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by daneel_w 3y ago
The Swedish brand of "micropop" I buy every now and then has a label on the box stating that the bag is made without perfluorated substances. I have no means of testing it, but I believe them.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Nothing unexpected about it at all. PostgreSQL's default index in this case is a B-tree, and they don't index disorderly data very well which is the nature of all UUID versions. On the topic of how important it is for B-trees to b
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by daneel_w 3y ago
> "A trivial silly mistake like this is... not what I expected considering OpenBSD's reputation for security." Forgetting that "_shutdown" is 9 characters is definitely an oversight on their behalf. But you nee
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by daneel_w 3y ago
I believe the current tally of suid executables having their own separate group is: crontab, ssh-agent, authpf, and smtpctl (smtp-queue).
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by daneel_w 3y ago
It's to set system applications' resources aside, and it's more of an OpenBSD thing than a *BSD thing. Once in a blue moon you'll see it in the Linux and general *nix world as well: _chrony:x:112: <- Debian
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by daneel_w 3y ago
As well as _localpresence and _finger.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
> "I ended up hearing a LOT of this music when it was actually being made, and neither "Chiptune" nor "Chip Music" was widely in use, if at all." Thousands upon thousands of chiptunes were composed on the
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by daneel_w 3y ago
It was never really about the genre per se, though there is a certain artistic similarity that can be gleaned, similar to how e.g. Japanese game music of the early 90s has a certain red thread to it. It was always about the nature of the in
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Some of them come from there, a few of them even exclusively composed for this or that cracking group to use in their key generators, but the vast majority of them were just taken from prior intros (demos) and crack intros from a time befor
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Nitpicky factoid: the correct name for this type of music, as used in the scene where it originates from, is CHIP MUSIC or CHIPTUNES.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
You say that as if you've been living under a rock, completely unaware of China's operations against practically every nation on the planet.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Is this a stupid trick question where, if I respond with a list of nations not known to engage in industrial espionage and IP theft, you respond by saying "well country X once did something-unrelated-to-this-topic to country Y, so your
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by daneel_w 3y ago
What's missing is the culture of respecting other nations' IP, on both commercial level and individual level. Their laws on enforcing IP are practically unilateral in the context of intl. relations.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
The DMCA is toothless in China.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
According to Oracle's documentation their Arm servers are not virtualized cores but instead actual on-core tenancy, referred to as OCPU instead of conventional vCPU. https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/po
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by daneel_w 3y ago
A suitable Anti-Spying(r) decoupling capacitor costs 5 cents.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Switch to "DD" coordinate mode and go to 40.7456°N, 9.4621°W.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
"Iceland is the only place in the world with universal swim literacy." Sweden also mandates swim lessons for grade school students, though not all schools manage to live up to the requirement.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
> "All of this puts a limit in terms of frequency and core count. You will find that other server hardware in this price range significantly outperforms Apple silicon , save for those video workloads they're missing fixed func
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Why is it "essentially" a phone CPU? Please don't say "because of the ISA". It has 24 CPU cores, 60+ GPU cores, an insanely fast memory bus and a purported 60 watt power envelope. There's nothing "phone&qu
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Whataboutism.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Citation needed? Do you live in some alternate reality? > "... the difference of a few 10s of watts doesn't really make any difference, unless you have numbers to back up your very strong claim." We have a billion power-
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by daneel_w 3y ago
I considered it an important factor even 15 years ago, long before the reality of the environmental and energy crises really dawned on us. Surely I can't be alone.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
> "Never been a problem, even when Intel TDP was 20x worse than today." Economically and environmentally it's absolutely a problem.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Scaleway is a French venture.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
I thought it was fully understood that cats begin doing it as kittens in order to stimulate lactation from the mother, and for some cats the habit remains and manifests for their keeper when they feel safe and at ease because some cats form
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by daneel_w 3y ago
> "... or if you have kids giving up your car is enormously inconvenient." > "Yes, you can teach your kids to ride, but cycling is still much more dangerous than driving." > "Yes, you can rent a car or
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by daneel_w 3y ago
A rude and perhaps unflattering question; I'll understand eventual downvotes; but does anyone happen to know a few company names (or relevant capital funds) to invest in?
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Admirable effort. Thanks for preserving history.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
I suppose this is something else than the Hypervisor framework ( https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor ) - its successor or a convenient complement? Does anyone know if there's a convenient command li

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