav
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I have the suspicion that they're more concerned with aesthetics than with airflow. Transparent PC cases are a plague.
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> What if London doesn't exist by the event time? Or what if it's split into two cities, which half were you talking about? This has famously happened with Berlin.
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> I spent a little while trying to parse out each word, guess common roots, vaguely remember the little bits of German grammar I've absorbed over the years, and so on. And German has a particularly special trap for "trying to p
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> EVs are fundamentally simple: battery, motor. Playing devil's advocate: unless it's a simple single-speed motor, there's another important component between these two, the motor controller or inverter, and that component
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> Unfortunately some libraries need to be from the host (e.g. the Vulkan/OpenGL libraries). AFAIK, they don't need to be from the host, they only need to be compatible with the host hardware and the host kernel (and the kernel
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> (That's the case for Android at least; I'm not sure about the Steam Deck.) AFAIK, the Steam Deck is a traditional Linux desktop (KDE), which automatically runs the Steam launcher (in full-screen Big Picture mode) by default (
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> Cash is money. Cash is immune to bank runs. > If you have $10,000 then you have $10,000. Playing devil's advocate: that's as long as the denomination doesn't change. Once it changes (for instance Cr$ -> NCr$ ->
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> what would be the back up plan for in case of war, solar flare* or other natural disaster? Does it need to be a natural disaster? Things like a widespread network failure, a major bank's systems going down for a while (happened no
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> This right here is an example of a lie of omission: over what time frame? Sorry about that. It's the average over a whole week (I looked at the weekly bulletin of a random week from last month, but they're all similar). >
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> But you can't run the grid on 50% renewables without solving storage. Counter-example: Brazil's national grid routinely runs on over 85% renewables with essentially zero storage (there might be a couple of experimental batter
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> I don't understand why people keep claiming that solar and wind are "cheap". It's simple: they're looking at the incremental cost of adding one more solar panel string or one more wind turbine, compared to gene
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> Gas fired plants are clean: they only produce CO2 and H20. AFAIK, that can only be the case if you combust the gas with pure oxygen; air also has a lot of nitrogen, so combusting with air will always lead to some oxides of nitrogen app
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> All it would take is a few extra modulation and coding modes in the standard. [...] but at a data rate of 0.3 kbps. It would take more than just "a few extra modulation and coding modes". At 0.3 kbps, even a single 100-byte p
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> (At one point serde_derive ran an untrusted binary for over 4 weeks across 12 releases before almost anyone became aware. This was plain-as-day code in the crate root; I am confident that professionally obfuscated malicious code would

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