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by dharmab 3y ago
This still happens, but the surface area is greatly reduced to figuring out that the directory, variables, credentials, dependencies between stages, etc. are set up correctly
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by dharmab 3y ago
The car drive shaft analogy is also apt because a drive shaft is a precision part that _someone_ has to think about very passionately, in order for others to not have to think about at all. ~13m30s: https://youtu.be/xyeeksFR
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by dharmab 3y ago
Any business can rent space in a colo pretty easily. The constraint is mostly hiring engineers with experience racking and stacking boxes, and willing to drive to the colo when on call.
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by dharmab 3y ago
It's been a couple of decades but when I spent time in India as a kid, Tom and Jerry was a popular cartoon on TV.
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by dharmab 3y ago
India's encryption laws require service providers to allow law enforcement to intercept, monitor and trace encrypted traffic. Encryption within India is limited by law to weak forms. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2
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by dharmab 3y ago
I do all my <3 mile trips on a ebike these days unless it's raining/snowing or I need to carry something large. It's great. The lifetime cost of ownership is a little more than my annual running costs for my car.
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by dharmab 3y ago
I'm not sure about this specific use case, but a reason for using cgroupv2 over rlimit is that cgroup allows you to limit the resources of a _group_ of processes, which is handy if, say, your Python script uses the `subprocess` module.
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by dharmab 3y ago
Before I owned a house I had a little Phillips puck-thing with four piezo buttons that you could bind to different smart light presets, no battery or wiring required.
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by dharmab 3y ago
Superfastmatt made a great video asking the question "What's so great about Porsche?" It's about as long as an episode of TV and answers the question very well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdJYiRROeAc
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by dharmab 3y ago
In those systems the steer by wire works in cooperation with a mechanical system. Other cars have had backup mechanical steering systems that engage if the steer by wire fails. What's new about the Cybertruck is it _only_ has a steer b
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by dharmab 3y ago
Only as part of four-wheel-steering systems in combination with mechanical steering for the front wheels. Nissan has steer-by-wire with a backup mechanical system.
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by dharmab 3y ago
Because you can share them as photos and the composited image can be shared to the recipient.
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by dharmab 3y ago
My Fuji XA5 has denoising in the RAW files.
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by dharmab 3y ago
The good deals are gonna be on local ads. Facebook Marketplace in most of the US.
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by dharmab 3y ago
I'm using an AMD 6900XT with ROCm and it's fast enough ti be usable, for a fraction of the price of a 3090 or 4090.
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by dharmab 3y ago
> it's faster than ripgrep when searching a git repo. Source? Ripgrep's benchmarks show it significantly faster.
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by dharmab 3y ago
I wonder who won the tontine: https://henrykissinger.rip
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by dharmab 3y ago
My parents had a dishwasher but always said it "didn't get the dishes clean" and used it as a drying rack instead. I bought a house where the dishwasher was incorrectly installed causing odors to come through the sink. That l
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by dharmab 3y ago
The US FTC made that a rule earlier this year: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/03/...
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by dharmab 3y ago
Vice grips are a perfectly acceptable tool when you need to remove a small stripped screw and plan to replace it with a fresh one.
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by dharmab 3y ago
One neat feature is that it has native ad and tracking blockers, which can be more powerful than ad-blocking extensions.
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by dharmab 3y ago
ICANN sent Verisign a strongly worded letter. Verisign stopped, but then sued ICANN and they settled a few years later.
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by dharmab 3y ago
You don't need an account to send email. You can send emails using nothing but a CLI tool on a *nix machine. Although most mainstream email services will send those to the spam folder these days.
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by dharmab 3y ago
There is actually such a place! The Linux kernel (the original use case for Git) is developed by emailing patches to the appropriate mailing list. The mailing list is compatible with self-hosted mail systems.
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by dharmab 3y ago
It would work without an understanding of relativity, but the accuracy would drop by about a meter. https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/128951
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by dharmab 3y ago
Is there anything in the FAQ that isn't in the official documentation? I glanced through both and it seems like all the information is in the docs, in a structured form rather than a loose Q&A format.
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by dharmab 3y ago
https://github.com/microsoft/p4vfs
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by dharmab 3y ago
Ripgrep is an essential tool for navigating unfamiliar codebases. I also use it to quickly search many repositories for specific symbols when I research the consumers of libraries and APIs.
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by dharmab 3y ago
COCOM is technically AND, so you can buy some receivers which will work with one or the other condition.
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by dharmab 3y ago
Russia only has 16 Blackjacks. The US flies and refuels many more than that during a single sortie. The basket is about three times slower than the boom, which multiples when refueling many aircraft.

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