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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
When you logged in to bank.com, it set a cookie that your browser presents when it makes any request to bank.com, regardless of how it was initiated (i.e. it would still send the cookie on a cross-site XHR initiated by evil.com's Jav
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
If something crashes in between the "wipe" and "restore" steps, or something goes wrong with the restore, your computer is now a brick.
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
Firefox blocks auto playing videos with sound by default. And you can also configure it to block all autoplay or or allow it globally, or per-website. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
I assume they'd just ban the entire AWS IP block. And similarly for other cloud providers.
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
Yes, but many sites don't .
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
I don't think the parent comment is saying this is a new sensor; rather that the lens spreads the center over a wider area of the sensor (hence more pixels) and squeezes the edges into a smaller area (hence less pixels).
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
Most of those probably don't/won't have clocks that are accurate enough to measure 1 second every hundred years; typical quartz oscillators drift about one second every few weeks.
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
As a user of the RSS feed, please don't remove content from it so I have to click through. This makes it much less useful and more annoying to use.
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
GPUs benefit from extremely high memory bandwidth. RBAR helps, but it's a lot worse than a fat bus to a bunch of on-card GDDR6X. A PCIe 4.0x16 link gives 32 GB/s bandwidth; an RTX 4090 has over 1 TB/s bandwidth to its on-card
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
The search seems to be missing `c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b`
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
[flagged]
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
x264 has been around forever, and it's FOSS.
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
Btrfs has been slowly eating my data; randomly small files or sectors of larger files will be replaced with all nulls.
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
WTF-8 is actually a real encoding, used for encoding invalid UTF-16 unpaired surrogates for UTF-8 systems: https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
"All diodes are light-emitting at least once"
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
The C language specification describes what memset does. If a program calls memset, compilers must make it behave as if an actual call to the memset function (as described in the standard) was made, for all observable effects that matter
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
Apparently, there's a newer one that is supported by Android 11+, iOS 14+, and macOS Big Sur, at least https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8910.html https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8908.html
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
There is a DHCP option for a captive portal URL. It isn't very well supported and nobody uses it. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7710
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
You might want to pick a backup domain name -- it seems possible .io could disappear in the next several years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729526
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
The MULTI debugger includes an optional phase-of-the-moon display, in the dead space in the lower right between the horizontal and vertical scrollbars in windows that have both :)
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
If I were to guess -- At the lowest level, that's what the hardware does. I wouldn't be surprised if they have a library to wrap that with something more friendly, but something has to translate that into writes to memory-mapped a
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
> The list button was immediately obvious to me from the screenshot It was immediately obvious to the author as well -- it was the first thing they clicked on! Or rather, they clicked in the little arrow next to it, that looked like it w
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
More importantly, hardlinking means writes to one file would affect both, while FIDUPERANGE creates copy-on-write semantics.
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
I think that's part of the ChromeOS window manager. Note that the file you posted is in the "ash" namespace. > Ash is the “Aura Shell”, the window manager and system UI for Chrome OS. https://chromium.googlesour
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
This is the script I use for this: https://github.com/g-rocket/cloudflare-ddns-updater
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
Well, the JWST mirrors are made of beryllium
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
Or mitm your download of the .torrent file (and/or anchor link site)
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
Does anyone know if there's an article that explains the technical details of how they fixed the problem?
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
Looks better, but I'll keep using ipython. It has tab completion!
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by gavinsyancey 2y ago
From what I've read, since door handles generally are placed in the path of turbulent air that has beed disturbed by the mirrors, it doesn't really make much of a difference.

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