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by jlokier 1y ago
> Banks are pretty good at not losing data Except for that day I logged into Barclays Bank (in the UK) and half the transactions were missing from the last several months of statements. We're talking maybe 50 transactions just gon
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by jlokier 1y ago
> If Google loses Chrome though, it will no longer be pre-installed on Chromebooks and Android That would depend on the contract. For $34.5B, I would expect the contract to say Google agrees to continue pre-installing Chrome on Chromeboo
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by jlokier 1y ago
It's the Three network in the UK. I've been using it every day for work for at least 10 years, and it served me very well, including all my remote work through the pandemic, gaming and Netflix, sometimes downloading terabytes per
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by jlokier 1y ago
It's the Three network in the UK, not an MVNO, and I'm paying for the "unlimited data" plan. They don't offer a higher tier as far as I know. I've been using it every day for work for at least 10 years, and it
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by jlokier 1y ago
You're reading it correctly. I was astonished too.
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by jlokier 1y ago
For the users, via the Chrome brand, and via being pre-installed on Chromebooks and Android. By far most users run Chrome, not Chromium forks, and this would continue after a competent acquisition. Whoever owns Chrome decides exactly what
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by jlokier 1y ago
Often, in a system with a large number of drives where actively-used data and cold data are automatically migrated to active and mostly-idle drives respectively.
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by jlokier 1y ago
Here is "ping 8.8.8.8" showing latency over cellular internet some of the time, and I live in the centre of a city: 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6145 ttl=114 time=363613.635 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6175 ttl=114
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by jlokier 1y ago
At the company where I currently work, for IP reasons (and with the advice of a patent lawyer), nobody is allowed to use any online AIs to talk about or help with work, unless it's very generic research that doesn't give away wha
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by jlokier 1y ago
"Compiled binaries" are just meant to be an example. For the purpose of whether something is open source, it doesn't matter whether something is a "binary" or something completely different. What matters (for all c
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by jlokier 1y ago
> It's apache2.0, so by definition it's open source. That's not true by any of the open source definitions in common use. Source code (and, optionally, derived binaries) under the Apache 2.0 license are open source. Bu
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by jlokier 1y ago
> One of the simplest quasiparticle is the "electron hole". Take a lattice of some electrically neutral substance. Remove one electron from it. There is now an "electron hole" in it. You can treat that hole like a pa
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by jlokier 1y ago
You can run models the size of this one locally, even on a laptop, it's just not a great experience compared with an optimised cloud service. But it is local. The size in bytes of this 120B model is about 65 GB according to the screen
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by jlokier 1y ago
> is it possible that at some point the computational photography makes a mistake and changes text? Yes it is. I've seen that happen in real-time with the built-in camera viewfinder (not even taking a photo) on my mid-range Samsung
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by jlokier 1y ago
A personal cloud VM is very bad VPN for some purposes. The static IP address, recorded by every site you visit, is directly linked back to you personally, and only you.
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Around 6k porn sites start checking ages in UK(bbc.co.uk)
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by jlokier 1y ago
Here's one company that makes both. Their LEON processors are SPARC, and their NOEL processors are RISC-V. https://www.gaisler.com/#reliable_computing_systems
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by jlokier 1y ago
Which fonts do you think are helpful during those blurry-eyed early hours?
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by jlokier 1y ago
I tried to look. "Access Denied - Sucuri Website Firewall"
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by jlokier 1y ago
> Byte range is support is interesting but also present in the Linux sync API: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/sync_file_range.2.html Unfortunately, I think sync_file_range() provides much weaker g
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by jlokier 1y ago
That CLA is a curious take, as the old, avowedly non-commercial, GNU foundational tools such as the ones we're talking about like "ls" in coreutils, have always required a kind of strong CLA to be signed from the very beginni
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by jlokier 1y ago
With 1000s of bots per month and 10,000 hits on an ecommerce site, with product images, that's a lot of data transfer, and a lot of compute if your site has badly designed or no caching, rendering all the same page components millions
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by jlokier 1y ago
I've had the version of that where I called my bank's listed number to confirm the incoming "call us on this number" voicemail was legit, and they said NO, the call is not a legit number of theirs, the account looks fine
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by jlokier 1y ago
I don't think so. Yesterday I was browsing phones and there was a Google Pixel 9 Fold on dislpay, closed and showing something. That has a display on the outside and a foldable display on the inside. I opened it, and most of the scre
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by jlokier 1y ago
In current machines, that's way off depending on how you choose to count "1 CPU instruction" for the metaphor. Take Apple's latest laptops. They have 16 CPU cores, 12 of those clocking at 4.5 GHz and able to decode&#x2F
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by jlokier 1y ago
Oh... I'd completely forgotten that I picked a theme when those were offered. So it hadn't occurred to me since then that I could change it. I guess I count among the users who are still using a colorways theme. But after getting
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by jlokier 1y ago
To the surprise of many, Google recently announced it is already integrating ZK-proof-of-age into Google Wallet with those kinds of properties, open sourcing the underlying libraries, and working with governments to encourage their ZKP syst
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by jlokier 1y ago
> I don't know what "targetting Android 15+" means specifically. Does that include anything with a lower API level? - On Android, apps are built with targetSdkVersion set to the API version you're app is compiled
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by jlokier 1y ago
Several comments point out this doesn't happen on Android. I'm using Android, with my default browser set to Firefox Focus, and I found: - Every few months, the default browser gets reset to Chrome. I don't know this has hap
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by jlokier 1y ago
> I never understand why people make comments like this It's intentional, because the location has nothing to do with the actual point. Stating it invites people to focus on the location too much instead of the actual point, or to

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