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by drbawb 10y ago
I'm a little saddened to see the direction T-Mobile is headed with their plans. When I switched to Project Fi last year my T-Mobile unlimited plan was $70/mo. That included actual HD video, and LTE tethering. Now the equivalent pl
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by drbawb 10y ago
Out of curiosity: what would it take to turn that disk back into a working boot disk? I can only imagine how difficult it must be to find an Alto _with two disk drives_ these days to dub a boot disk onto your scrubbed one. Does the Alto hav
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by drbawb 10y ago
In a way I find recursive functions _reduce_ the complexity required to reason about a loop. What made me grok recursion was realizing that it's just a more explicitly defined loop: - You have to define an end condition. (Really this
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by drbawb 10y ago
Do you use a telco/cableco provided modem? I was escalated through 3 tiers of support who all gave me different answers. I called to pick a fight over the fact that I live in an urban center, and while they advertise "90% IPv6 cov
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by drbawb 10y ago
I don't use a laptop if I can avoid it. My personal workstation is right across from my bed, and it's powered 24/7 since it's acting as a file-server and game-server. Given how everything is angled, I suppose a webcam in
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by drbawb 10y ago
I can get 30Mbit/s (3.75MB/s) to my handset and they're worried about _10-20MB per hour?_ The problem here isn't the data usage by Niantic: it's the carrier rate plans.
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by drbawb 10y ago
I use Windows 10 on my home workstation. Last week I was checking a few things in the morning before I left for work. Windows wanted to schedule updates, it suggested "9AM; because it doesn't look like you use your computer at tha
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by drbawb 10y ago
iTunes is the driving reason behind why I got rid of my iDevices. First of all using iTunes for Windows has a way of making its users feel like something of an afterthought. Secondly I was always scared to sync my devices. Is this the day
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by drbawb 11y ago
At the moment it is just hash based, which actually remedied most of my immediate problem. (I have 8 drives in my workstation. Many of them are donors from computers long gone. [Portions of] my image library have just been copied around man
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by drbawb 11y ago
The importance of Cargo / crates.io cannot be understated, I think. I've found myself using Rust for little one-off tools and scripts lately because it's so darn easy to type `$ cargo new --bin foobar` on any of the three ope
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by drbawb 11y ago
I watched this the other day, and I've been mulling over the observation that onboard graphics are getting more and more die-space. On mobile, where discrete graphics are a rarity and power is a scarce resource, it makes sense to offlo
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by drbawb 11y ago
We just got new tenants in our (commercial) building. I'm honestly a bit upset as there are now _four_ new access points for a single tenant. "TWC WiFi", and "CableWifi", both unsecured (!!!), and then "TWC WiF
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by drbawb 11y ago
I think you're right; my housemate built a new PC this summer. That download peak coincides with reformatting his old drive.
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by drbawb 11y ago
It's hard to say for sure, as I don't classify traffic in any way, and I only have traffic-by-IP for the past 24 hours. Personally I just watch an unhealthy amount of anime, which probably accounts for the majority of DL/UL t
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by drbawb 11y ago
>Now Comcast claims that 98% of its subscriber base won’t even come close to going over the 300GB cap. I am the 2% !!! Date Download Upload Total 2015-10 419.63 GB 50.89 GB 470.52 GB 2015-09
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by drbawb 11y ago
The Arch installer starts out as a root shell (on a ramdisk used to bootstrap the system.) ... This will be fun.
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by drbawb 11y ago
It's something learned. You are explicitly taught to do it if your vehicle does not have ABS. It prevents the wheels from locking up. ABS does the same thing, and does it much more effectively than a human ever could. Preventing the wh
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by drbawb 11y ago
All the cars added a marginal [ O(10ft) ] amount of braking distance at wide open throttle; with the exception of a very powerful, heavily tuned sports car which was the only one able to overwhelm its brakes. If we convert MPH to FPS we can
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by drbawb 11y ago
They're also all triply redundant control systems with rad hardened computers and error correcting memory... you won't find that level of redundancy in passenger cars; and Toyota outright lied to NASA about the type of memory that
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by drbawb 11y ago
When you say fake steering do you mean power steering, or electronic assisted power steering? Because the way I see it power steering itself is just as mechanical as hydraulic brakes; and electronic steering is a far more recent development
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by drbawb 11y ago
You speak of the olden times like they're long gone? My car is from 2001, has side curtain airbags which will render most common crashes non-fatal, and it still has a fully mechanical throttle and no electronic brake controller of any
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by drbawb 11y ago
>90% of their residential network I'd like to see where that number is coming from. I've been a TWC subscriber for 9 years, I currently subscribe to their fastest residential offering in my region as well as one of their commer
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by drbawb 11y ago
To me: this more or less sounds like what Mickens, et al. are aiming for w/ Atlantis[0][1]. The browser becomes a simple kernel which knows how to execute a bytecode (their so-called "Syphon Interpreter.") The browser itself
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by drbawb 11y ago
I stopped using Sourcetree a while ago, and I can't say I particularly miss it. It's slow, RAM hungry, and their "recent" updates have made the tool unusable in my opinion. If I pick a range of commits in the log: I can
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by drbawb 11y ago
Yup, you can encode enums just fine. ADTs get encoded with an explicit `variant` tag at the front, and then an array of field values. For e.g: { "variant": "Basic", fields: ["cmd-value", 42] } { &quot
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by drbawb 11y ago
>so many sigils in Rust scared me and kept me from learning it. I had just started seriously learning rust a few months before they started moving owned pointers into `std`. So I felt somewhat betrayed by the removal of the sigils. It se
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by drbawb 11y ago
It seems like just yesterday I was getting all misty-eyed over losing my friend the `~` sigil. rust-story builds on 1.0, though, so I think I'll be able to forgive you. ;^) Congrats on the release!
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by drbawb 11y ago
As a 23 year old: of course! As a kid I used to put seasons of MacGyver on my christmas list. Though to be honest I think I saw Richard Dean Anderson as Colonel O'Neill long before I saw him as MacGyver! To this day my favorite MacGy
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by drbawb 12y ago
I'm a fan of http://regex101.com/
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by drbawb 12y ago
>I think people would donate if they knew about it. Oh certainly, I use GPG on a daily basis, yet it never even occurred to me that such an ubiquitous project would have trouble gathering funds! I tossed in a donation as soon as I saw th

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