eric__cartman

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by eric__cartman 3y ago
I at least hope they sell/give away those machines to keep them in circulation. I'd be a real shame to have modern and environmentally expensive hardware like that be torn apart for scrap metal in a recycling facility. Many tech c
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by eric__cartman 3y ago
Security shouldn't be much of an issue with most modern CPUs. The microcode can be updated at boot time by the kernel, even if the one loaded by the BIOS is out of date. So microcode level patches are taken care of. That leaves attacks
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by eric__cartman 3y ago
Yeah, that doesn't make any sense at all. The only reason I can think of to use WAV instead of a losslessly compressed FLAC is if the player being used has a dog slow CPU or an incredibly old software stack that can't play FLAC fi
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by eric__cartman 3y ago
If we're going to base the reliability of a connector by a single example my 6 year old phone still holds cables as snuggly as day one. I can grab it from the cable and it doesn't fall. Maybe if I try to treat it like a whip it wi
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by eric__cartman 3y ago
The only way would be to let the thing run and say, pipe the output to grep looking for your password or something else you're looking for. SIMD instructions are used very often for parsing text so I wouldn't be surprised if sensi
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by eric__cartman 3y ago
Install the nasm package. It's probably not included in build-essencial.
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by eric__cartman 3y ago
I had to run make on the uncompressed folder. Perhaps the build-essential package doesn't come with NASM in Ubuntu? I'll need a bit more info on the error if you want me to try and help you :)
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by eric__cartman 3y ago
This is incredibly scary. On my Zen 2 box (Ryzen 3600) logging the output of the exploit running as an unprivileged user while copying and pasting a string into a text editor in the background (I used Kate), resulted in pieces of the string
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by eric__cartman 3y ago
I would imagine that this translates to lower power consumption when doing the same tasks. Something that would require the CPU in a current phone to work hard for a couple of seconds, like calculating possible routes in Google Maps, being
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
I took that as an, I don't have time to learn a new platform so I stick with what works for me, which is valid.
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
I'm not sure if this really saves time in the end. At least for me the part of taking a lot of information and thinking about condensing it in a few sentences is the most important part of making flashcards or similar summaries. A lot
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
The ATmega 328P an Arduino Uno or Nano uses has 2KB of memory and 32KB of flash storage for the program. Having some sort of micropython interpreter there would be impossible, and even if it could be achieved, somone still has to write the
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
ARM CPU manufacturers have been doing that for more than a decade :)
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
Fortunately I have gotten much better at managing it compared to when I was a child but still, thinking of doing something like teach a class is nearly unthinkable to me. I just don't know how people manage to talk while deeply concent
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
It's not a killer deal for the consumer. That's just Nvidia fucking you over either way and still profiting off it. The market is not only bad in the high end, but there aren't any ~$200 value oriented graphics cards that pro
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
I prefer to wear a tin foil suit thank you.
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
Some people prefer to trade off stability for a slight performance improvement. With modern hardware I don't think it's worth it to be honest. I want my computer to work day in and day out even if it means a 2% lower score in some
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
Maybe I'm weird in a way but I never saw the appeal of social media besides casually keeping in touch with friends. I have social media accounts but almost everyone I have added as a friend are people that I know in real life. I never
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
And redo the decades of work put into the userspace applications for existing operating systems?
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
oh shit I did. I doubt elevators run KDE or have dual core processors lol
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
Close, it was to kill the stupid wifi blacklist but just to upgrade the wireless n card with an ac one I had lying around form a broken machine.
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
If you're turning in a crammed elevator you could be momentarily pressing multiple buttons with your backpack. That would most definitely be annoying for everyone.
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
I remember having to flash the spi chip with a raspberry pi, flashrom and janky wiring on an oldish Thinkpad. Not so good times :)
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
Most modern low end boards don't have this. And a very big chunk of desktop computers in use nowadays probably fall in the having a low end board category or being old enough for that to not be a feature. (my desktop is in the first ca
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
I really enjoyed a piece of coursework that I was given on a discrete mathematics course that consisted of implementing RSA using the math theory taught in class. It's a very clever algorithm.
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
The interesting thing about this is that it's a RISC-V machine, at least for me. A few years ago RISC-V dev boards were much more expensive than their ARM counterparts, nowadays they still are but are getting closer in price parity.
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
If you want to maximize for longevity, picking something that existed for 30 years like vi or emacs is probably your best bet.
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
I'm from Argentina and consume it on a regular basis. I haven't noticed any pigmentation, although I have the habit to rinse my mouth after finishing a cup of anything that's not water so that might be why.
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
That thing must have been expensive back when it was new. The flash drive I carry in my keychain nowadays was like $8 new lol
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by eric__cartman 4y ago
Oh boy I remember when Gnome's file manager ate all my ram trying to generate thumbnails for a folder with millions of images. And when Dolphin crashed and refused to work again when the nfs shares that were mounted got unexpectedly di

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