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by chx 3y ago
> No way are they reading Windows Defender popups with complicated words like "executable", they're gonna click okay Indeed. https://i.imgur.com/M4RNUHl.png from https://www.usenix.org/con
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by chx 3y ago
Come now, the Titan should never have been built, the primary cause of loss was the carbon fiber laminate which is simply the wrong material for a submersible. This is not hindsight, there's a five year old terse answer on Quora of all
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by chx 3y ago
Deleted. Read https://ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-pon... https://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2021-01-16-yes-pon... instead.
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by chx 3y ago
That's not just Windows, someone had a presentation I think from Mozilla showing people can't make heads or tails of the SSL certificate error window and consider the whole thing to be "click yes to get on with things".
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by chx 3y ago
No, without DSC the host sends raw pixel data over DisplayPort.
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by chx 3y ago
If you consider how ~1:18 is considered visually lossless for x.264, a compression of 1:3 is very very likely can be achieved visually lossless indeed.
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by chx 3y ago
I wish the manufacturers would just adopt the USB IF marketing names and logos. https://i.imgur.com/H3unbD5.png would be a lot simpler. I also wish the USB IF defined colors for high speed lanes absent vs 5/10/20
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by chx 3y ago
> DSC is most often used in a Constant Bit Rate (CBR) mode, where the number of coded bits generated for a slice is always a constant that is generally equal to the bit rate multiplied by the number of pixels within the slice https:&#x2
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by chx 3y ago
> However, if you don’t need the full bandwidth that four lanes can give you, a DP link can consist of only one or two main lanes resulting in two This is how many USB C docks operate. The USB C connector also has four high speed lanes a
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by chx 3y ago
System76 won't make MFC drivers for every MFC there is or make Linux clients for wacky corporate VPNs and Wifi appear.
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by chx 3y ago
> I vividly recall someone bringing a 700MB hard drive back from a local computer store. It cost an astonishingly paltry 700 quid or thereabouts. I ... do not know. That sounds very low. Look at https://jcmit.net/diskpri
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by chx 3y ago
> That doesn’t really exist any more. But the lack of driver support still does. Linux on a modern laptop is just full of headaches. I mean, https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen7-7840u this is typical: GNOME do
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by chx 3y ago
> including a brand new building to house it Ha yes the aforementioned IBM 3090 was so big for installation they removed the roof of the building it was living in, craned it in place and put the roof the back. Bringing it up the eleva
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by chx 3y ago
SCSI Zip drive as a Starter Pack? Some people are loaded :D Uh, that was a lot of dough back then. Even an ATAPI 100MB Zip drive was something to heavily consider.
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by chx 3y ago
It's Cannon Lake all over again but since it's a retail product and Apple to boot, it's much, much more visible. The tale of a product which needed to be launched due to corporate dynamics but several years need to pass befor
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by chx 3y ago
> My first server had 128MB of RAM Whippersnappers! :D The first big iron I had the luck to work with was an IBM 3090 , essentially a gift from IBM, it handled the university entrance exams of the entire country of some ten million peo
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by chx 3y ago
I still remember when we measured the documentation IBM shipped with the mainframes not in pages but in yards it occupied on the shelves. It was a lot .
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by chx 3y ago
> or something uncommon like zsh By the time our lord and savior zsh appeared on the scene Perl was already at Perl 3. And, to be fair, I do not think many used zsh before 2.1 which was some time 1991 fall and by then the Camel Book was
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by chx 3y ago
Are you OK?
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by chx 3y ago
> this data is not even a century old The instrumental temperature record is typically considered to start in 1850 so I am not sure what do you mean by "this data". But 100 or 200 hardly matters. What I meant is while we don&#x
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by chx 3y ago
Global surface level temperatures do not jump around like that by degrees and we do not have proof for a mass aridification event for some thousands of years so no it's not bullshit.
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by chx 3y ago
Actual article: > The planet’s temperature spiked on Tuesday to its hottest day in decades and likely centuries, It's not talking about "greenhouse Earth". Anyways, for immediate concerns we only need to look at the Meghal
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by chx 3y ago
You can't break anything. It's still true (in like 99.9999% of cases) so just go ham. Try, try, try, try. Nothing bad can happen. This was very helpful back then for me. Not sure whether it's still helpful but back then this
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by chx 3y ago
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-slow-sad-death-of-twitt...
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The slow, sad death of Twitter(theneweuropean.co.uk)
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by chx 3y ago
> I think Twitter is here to stay. Twitter has maybe six months but certainly not twelve before going bankrupt. It's done for. I fully agree with the analysis at https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-slow-sad-death-o
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by chx 3y ago
> it needs two (!) DisplayPort cables on a GPU with MST support, meaning that in practice, it only works with nVidia graphics cards. This is nonsense, of course AMD graphics cards support MST. https://www.reddit.com/user
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by chx 3y ago
This is a lot more complex than just praising the US for the state of affairs past World War II. Bootstrapping Europe with the Marshall plan was great. But Western European peace is largely entrenched thanks to the Schuman Plan leading to t
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by chx 3y ago
> The creation of Uniterd24 was the manifestation of the technology WE in the Bitcoin community built Are you talking about https://u24.gov.ua/ ? Not a trace of crypto... (obviously since all crypto is a scam.)
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by chx 3y ago
You seriously think the US can't get a few mercenaries inside Russia if they wanted to? Especially in this case... I am reasonably sure more or less neutral forces like the Middle East states or India would rather frown at disrupting T

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