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by cnst 1y ago
How's a "2-3 year cycle" sensible or sustainable? Who's forcing you to get every upgrade every year? The yearly releases make a lot of sense for everybody, because then you can upgrade on your own schedule, instead of d
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by cnst 1y ago
Like this? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/qwest-ceo-nsa-punished... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6033113
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by cnst 1y ago
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/06/aws_wipes_ten_years/ > An AWS spokesperson told The Register: "We always strive to work with customers to resolve account issues and provided advance warni
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by cnst 1y ago
Not relevant because AMD DRM is still the same, and it is distributed via Linux.
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by cnst 1y ago
That's just excuses that ignore the fact that AWS was never popular even before any of these restrictions came about. Many of the providers on those lists are older than AWS, and/or have been in business for many years since befor
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by cnst 1y ago
Visa® Account Updater for Merchants exists precisely for this reason: https://developer.visa.com/capabilities/vau https://developer.mastercard.com/product/automatic-billing-u... https:/&#x
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by cnst 1y ago
But why do we need 499MB for such simple tasks, where all the rest of the kernel combined still fits in 135MB, with all the drivers for all the other devices, including Intel graphics? I mean, it's 3.7x larger than all the rest of the
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by cnst 1y ago
So how did we end up with a situation where 80% of the kernel is AMD DRM?
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by cnst 1y ago
If you look at the history of these files, they've basically changed at most once after being committed years ago. Regenerating such static data from some master source, would be completely pointless, and would add pointless extra depe
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by cnst 1y ago
> AWS is the apex cloud provider on the planet. This isnt about redundancy or best practices. Sorry, but it is absolutely and undeniably not! I don't think it's accurate to portray AWS as the underlying infrastructure of the
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by cnst 1y ago
You have to use a browser extension or a non-mainstream browser, like Brave, in order to be able to control JavaScript per-site. The benefits can be huge, however. For example, many paywalls would stop working, meaning, you get to see the
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by cnst 1y ago
Most browsers do NOT offer per-site JS disable buttons. It should not be necessary to change the browser to view a website; people can just use archive.today, which works fine in all browsers with JavaScript, and doesn't require a capt
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by cnst 1y ago
> The block is built-in from the get-go. That's only because the JavaScript is fast. If you're using the Brave browser, you can click on the Brave logo when on the required site, and toggle the disable scripts button when on
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by cnst 1y ago
> The article doesn't appear to be paywalled and I'm reading it just fine without JavaScript enabled. Is an archive really necessary? Not every browser has the option to disable JavaScript for a webpage. Yes, of course archive
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by cnst 1y ago
> It's a pity that archive.today walls off their saved pages behind a Google CAPTCHA Actually, they do not; but I'm not sure what's the heuristics. I've disabled all the protections in Brave for archive.today/
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by cnst 1y ago
11k defines in gc is nothing, the files in the nbio dir are so big, github even refuses to parse many them: https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tor... https://git
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by cnst 1y ago
> 79% of OpenBSD kernel source is AMD DRM The sys.tar.gz from https://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.7/ (normally unpacked into /usr/src/sys on an OpenBSD machine) represents the entire
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79% of OpenBSD kernel source is AMD DRM(marc.info)
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by cnst 1y ago
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Setting-Up-... It's literally far more trivial than you may think. (At least if you already own a VPS or a dedicated server.) Basically, (1), add a git u
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by cnst 1y ago
Keep in mind, just 2 days ago, AWS has provided the following statement to Tom's Hardware: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/cloud-storage/aws-accu... https://archive.is/0b3Hc > Updat
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by cnst 1y ago
This is exactly why I got a Model Y AWD with all the default options. It basically has everything you need, and is Long-Range, too, without having to decide whether or not you want a mutually-exclusive "technology package" or &quo
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by cnst 1y ago
Yup, that's because X is part of OpenBSD base system, called xenocara, whereas in FreeBSD, you have to use the Ports tree to install Xorg. Ports tree in general is a great way to install third-party software, but not necessarily for Xo
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by cnst 1y ago
Traditionally, most FreeBSD developers would actually run OS X on their laptops, whereas most OpenBSD developers would still use OpenBSD even on laptops. This was especially notable at BSD-wide events like BSDCan, AsiaBSDCon, EuroBSDCon etc
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by cnst 1y ago
His argument is blatantly invalid. He first points out that a royalty-free format was actually better than the patent-pending alternative that he was responsible for pushing. In the end, he concludes that the that the progress of video comp
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by cnst 1y ago
> The catch is that while the AV1 developers offer their patents (assuming they have any) on a royalty-free basis, in return they require users of AV1 to agree to license their own patents royalty-free back to them. Such a huge catch t
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by cnst 1y ago
Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) Study: Rationale, Design and Baseline Characteristics of a Randomized Control Trial of the MIND Diet on Cognitive Decline - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ar
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by cnst 1y ago
Over a decade ago, it was my dream job to get a job at one specific FAANG company that is widely known to use a project I've contributed to. I'm a developer with a project they use, so, I thought, for sure someone would review my
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by cnst 1y ago
Yes and no, I imagine the biggest qualification for Jane Street would still be humility and not OCaml interest or expertise, and the pay probably has something to do with people's desire to apply, too.
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by cnst 1y ago
> Through a friend of a friend, I found out that Anthropic had an open position in the team implementing the secret, unreleased feature of Claude Desktop using enigo. I wrote a cover letter and sent out my application. An automatic repl
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by cnst 1y ago
> Through a friend of a friend, I found out that Anthropic had an open position in the team implementing the secret, unreleased feature of Claude Desktop using enigo. I wrote a cover letter and sent out my application. An automatic repl

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