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by cperciva 2y ago
EC2 bare metal instances take a long time to boot. The machine was probably running for 8 minutes before DHCP started up (and then it got a new response every 30 minutes after that).
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by cperciva 2y ago
VLB wasn't limited to graphics... it was just a fast bus. VLB wasn't limited to graphics, but it had issues which made it difficult to use in other applications. Still, there were a handful of SCSI and Ethernet cards made to th
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by cperciva 2y ago
Isn't the thresholding just for identifying landmarks to be used for choosing dewarping parameters? Presumably once found those parameters could be applied to the original image.
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by cperciva 2y ago
German environmentalism is NIMBY combined with support for Russian fossil fuels.
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by cperciva 2y ago
Good good. Just wanted to check since it's a mistake a lot of people have made!
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by cperciva 2y ago
independantly sourcing an official number Be careful about this. Scammers have bought Google adverts to advertise fake phone numbers for banks, so "ask Google what my bank's phone number is" unfortunately isn't secure
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by cperciva 2y ago
A forest is an acyclic graph. A tree is a connected forest.
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by cperciva 2y ago
I thought /dev/payments was their second name. Weren't they /dev/creditcard or something like that first?
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by cperciva 3y ago
How and why are difficult words. I mean, in some senses we don't even know why water is wet. My very limited understanding of the subject is that in supercritical water there are larger clumps of H2O molecules surrounding the isolate
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by cperciva 3y ago
Another way to dissolve oil in water is to increase the pressure and temperature. Supercritical water is a non-polar solvent!
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by cperciva 3y ago
FWIW, Costco's receipt checkers aren't looking for shoplifting so much as checking to make sure people collected everything they paid for. In particular stuff like gift cards where you pick up a cardboard token in the store and t
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by cperciva 3y ago
Why is Mario so jumpy?
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by cperciva 3y ago
If the government appointed executives "managing" the port try to interfere with organized crime, the union goes on strike and the port shuts down. Canada is sadly too dependent on its ports to stand up to the criminals who run th
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by cperciva 3y ago
If you want to ship out of the Montreal port you agree that the port authority has the right to open the container. How does that help you when the workers at the port authority are actively involved? It's an open secret that organiz
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Generalist AI Doesn't Scale(daemonology.net)
2 points by cperciva 3y ago|2 comments
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by cperciva 3y ago
Note that this sort of comparison isn't necessarily trivial. I have code where running `foo --version` out of the git repository will print "foo @@VERSION@@" because that gets substituted with the actual version number as pa
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by cperciva 3y ago
In my code I have a bunch of routines optimized for different platforms, e.g. using x86 AESNI instructions. Not all compilers support them, and they don't even make sense when compiling for a different CPU architecture. It's much
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by cperciva 3y ago
Approximately 0% of parachute-wearing is based on validated research. Doesn't mean it's not a good idea. While I agree that dentistry absolutely has an overtreatment problem, there's enough evidence that some procedures resu
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by cperciva 3y ago
I am still bewildered as to how the method was discovered. Hunting cultures often have periods of surplus. Most likely this wasn't so much deliberate fermentation as an attempt to store their surplus; the fact that it turned well wa
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by cperciva 3y ago
Whoops! Thanks, I fixed that.
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by cperciva 3y ago
I wrote what I did deliberately; I wasn't sure if any trials had tested the other cancers (although it would be incredibly surprising if they weren't similarly prevented).
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by cperciva 3y ago
including boys who can't get cervical cancer True enough (modulo questions of how trans people are identified) but while HPV is best known for causing cervical cancer, it also causes cancers of the penis, anus, mouth, and throat.
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by cperciva 3y ago
You probably get some plastic entering your bloodstream every time you get a flu shot, just from the disposable syringe. (Yes, it's IM not IV, but it will migrate.)
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by cperciva 3y ago
measurable amounts Note however that chemists have gotten incredibly good at detecting tiny amounts of things, so an amount being "measurable" in no way implies that it is clinically significant.
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FreeBSD 13.3-Release Announcement(freebsd.org)
38 points by cperciva 3y ago|1 comments
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by cperciva 3y ago
The /sbin/init binary is hard linked to /sbin/dashboard, /sbin/poweroff, /sbin/shutdown, and /sbin/wrapperd. While this technically is 5 files, it’s a single file hard linked 4 times to pro
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by cperciva 3y ago
Collusion is if they, well, collude . Copying is not the same thing as colluding .
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by cperciva 3y ago
I expect we'll get to at least 13.4 and quite possibly 13.5 or 13.6 -- some people have asked for more frequent minor releases, which inherently means having more of them.
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by cperciva 3y ago
The FreeBSD 13.3-RC1 announcement is at https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2024-Febru... but I'd like to get people to test a couple specific things, hence the blog post. Hopefully dang is ok
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Please test: FreeBSD 13.3-RC1(daemonology.net)
6 points by cperciva 3y ago|4 comments

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