gavinsyancey

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by gavinsyancey 7mo ago
You don't have to use it.
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by gavinsyancey 8mo ago
> Discord running on a modern computer isn't any more responsive, if not less responsive than an ICQ client was running on a computer 25 years ago. The only thing more impressive that hardware engineers' delivering continuous m
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by gavinsyancey 8mo ago
How do you propose to install them in the rover, which is already on Mars ? The helicopter base station CPU is already in the rover, since it was included to communicate with the helicopter. And it's no longer needed for that purpose,
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by gavinsyancey 8mo ago
The laptop also contains a normal microphone. You can't access this without root; if you have that you have permissions to access the real microphone.
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by gavinsyancey 10mo ago
The previous release was 10.11 and the next would ordinarily be 10.12. They're considering dropping the leading "10" so the next is just 12 (from the minor version).
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by gavinsyancey 10mo ago
And IIRC Intel has handled this by making their cards internally use DisplayPort then putting DisplayPort -> HDMI converters on the board.
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by gavinsyancey 11mo ago
No amount of smart contracts can solve the situation where one party says "I shipped you the widgets you ordered; pay me" and the other says "I received a box with a brick in it" -- you need some trusted third party to d
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by gavinsyancey 11mo ago
It sounds like you want to install Bazzite on a Framework Desktop.
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by gavinsyancey 11mo ago
Arch has been working with Valve on various build system improvements for some time [0], which as I understand it are targeted at making it more feasible for them to eventually support more architectures [1]. This doesn't release for s
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by gavinsyancey 11mo ago
The reading of the first law sounds like it's oriented towards textual communication; the second law expands it to include video as well. AIUI neither one bans a voice-only phone call so long as you are looking at the road and not your
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by gavinsyancey 1y ago
This is false. Per the asahi project, https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/security/#apples-unspok... > When documenting the security model, Apple use the example of an XNU kernel developer wishing to test
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by gavinsyancey 1y ago
Linux uses them because it has a lot of lists of objects that very rarely or never need to be iterated over, but where it needs to be fast to - Insert a new item - Delete a specific item (that you have a pointer to - Move a specific item fr
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by gavinsyancey 1y ago
Shit I have domains there. Anyone have recommendations for a good cheap registrar that supports .io?
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by gavinsyancey 1y ago
Generally you can assume byte-aligned access. So every byte of UTF-8 either starts with 0 or 11 to indicate an initial byte, or 10 to indicate a continuation byte.
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by gavinsyancey 1y ago
Yeah -- I am of the opinion that TSLA is rather obviously highly overvalued, but the market can stay insane for longer than I can stay solvent so there isn't anything I can do to act on that.
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by gavinsyancey 1y ago
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Classic-WTF-What-Is-Truth
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by gavinsyancey 1y ago
Um ... isn't alignment generally dictated by the platform ABI so that programs compiled by different compilers can be linked together?
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by gavinsyancey 1y ago
This solves the issue that one bus is way too full. It doesn't do anything to the issue that you've now doubled the headway in front of the late bus.
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by gavinsyancey 1y ago
My btrfs filesystem has been slowly eating my data for a while; large files will find their first 128k replaced with all nulls. Rewriting it will sometimes fix it temporarily, but it'll revert back to all nulls after some time. That sa
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by gavinsyancey 1y ago
> Once you complete the certification of Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ design enhancement for ensuring the complete closure of Boeing 737 mid exit door (MED) plugs following opening or removal, issue an airworthiness directive to require
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by gavinsyancey 1y ago
I made something like this a while back: https://github.com/g-rocket/minesweeper
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by gavinsyancey 1y ago
For books, your local independent bookstore can order pretty much any book for you if you walk in and ask (if they don't already have what you want). They won't charge shipping, it'll just come with their next shipment from t
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by gavinsyancey 1y ago
Because some students (or teachers), not knowing any better, downloaded it / are using it on the university network. The university has no idea who and no real way to get them to stop.
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by gavinsyancey 1y ago
There's a YouTube domain that's somehow a load-bearing part of Google's OAuth login flow.
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by gavinsyancey 1y ago
Sure, but for embedded use cases (which this is targeting), the goal isn't raw speed so much as being fast enough for specific use cases while minimizing power usage / die area / cost.
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
Where are you getting that from? I don't see that info anywhere on the linked page. Is there more information published elsewhere, or do you have insider knowledge?
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
That said, building code changes over time, and even if Wright's original design met building code at the time it was designed, it likely doesn't meet current building regulations. I.e. it would be illegal to build exactly to the
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
To prove a number is on the list, you need to calculate all its digits. But to prove it's not on the list, you only need to calculate its digits up to the first odd one. It looks like the number of digits until the first odd grows ve
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
Reading through the Chromium bug report, it looks like the reporter wasn't able to get in contact with Mozilla until February, so after they were aware it only took a month to fix the bug in Firefox. It's unclear when they started
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
From the manufacturer's point of view, a sufficient "safe" state is "can receive and apply a firmware update" -- worst case scenario you can always push out a new re-signed and renumbered version of the older workin

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