labawi

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by labawi 6y ago
I looked at nix a while ago, concluded the versioning/chesumming is - a given sum should represent kind-of the same thing, but can mean really anything. There was even a post on how to have a stable version for a tracking branch. Now,
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by labawi 6y ago
> Which means companies can move fast & break things, so long as they're prepared to pay for any damages. Or go bankrupt, like the Upper Graystone Well 963A Fracking Co.
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by labawi 6y ago
Without further details, I remain unconvinced of true hardware security. By hardware I would presume they mean a system/keyboard controller - one that can monitor events, delay and toggle privacy mode. A controller that likely has up
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by labawi 6y ago
EU has SEPA payments, where you can just send money to an account, usually for no or negligible fee. Weird how a similar arrangement is not available in so many countries.
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by labawi 6y ago
I was pretty sure SRAM uses less power than DRAM. Some research shows it is true for 6T cells, but questionable on smaller 4T cells, depending on implementation. So, if you can use ~6x the area of eDRAM, you can have almost no power draw SR
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by labawi 6y ago
In theory, a DMCA notice requires a statement of Netflix good-faith belief, that the content is infringing, under the penalty of perjury, and should be triable - though good luck going after a G$ company.
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by labawi 6y ago
Mostly agree, though to nitpick on a particular POV: > multiple internet feeds .. assigned IPv6 block ... paying through the teeth to the ISPs for the privilege. People like having their own network blocks, but typical route-my-subnet-h
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by labawi 6y ago
That's a convincing privacy argument for NAT. I thought temporary addresses were supposed to (mostly) solve this and would be my preferred way. Though the default 24h lifetime is not quite as helpful, except for hopefully sidestepping
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by labawi 6y ago
Yes but a tool is not illegal just because it can sometimes be used illegally. If some are OK with it and some are not, then it suggests it has legitimate purpose (though you need to go a lot deeper). Note, I'm not arguing copying sm
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by labawi 6y ago
AFAICT I have not used youtube-dl to view videos that I couldn't watch on the site (except perhaps incidentally) - but I don't like executing random code on my computer and youtube web is in my view actively user-hostile and last
431.
by labawi 6y ago
I'll quote from the first paragraph of court's opinion: We hold that the statute requires copyright holders to consider fair use before sending a takedown notification, and that failure to do so raises a triable issue as to wheth
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by labawi 6y ago
I was quite surprised by your claim, as I'm quite sure it is a right in EU and other countries. It seems you have been correct, though not any more. See quote[1]: The U.S. Supreme Court has traditionally characterized fair use as an a
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by labawi 6y ago
If you xor the hashes together, it may be as weak as the weaker of the two functions, though it probably depends on their structure. Getting much stronger hashing with double compute time is easy. Double the number of round - most alorithms
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by labawi 6y ago
Sure you can. Even without javascript. If you really wanted to, you could even make it work in IE 5, in a single request (I think). I we're discussing whether is reasonable - 9/10 slow pages I have encountered are slow because of
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by labawi 6y ago
You are likely correct. I knew you could do zero-copy, but it seems special syscalls are necessary for the stated reasons. Calls like mmap, splice, vmsplice, tee, sendfile, io_uring, ..
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by labawi 6y ago
The kernel likely keeps it's own copies of necessary validated commands and pointers, but not of data buffers. If you read/write in an inappropriate time, you are likely to read/write garbage, get misinterpreted commands or
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by labawi 6y ago
> When a user program requests to read a file, the page from the file is (usually) first put into the buffer cache. Then the data is copied from the buffer cache out to the user-supplied buffer during the return from the system call. Doe
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by labawi 6y ago
IMO it's good for the internet if few entities were to hoard most IPv4 addresses. Only while IPv4's are sufficiently available will we keep using IPv4-only networks and keep prolonging our miseries. My ISP only gives CGNAT or is h
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by labawi 6y ago
Function finding end of a string that breaks on invalid utf8 would be silly and is a bad example. A function that counts the number of characters/codepoints or maybe decodes utf8 -> ucs4, may wish to operate on entire codepoints ins
440.
by labawi 6y ago
CPU doesn't execute <program> fast enough. Have you tried a different <program>?
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by labawi 6y ago
> was seized by the Venezuelan government I don't see it in the article. Even so, if a multinational is extracting resources from a country, I'd consider seizure of assets fair game, unless shown otherwise. It's not as if
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by labawi 6y ago
Current also picks up force as it moves in a magnetic field, but it's not like the electrons are going to fall off. Magnetic fields can saturate ferrites and affect coils, but the slight deviations in few components should be nothing t
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by labawi 6y ago
If you want to get technical, it's getting a glass and repeatedly pouring it in the drum for - you know, office party, next year of binge drinking or whatever. If you offer unlimited and only give 2 drinks / person, you're ly
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by labawi 6y ago
> .. eye perceives photons in a logarithmic fashion adding two colors and halving them doesn't make an average. Are you using linear values or the usual funky gamma space¹? With linear values, value 1 means x photons and value n m
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by labawi 6y ago
> how many kwh of solar and wind people are selling back Not just selling back. Producing - and then either using or selling.
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by labawi 6y ago
CO₂. Biogas is mostly better than fossil, but we should generate methane from H₂O + CO₂ + energy. It would be useful and quick way to achieve energy storage and decarbonization.
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by labawi 6y ago
If you sold pork with different price on the condition of eating it in a wood vs. a stone house, some people would consider it market segmentation or maximizing profits. Others might call it illegal price discrimination.
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by labawi 6y ago
The model doesn't support methane generation. Hydrogen is cool, but we should also be investing in efficient methane production. AFAICT it's not too hard to make and has immense advantages - existing transport, storage and use inf
449.
by labawi 6y ago
Ethernet is more mature, I like it. But to compete in most USB use-cases it would have to re-engineered so much, it wouldn't really be ethernet any more.
450.
by labawi 6y ago
If you're using DVI-D -> VGA or HDMI -> VGA, probably a couple of pixels worth on a simple converter, as it would be expensive and unnecessary to cache a whole frame. DP has incompatible timings so I would expect a frame or so on

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