elfchief

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by elfchief 9y ago
Pretty much this. I have a pair of studio monitors set up for music and tuned for music. Game audio and random youtube videos don't sound so great with that setup, so I don't want it to be my default. Sure, I could change the defa
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by elfchief 9y ago
Cool, maybe this means they'll finally be able to afford to implement the ability to play through a non-default sound device on Windows. You know, like the USB DACs a lot of music lovers have.
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by elfchief 9y ago
Also, 150 isn't really that many, resource-wise. A modern computer should be able to handle that trivially . So even if my use case was unreasonable (I obviously don't think it is, obviously), there's no good reason a browse
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by elfchief 9y ago
In a lot of ways, my open tabs are my to-do list. Some of them are things that I need to do, some are "I want to read this article when I have time", some are long term research. I've tried doing things like bookmarking thing
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by elfchief 9y ago
Wow. I've been getting more and more frustrated with how poorly Chrome handles even a moderately large number of tabs (~150), and it sounds like my savior is going to be ... Firefox. Huh. Wouldn't have guessed it, but I'll to
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by elfchief 9y ago
Anyone know what software they use to do the Vimeo video in that article? I've been wondering for a while, when I've seen videos like that...
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by elfchief 9y ago
Well, sure, you can make that assertion, but when you have someone that is a) already pretty familiar with the technology, b) continuously keeping track of the product for years, and c) goes out of their way to try to educate themselves...
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by elfchief 9y ago
> Do you know that keeping your users in a constant state of confusion is not the way to > convince them that you're building a stable and secure product This. I was a very early proponent of docker, and have been using it contin
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by elfchief 9y ago
Also their refusal to allow a feature to let a company change the default registry. Many enterprises need their own registry (and really want it to be the default) for a multitude of reasons... but they always just go "but we want ever
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by elfchief 10y ago
Actually, by the speed of sound. When you move an object, the pressure wave that travels along it and makes it move with you propagates at the speed of sound in that material. Still pretty fast at human scales, though!
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by elfchief 10y ago
> Do these people just rubber stamp a bill because there's a D or an R next to it? Pretty much, yes. It's fucking depressing.
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by elfchief 10y ago
The problem with multiple geographic locations, in this context, is that you'd have to read from all of them, and compare the results, to know that you have file corruption. Which is, needless to say, not something that it makes sense
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by elfchief 10y ago
If nothing else, you can log the error. If you have RAID1 you can recopy the block from a good copy. It is, honestly, probably situation-specific, but step #1 is always going to be "identify that you have a problem"
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by elfchief 10y ago
It really bugs me (and has for a while) that there is still no mainstream linux filesystem that supports data block checksumming. Silent corruption is not exactly new, and the odds of running into it have grown significantly as drives have
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by elfchief 10y ago
Really cool idea (though .. no Apollo 13?), but MY GOD does the typography on the webpage suck. I couldn't even read the whole page. I hope the app has better-considered design!
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by elfchief 10y ago
If you're going to say that, you really should build your packages appropriately. e.g, right now, you have: $ repoquery -q --provides docker-engine-17.03.0.ce-1.el7.centos docker-engine = 17.03.0.ce-1.el7.centos docker-engine(x86-64) =
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by elfchief 10y ago
I'm still shocked that the spotify desktop app won't let you output to anything other than the default audio device. There's an open request with thousands of votes on their tracker that has been in "not right now"
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by elfchief 10y ago
If only there was some way a frontend system could queue things until a backend system was ready to accept them...
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by elfchief 10y ago
Websites that don't work on weekends (of which I've seen more than a few) are really quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever seen. I shudder to think that somewhere there was a requirements document that details what day
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by elfchief 10y ago
In the vast majority of cases, a relationship that is broken with two participants is going to be broken with more than two participants. People don't suddenly become less obnoxious, more mature, less possessive, just because there&#x2
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by elfchief 10y ago
HIBP is still useful to me, at least, because it will let me find breaches for my entire domain, rather than just for specific email addresses. This is useful since I use a different email address per-site (username-somestring@domain), so j
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by elfchief 10y ago
There is certainly hardware available that can do better than this, but the parent asked about cell sites in specific (and cell sites are one of the top users of the Thunderbolt). You can get GPS hardware based on atomic references, for exa
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by elfchief 10y ago
Anywhere that GPS is used in a timing-critical application, they'll be using a timing receiver (like http://www.trimble.com/timing/thunderbolt-e.aspx ) to handle their time reference; those use the GPS signal (when
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by elfchief 10y ago
I found an error on the linked page, but unfortunately the author doesn't appear to have contact information anywhere, so I can't really report it. :( That page (in 'The Details') reports that the length of a year will c
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by elfchief 10y ago
By this logic, crypt(3) creates encrypted (rather than hashed) passwords, because it can be implemented with DES.
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by elfchief 10y ago
It's not so much that the military signal (ranging code) is encrypted, per se, but it uses a DRNG for which the parameters are kept secret. To be able to spoof GPS, you need to be able to duplicate the ranging code for a given satellit
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by elfchief 11y ago
This reminds me of what I went through back in ~2004 with a VW wiring harness. I had a product (a little toy that would give better control over the automatically-deploying spoiler behavior on turbocharged New Beetles) that was built around
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by elfchief 11y ago
Nice presentation! Thanks for the link! The particular nit you pick here is a fair one, if you take my comment literally, rather than as the (over?)simplification of a complex concept I was trying to summarize. Yes, in absolute terms, an at
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by elfchief 11y ago
Even Google's "now" is still a little fuzzy -- their system doesn't so much define "now" as it defines the uncertainty around "now", which you can take advantage of for figuring out ordering. This par
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by elfchief 11y ago
It's not that surprising that it has a problem with error, because the reality is, there's no correct solution for dealing with this kind of error. The first question, of course, is "how do you determine when there's an

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