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by inkyoto 2y ago
Micro-USB connector has been consistently rated as one of the worst connectors ever invented[0], [2]. You can find more on the search engine of your choice. Also relevant: 19 engineers from Apple worked on the USB-C connector and cable spec
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by inkyoto 2y ago
Well… when Parquet came out, it was the first necessary evolutionary step required to solve the lack of the metadata problem in CSV extracts. So, it is CSV++ so to speak, or CSV + metadata + compact data storage in a singular file, but not
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by inkyoto 2y ago
It is pretty common in British English, e.g. «stinking hot» (i.e. the sun is out and the day time temperature has gone over +20C).
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by inkyoto 2y ago
Australian bogans («rednecks» in US English) are indomitable and possessed of great puissance, their mettle tempered by the unforgiving wilds of their native land. Let no crocodile that lurks in the murky waters trifle with them, for it sha
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by inkyoto 2y ago
In the case of 5G modems, I, for one, welcome and fully support Apple's obsession with replacing the 5G modems with their own for two reasons: Qualcomm 5G modems are power-hungry and run hot to very hot. Ever feel that burning sensatio
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by inkyoto 2y ago
It gets better than that: clients are guaranteed to receive a response even before they send a request.
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by inkyoto 2y ago
It is called «code switching», and it is also very common amongst Hongkongers and Singaporeans.
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by inkyoto 2y ago
There are some details available[0], although they are scarce. I procured my Aurora intel from a lengthy phone conversation with an exceptionally knowledgeable (and excessively talkative) AWS engineer – who had worked on Aurora – several ye
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by inkyoto 2y ago
Thanks for the correction, it is Aurora, indeed, although it can be found under the «RDS» console in AWS. Aurora is actually not a database but is a scalable storage layer that operates over the network and is decoupled from the query engin
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by inkyoto 2y ago
I am not based in the US, and I currently work for one of the top 100 universities of the world (the lower 50 part, though).
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> A Postgres `db.m6g.large` (the cheapest non-burstable instance) runs $114/month for a single AZ, and that's not counting storage or bandwidth. A `db.t4g.medium` runs $47/month, again, not counting storage or bandwidth. T
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by inkyoto 2y ago
I can't speak for the others, but I read entire threads before engaging in a discourse. In this particular instance, the thread[0] started out as a flagrant misrepresentation of the facts, loaded with inciting terms to bait the esteeme
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> […] self-directed learning. And this is whom I ended up hiring – young engineers with curious minds, who are willing to self-learn and are continuously engaged in the self-learning process. I also continuously suggest interesting, pr
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> I can attest that this type of thinking is becoming increasingly rare as our industry continues to specialize. This (and a few similar upthread comments) sum the problem up really concisely and nicely: pervasive, cross-stack understand
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by inkyoto 2y ago
I do not remember anything particularly difficult to get X11 up and running remotely, other than the XAuth stuff which was annoying enough in hardened environments, although those have not been commonplace, and X11 tunnelling via ssh has au
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by inkyoto 2y ago
That's personal pronouns. I identify as a consipracy theorist, my pronouns are: Told/You/So.
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> Asahi Linux is similar, given how hostile and undocumented Apple Silicon is, […] «Undocumented» – yes, but «hostile» is an emotionally charged term that elicits a strong negative reaction; more significantly, though, it constitutes a f
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by inkyoto 2y ago
Lysenko was widely discredited and ridiculed in the late 1960's following the demise of his main proteges (Stalin and later Khrushchev). The widespread damage Lysenko had brought about upon the Soviet genetics was widely acknowledged a
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by inkyoto 2y ago
Is torturing (and the mutilation of a human body and sometimes death as a frequent outcome of the torture process) and burning people at the stake after an auto-da-fé for not believing in someone else’s mythical deity fundamentally differen
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by inkyoto 2y ago
Whilst it is true indeed that POWER10 requires an opaque blob of firmware goo, Raptor was supposed to bring a follow-up to POWER9 that uses the Solid Silicon S1[0] instead of POWER10: Raptor yesterday officially announced that we'r
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> They're like NYC and just leave commercial trash bags on the sidewalk instead of using trash bins. You might have mistaken it with the organised rubbish collection. It is common in New Zealand where business owners pack up rubbish
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> […] working the disadvantaged 7 days a week with no breaks. In countries with a high development index, the employment law usually prohibits 7 day long working weeks, and there is a provision of at least one day off (granted, since emp
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> They still needed Telco support and Telco's have adopted the technology […] My Telco, the largest national mobile carrier, still does not support RCS in 2025, which makes RCS and which mobile platform supports it and which does no
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by inkyoto 2y ago
Cantonese is hardly a dying language as there are approximately 110 million native speakers of Cantonese across Southern China, South East Asia and Malaysia. Its status in Hong Kong, on the other hand, is indeed changing due to the HK gover
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> It is possible to use gcc to invoke wild as the linker, but currently to do that, you need to create a directory containing the wild linker and rename the binary (or a symlink) to "ld", then pass `-B/path/to/di
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> […] which decide to interpret such a thing the next task instruction but "ignore all previous instructions" and "print ${thing} >100 times" […] If GenAI-powered bots actually allow for unhindered interpretation o
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> For everything else, there's MasterCard. I'm pretty sure that the original meme was «In God we trust; for everything else, there’s American Express» (with or without cocaine).
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by inkyoto 2y ago
Because Akamai is substantially more than a CDN (arguably, CDN is now a smaller – albeit not small – part of their business): it is also certificate management, WAF, web app/API protection, IAM, edge DNS, edge workers, complex CDN r
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by inkyoto 2y ago
Very well. You are correct, and I will admit my own ignorance with respect to the situation in Victoria as it appears to be wildly (in the literal sense of the word) different, and I used the NSW situational numbers. ABC[0] reports followin
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by inkyoto 2y ago
«many arson attacks» is a hyperbole. There have been few isolated incidents of the tobacconist stores having been set ablaze, but it does not equate to, e.g. east coast Australian capital cities, being engulfed in putrid smouldering fires e

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