karteum

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by karteum 5y ago
> "GPUs, through a consequence of history, chose not to focus on real-time implicit geometry like curves, but instead on everything that goes inside them" Just for information : 10 years ago, NVidia has released this paper an
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by karteum 5y ago
Notice that Google Takeout is broken with regards to non-UTF8 email encodings (for some of you who archive old emails). I noticed it when coding a small tool https://github.com/karteum/gmvaultdb to (among other things)
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by karteum 5y ago
> " Also, it would be nice to fool the GPS through a jammer that emits false signals in order to make it report a fake location, after placing cameras at that place to record whoever shows up. " First : don't confuse jammi
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by karteum 5y ago
3G (UMTS) was reuse 1, not reuse 7 ! This is not the only mistake from this website you mention : e.g. in the page "difference-between-gsm-and-cdma" I read "GSM Data speed rate: 42Mbps in HSPA" (but HSPA is 3G and an evo
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by karteum 5y ago
"Infamously" ? Well, there is for sure a lot to criticize about the CN government, but this precondition seems to me very natural (the OS is a very natural place for possible backdoors, otherwise...)
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by karteum 5y ago
But wind turbines and photovoltaic panels are also neither green nor sustainable (especially when you take into account all the mining and the CO2 involved in their manufacturing and transportation, and especially when you take into account
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by karteum 5y ago
Yes exactly. As a data interchange format I think it is much better than CSV (more compact, faster, more efficient, less error-prone, etc.)
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by karteum 5y ago
I don't understand why people keep using CSV today while SQLite is MIT-licenced and can be used everywhere, has a very portable and lightweight implementation, has a stable file format with long-term commitment, and a good compromise o
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by karteum 5y ago
I am not native english, but if I understand correctly : that woman (board member Debra Rose) made false accusations of aggression and child abuse against this dad because he was insisting for getting public data that she didn't want t
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by karteum 5y ago
So you also think Linus Torvalds is a narcissist ? And every people who name their project or company after their names are potential sociopaths ? What about all scientists who gave their names to the effects or law of physics (or math form
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by karteum 5y ago
Unless there is a good reason, I think in that situation I would probably try to avoid storing those tens of millions of small json files directly on the filesystem. For example : have you considered storing that data in jsonb/postgres
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by karteum 5y ago
> I host a statically rendered wikipedia mirror. Tens of millions of gzipped html-files with a filesize in the range 1-5 Kb. Have you ever tried Kiwix ( https://www.kiwix.org ) and looked at the ZIM format ( https:/&#x2
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by karteum 5y ago
> _but without Linux, Hurd would still eventually be ready_ "eventually", however with "if" we can imagine a lot of things. It could also been said that "if Linux didn't exist then maybe BSD would rule the w
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by karteum 5y ago
I don't think they will, it would be suicide (their business model relies on the fact that they can collect data from you. It's free because you are the product !). Yet, it's still useful to keep in mind that they can disable
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by karteum 5y ago
Huawei/Honor phones now have a locked bootloader so unless there is an exploit it's not possible to install anything else than the stock firmware https://www.xda-developers.com/huawei-stop-providing-bootloa...
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by karteum 5y ago
> After upgrading the display, CPU, disk, RAM, fan, battery it's a bit click-baity to say you've gone back to a 2012 ThinkPad Well, I think the main point is : regardless of how better some modern components are (e.g. screen re
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by karteum 5y ago
I understood this happened in a P3 lab. I would have expected a P3 lab would have better procedures to avoid being bitten by an infected mouse, especially since some P3 labs host experiments with viruses sometimes much more dangerous than s
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by karteum 5y ago
> This is one thing I'm surprised the open source community hasn't developed a popular alternative for: Teamviewer. That's because it's not only a matter of software but also a matter of service (STUN is not enoug
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by karteum 5y ago
Well, here in that case they were using an approach that would be illegal by EU regulations (not sure about US) considering the EIRP limits :) And if you want real low-power long-range communications with the other side of the earth, you ma
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by karteum 5y ago
N.B. note that Google performs some encoding conversions within the GMail backup from Takeout that permanently break all non-ascii characters when an encoding other than UTF-8 is used in the original mail (those characters are replaced by t
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by karteum 5y ago
Great news. One remark: "The on-disk format for the table data is the same" => I guess this means there is still some kind of "type/length" header for every single record... (which could theoretically be dropped)
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by karteum 5y ago
SerenityOS is licenced under BSD-2-Clause License while SkyOS was entirely proprietary (and therefore disappeared when its development stalled), so the comparison seems irrelevant (your point would be more relevant if you were mentioning Sy
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by karteum 5y ago
> It's simple, safe and efficient We all know that having a single turn (like in the US) leads to a political landscape with 2 major political parties and few nuances (but the major problem in the US system is "the winner takes
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by karteum 5y ago
> Its why should anyone build a house in the middle of nowhere and expect the govt to spend whatever it takes to get connected. But the article says "he expected to pay a few thousand dollars, given that the nearest pole was across
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by karteum 5y ago
> I think literally the only stuff on my phone that isn't backed up is local files And besides downloads, there are many apps that just use local files and that you therefore need to transfert manually. e.g. apps from F-Droid, SMS,
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by karteum 5y ago
Even if/when they don't fully "own" the phones, users ought to always be able to access their data (at least for backup) and call emergency services (which is a legal requirement in many countries). More generally and re
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by karteum 5y ago
Considering the absolutely huge CO2/environmental impact of BTC and other proof-of-work cryptos, talking about a CO2-coin for the purpose of CO2 sequestration sounds like quite a joke to me...
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by karteum 5y ago
> "some reason that I don't agree with[0]" On my side I am quite happy that the hardware+software can support some kind of fast wake-up (similar to Macbooks and smartphones instead of needing >10 seconds to wake up when
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by karteum 5y ago
What we need is control on the bootloader, with the ability to unlock, load our own keys, and relock. We also need to clean-up the mess with all those "partitions" (some of them with critical informations e.g. calibration, IMEI, e
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by karteum 5y ago
I wouldn't say Pascal completely "failed". e.g. Delphi was quite popular at some point.

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