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by cesarb 9mo ago
> Any power users who prefer their own key management should follow the steps to enable Bitlocker without uploading keys to a connected Microsoft account. Once the feature exists, it's much easier to use it by accident. A finger sli
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by cesarb 9mo ago
> DP is something like a free superset of HDMI, so you can use a fully passive DP-HDMI cable. No, it's not, the protocol is completely different (DP is packet-based while HDMI traditionally was not, though AFAIK HDMI 2.1 copied DP&#
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by cesarb 9mo ago
> There’re quite a few mechanics they use for that. The oldest one, call a special API function on startup [...] Isn't the oldest one... to have the API/ABI version in the name of your DLL? Unlike on Linux which by default uses
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by cesarb 10mo ago
> The Cargo example at the top is striking. Whenever I publish a crate, and it blocks me until I write `--allow-dirty`, I am reminded that there is a conflation between Cargo/crates.io and Git that should not exist. I will write `--
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by cesarb 10mo ago
One of these is not like the others... > The problem was that go get needed to fetch each dependency’s source code just to read its go.mod file and resolve transitive dependencies. This article is mixing two separate issues. One is using
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by cesarb 10mo ago
> Could dominant vs non-dominant hand for operating things on the center console make a difference? Large airplanes usually have a pilot on either side of the center console, and they AFAIK take turns operating the airplane, so if it mad
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by cesarb 10mo ago
> Why would any actual software engineer be against slopware? When it inevitably all comes crashing down [...] someone will have to come in to make the actual product. Why would a window maker be against breaking windows?
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by cesarb 10mo ago
> will wait forever, pushed by the wayside by those who can deliver great quality with the help of these new tools. That sounded a lot like the "have fun staying poor" argument from the peak cryptocurrency days.
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by cesarb 10mo ago
> Any electricity produced by turning generators will require rare earths. AFAIK, not all kinds of rotating generators require rare earths; IIRC, induction motors don't need any permanent magnets.
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by cesarb 10mo ago
It makes sense if you think of a prompt not as a way of telling the LLM what to do (like you would with a human), but instead as a way of steering its "autocomplete" output towards a different part of the parameter space. For inst
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by cesarb 10mo ago
> We live in the future my friends I second that. Hearing in the VASAviation video (linked by someone else in a nearby thread) the robotic voice announcing what it's doing, while it does a completely autonomous landing in an airport
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by cesarb 10mo ago
> Do those boxes really still exist? Yes, they do. You'll be surprised by how many places use out-of-support operating systems and software (which were well within their support windows when installed, they have just never been upgr
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by cesarb 10mo ago
That's only if the distro is recent enough; sooner or later, you'll encounter a box running a distro version from before /etc/os-release became the standard, and you'll have to look for the older distro-specific fil
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by cesarb 10mo ago
> The easiest thing would probably to specify the need for "x86-64-v3" AFAIK, that only specifies the user-space-visible instruction set extensions, not the presence and version of operating-system-level features like APIC or I
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by cesarb 10mo ago
> But putting the ticket number in the commit ... that's basically automatic, I don't know why it should be that big a concern. The branch itself gets created with the ticket number and everything follows from that, there'
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by cesarb 10mo ago
Probably not a joke. In the same way people want to get away from the C language due to its propensity to memory vulnerabilities, shell scripts have their own share of footguns, the most common being a variable not being quoted when it shou
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by cesarb 10mo ago
> Traditional stereo won't help you localize them [...] and LIDAR sacrifices resolution for weight and power consumption I wonder if a more mechanical solution wouldn't help: Whiskers, like on a cat. A long enough set of thin l
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by cesarb 10mo ago
> It's not only xor that does this, but most 32-bit operations zero-extend the result of the 64-bit register. AMD did this for backward compatibility. It's not just that, zero-extending or sign-extending the result is also bett
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by cesarb 10mo ago
> you just have 9 bits per byte rather than 8 bits per byte physically on the module. More chips but not different chips. For those who aren't well versed in the construction of memory modules: take a look at your DDR4 memory module
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by cesarb 10mo ago
> There's a weird fetishization of long uptimes. I suspect some of this dates from the bad old days when Windows would outright crash after 50 days of uptime. My recollection is that, usually, it crashed more often than that. The 50
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by cesarb 10mo ago
> It really is amazing how much success Linux has achieved given its relatively haphazard nature. That haphazard nature is probably part of the reason for its success, since it allowed for many alternative ways of doing things being expe
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by cesarb 10mo ago
Many new devices use a 2.5mm audio jack instead of the 3.5mm audio jack.
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by cesarb 10mo ago
> but I believe that success Linux has had is because of copyleft No, the success Linux has had is because it ran on the machines people had at home, and was very easy to try out. An instructive example would be my own path into Linux: I
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by cesarb 10mo ago
> > But here we are with linux abandoning things like 'a.out'. > I've completely missed this and would like to know more, may I be so bold as to request a link? "A way out for a.out" https://lwn.
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by cesarb 10mo ago
> One vision is "medium-centric". You might want paths to always be consistently relative to a specific floppy disc regardless of what drive it's in, or a specific Seagate Barracuda no matter which SATA socket it was wired
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by cesarb 10mo ago
> Only if you have an old-style kernel cmdline or fstab that references /dev/sd* instead of using the UUID=xyz or /dev/disk/by-id/xyz syntax. Fixed that for you. It used to be normal to use the device path
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by cesarb 10mo ago
> A was the first floppy drive, B the (typically absent) second floppy drive As another commenter mentioned, when you didn't have a second floppy drive, A: and B: mapped to two floppy disks in the same floppy drive, with DOS pausing
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by cesarb 10mo ago
> Also, Windows had the ridiculous default of immediately running things when a user put in a CD or USB stick - that behaviour led to many infections and is obviously a stupid default option. Playing devil's advocate: absent the obv
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by cesarb 11mo ago
> Sounds to me like someone roleplaying being a developer. That's because that's precisely how LLMs work. They complete a text where two actors (the "user" and the "assistant"), or sometimes three actors (th
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by cesarb 11mo ago
> This is what the US Copyright Office determined. There are hundreds of countries in the world. Whatever the "US Copyright Office" determines, applies to only one of them.

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