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by jgtrosh 3y ago
A nice post about the weirdness of FTP: https://computer.rip/2020-05-20-file-transfer-pseudoprotocol...
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
Lol I mean, it was obvious that it was Swiss, it's in the title, but international prices are often shown in USD or €. Anyway, to me it felt like it could be the result of a slight aversion to discussing money, or a slight glorificatio
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
That page has prices shown as numbers without any indication of currency; I've never seen that
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
Guns are designed to kill people, and WEI is designed to block unauthorized browsers.
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
In case somebody else doesn't have any context on bpfilter, here's a link from when it was added to the mainline kernel: https://www.phoronix.com/news/BPFILTER-Linux-4.18
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
The author tries to find specific evidence to answer whether individual people overall had their attention span reduced, in the time period where internet + social media became widespread. They go to some effort to define terms and review e
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
I think this is just an unusual attempt to formulate their guesses more precisely without relying on linguistics. You could see it as somewhat earnest, as in they can be shown to wrong to a certain extent, and can't try to weasel out o
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
Quite off topic, but some PC games are now on Android. See for example Space Cadet: https://github.com/fexed/Pinball-on-Android/releases Once you get to enjoy a proper straightforward PC game on your phone, most e
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
This is why the most immediately jarring thing of the Congo comic, in my opinion, is not even the strong racism. It's the relentless animal-brutality-based “comedy”. The racism is not so much meant as the butt of the joke, more just a
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
I won a Xeon Phi programming manual at an Intel talk; I can assure you that even though it's easy to program, it is absolutely not easy to optimise. The amount of compiler+profiler+cilk+… tooling Intel had to provide was impressive.
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
> WTF the CIA was doing in Brazil in the early 2010s! Wasn't the Military dictatorship in Brazil enough! Not to justify the CIA or anything, but that's exactly where I would most expect them to be actively conducting covert ope
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
This is apparently with the approval of a judge (though that's not always meaningful), when targeting crimes that would lead to 10 years imprisonment at least.
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
That's why they're encapsulated
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
> 25 1 TB SD cards are transmitted every second, 6.25 grams per second. No, 1 Micro SD would be transmitted every 5s. Plus it's 200Gb/s = 25GB/s, so that's 250mg/40s. 4h × 6.25mg/s = 90g 3days × 6.25mg/
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
Does the century old continuously running lamp bulb in a fire brigade count as a computation, if a while true does?
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
This dichotomy about difficulty is described in more detail in this long-winded but carefully thought out essay about a Celeste mod by Patricia Taxxon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX3w4hubVnQ
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
The pain tolerance part reminds me of the simple game where two players slap each others' hand in turn; the turn switches when the receiver manages to dodge a slap, but gets punished with a free slap if they twitch on a fake attack. Mo
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by jgtrosh 3y ago
> I have ffmpeg and yt-dlp installed to download videos for when I am going to be away from internet access for a while Have you tried NewPipe for that use case?
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by jgtrosh 4y ago
Not an expert in load balancing, but in similar problems (work sharing / work stealing, MPI get/put) it makes sense to pull only if you can pull fast enough to avoid incurring prohibitive latency at every request/message. Mul
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by jgtrosh 4y ago
This specific type of ball game is widely known and advertised in Mexico, to the point that the following type of events is organised: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKvQjgC9sIY But as said in another comment, it's ju
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by jgtrosh 4y ago
But that's not the same, the above process would be like melting the steel and glass and concrete from the building and hope future chemistry allows us to separate them
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by jgtrosh 4y ago
There can be multiple reasons for heavy cars to be bad. Additionally, extra heavy cars wear roads much faster. It's nice to have a way of recuperating energy but it doesn't solve everything.
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by jgtrosh 4y ago
> In contrast Spanish […] you can read anything correctly even if you have no clue what you’re saying. Except for the letter X which has 3 pronunciations, and some other weird stuff. Admittedly, nothing as bad as French or English.
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by jgtrosh 4y ago
Not a leftie, but this is a common theme in FP communities. Loads of videos on YouTube, for example this [1] is one of multiple videos from Goulet on this subject. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3sAngid8aI There&#x27
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by jgtrosh 4y ago
Yes, it was now corrected
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by jgtrosh 4y ago
The context should be dated to 2020, not 2023 Edit: it was now corrected, no need to downvote Great story! Looking forward to some follow up
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by jgtrosh 4y ago
Some episodes that have subtitles are titled incorrectly (only using the subtitle). For example, this episode [1] is the first of a pair of episodes called The Written World, but it only shown as Episode 1. [1]: https://genmon.gi
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by jgtrosh 4y ago
I was going to point out my Panasonic W1030 word processor as probably even more impressive since it's not even really a PC. But then I found specs and its dictionary uses 384kB [1]. Then again it's from the latter 80s, maybe prev
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by jgtrosh 4y ago
- OLED would be nice to have (though it has no impact in comparison with ps5) (same for HDR) - Lack of dependency to windows and dumb windows11 requirements is specifically what makes Steam Deck “ultimate” (or maybe some less absolute term)
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by jgtrosh 4y ago
> the language portion of your brain does not do logic This seems ... Wrong? I suppose that most of what we generally call high-level logic is largely physically separate from some basic functions of language, but just a blanket statemen

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