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by cricalix 5y ago
I can't remember if they failed as badly as the IBM Deathstar.. sorry, Deskstar ( https://www.extremetech.com/computing/326292-why-lying-about... ). Those things were notorious for failing.
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by cricalix 5y ago
15k RPM drives existed too. Seagate Cheetah for instance.
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by cricalix 5y ago
It's existed for several years now, so apparently at least several years.
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by cricalix 5y ago
"Reset this PC" is one possibility that you're thinking of. Has options for saving or deleting all user-dir files, (afaik) always removes installed applications. Can also fully format the disk, and pull a clean copy of the in
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by cricalix 5y ago
The whole point of a dishwasher though, is that you /don't/ need to do that. Strongly recommend watching Technology Connection's video on the subject; the takeaway is to put powder/tab in free for the first cycle, a
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by cricalix 5y ago
The thing about fitting everything in one rack, potentially, is vibration. There have been several studies into drive performance degredation from vibration, and there's noticeable impact in some scenarios. The Open Compute "Knox&
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The Secret Life of the Refrigerator – Remastered(youtube.com)
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by cricalix 6y ago
The canal is 200 metres wide, 25ish metres deep. Gotta think in the cube, because now you're talking volume. I have zero idea what thickness you're going to need for your dam, but I'm going to spitball and say 10 metres at th
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by cricalix 6y ago
Sane answer: No. The ship is 400 metres / 0.25 of a mile long. With containers, it weighs anywhere up to 199 thousand tons. One does not simply attach a few hundred cables, put some rollers under it, and pull with all the tractors yo
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by cricalix 6y ago
Well, they fall off of ships all the time, especially in rough weather (all the time is hyperbole, but it absolutely happens). So sure, you can probably push one off with a pretty big lever, but shipping containers are actually designed to
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by cricalix 6y ago
And as a bit more context, the cranes that are used at ports are capable of moving 60+ tonnes[0] - physics becomes a bit of a problem when your crane is a lever.. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_crane
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by cricalix 6y ago
We're discussing a ship that is 400 metres long, 59 metres wide, and has a draft of 16 metres[0]. It's carrying somewhere over 18,000 containers, each of which could weight up to 27,000 kg[1]. It's unlikely that all of them w
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by cricalix 6y ago
As a small vessel (10 metres) owner and operator, it's quite nice that AIS operates over VHF. I can install an AIS receiver and see precisely what's coming my way, and the instrumentation available to me can predict whether I migh
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by cricalix 6y ago
VesselFinder and MarineTraffic use the data broadcast by vessels on AIS[0]. The AIS devices can be programmed with the dimensions of the vessel, location of the AIS GPS antenna relative to the vessel (ie, is it right aft, or in the middle,
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by cricalix 6y ago
Consider the scenario where you develop a daemon that does something, has no secrets that you worry about. You implement this concept of automatic logging of variables, and all is well in the world. You leave. New person takes over ownershi
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by cricalix 6y ago
Blind logging of all variables (as the writeup implies) is definitely a nightmare. You can end up with things like passwords, credit card details etc in the logs. If you're running a log concentrator, now they're in the concentrat
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by cricalix 6y ago
Based on the DNS name, I'd guess that's a load balancer either in a Frankfurt (DE) point of presence, or a Frankfurt data center. If it's a POP, then it's probably just a cache to the servers in the DC, which could still
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by cricalix 6y ago
Black it out, print it to paper, scan it back in, embed the image in a Word document, and print to PDF. Wait, that's just how "most" people do it anyway..
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by cricalix 6y ago
And to reply to myself, in case anyone else is wondering - there's a Zendesk site for filing reports. https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
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by cricalix 6y ago
There's also the case of the rendering completely missing that things are cliffs (even small ones). If you jump to Barbados' airport and go to the north of the island, the rendering is of gentle sloping land (and static wave image
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by cricalix 6y ago
America only, so not really an option for the majority of the world. Mind you, given most Irish bookstores (in Dublin area at least) don't even bother offering online ordering, I'm not sure a clearing house helps anyway.
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by cricalix 6y ago
A related tangent - ever notice that if you go to make a donation to a fundraiser, the iOS app kicks you out to a web page? It would be a better experience if it was in-app, but I have to wonder if Apple consider that to be an in-app purcha
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by cricalix 6y ago
Factorio has been around in "open beta" for something like 4 years now (and I've been playing it for at least 3), so I suspect it'll be around a while longer. However, even if the developers stopped updating the game, so
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by cricalix 6y ago
Well, supposedly[0] the next iteration of the CM will be based on the Pi 4 guts, and expose the PCIe capabilities. The maker of the hardware being discussed also mentions that they might try the compute module (it probably makes a lot of se
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by cricalix 6y ago
The US CSB video[0] on the incident at West, Texas is worth watching. Every video they do is worth watching to understand how processes can fail. 0: https://www.csb.gov/videos/dangerously-close-explosion-in-we...
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by cricalix 6y ago
You might also be able to use the "standard" radio kit metal boxes - tap some standoffs, carefully drill some holes for wires etc. Dunno which works out better for the world - ordering a pre-fab metal box that you have to do some
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by cricalix 6y ago
Looking at the page source, it doesn't appear to be Wordpress; none of the usual cruft that WP scatters through the source (though it could have been processed via a filter). Looking at the request/response headers in Firefox&#x27
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by cricalix 6y ago
XSplit's VCam can do background removal without chroma-key. It's reasonably good, and emits a virtual webcam that VC clients or OBS can use as an input. Think it's 40 USD for a lifetime license. Has a bit of ghosting when you
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by cricalix 7y ago
I saw somewhere on Twitter, possibly as a reply to Scott Helme, that they possibly added these URLs to their CSP because they were getting errors in their CSP logs from machines that had adware/malware loaded. Can't find the tweet
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by cricalix 7y ago
Using a plugin for OBS (Windows at least), you can absolutely output to a virtual camera, and use all of the compositing, filters, scenes etc in OBS. You don't get audio output, but you could probably solve that with a virtual audio ca

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