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by cesarb 1y ago
> How does it negotiate with a host-powered device if it's unpowered to begin with? Through a pair of resistors. The unpowered device connects each of the two CC pins to the ground pin through a separate resistor of a specific value
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by cesarb 1y ago
> You have to consider the context the analogy is being applied to. But that particular reply did not constrain itself to the context. It implied that a forklift lifting 150kg is not interesting at all. Which offends those of us who do a
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by cesarb 1y ago
> In a similar vein is the surge shaft being built as part of the Snowy 2.0 scheme in Australia. [...] It absorbs the momentum of the surge of water when the downstream power station closes its valves. Not the same power station, but I h
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by cesarb 1y ago
> I'm sure they must exist somewhere, but battery-powered trams are not popular. Yes, they do exist. The Alstom Citadis at Rio de Janeiro, which I take often, uses a supercapacitor for small pieces of its route (mostly crossings whe
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by cesarb 1y ago
> A coal plant actually generates 1GW, 24/7, while "a gigawatt's worth" of solar panels is theoretical peak capacity at noon on a cloudless day. This is called "capacity factor". Other things like maintenanc
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by cesarb 1y ago
> The `zip` command on Ubuntu is 6.0, which was released in 2009 and does not support zstd. It does support bzip2 though! You probably mean the "unzip" command, which https://infozip.sourceforge.net/UnZip.html
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by cesarb 1y ago
> Everyone can open a ZIP file, and they don't really care if the file is a few MBs bigger. You can use ZSTD with ZIP files too! It's compression method 93 (see https://pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/casestudi
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by cesarb 1y ago
> You can search "Gemini" in your settings app. Thanks, but that only leads to a screen asking whether I want to enable Gemini. I decline, and it goes back to the previous screen, without opening any settings form.
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by cesarb 1y ago
The whole situation is still clear as mud to me. What if I don't have the Gemini app installed, how do I get to its configuration screen? Is the component which exfiltrates the data part of the Gemini app, or is it a separate Android c
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by cesarb 1y ago
> For comparison, the internet mostly transitioned off of TLS 1.0 just fine, why can't we do the same for transitioning off ipv4? This is a great demonstration of the advantages of the end-to-end principle. The reason the transition
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by cesarb 1y ago
> both of those suffer from "open-but-not-quite" as they have large documents of "Acceptable Use" which outlines what you can and cannot do with the weights Even worse, the "Acceptable Use" document is a sep
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by cesarb 1y ago
> I wonder how that works for very similar looking people. AFAIK, copyright allows for independent creation (unlike patents), so unless one person had deliberately copied the other's appearance, there should be no problem.
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by cesarb 1y ago
> Gemma is open source and apache 2.0 licensed. Are you sure? On a quick look, it appears to use its own bespoke license, not the Apache 2.0 license. And that license appears to have field of use restrictions, which means it would not be
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by cesarb 1y ago
> Has anyone ever used .exe for anything other than Windows? Did you know that Microsoft Windows originally ran on top of the much older MS-DOS, which used EXE files as one of its two executable formats? Most Windows users had lots and l
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by cesarb 1y ago
Yeah, git notes are AFAIK stashed into their own hidden branch, referencing the original commit by its hash. That is, the git note points to the commit, not the opposite.
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by cesarb 1y ago
Git notes were used at the LibreOffice project to track, for each commit to the Apache OpenOffice repository (which they mirrored as a branch on LibreOffice's git repository), whether that commit was not relevant (for instance, changes
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by cesarb 1y ago
Even if you read the whole manual, if doing the intuitive thing results in a non-intuitive result, it's usually a bad design. The "-,omitempty" thing is a bad design because it's a non-orthogonal combination of two featu
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by cesarb 1y ago
> The fact that it allows case-insensitive key matching is just insane. It's probably a side effect of what is IMO another bad design of that language: letter casing determining field visibility, instead of using a keyword or a sigi
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by cesarb 1y ago
> I think paying for Youtube will increase the chances of my Google account getting banned. [...] The safest thing to do is never change how you interact with Google in any way unless you absolutely have to. I don't like depending o
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by cesarb 1y ago
At least you get a CAPTCHA. All I get is a "403 Forbidden" with zero extra information. Tried from two different ISPs and different devices.
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by cesarb 1y ago
> > No, Java applets failed because they became the poster child for "Java is slow" take. > Java Applets also froze the entire browser when loading. More than just "poster child", I believe Java applets are the
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by cesarb 1y ago
I usually say SSL, because it has a greater chance of being understood than the more correct TLS (nobody uses SSL 3.0 anymore). It's also in the name of many SSL (I mean, TLS) libraries, like the classic OpenSSL. But yeah, I learned ab
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by cesarb 1y ago
> Why can't Cargo have a system like PyPI where library author uploads compiled binary Unless you have perfect reproducible builds, this is a security nightmare. Source code can be reviewed (and there are even projects to share data
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by cesarb 1y ago
> Signal app periodically prompts you for the encryption PIN to make sure you don't forget it. At least Signal does not block the app until you enter the PIN. WhatsApp forces you to enter it before you can reach your messages, which
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by cesarb 1y ago
> As far as I've understood/remember SSO was logging on with a single ID and not logging on a single time. What I remember is that the promise of SSO in the 1990s and early 2000s was that you would login only ONCE, onto your de
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by cesarb 1y ago
> The STF vote stands at 6-1, and the result is now irreversible. Even then, the detailed justification for each vote is interesting. Just the first one is nearly 200 pages, and presents the whole history of the discussion, mentions prec
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by cesarb 1y ago
I always like going to the source for things like that. As the article mentioned, the voting hasn't concluded yet. This article has a link to the seven votes so far, with the full explanation for each one: https://noticias.s
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by cesarb 1y ago
> It is very strange that no real open source project uses "AI" in any way. Using genAI is particularly hard on open source projects due to worries about licensing: if your project is under license X, you don't want to ris
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by cesarb 1y ago
> "oh god, I want to change the name of this function/variable, but I need to go through 500 files, and see where it's used, then make local changes, then re-test everything..." Forgive me for being dense, but isn&#x2
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by cesarb 1y ago
Forgive me if this has already been answered in one of the other threads (I haven't been following them), but: How does this work in other countries?

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