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by cyberax 1mo ago
The last time I checked the source code, it was filled with horrible unsafe C++. They also re-implement everything whether it is needed or not.
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by cyberax 1mo ago
Sure, but that's an order of magnitude better than optical drives. Blu-Ray optical media use feature sizes on the order of 100nm (0.1um) and the read head needs to be able to move in two dimensions to keep it in focus. I repaired a cou
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by cyberax 1mo ago
Yeah, the back-compat story for LTOs is not great. They are going to try and improve it starting with LTO-10. It was partially on purpose for the earlier LTO generations. The capacity/speed ratio was not too high, so you could just kee
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by cyberax 1mo ago
It seems like Google, Microsoft, and Apple have all switched into "extract max profit" mode. They don't care about quality or even features anymore. And it comes from the top: the CEOs are not caring anymore, so their lieuten
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by cyberax 1mo ago
So it's like a tape library, but for 1Tb optical disks? I think a tape library still wins. LTO-9 allows 18Tb on one tape (without compression) and LTO-10 is 30/40Tb And tape is going to be fine, as long as it's kept in reason
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by cyberax 1mo ago
> What allows Wine to run so many Windows apps that there's not an equivalent for MacOS? A lot of work done over 3 decades. Wine also started when Win32 was something comprehensible by one person, so they could build it up slowly.
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by cyberax 1mo ago
A $1 a year payment (like in WhatsUp) from all the current Chrome users can easily cover all the reasonable browser development.
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by cyberax 1mo ago
"Safari" and "beautiful" in the same sentence? It's not. It's barely functional, slower than Chrome, and always trails it in feature compatibility.
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by cyberax 1mo ago
Sure, but such an antenna will be extremely conspicuous and easy to triangulate. You can't install it covertly. Meanwhile, GPS can be jammed or spoofed with a briefcase-sized device for a couple of kilometers around you.
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by cyberax 1mo ago
Not really. It uses 2MHz band, with the wavelength of around 160m. This means that it's easy to receive via a ferrite bar antenna but hard to transmit. You need an antenna of at least around 40m size for that to be efficient.
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by cyberax 1mo ago
This is a stupid article. "Sad" is not an objective criterion. Is IKEA furniture sad? I think the author would say so. I _love_ the pictured 7-Elevens, especially the one in Austin, TX. They are perfectly functional: you drop in,
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by cyberax 1mo ago
I have a small personal site with an exposed Git repository. I'm getting crawled from about 100000 residential IPs from several ASNs (mostly in Brazil). Each crawler makes a couple of requests per minute. Anubis doesn't really hel
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by cyberax 2mo ago
WinXP with the "classic" theme was the best. Its default theme was goofy, but changing it took all of 10 seconds. Compared to Win2k, there were some minor improvements.
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by cyberax 2mo ago
For spelling, I memorize pseudo-Latin letter pronunciation. For Chinese characters, I memorize the "primitive" characters as a series of strokes (there are only about 10 basic stroke types in Chinese). For complex characters, I&#x
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by cyberax 2mo ago
I can "visualize" geometry and technical drawings by focusing on parts of them. It was enough for all my school work. But then I learned about analytic geometry in the 8-th grade. I annoyed every math teacher by just using it to s
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by cyberax 2mo ago
Sounds better and better!
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by cyberax 2mo ago
If only we had a way to run code in a pre-defined isolated environment that can hide most of the differences of the actual hardware... Oh, we do have Docker/Podman? Then why not use _them_ to define your build pipelines? Bonus points:
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by cyberax 2mo ago
I don't see the support for passkeys listed anywhere?
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by cyberax 2mo ago
"Some holes"? That's an understatement. There's no option to bring up a context menu with the keyboard. And there are no keyboard accelerators _AT_ _ALL_. Windows will underline the shortcut characters when you hold &quo
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by cyberax 2mo ago
One interesting example: learning Chinese characters. Different people do it differently. I have mild aphantasia, and I initially tried the approach of memorizing the shapes and/or associating the shapes with easy-to-remember pictures
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by cyberax 2mo ago
If you're ever in the San Francisco Airport, you can see her installation there: https://www.sfomuseum.org/public-art/public-collection/high-... I really liked them, and I made a point to walk to this piece e
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by cyberax 2mo ago
> On the other hand, if you're in an inner ring suburb I live in an urban village, and my taxes and utility fees _already_ disproportionately go to fix the issues caused by new development. I'll be paying around $150000 in incr
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by cyberax 2mo ago
I'm a rabid NIMBY, and I know that my house price will go UP when density increases. I don't care. I want to live in my house, not sell it.
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by cyberax 2mo ago
Why do you even _need_ these "layers"? It's a simple RPC protocol that submits data tagged with Span and Trace IDs. That's really all there is to it. You can just submit it directly, without involving any layers.
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by cyberax 2mo ago
> Surely a person driving 18 people will emit less than each person driving themselves? No. A person driving themselves does not create any _incremental_ CO2 emissions. They don't need a dedicated full-time position to do the drivin
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by cyberax 2mo ago
I don't use Lambda anymore, but yes. I submitted traces to AWS XRay in a background goroutine with a small timeout.
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by cyberax 2mo ago
Yep. Kinda like people hating Obamacare but loving the ACA. Jaeger does not implement all the OTEL features, though. It's specifically focused on traces rather than metrics.
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by cyberax 2mo ago
A typical setup is to run a separate OpenTelemetry collector process on the same host as the app. The app connects to it via localhost on a standard port (although you can override it using env vars). The collector process then sends the me
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by cyberax 2mo ago
> 4. You're basically forced to run both gateway collectors and edge collectors for any realistic usage. You most certainly don't. You can run your app (especially if it's "serverless") without the collector agen
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by cyberax 2mo ago
OTEL metrics are a bit awkward, but they work just fine with Prometheus. Jaeger uses the OTLP protocol nowadays. So it _is_ OTEL.

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