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by dvdkon 2y ago
QFN packages are very nice to hand-solder in my experience, considering the pitch. Better than the bridge-prone pins of QFP. The bottom pads do need some preparation, but you don't need hot air or reflow.
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by dvdkon 2y ago
It's a shame Kolaja wasn't re-elected, and it's not looking rosy for privacy and FLOSS in the EU. I'm disappointed the Czech Pirates didn't touch on these subjects at all in their campaign. The advertising I saw was
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by dvdkon 2y ago
I just found out container queries are widely available, nice! I should subscribe to some "new web features you can actually use now" newsletter. Any ideas?
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by dvdkon 2y ago
I wish the rules for consent banners were actually enforced. What bothers me most is when some site clearly doesn't care and puts up a "you consent by viewing this site" banner. It's understandable, they can do whatever
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by dvdkon 2y ago
My teachers never called practice tasks "problems", and I still didn't like doing repetitive tasks like "do 20 long-form divisions". I think students do understand that doing something over and over will make you be
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by dvdkon 2y ago
I feel like any sane driver already drives 30 km/h (~20 mph) or under on residential streets. (Obviously higher-capacity roads are different.)
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by dvdkon 2y ago
When using the standard WASD+mouse arrangement, you don't exactly want to center anything, but rather put the WASD keys at the left hand's natural resting place, and likewise with the mouse and right hand. With many large keyboard
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by dvdkon 2y ago
I don't understand your comment. Nobody's looking at their mouse (or their keyboard) when gaming.
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by dvdkon 2y ago
Today, the same OS core is used in phones, laptops, desktops and servers. Explicitly making it single-user means giving up on servers and parts of the market for the former three. You could make the case for removing the concept of users fr
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by dvdkon 2y ago
Are you sure? If they don't have unique IDs, they can be easily duplicated.
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by dvdkon 2y ago
Yes, there is a risk of failure involved with anything electrical, but I don't see why anyone would consider chaining extension cords inherently dangerous enough to ban. It increases the number of connections, but that's a minis
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by dvdkon 2y ago
Fair point. Databases encoding queries in JSON get some error messages for free, at least when it comes to "syntax". But I think even others do well. I just logged into Grafana and tried writing a simple query. Upon failing I got
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by dvdkon 2y ago
Yes, the error messages of modern SQL databases suck. On that note, SQL itself sucks (the two problems might be related). But that's no excuse to not do better. Besides, BeeBase seems more user-focused than MariaDB, presenting itself a
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I'd like to give my comments on the new standards, but I'm never going to be chosen to be part of an elite squad of standards-writers. Is there any chance of the standards developing more in the open, with a community in addition
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I set up Linux desktops for elderly relatives who wanted tech support, to universal satisfaction. They seem to not have many issues, since I get fewer than 5 support calls a year total, and I'm an experienced Linux user so fixing anyth
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by dvdkon 3y ago
You only need to get those settings right once, and only at build time. I won't defend the mess that are web build systems, but your assertion that things need to be right "for every packet" is false. And while I've had
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by dvdkon 3y ago
Any democracy based on majority votes has the same problem. I don't fee like the disagreements between EU member countries are any bigger than disagreements between the citizens of one state.
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I consider the burden of proof to fall on those proclaiming AGI to be an existential threat, and so far I have not seen any convincing arguments. Maybe at some point in the future we will have many anthropomorphic robots and an AGI could ha
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by dvdkon 3y ago
It's hard and generally unnecessary to protect wireless protocols against DoS, since jamming almost always works. Military transceivers do try, but as I understand it it's well beyond just designing the protocol carefully.
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by dvdkon 3y ago
We seem to have very different approaches to security. I'd instead say "forget about the network, you need to secure your servers". I fundamentally dislike "secure enclaves", since they amount to giving up at some p
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by dvdkon 3y ago
You have to decide when to stop stacking, otherwise you'd end up gating access behind multiple VPNs (and actually increasing your susceptibility to hypothetical supply-chain attacks that directly include a RAT). I'd stop at SSH, s
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by dvdkon 3y ago
How about making ssh as secure as (or more secure than) the VPN you'd put it behind? Considering the amount of vulnerabilities in corporate VPNs, I'd even put my money on OpenSSH today. It's not like this is SSH's fault
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by dvdkon 3y ago
There's also WPF, which draws its own widgets. It's in pretty widespread use.
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by dvdkon 3y ago
Making better maps seems like an obvious usecase, and by "maps" I mostly mean technical documentation. I assume most EU countries have a requirement that new building permits need to come with precisely measured outlines, this cou
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I think some people have misplaced expectation of Pine64 hardware, because some of their products (e.g. Pinecil) have been very polished. Most of it is a better documented and more open alternative to random gadgets from AliExpress. If you
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I don't think anyone actually believes Putin personally organises many individual operations in foreign countries. You're just getting hung up on a common shortcut: "Putin" means "someone under Putin's (not eve
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I don't know about any standards, just about software that tries to support as many proprietary interfaces as possible (and doesn't have support for plenty of hardware). Have I missed something?
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I think the thermal mass of typical desktop coolers is large enough that a smoothly tuned PID controller would fare well, without hindering performance or annoying the ueer. I suppose the best way would be to try, but my current computers h
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by dvdkon 3y ago
It's surprising that there are no PC fan controllers that would use some variant of PID control with a temperature target. Traditional fan curves are simple, but the result isn't very intuitive. And many desktop motherboards manag
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I think they could, simply by IP laws, but they have a contract with the HDMI Forum that probably doesn't allow that. They could cancel it (and reverse-engineer HDMI instead of going by the NDA'd spec), but I don't think they

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