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by duskwuff 1y ago
Modern computer power supplies are far less dangerous than CRTs were. CRTs were dangerous because they used extremely high voltages (often as high as 25 kV), and that voltage was often present on the CRT itself, which acted as a capacitor.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> Additionally it is common for lower bandwidth peripherals like wifi cards to use an M.2 connector... And some of those don't use PCIe at all - the connector can also carry USB signals.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
"Arduino" is a brand of development boards. The direct equivalent would be the Atmel* ATmega168, and that was widely available through distributors, less expensive, had extensive manufacturer and community support, and was part of
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by duskwuff 1y ago
The Propeller was a commercial failure because it was a one-off part, from a small company, with very little software ecosystem surrounding it, a poor performance to price ratio, and no migration path if you needed more capabilities than it
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by duskwuff 1y ago
There's also a couple places where Ubuntu advertises their commercial services in the OS, including in apt ("Get more security updates through Ubuntu Pro...") and in the default login message (promotions for Ubuntu Landscape,
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> although I’m not sure how big of an impact sail mode makes Anecdotally: I've used sailing mode for the last year or so, and almost always use my laptop on AC power. Before I started using sailing mode, my cycle count was 120; now,
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Definitely not. AIM, YIM, and MSN all used their own proprietary protocols, and multi-client messengers like Adium contained implementations of those protocols. There was no messaging between services (except AIM <-> ICQ), and some of
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Ooh, that's nice. Especially nice that it lets you specify both Suites: and Components: in the same stanza, so you don't have to repeat the rest of the line to add -updates and -backports suites.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Debian is doing basically the same thing Ubuntu is with regards to i386. Packages are still being built for the architecture, but i386 systems aren't supported, and there's no 32-bit kernel package. e.g. notice that i386 is still
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by duskwuff 1y ago
This article feels extremely imprecise. The syntax of the "language" changes from example to example, control structures like conditionals are expressed in English prose, some examples are solved by "do all the work for me&qu
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> Why add "proven" before science? I'm pretty sure it's a political thing, and is meant to be read as "don't worry, we aren't using any problematic science like mRNA vaccines".
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by duskwuff 1y ago
It's not uncommon for small software packages to go years between updates - either because they're a simple utility that's feature-complete and rarely needs bug fixes, or because they're data files (e.g. packages of icon
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Note that you probably don't need the DVD ("full") image. Most users should use the "minimal" netinstall CD and download packages at install time.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Google homepage: two or three minutes A Google SERP with rich content: about 20 minutes A typical Facebook post: ten minutes CNN home page: half an hour YouTube: forget it
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by duskwuff 1y ago
That's true of most small airports. There are over 5,000 public airports in the US (and another ~14k private airports), but only about 500 with ATC.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> That's interesting that song lyrics are the only thing expressly prohibited https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/openai-sued-by-gema-i... (November 2024)
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Oh, ha. Totally missed that reference - ignore me :)
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by duskwuff 1y ago
What's especially funny about the names in Noita is that a lot of them are Finnish colloquialisms or jokes, e.g. - Hämis (little spider) is "spidey", like a childish nickname - Ukko (lightning mage) is "old man&quo
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by duskwuff 1y ago
It works poorly at any speed. Hi-Z is an undriven signal, not a specific level, so voltage-driven logic like (C)MOS can't distinguish it from an input that's whatever that signal happens to be floating at. In current-driven logic
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Ultimately, yeah. Rush's goal was to make money by taking paying customers on undersea tours. Calling the Titan a "research vessel" was a farce; what little research it performed, like sampling ocean salinity at different dep
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Non-power-of-2 sizes are awkward from a hardware perspective. A lot of designs for e.g. optimized multipliers depend on the operands being divisible into halves; that doesn't work with units of 9 bits. It's also nice to be able to
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by duskwuff 1y ago
https://glasgow-embedded.org/ Which uses a single Python codebase to implement both the gateware (as Amaranth) and the software which interacts with it.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
It depends on the style. The super-hot (~900°F) brick ovens are primarily used for Neapolitan-style pizzas (thin crust, light toppings), which cook in as little as a minute. A denser pizza like a Chicago-style deep dish couldn't be coo
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by duskwuff 1y ago
+1. You can put together a DMCA claim in... maybe five minutes? It's extremely straightforward and doesn't require you to do anything beyond identify the infringing work, identify what work of yours it infringes upon, and affirm t
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> I doubt it would apply to PNG because of the length and content doesn't seem to be dictionary-friendly Correct - I wouldn't expect this to be useful for PNG. Compression dictionaries are applicable in situations where a group
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by duskwuff 1y ago
You're being disingenuous. There is more to an operating system than a kernel; new features in Linux software frequently require supporting software or libraries to be updated.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
A basic LZ4 decompressor is on the order of a few dozen lines of code. It's exceptionally easy to implement.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> Why can’t extensions be a standalone thing in the store? 1) Because then you need a whole parallel set of processes for configuring, updating, and uninstalling those things, distinct from the existing processes for apps. And you need t
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by duskwuff 1y ago
I'm curious what you believe the alternative is - "new features magically appear in released versions of an operating system without the software being updated"?
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Adam7 is interlacing, not progressive decoding (i.e. it cannot be used to selectively decode a part of the image). It also interacts extremely poorly with compression; there is no good reason to ever use it.

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