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by josefx 3y ago
> which was worse than Lightning in every way? You mean the proprietary connector that Apple would rather have die than turn into a free standard? Which it had over a decade to accomplish between the EU announcing its intention to enforc
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by josefx 3y ago
> Theoretically, there should be no difference in performance or compatibility at all. At least in the past there was a tendency by NVIDIA to run their professional GPUs at a lower frequency, offering reliability and correctness guarante
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by josefx 3y ago
> The latter may crash if integer and pointer are different sizes. Apparently some compilers specified a special __null extension to handle that case before nullptr was a thing.
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by josefx 3y ago
As far as I understand the payments Germany still makes are for the properties it "bought" from the churches when the separation between church and state was declared. There have been plans to repay the remaining sum in one big pa
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by josefx 3y ago
And the people ranting about graphics forget that X is a lot more than that.
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by josefx 3y ago
> Alyssa Rosenzweig probably forgot more about graphics on Linux than you (or I) will ever know. I don't give a fuck about knowledge, I want a working system and Wayland has this misfeature that it has been declared "complete&q
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by josefx 3y ago
Browsers are free, so the choice is to get "the best". With printers the cheapest is often "good enough" and inkjet printers have an intentionally low up front cost. Convincing people that a laser printer is the cheaper
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by josefx 3y ago
People pushing xml in 2023 is news and highly relevant. Can we get a yaml or json based image format or maybe some rust based web assembly to get on with the times?
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by josefx 3y ago
To be fair I have that constantly on Linux. Default applications like ark trying to query every connected drive on every use and just hanging there until they get a response even when all you want to do is open a zip file on a local ssd.
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by josefx 3y ago
Is that why modern GPUs are so costly? Half a dozen unused connections?
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by josefx 3y ago
> all this discussion on copyrights in the age of AI. copyright is a thing, AI do not change that. > does not 'steal' or and reproduce our code - it simply LEARNS from it as a human And here we have the central problem, does
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by josefx 3y ago
One thing I often do on Linux for so files: default symbol visibility to hidden / windows compatible. A downside is that your dependencies have to set the visibility attribute correctly, but that can still be worked around by wrapping
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by josefx 3y ago
If you plan to immortalize yourself in a negative way you can just pull a Pompeii and start doing graffiti. A few crude dick drawings and raunchy jokes signed with your name should be enough to keep future archeologists entertained.
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by josefx 3y ago
> If USB-C is mandated, there will never be a newer standard to replace it, The law has a reevaluation period of five years. Basically lawmakers and industry representatives will convene every five years to see if a new connector should
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by josefx 3y ago
It probably is hard to remember the time when Apple wasn't the only company with its own proprietary connector because it has been already well over a decade since the EU first issued its ultimatum for the industry to fall in line behi
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by josefx 3y ago
On the one hand that is the goal, on the other hand the applicable standard seems to be FIPS 140, which counts products with a flawless security history like OpenSSL amongst its long time adherents. In other words there is a non zero chance
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by josefx 3y ago
> You don't have to talk to a person, which I don't always hate but have had some bad experiences. This just removes the roll of the dice from the equation entirely. Given that they are a Google/Alphabet company this seem
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by josefx 3y ago
Does that assume that you have only one key type and not an infinite sized hierarchy of child classes to deal with? If you had a map that took a Number as key, how many child classes do you think your helper class would cover and what exten
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by josefx 3y ago
> IMO object identity is almost always not needed and a sign of bad design. Sometimes you have no choice. I had multiple times where I needed to store additional data for instances of class X but had not control over it, so I had to sto
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by josefx 3y ago
> semiconductor research has propelled us forward, and it was for the most part not done for curiosity's sake. And yet if learned book binders and doctors had not decided that they where much more interested in studying chemistry an
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by josefx 4y ago
With how most of the internet already looks like without adblocker the difference would probably be impossible to even notice. Edit: Also around half the pages I currently have open are passing through cloudflare anyway and signed by them,
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by josefx 4y ago
> Why wouldn't a "agreement" already be in place by the mere fact that those URLs are open to the entire world on purpose? An agreement is in place, it often just isn't sufficient to cover what the third party is goin
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by josefx 4y ago
Even with Nuremberg style trials that would still only have been a PR stunt. German police still has yearly reports about the issues they have with right wing nuts and racism in the force. You would have to replace both the entire chain of
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by josefx 4y ago
So after a quick google it seems that the only thing is does is "automatically" calculate the price based on start and end of your trip. I put automatically in quotes because you have to stamp in/out every time you switch tra
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by josefx 4y ago
I have about half a dozen different ways to get from one train station to another, some with first and second class options. Just tapping in and out would not be sufficient to find out how much I have to pay or in some cases which company t
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by josefx 4y ago
Only if you assume a road network of infinite size which goods and various services can traverse without any interference from private car owners. Which a short look at any given city during peak hours should disprove and those roads are no
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by josefx 4y ago
You can find the packages here with at least some of the sources here https://steamdeck-packages.steamos.cloud/archlinux-mirror/
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by josefx 4y ago
Does that page only list Github accounts? Sudo is maintained using mercurial, the git repository is just a mirror. Try the official homepage for a significantly longer (and also incomplete) list of contributors https://www.sudo.w
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by josefx 4y ago
> current wave of anti-racism, anti-slavery Reducing racism is great, but censoring existing works because they contain the n-word just seems stupid.
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by josefx 4y ago
And how do you sign the transactions to confirm that they where send by someone authorized?

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