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by fargle 2y ago
not have 128 bit addresses for one thing. 64 bits would have been fine. that was one of the biggest consternations that's a huge hit for small packets. so nat sucks. we needed to have something better. but instead of just extending to
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by fargle 2y ago
> One key reason for this uneven progress is the extension of IPv4’s lifespan through interim technologies like Network Address Translation (NAT) and IPv4 address transfers. they completely ignore the actual problem with IPv6 which is th
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by fargle 2y ago
i mean, to some people the FCC is the overreach that represents "a sad approach to compliance": > some asshole will suddenly start transmitting in a way that interferes with you remember LightSquared/Ligado Networks? assho
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by fargle 2y ago
> In a modern, closed-source development environment, you can throw out 90% of Git’s complexity. At the end of the day, what does a beginner really need? > That’s basically it. The rest—merge commits, complicated branches, rebasing, s
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by fargle 2y ago
> I guarantee you that if this suspect was a leftist in any way, even if he simply liked anything by Marx or Lenin on Goodreads, you would never hear the end of it. > But it's worth asking: when someone resorts to violence in thi
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by fargle 2y ago
nice! i got 8/10. got tripped up by a russian programmer that was also a serial killer, but didn't design a language (that we know of)
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by fargle 2y ago
journalist (staring at his sandals) > flip-flops? you mean like the ones with the strap thingy that goes between your big toe? ti communications director > well, no. not that kind of flip-flop. a flip-flop is a circuit whi
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by fargle 2y ago
agreed, but i don't see how it makes much difference - if they wanted to be exposed, they could be. the justices are smart enough to know whether they or their peers could be swayed or whether its rubbish.
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by fargle 2y ago
> among the most sought-after TI products are flip-flop chips, used to protect devices from electric power flowing in the wrong direction when they go into sleep state oh, dear... i appear to have been confused about what flip-flop chips
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by fargle 2y ago
just a thought experiment: couldn't the supreme court achieve (nearly) the same objective without the 1925 judiciary act? suppose the court were compelled to take all cases that were appealed to it. for all the cases that it "did
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by fargle 2y ago
very interesting. i love the reply; don't mistake my responses as arguments or disagreement - just ideas: i think Savant was 100% correct and the original stating of the problem was clear enough. it's not really about torturing st
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by fargle 2y ago
"the worst feature of C is that switches don't break automatically before each case label. This code forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's for or against" https://www.
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by fargle 2y ago
monty hall is not a true paradox. it could be classed as "veridical" (truthful) paradox, or i've seen it called a pseudo-paradox. but you realize that it's unambiguously mathematically true without gimicky word-play or p
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by fargle 2y ago
lunduke. opensuse banned him. and apparently nixos banned him preemptively before he ever participated.
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by fargle 2y ago
> Why didn't 8-bit computers prohibit direct hardware access in apps? because an 8-bit microprocessor like a 6502 didn't have an MMU and it would have been uneconomical to add it. - it would have required external circuitry. co
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by fargle 2y ago
spot on. no wonder he was banned.
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by fargle 2y ago
in the 1970s or 1980s if a nice dress shirt was $10-15, then it's not entirely a different thing from $70-100 today. it's not a question of "want to pay $70", we'll want to pay the lowest price possible for the eq
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by fargle 2y ago
this is 100% spam. i absolutely hate the people who perpetrate this. > "There are few growth levers that could allow a single person to grow a startup from $0 to $1M ARR in a matter of months. [...] Cold outbound is one such lever.&
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by fargle 2y ago
everybody works differently. what seems like a sensible guardrail for you would be extremely annoying for others. so whatever you do, it should be a feature, even defaulted on. but never a policy that you enforce to "everyone who s
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by fargle 2y ago
since you presume to speak for all leftists, this makes things so much easier to discuss; i can just speak to you directly, how convenient! "As for the center, they're ok with fascism which makes them fascists." one could a
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by fargle 2y ago
> The src:shadow package had dropped a Debian-specific patch, shoot, that's evil. had not noticed this. i read this as "removed", not "was released". now idk. this pseudo-definition of dropped as "released&q
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by fargle 2y ago
> "I suspect this report is (AI-generated|incorrect|spam). Please respond with more justification for this report. See: https://sethmlarson.dev/slop-security-reports " could an AI bot be trained to recognize low
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by fargle 2y ago
"It is still their fault" i was referring to the aphorism: fool me once, shame on you fool me twice, shame on me
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by fargle 2y ago
load up some arch or some debian on it and never look back.
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by fargle 2y ago
because you ordered things on one day and they didn't show up the next day. and then it happened over and over again. if they lie about this, intentionally or otherwise, and you still believe them, it isn't their fault. and it isn
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by fargle 2y ago
so if you don't get the service you were paying for ~$100/yr. and then you call the company to complain, and they don't fix it... why not just simply stop paying them if you don't like the service? that self-help alterna
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by fargle 2y ago
which is just so narcissistic! the way i see it sun failed because it was a well run sensible company that made good products, that were liked by its customers, and not eat the world. and that's not what succeeds. so FB will do just fi
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by fargle 2y ago
i didn't say there was anything that FB should have done different. it's just sad. it's sad to see a genuinely good company gone and replaced by a slimy one. actually if you include oracle, two slimy ones. who are both inargu
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by fargle 2y ago
what about lawyers?
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by fargle 2y ago
particularly the bit where they are painting over the old Sun Microsystems sign. a solid engineering company that actually build good stuff, destroyed in collateral damage from the dot-com bust, sold off to oracle of all things. now further

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