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by labawi 5y ago
Doesn't base64 have a simple closed-form formula for the expansion, which can be easily inverted for a single-step calculation of max source length? Something like encoded_length = 4 * ceil(length / 3) + len(prefix + suffix) cut_a
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by labawi 5y ago
This is troubling, as houses can usually be either an investment or affordable. Pension funds are assuming huge risks, which cements the political will to keep housing unaffordable with sky-high ever-growing prices.
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by labawi 5y ago
If the infrastructure is available, it had to be built, and someone paid for it. If there wasn't a hookup before, then it seems reasonable to pay the full share to recoup the investment, even if the line is right there. Otherwise the i
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by labawi 5y ago
For a link, you mainly need signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). With high gain antennas you simultaneously increase mutual reception and decrease reception of other signals, giving a triple boost to your signal-to-noise ratio if you can use it on
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by labawi 5y ago
I may be conjuring things, but I think many early video cards actually outputted a TV or component video signal, which uses YUV (=YCbCr?) color, so it is RGB that would have required conversion, not YUV.
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by labawi 5y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | EU based | Worldwide | Remote Seeking freelancer(s) for project-based work, to offload some workload. Mainly creating backend, system / embedded, small to medium, semi-independent components for the railway industr
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by labawi 5y ago
Plain single-stream download-only TCP should fit without compression, probably even without Delayed ACKs. IME, the line starts to choke when you actually want to send requests and they compete with ACKs and your internet stutters and crawls
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by labawi 5y ago
Reminds me of the time needed to write an application that would be particularly hard to test (was critical, handled distributed state). Managed to write it so obviously correct, that I couldn't think of anything to test before releasi
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by labawi 5y ago
Technically, it would comparatively excel at launching 64K+ applications at once, but yes - flash is not quite amazing at launching 20 applications serially .
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by labawi 5y ago
It may start to lose it's strength after 50 years, as designed, if kept under designated conditions. As for decay, IIUC, it loses pH gradually, from the time you mix it, and that pH is the most important protecting factor that stops th
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by labawi 5y ago
I think it's more likely the marketing department doesn't like people leaving fake addresses. When I want to check postage or whatever, and they require an email address, a@b.c typically doesn't work, but no@mail.com does.
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by labawi 5y ago
I think a typical spammer doesn't care much about such users, but if given given a choice they would rather avoid such users. AFAIU, most buld spam is targeted on gullible or vulnerable people. The spam is often terrible on purpose. So
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by labawi 5y ago
Sometimes a foreign force will overthrow your elected government, because they want your oil, appoint a dictator instead and provide him with support in exchange for military interest. After decades, he is ousted, foreign relations are unde
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by labawi 5y ago
Watching the video, it seems they assumed TB grew in milk, but according to growth requirements[1], it seems unlikely, and an unwarranted conclusion. Still, it seems boric acid could have caused irritation, directly helping TB infect people
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by labawi 5y ago
That seems very atypical. As the link capacity ratio goes past 10:1, even for typical dowloads, speed starts to be limited by the ability to send requests, or even TCP ACKs. I've seen 20:1 offers on cable providers, but it's mostl
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by labawi 5y ago
What do you mean by collisions? As described, arithmetic coding does a 1:1 mapping of input-output, while NN deterministically generates probability distribution for the arithmetic coding. Conceptually, it would work with any deterministic
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by labawi 5y ago
What's wrong with employing curbside "enterpreneurs"? Would you be happier if they were begging on the streets, stealing, went hungry.. Over here, some enterprising souls tend to "acquire" (often steal) copper cabl
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by labawi 5y ago
I like how the CD-R longevity estimate is 20-100+ years, depending on type, which agrees with anectodal evidence. OTOH, they list only 5-10 and 10-20 years for BD-R, while at the same time BR-RE gets 20-50 years, which seems quite questiona
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by labawi 5y ago
Battery packs, car dashboards, your shopping bags as well as gasoline is made from oil, but only one of those is above 1% of world green house gas emissions. Creating graphene from gas instead of mining does seem cleaner, as methane can and
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by labawi 5y ago
My laptop battery charges under a minute, but that doesn't make it any good. If you have no issues with the units / expressions used in the article, could you please explain what is the power and energy density from this quote: &g
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by labawi 5y ago
Is this sarcasm? As the gmail part is completely false. Relaying used to be a thing, before spammers and unwillingness to deal with it at the source (boot infected devices, originating AS / IX, .. ) resulted in a choice between a game
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by labawi 5y ago
I think definitions vary slightly, but the quality you mentioned (a == b => f(a) == f(b)) would be called a deterministic function [1] - very useful, often applicable or even type check enforced in functional programming languages. Havin
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by labawi 5y ago
AFAIU, the passenger compartment will indeed have identical angle and acceleration in both cases, as there is no other way to cancel lateral force. What is likely different is the stability of tilted tracks (reasonably easy to make nice con
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by labawi 5y ago
While I agree SSD's should either slow down or fail read-only, the rest seems like wishful thinking and/or extreme exaggeration. Do you have any examples or references that drives that implement your suggested algorithms? I wouldn
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by labawi 5y ago
A host on v2 can serve a redirect to v3. Search indexes can be updated, as well as links (there was about 1.5 years?). It is a nuisance, but I don't see what the big issue is. If v2 addresses are not disabled, people will keep using th
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by labawi 5y ago
In what way does Intel offer more than a proportionate (large) number of small companies? Note, I'm not claiming it is unfair - small and crafty companies often get benefits as well - mostly the middle size and honest ones gets shafted
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by labawi 5y ago
I don't see why they couldn't migrate to the newer version in what seems a reasonable timeframe. Stated reason for v2 retirement: "Onion service v2 uses RSA1024 and 80 bit SHA1 (truncated) addresses. It also still uses the TA
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by labawi 5y ago
I think you are overestimating unique requirements of typical car engines. They are usually DC powered AC engines, where the DC->AC converter (generating 3-phase AC of controlled power and frequency) can probably run backwards (AC->DC
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by labawi 5y ago
While I have respect for honest work, I believe the premise is wrong. We do not need more IPv4 addresses. We need less. IPv4 availability is hampering IPv6 transition. Regions that have few IPv4 addresses have much better IPv6 support, and
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by labawi 5y ago
> energy needed to heat water to 75+℃ is wasteful. You can save around 30% by reducing water temperature to heat your home That depends. For resistive electric it shouldn't make a difference, pretty much all heat is transported. For

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