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by jfindley 3y ago
The guardian likes to ignore this, because it doesn't suit its reporting angle much, but England has 1.8x more population density than Germany and 3.6x(!) more than France. This means by simple maths far less available land per capita.
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by jfindley 3y ago
Given the small land area and extremely high population density relative to its neighbours, onshore wind in the UK was never going to be a large scale solution. "Terrible for onshore" doesn't matter if sufficient generation c
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by jfindley 3y ago
In fairness, that's the RS2000 which is definitely not a regular ford escort. An ordinary 1980 ford escort isn't worth anything like that much. Maybe 1/10th of the price if in really good condition.
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by jfindley 4y ago
They say "Both email servers have PTR records set up, and SPF [...] DKIM, and DMARC records[...]". Yes. Great. Thing is that this is such a trivial barrier to entry that guess what? Spammers do it too! Email has become so utterly
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by jfindley 4y ago
This is still happening btw - if I quickly switch to another tab it resets the board completely, giving me a different puzzle in practice mode. This makes it sadly unusable for me.
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by jfindley 4y ago
Note that the region sharding is just about the config push, the network itself isn't getting shareded. The goal is to ensure a bad config push can't impact >1 region (in theory), not to segregate the actual network.
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by jfindley 4y ago
Not really. The 30 minute limitation applies on even very high end DSLRs, but in practice this doesn't matter, because this isn't quite how DSLRs are used for video work. In practice, video is done by using the HDMI output of the
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by jfindley 4y ago
My source comes from watching the IRC channels every single day, and seeing what users complain about and how long it takes to get fixed, compared to before the switch to stream. And for important security fixes there's a huge change -
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by jfindley 4y ago
Because the thing that centos has morphed into isn't terribly useful. It gets most updates early, and as a result has many bugs, which often take a good while to get fixed. However for security issues it's the other way around -
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by jfindley 4y ago
This is [k]not true. You'll often find these at wharves in Australia. They can be viewed as an offensive weapon, so an aggravating factor in an assault (which is probably where the misunderstanding comes from), but the knot itself is p
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by jfindley 4y ago
This is really regional. In some countries most people use the second knot, in others most don't. E.g. I've rarely seen it used in the US, but it's standard practice in much of europe. Whichever you do, if you do it different
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by jfindley 4y ago
There's actually a huge amount to learn about cooking with eggs. I don't think this app is going to teach anyone much that's meaningful in its current state, but if you change your mind and want to really learn about the glor
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by jfindley 4y ago
Well, the process size numbers between different companies have been somewhat meaningless for a while now, as they all measure different things. Intel's 14nm process is still larger than the 5nm TSMC process used here, but the differen
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by jfindley 4y ago
This sounds fairly obviously fake. 128 cores at a TDP of 950W means only ~7.4W per core, which would be a massive improvement on the i9-9990XE - which can only do 5Ghz - and requires 18.4W per core. A tiny, hitherto unknown company with onl
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by jfindley 4y ago
I've owned two Alfas (one of which I still have). The reputation for poor reliability is very well deserved in my experience, and we are very well known by the local mechanics. It varied a bit by model - but overall I think it's a
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by jfindley 4y ago
Not accurate. You've taken a valid data point and over-extrapolated from it. Openreach provides the physical cable for the majority of customers (excluding cable and FTTP, the latter of which is steadily expanding). However the physica
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by jfindley 4y ago
At least in some locations insurance companies may reward you with much lower premiums if you have sufficiently secure locks, alarm systems etc when the value of your contents is high enough (maybe you inherited some valuable art work or so
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by jfindley 5y ago
Video streaming is a bit different from "normal" TLS web serving. For video streaming the network is much more likely to be the bottleneck, but traditional TLS web serving tends to send a lot of fairly small packets, and saturatin
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by jfindley 5y ago
Yes, this reads like a user who is dead set against all typing in software and is then surprised when that works out badly. There are some real problems with UUIDs as primary keys but they fail to mention any of them (some examples: UUIDs a
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by jfindley 5y ago
Thanks for the response. It's great that you're trying to build something that will allow folks to do self-hosting well, I'm fully on board with this aim. My point about the political bits though, is that even for folks that
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by jfindley 5y ago
I'm not quite sure who the article is actually written for. If it's written to generate interest from investors, or for some other such semi/non technical audience then please ignore this (although the fact that I can't
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by jfindley 5y ago
It depends what the goal of your hashing function is. Pure cryptographic hashes like sha256 want to be cheap to calculate. Slow on GPUs is only a design goal if you're making a password hash function, which is a rather different class
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by jfindley 5y ago
Absolutely none. It's great for issuers as they get to charge a bunch more money to provide you with exactly zero extra security, which is why some of them try to pretend there's a purpose. There is not. Even the old (ridiculous)
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by jfindley 5y ago
The mongodb developers once thought as you did. They were wrong, although it took a fair while for them to realise this. Yes it's complex. Extremely complex, and as another poster noted, the learning curve is horrible and documentation
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by jfindley 5y ago
While these are real risks, it's worth pointing out two things: - This wasn't just "a single Tsunami", it was the Tsunami resulting from the 4th largest earthquake ever recorded happening just a few hundred km away. - Th
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by jfindley 5y ago
They aren't saying "don't use ifdef", they're saying "put the ifdef in the header instead, because it makes the implementation easier to read"
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by jfindley 5y ago
Not only would this be illegal - as another commenter noted - if successful you'd a) be killed by the natives, and b) risk decimating the local population with diseases they have no antibodies nor treatment for.
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by jfindley 5y ago
That's a good point - I was speaking from experience with KSM on x86, but having a dedicated coprocessor on system Z for this application would make a lot of sense and fix many of the problems I've seen on x86.
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by jfindley 5y ago
If by "samepage merging" you mean KSM[0], it's hugely expensive in CPU cycles (not to mention severe impacts on membw, l3 cache, etc) and outside of low-end VPS hosting has relatively few real-world applications. I'm not
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by jfindley 5y ago
This is already the case for some of the very low-volume stops on that line. For non-express trains a combination of the following is currently (or at least was pre-covid) in use, with the mix varying throughout the day: * stop more or

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