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by drewg123 6mo ago
At least in the US, its hard to find single-purpose over the counter medicines. Most "cold" remedies now also include acetaminophen. So that makes it easier to OD on acetaminophen if you take some by itself and then don't r
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by drewg123 6mo ago
Linux is actively hostile to out-of-tree drivers. There is no stable driver API, and interfaces change at the drop of a hat. Maintaining an out of tree driver is a constant nightmare where you're always dealing with interfaces changi
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by drewg123 6mo ago
Golang's use of a potentially unbounded number of threads is just insane. I used to be fairly bullish on golang, but this, combined with the fact that its garbage collected, makes me feel its just unsuitable for production use.
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by drewg123 7mo ago
I'll always despise them (and their Itanium) for killing the DEC Alpha CPU off after they acquired it along with Compaq.
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by drewg123 7mo ago
Not really a fuck up, but I was having it translate from a hardware spec into a C header file, and for page 00h of a register bank, it started naming things "P00", so enum fields were named like: CMIS_P00_ID = 128, /* SFF-8
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by drewg123 7mo ago
I'm the demographic. I became vegan a several years ago when I was in my late 40s for health reasons -- all males in my family my age or older have had multiple heart attacks except for me. I didn't become vegan because I like
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by drewg123 7mo ago
I don't have a reference, but I remember reading that some Samsung TVs require internet access to get past initial setup and allow access to HDMI. So we might already be here..
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by drewg123 7mo ago
If you're installing FreeBSD today, use 15.0 Or just run -current in production, like we do. See https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/OpenFest2023.pdf Or https://papers.freebsd.org/20
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by drewg123 7mo ago
Do they still block third party PCIe (eg, wifi) devices in their firmware?
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by drewg123 8mo ago
The best way to run linux compat on FreeBSD is in an Linux jail. See https://wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxJails The difference is that with the standard linuxulator, the linux env. is maintained by the FreeBSD package manager, an
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by drewg123 8mo ago
What speed is the PCIe slot? The Minisforum site talks about it being x8, but doesn't mention if its Gen4 or Gen5
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by drewg123 8mo ago
So maybe they were on to something with leeches?
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by drewg123 8mo ago
In a large metro with an extant, functional, mass transit system, sure. But do this in a cold place with no existing mass transit, and all you'll do is kill off downtown businesses and reduce property values to 0. This experiment was
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by drewg123 9mo ago
I'm a power user. I do FreeBSD kernel performance work for Netflix. I have a macbook as my work laptop. I use it as a dumb terminal to my FreeBSD desktop, a platform for corp. video conferencing, and to surf the web. Any actual wor
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by drewg123 9mo ago
What gets me is the "play/pause" button behavior on a firestick remote. How many presses of play/pause would you think it takes to pause then resume playing? 2? Oh, no. Its 4! Pressing play/pause on the remot
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by drewg123 9mo ago
they appeared over and over again, making me hate them with a flaming passion I wonder how much risk there is to brands due to this sort of thing? I tend to feel the same way; are we just uncommon? The only place I see ads is Amazon Prim
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by drewg123 9mo ago
Is there anything like this for iOS? Or is something like this impossible for a 3rd party to do on iOS?
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by drewg123 10mo ago
From a CDN perspective, whats missing is there is no kernel stack on FreeBSD / Linux, and no support for sendfile/sendpage and no support for segmentation offload entirely in hardware. So you can't just send an entire file (
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by drewg123 10mo ago
Third-party accessories like smart watches will be able to receive notifications from the iPhone This seems incorrect, or at least misleading. I have always (since I switched to iPhone in 2020) been receive notifications on my Garmin F
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by drewg123 10mo ago
There is nothing magic about the congestion control in QUIC. It shares a lot with TCP BBR. Unlike TLS over TCP, QUIC is still not able to be offloaded to NICs. And most stacks are in userspace. So it is horrifically expensive in terms of
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by drewg123 10mo ago
I hate that slack doesn't support svg. So we end up taking screenshots of svg flame graphs when discussing things.
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by drewg123 10mo ago
Thank you. I was shopping for a TV to use as a display device for an Apple TV. I was considering a Samsung, but now I no longer am.
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by drewg123 10mo ago
My desktop progression has been 1989: twm 1995: ctwm 2000: kde 2022: lxde I moved from ctwm to kde because they accepted a patch that allowed me to maintain some modifier/mouse shortcuts I had configured in twm. Gnome rejected my patc
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by drewg123 11mo ago
Siri is almost comically bad. Just one recent anecdote: When discussing a Jeopardy answer with my wife, I say "Hey Siri, who was Pol Pot". Siri said, "OK, calling Scott". So it woke up my friend at 1am.. And if I hear
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by drewg123 11mo ago
It has a far better user interface than the official YT interface. And that interface can be heavily customized to your exact preferences. My wife has YT Premium, and we find ourselves watching YT in SmartTube just because the interface is
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by drewg123 11mo ago
I regularly consume impossible, and use it in pretty much any recipe that calls for ground beef.
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by drewg123 11mo ago
I prefer serial consoles :)
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by drewg123 11mo ago
I personally hate screenshots of kernel panics. Or anything else where you might be dealing with 64-bit hex addresses like "0xffffffff81b7ed80" Typing that from a picture is infinitely more error prone than just cut/paste.
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by drewg123 11mo ago
I've been using the free version of NetSpot, and it does not seem to show the width. The ISP really should configure the narrowest width possible. Our ISP provided router does seem to default to 20MHz (I think; I cannot recall if I ch
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by drewg123 11mo ago
Agreed. I live the USA in a 100 year old apartment building, and can see a zillion ISP provided routers, all squabbling over the same handful of 5GHz channels. 6E is a game changer. 5Ghz is stuttery and laggy and makes it pretty much impo

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