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by jandrese 10mo ago
It's interesting to consider that the IPv4 address space is only 32 bits wide. Back in the early 2000s asking for 4GB of RAM was unthinkable, but today (well last year) that's not even a big ask. If your routing decision can fit
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by jandrese 10mo ago
The real goal for a bunch of golfers is to get to the point where they're not the slowest guy on the team and stop there. At that point you can network on the field without annoying the people you're trying to schmooze, but also
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by jandrese 10mo ago
nVidia's big problem right now is they have more money than they can productively spend and are way down the stupid money hole just looking for any kind of return. This is a failure of capitalism.
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by jandrese 10mo ago
Mother Night is the book that has become more relevant every year since it was published, in 1962. Every time someone is an "Ironic Nazi" online I think of that book, and how 4chan evolved into the modern political juggernaut it i
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by jandrese 10mo ago
Because IPv4 address scarcity means small blocks get sold as they are available to people in completely different parts of the Internet. With IPv6 the address space is so large that they can easily keep the blocks in one piece.
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by jandrese 10mo ago
Especially when the permission issue is up the chain from the application. Sure it is allowed to access that subkey, but not the great great grandparent key.
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by jandrese 10mo ago
Because they aren't allowed on the system where it is installed, and also they don't deal with hardened systems.
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by jandrese 10mo ago
> The Microsoft's ACLs are nothing short of one of the best designed permission systems there are. You have a hardened Windows 11 system. A critical application was brought forward from a Windows 10 box but it failed, probably a p
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by jandrese 10mo ago
TCP Reno fixed that problem. QUIC is more about sending more parts of the page in parallel. It does do its own flow control, but that's not where it gets the majority of the improvement.
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by jandrese 10mo ago
TCP uses the worst congestion control algorithm for general networks except for all of the others that have been tried. The biggest change I can think of is adjusting the window based on RTT instead of packet loss to avoid bufferbloat (Veg
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by jandrese 10mo ago
The weird thing is China is absolutely jam packed with small companies. Go to a trade show and you'll find dozens of companies selling basically the same products with minor variations. It's absolutely cutthroat. In the US we te
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by jandrese 10mo ago
Until you need to login some place and don't have access to your password manager.
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by jandrese 10mo ago
Or the tell that the guy who usually writes fairly succinctly suddenly dumps five thousand words with all of the details that most people wouldn't bother to write down. It would be interesting to see the history where the whole documen
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by jandrese 10mo ago
Last time I moved I opted for the "self install" kit, which was fine because I'm technical and the previous owners already had the service so there was nothing that needed to be done except hooking up the pre-configured modem
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by jandrese 10mo ago
IMHO there are two requirements for a good password: 1. It must be hard for a computer to guess. 2. It must be easy for a human to remember. If you can not set a secure password and then remember it a week later it is a bad password. This
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by jandrese 10mo ago
Which means that they're storing your password in plaintext somewhere.
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by jandrese 10mo ago
Yep, but if you do that you need to staff a help line with people who can say "turn the box over and look at the sticker, no the sticker with the numbers on it, it's white with black letters and says PASSWORD in a big font, no the
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by jandrese 10mo ago
It probably makes close to no difference in development or production, but it does significantly cut down on the number of tech support calls from people who can't figure out how to set the password, or immediately forget the password
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by jandrese 10mo ago
Sounds great in theory until you actually try it and discover that anytime a STL touches another object the F6 render craps out with "Manifold conversion failed: NotManifold"
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by jandrese 10mo ago
You can also make more complex shapes if you're willing to define points, even on a 2D plane that you can then extrude. Downside is that it's basically a MENSA test to define all of the points in the correct order. I've don
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by jandrese 10mo ago
> You can even load an existing 3D mesh and operate on it as an SDF. Great for hollowing, chopping, eroding/dilating, etc. existing models. This has my instant interest. Multiple times I have wanted to take an existing .STL file an
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by jandrese 10mo ago
Do the biometrics work on Linux? Last time I had a laptop with a fingerprint reader the whole thing was controlled by some Broadcom thing that was hostile to anything not made by Microsoft. A fingerprint reader is a highly optional featur
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by jandrese 10mo ago
Apple's attitude towards other OSes running on their hardware is less "supportive" and more "barely tolerates". Also as a general rule Apple doesn't contribute much to open source outside of some high profile
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by jandrese 10mo ago
It is wild that it was in that state for so long. It probably took just about as long to write that comment as it would have to implement the proper solution.
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by jandrese 10mo ago
The danger of this is people start asking about formally verified specs, and down that road lies madness. "If you can formally verify the spec the code can be auto-generated from it."
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by jandrese 10mo ago
The fact that almost anybody could make a Window Manager on X lead to a tremendous amount of experimentation and variety. Almost all of them were half baked and faded to obscurity, but it was a lot of fun to try them out. Also, if your ba
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by jandrese 10mo ago
While true, I think you have missed the bigger story. If you talk with kids today their mentality is very different from kids of 20-30 years ago, and it's not the cop cameras all over the place. Nobody pays those much mind. It'
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by jandrese 10mo ago
Someone can be and asshole and still be right. It will be harder to convince other people to go along with you if you are an asshole, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't call out wrongdoing when you see it.
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by jandrese 10mo ago
I have to admit I got to https://www.jsoftware.com/ioj/iojATW.htm and seriously considered if the site is just pulling my leg. I think they're being sincere but I can't be 100% sure.
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by jandrese 10mo ago
> J is a dialect of APL That is an alarming statement, especially as the first line on the site. > Words are expressed in the standard ASCII alphabet. Primitive words are spelled with one or two letters; two letter words end with a pe

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