daneel_w

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721.
by daneel_w 3y ago
How "noisy" are Sweden's Sterling engine submarines really? When submerged, that is. I understand they run traditional combustion engines when skimming the surface, but are considered "near silent" when submerged.
722.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Talking on the phone, like some sort of psychopath...
723.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Yeah that definitely sounds like you're constantly on the phone - or at the very least keep everything and then some running in the background with app refresh and location services etc. enabled.
724.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Not to mention that map application availability was equal to zero unless using the very latest breed of pre-smart phones from the late 2000s, and even then it was so-so.
725.
by daneel_w 3y ago
> "- Battery would last several days on a single charge. I had totally forgotten that that used to be the case." Several days? Surely you meant weeks ? Unless you spent an hour or two calling on the phone every day, of cours
726.
by daneel_w 3y ago
On IRC and in online games, and in club activities.
727.
by daneel_w 3y ago
There were two of them. One was called DiskSpare, the other has escaped my memory. I don't know if either actually stuck to just 80 tracks.
728.
by daneel_w 3y ago
I never ran into that, having repurposed several hundreds of DD floppies for HD use. But the opposite situation was common with many different brands of both 3.5" and 5.25" discs: HD floppies that were problematic to write to usin
729.
by daneel_w 3y ago
All 3.5" floppy drives shipped with the Commodore Amigas were capable of using 84 tracks in total, though AmigaDOS and AmigaOS' low-level libraries limit themselves to just 80 tracks. Some games and other software made use of extr
730.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Why would you wish the death of a language only because its default index for arrays is 1? You're not forced to index from 1 and onwards. You can use any range you want to: https://www.lua.org/pil/11.1.html
731.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Part of it can be that, yes, and you can somewhat confirm it by taking note of whether or not your phone constantly has fewer bars of reception. But what affects this more are domestic cellular grid configurations telling phones how often t
732.
by daneel_w 3y ago
For those who read and understand these publishings, are there any indications of roughly what wattage (and distance from such transmitting antenna/panel) the EMF/EMR starts becoming a problem?
733.
by daneel_w 3y ago
They don't, the odometers measure kilometers. The "mil" (10 km) is simply the smallest distance we care for in terms of a car's state.
734.
by daneel_w 3y ago
No they are always in kilometers (and sometimes with one decimal), but in Sweden we never really discuss individual kilometers in terms of a car's usage, only Scandinavian miles ("mil") - one of which is 10 kilometers.
735.
by daneel_w 3y ago
A friend of mine, an auto mechanic and Saab lover, drives an old Saab 99 from the early 80s. It has gone over 45k Scandinavian miles (~300k US miles) on the original engine and still going. He will swear any day that no better cars than the
736.
by daneel_w 3y ago
This is somehow so very Nintendo. They're like this grade school jerk kid who when done playing soccer with the other kids insist on kicking the ball straight to hell just so nobody else can keep playing after they're done. You&#x
737.
by daneel_w 3y ago
There's a case for that even if you just have 5 important accounts. If the account matters, give it a long random password.
738.
by daneel_w 3y ago
My keychain has 54 items in it. I think at least 5 of them belong to things I've shut down.
739.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Likely because none have the required proficiency. I certainly don't. "So? It's open source. Stop complaining and fix it." is never a good response to a bug report. I know this quirky behavior has been brought up a few
740.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Contrived case. Such a storage solution would still not be something that ahci(4) on OpenBSD - a basic SATA controller driver - could wrangle, no matter how many seconds it patiently waited.
741.
by daneel_w 3y ago
How would you even discern this delay from all the other delays happening before you're done booting, when there are so many other natural variances of a couple of milliseconds here and there? Every "on metal" boot is unique,
742.
by daneel_w 3y ago
>"There were (or still are?) SCSI drives that would not spin up until told to over the bus" Surely they'd spin up as soon as the BIOS started probing the bus to init the hardware, long before the kernel was running, or t
743.
by daneel_w 3y ago
I don't know, but I don't think there's an actual case that Linux/FreeBSD/etc. happens to have a workaround for. I think it's just OpenBSD charging towards a windmill. It's not impossible that it's so
744.
by daneel_w 3y ago
These are servers and I reboot them only when necessary. It's a pet peeve, but a big one.
745.
by daneel_w 3y ago
So a few milliseconds in total. Big whoop. OpenBSD's ahci(4) driver stalls 5-6 seconds for each SATA device on the bus , just to make sure the device really is there and that the link speed is correct...or something. My two OpenBSD ma
746.
by daneel_w 3y ago
I think automatic updates for a typical all-in-one home router is totally OK, and preferrable, for people who don't have the know-how to improve on it (because I'm not an opsec professional or hobbyist). It's unfortunate that
747.
by daneel_w 3y ago
It's actually not too bad in my case. All in all not that many minutes of pre-emptive effort even across a whole year. The hassle of a surprise Internet outage and having to find what/where the problem is would cost me more.
748.
by daneel_w 3y ago
I think it's an entirely acceptable solution for non-technical users who don't know how or cannot be bothered to improve the scenario. Personally I would never run Asus/Netgear/Zyxel/etc's all-in-one router fir
749.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Now you're just taking a silly defensive position by trivializing what I said using stupid rhetoric... I prefer to be in control over updates for network equipment , even the router in my home, reviewing changes and feedback, and to b
750.
by daneel_w 3y ago
Looking at it in a shallow way I suppose one could say that. But to me there's a great distinction between a switch/router and e.g. a smartphone or desktop browser.

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