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by immibis 10mo ago
Because LinkedIn is crap. Nobody likes creating crap to copy existing crap - all new ideas are ideas that people think will be good.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Nagle is quite sensible when your application isn't taking any care to create sensibly-sized packets, and isn't so sensitive to latency. It avoids creating stupidly small packets unless your network is fast enough to handle them.
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by immibis 10mo ago
AFAIK, modern wind turbines use types of induction motors because it allows them to adjust the rotation speed by applying a counter-rotating stator field (which is a very neat trick) - older turbines had to rotate at a fixed divisor of 3600
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by immibis 10mo ago
Project 2025 is a conspiracy that is obvious, is reality, and includes blocking windmills
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by immibis 10mo ago
Is there a comparison of how much nuclear costs versus the number of cities destroyed per year? Say, if we allow 1 meltdown per year does it become comparable to solar or does it require 10 meltdowns per year?
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by immibis 10mo ago
I believe LTE and 5G networks require it to coordinate timeslots between overlapping cells. Of course, they can use whatever reference they want, as long as all the cells are using the same one - it doesn't have to be UTC. Some (parts
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by immibis 10mo ago
Note that V6 is easier to scan than some people assume. You don't have to scan all 2^128 addresses - you can look at provider address blocks in the registry, and make an assumption (or try it and see) what size block that provider assi
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by immibis 10mo ago
Sure but how much bandwidth is that actually? Of course if your normal traffic is pretty low, it's easy for bot traffic to multiply that by 5, but it doesn't mean it's actually a problem. The market price for bandwidth in a c
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by immibis 10mo ago
Any Linux distribution comes with a lot of bloat, which is why it requires 30GB or so, rather than 30MB or so. Even the kernel is much bigger than it once was. Nobody is yelling at you not to remove it, or trying to prevent you from removin
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by immibis 10mo ago
Well, I substituted the task for a different but related one, so the substitute task is not fully specified in detail and perfectly mathematically correct - just good enough to show the principle. We have given extra points to a candidate f
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by immibis 10mo ago
Just photocopy some currency. Depending on the machine, it has a good chance of bricking the machine with an obscure error code until a service tech comes out, at which point you can point out this machine is really old and why don't w
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by immibis 10mo ago
That explains why the fake rubber moss I bought has an odd smell and the occasional bit of what seems like a real decayed leaf. Definitely feels like rubber, but if you're saying they took some real moss and chemically converted it to
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by immibis 10mo ago
The US hasn't really won any war for the long term since WW2. It turns out it's hard to change people's opinion by bombing them. Equipment is good at destroying the other sides's factories, and making people afraid of yo
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by immibis 10mo ago
Simple code means just doing the thing. It's often misinterpreted to mean code made of lots of small pieces (spaghetti with meatballs code) but this is simply not the case. Often, avoiding abstractions leads to simpler code. At my job
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by immibis 10mo ago
They succeeded. You're linking to something from 2015 so it was about "ISIS", but in 2025 he did manage to censor TikTok so people wouldn't be "recruited" to "Hamas".
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by immibis 10mo ago
How convenient it is to label troll-farm propaganda as "opinions you do not agree with" Is it really your opinion if you're paid to pretend to hold it?
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by immibis 10mo ago
Economics (allocation of scarce resources) is mostly defined by politics. For instance how you said that companies have to shut down if they take one bad risk and they don't get another chance - there was an explicit political decision
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by immibis 10mo ago
It's specific to marketing and it's a term I've only seen used when you are trying to sell a product. In my mind, CTA means "the button we are trying to make you click on by any means necessary because we make money when
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by immibis 10mo ago
So, you're still refusing to discuss driving without a license, like the rest of us are talking about
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by immibis 10mo ago
Linux has plenty of bloat. But it's your bloat. You get the power to slice through it how you want and nobody will stop you.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Apparently ChatGPT speaks like lower-class Kenyans. You can guess why.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Tiny Tapeout's schtick is that for $150 you can get your chip design made at all . It's not a mass production run. Remind me to participate in the next one!
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by immibis 10mo ago
Did you write something about Israel on your blog? That could be why.
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by immibis 10mo ago
The crime under discussion is not driving while intoxicated but driving without a license. But if you're going to bring that up anyway, how are people supposed to get their car home from the bar in a place where the government hates pu
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by immibis 10mo ago
It's surprisingly often the case that criminals assume everyone else is doing what they're doing, and want harsh punishments for it. (see also: the rates of homosexuality among homophobes)
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by immibis 10mo ago
People who they think will do this don't get to be redactors. It's all about power and relationships, not technology.
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by immibis 10mo ago
My issue with Gitea (which Forgejo is a fork of) was that crawlers would hit the "download repository as zip" link over and over. Each access creates a new zip file on disk which is never cleaned up. I disabled that (by setting th
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ARIN Public Incident Report – 4.10 Misissuance Error(arin.net)
146 points by immibis 10mo ago|39 comments
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by immibis 10mo ago
"Making a search engine is unethical" is certainly one of the takes of all time. I'm sure Google is glad you believe it.
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by immibis 10mo ago
IMO, not having NAT is a "new toy". It allows end-to-end connectivity again. Any peer-to-peer apps work much better on IPv6, and if you're developing one then it's actually possible again. You could try fd00::1, fd00::2,

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