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by creeble 2y ago
You do not have (or write programs for) filesystems that contain loads of ancient mp3 and wma files. It is the bane of my existence, but many programs support all the Latin-1 and other file name encodings that are incompatible with UTF-8, s
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by creeble 2y ago
Since it can be commonly viewed from literal sea level (like the shoreline of the ocean or San Francisco Bay), it’s more apropos.
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by creeble 2y ago
Yes and no. Ask Hyundai / KIA owners about the oil consumption in their brand-new engines. Or even 2012-2015 Prius owners about the new head gaskets they will eventually all need. Even brand-new ICE cars are not without their risks.
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by creeble 2y ago
True for consumers (houses), not true for industrial applications where motors are in the >100HP range.
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by creeble 2y ago
Because generators -- where virtually _all_ AC power is created -- start running slower with high demand. They catch up, via increased power input through governors, but changes in load will necessarily have some impact on speed.
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by creeble 2y ago
Do you have a counter example, or is this just your assumption?
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by creeble 2y ago
Good advice, but I'll add that there are many bad things smokeping won't detect. My favorites are APs/range extenders/meshes that don't do multicast properly (mDNS in particular, breaking lots of LAN-based apps), an
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by creeble 2y ago
Thanks so very much!
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by creeble 2y ago
Interesting - Anyone know if this problem affects QT5 under Linux? I’ll have to do some digging to find out, but curious if anyone else has seen this on Qt.
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by creeble 2y ago
I too get pretty consistent response and answers from Alexa these days. There has been some vague decline in the quality of answers (I think sometime back they removed the ability to ask for Wikipedia data), but have no trouble with timers
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by creeble 2y ago
You might need a horizontal tank. Liquid Propane requires surface space to “gasify”, and more space the lower the temp. That’s (one reason) why propane “pigs” are horizontal cylinders. Unfortunately, there aren’t many small horizontal tanks
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by creeble 2y ago
How is performance? We found the native Go SSL libraries (as used in, e.g. the http package natively) to add many ms to web api calls. We eventually substituted OpenSSL (despite not really wanting to). It significantly sped up the app. YMMV
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by creeble 2y ago
Good short video about the Roseville yard explosion by Fascinating Horror: https://youtu.be/fyzw-1yuUB0
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by creeble 2y ago
FWIW, same experience here. Replaced it with a quiet KitchenAid that has run for over 15 years, only requiring new tray slides once (and hey were not expensive).
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by creeble 2y ago
Most of the course in link[1] is available on YouTube as well.
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by creeble 2y ago
It’s hard, but my best advice for Saas builders who get crazy feature requests from non-customers is simple: Don’t reply. You have to judge which requests are “crazy” of course, which isn’t always easy. “If you could just do this one thing,
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by creeble 2y ago
Another example related to the current action of the user, but outside the scope of the currently-viewed screen: inserting a USB stick, or some other hardware-related function. There is no context for this, and often an action is required.
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by creeble 2y ago
Yeah, I don't know who labelled a CDC 6500 a "supercomputer". My first college course used a 6600, and there was nothing "super" about it, except the time you waited for your job to run.
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by creeble 2y ago
You can put a temporary un-freeze on your record, sometimes for a number of hours or days. I think Transunion is the only one that allows you to do this simply with your Transunion login; Equifax and Experian make it much harder.
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by creeble 2y ago
My favorite Larry Tesler contribution is Tesler’s Law or the Law of Conservation of Complexity[1]. It answers the question “why does this have to be so complicated?”, which I have found to be useful in countless numbers of UI discussions. “
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by creeble 2y ago
Cryptography is meant to preserve secrecy. Are you implying that cryptography is evil? Or that some other kind of secrecy (like keeping cryptographic algorithms secret) is evil?
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by creeble 2y ago
Nor would it perform well during compilation, which is very well discussed in the thread. C++ compilation is slow, like the macro expansion of the C versions of min and max. It’s all in the thread, I don’t know how GP missed it.
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by creeble 2y ago
I get 5-10 SMS messages a day filtered by Verizon’s anti-spam (still get notices for each though). These days they are mostly political pleas, which are, ironically, in some semi-protected gray area. Haven’t noticed any USPS-related ones la
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by creeble 2y ago
Read the LWN comments.
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by creeble 2y ago
Anyone want my pile of CHiP SBCs? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-wor...
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by creeble 2y ago
Especially, college radio and other free-form community radio stations. People who feel they have a calling to be a DJ sometimes actually do. I have a reasonable list of TuneIn stations (mostly US) that provide my favorite “discovery”.
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by creeble 2y ago
Indeed. The Music Genome Project never got beyond ~250k songs IIRC.
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by creeble 2y ago
“16 times quieter” is not 4 bits. “Half volume” is subjective, and for music is typically between 6 and 10dB (most US audio engineering classes use 10dB).
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by creeble 2y ago
Www.dot.tk still free.
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by creeble 2y ago
But it’s somethhing that happens too late. Phishers benefit from low domain prices because they can churn them faster than you can investigate them. Scams are fast, investigation slow. Worse, you investigate only to find that the scammer is

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