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by infinet 1y ago
Exactly! Few people may care about climate or whether energy is clean, but I'd argue that for most people, the cost is more important. My friend in Shanghai owns a BYD EV. The electricity cost is equivalent to around 2 Liters of gasoli
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by infinet 1y ago
I used a different model of Palm and miss it. It is simple and just works. Ironically, with the current much more powerful smartphone, I have yet to find something similar to the Palm. The only downside of Palm was its frustrating touchscre
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by infinet 1y ago
Almost all the cooking I do are using microwave. While they are not bad, there are certain critical steps microwave cannot do. For example enrich the flavor of garlic and other spices in hot cooking oil. I found microwave is not good at hea
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by infinet 1y ago
My workplace has two Windows 10 machines, one in daily use, and the other is mostly idle. Both are extremely slow. The one in daily use takes at least 15 minutes to become usable after boot. The other is not much better. They are domain-con
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by infinet 2y ago
Thanks for the link! I didn't know they were using soda-lime glass and still call it Pyrex. In the meantime, the Pyrex labware remains real: I routinely pour liquid nitrogen into room-temperature Pyrex beakers without issue. That is a
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by infinet 2y ago
> Imagine at the end of the American Civil War, a confederate army retreated to an island like Cuba or Hawaii, they took it over and have been calling themselves the real America ever since. It is a great analogy. However, in this case
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by infinet 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_navigation > Sextants can be read accurately to within 0.1 arcminutes, so the observer's position can be determined within (theoretically) 0.1 nautical miles (185.2 mete
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by infinet 2y ago
They are self-hosted and require campus credentials for access. If you try to chat with the ZJU instance, it will redirect you to a login page. ZJU is unique in that it appears to support access from all higher education institutions in Chi
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by infinet 2y ago
> Do you know of any university that host Deepseek? https://chat.zju.edu.cn https://chat.sjtu.edu.cn https://chat.ecnu.edu.cn/html/ To list a few. There are of course many more in China. I
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by infinet 2y ago
Can it be self-hosted? Many institutions and organizations are hesitant to use AI because concerns of data leaking over chatbot. Open models, on the other hand, can be self-hosted. There is a deepseek arm race in other part of the world. Un
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by infinet 2y ago
So the plan is to raise endowment tax from 1.4% to 21%. > raise the excise tax levied on certain private university endowment profits from 1.4% to 21%. [1] [1] https://nehls.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-
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by infinet 2y ago
> We are inclined to think that if you inherit almost the whole earth, you would be very grateful, kind and compassionate That, perhaps, is the reason they are so cruel: because they have been so lucky so far, they do not understand hu
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by infinet 2y ago
Sadly, the site is down. Too much traffic? https://web.archive.org/web/20240612203731/https://computerw...
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by infinet 2y ago
I had similar problem on a ship with many users share a 2M VSAT Internet. Few tricks made Internet less painful: - block windows update by returning DNS query for microsoft update endpoints as NXDOMAIN. - use a captive portal to limit user
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by infinet 2y ago
Been a mathematician, he also funds physics. See Simons Observatory that studies Cosmic Microwave Background.
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by infinet 3y ago
I have lost hope that human can fight totalitarianism, regardless the new technology been used. It is like the low energy state of society, similar to a ball tends roll down the hill, it is easier for a country to enter the totalitarian sta
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by infinet 3y ago
This must be a common problem in space travel. The tiny spaceship in Men in black 2 also landed upside-down, but it has movable legs to correct position.
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by infinet 3y ago
It may sound counter-intuitive, to enter this lab, you are not going down, instead, you enter a 14 km long horizontal tunnel that pass through a mountain, and this deep underground lab sits in the middle of tunnel. That tunnel was built to
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by infinet 3y ago
Image file generated by Zeiss microscope uses JPEG XR.
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by infinet 3y ago
Almalinux releases faster, and patches faster than Rocky.
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by infinet 3y ago
So WhatsApp end-to-end encryption works therefor Taliban uses it in military and non-military operations. However, because it leaks metadata Facebook is able to identify Taliban users and ban them.
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by infinet 4y ago
Are these orange colors easily recognizable by color blindness?
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by infinet 4y ago
I learned about Open Addressing a long time ago when I was optimizing Dnsmasq. The scenario involved looking up a very large list of domain names to block or combine with ipset in order to customize routing based on domain names. Open addre
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by infinet 4y ago
Perhaps it doesn't matter whether N95 still function well. Once pass the expire date printed on the package, warehouse has to remove them from inventory.
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by infinet 4y ago
Not familiar with Philips, but other microscope scanners I used, Aperio, Leica, Zeiss, all have dedicated computer attach to them, with special, sometimes strange looking interface card. They have precision stage, which holds glass slides,
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by infinet 4y ago
Very excited! I have used the MGLRU patch on a 13 years old iMac with 8GB ram in last 6 months. Have chrome with lots of tabs and heavy use of gimp/ImageJ/libreoffice. MGLRU is such a great improvement, without it the machine freq
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by infinet 4y ago
Alma is not exactly prevalent. It however releases faster than Rocky. Alma's mailing list is also more informative. Its Announce list post security advisory frequently. Rocky's Announce list in comparison is quiet.
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by infinet 4y ago
> a global fleet of redundant satellite-connected and atomic reference clocks What does it mean? Is Amazon operating atomic clock or using GPS?
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by infinet 4y ago
Well, I checked again. From CERN Oct 28, 2022 Linux Future Committee meeting [1]: - Several bugs have been encountered in Stream, which were not present in RHEL. - Some user communities had previously expressed concerns on the feasibility o
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by infinet 4y ago
CERN was a big user of CentOS. After redhat changed CentOS8 EOL, CERN was allowed to use RHEL. Last time I checked, they suggested others in high energy physics community to use Rocky or Alma if RHEL is not an option.

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