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by laumars 4y ago
As I said, they were working 4 and 8 core CPUs that had a working core disabled and then solder at a cheaper price as 3 or 6 core CPUs. The reason AMD did this was because they had the genius idea of selling off some faulty CPUs at a cheape
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by laumars 4y ago
The GPs post wasn't a dig at BMW manufacturing but an old joke (might be local to the UK) about how BMW drivers never indicate before turning.
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by laumars 4y ago
I don't disagree with your point but it's worth noting that this practice does actually happen in IT as well. For example some software licenses are tied to physical hardware (that was common with servers back in the day) so you&#
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by laumars 4y ago
There are several sausages that share the prefix “Frankfurters” such as Frankfurter Würstchen (which is the hotdog style sausage that Americans have shortened to just “Frankfurter”). In fact it’s not just sausages that have that name, there
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by laumars 4y ago
From why I understand of VHS (and I could be wrong here since I’ve not written software to read VHS tapes) is that they don’t have a separate audio track. They just encode NTSC or PAL signals as it would be broadcast over the airwaves. Tha
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by laumars 4y ago
> I was talking about video quality, not that other stuff. I covered video quality too > This is actually significantly worse now, since most households lack the ability to "tape" anything. It’s definitely not worse now. Or
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by laumars 4y ago
Maybe. That wasn’t used by regular VHS rigs though was it (ie PAL or NTSC recordings)? I just remember VHS audio sounding muffled after the tape had been used a few times. To be fair, recording stuff from RF wouldn’t have helped much either
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by laumars 4y ago
Really? I did. - Tapes would get chewed by the player - Took an age to find the right recording (you’d spend an age constantly rewinding) - Tapes would degrade the more you used them - sometimes they wouldn’t even sync vertically with your
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by laumars 4y ago
> I think we all forget though just how poor the quality was back then I don’t think anyone has forgotten how crappy VHS was/is. At least with vinyl, the sound quality was good even if the medium was bulky. But VHS just sucked in ev
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by laumars 4y ago
> I don't love this state of affairs as I'd rather just use my pass That’s fine when you’re a sole developer or a small team but the moment your organisation grows you need SSO. > and it's particularly bad when you have
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by laumars 4y ago
Samba is GPLv3. OpenLDAP has its own license but has some GPL-like clauses regarding code redistribution. I can’t recall what NIS is licensed under but it was written by Sun and then licensed to other vendors so odds are it’s not MIT/B
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by laumars 4y ago
You should check out the cartoon: Tron Uprising. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1812523/
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by laumars 4y ago
The cartoon series is arguably the strongest instalment in the franchise. It's got the strongest story line and the most depth to it. It's a great loss Disney cancelled it
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by laumars 4y ago
That’s about the same age as this show
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by laumars 4y ago
I don’t agree with that. Having my grown up in that era there is t any shortage of content in popular culture that have smart or sentient AI: - Asimov novels (as you’ve referenced yourself) - 2001 (Hal) - Star Wars (R2D2 & C3PO for exam
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by laumars 4y ago
> However, that is not increase in security. It is to increase the lockdown. In this instance it is both > And increasing lockdown is a poor proxy for quantification of security of specific images. You do realize that locking stuf
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by laumars 4y ago
> That does not mean it improves security. If the images it allows to boot are less secure than those it prevents, it lessens security. I appreciate what you're saying but your logic doesn't really work: - The only image allo
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by laumars 4y ago
> Whether it offers marginal additional security has yet to be demonstrated. You're further limiting the number of images that can boot. This is a point you've made yourself so I don't really see how you need a further d
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by laumars 4y ago
For anyone interested in the Chess story, it's a trick performed by Darren Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAXIubSTkc I really liked the simplicity of the trick (concept wise). Though I sure as hell couldn&#x27
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by laumars 4y ago
Yes. They made that point explicitly themselves
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by laumars 4y ago
Yes, we all already understand the context. One could argue that distrusting platforms signed with MS's 3rd party certificate offers marginal additional security but that doesn't contradict the original point made about defence
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by laumars 4y ago
That's the point the GP was making
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by laumars 4y ago
To be fair it could be me who’s in those strange circles :)
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by laumars 4y ago
I also love Music for Airports but it's not one I see people talking about often.
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by laumars 4y ago
How simple are we talking about when you say "simple frontend development"? For simple personal projects I write all my own HTML and CSS from scratch. It's not particularly hard to write stuff with low to moderate interactivi
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by laumars 4y ago
Ahh that’s fair enough. I think it’s fair to say “brainfuck” is outside most peoples domain. I was just curious how your search engine performed on less common search queries (the kind that are trying to debug a rarely hit problem with an o
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by laumars 4y ago
I'm seeing the same page as result 1, 2 and 3. Interestingly only 1 out of those 3 results were scraped from that page. Even more curiously only 1 out of those 3 results were even valid code. https://beta.sayhello.so/se
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by laumars 4y ago
Nobody is arguing that JSON is equally as performant as binary formats. What the others are saying is that the amount of JSON in your average lock file should be small enough that parsing it is negligible. If you were dealing with a multi-g
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by laumars 4y ago
Serial connections will only cost you a Raspberry Pi (there's probably some really cheap console servers on eBay too). I don't think the issue is so much cost but more this kind of systems administration is becoming a forgotten ar
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by laumars 4y ago
Nope. Back before VMs were thing it was common to do "lights out" style remote management via a console server. That console server would then have a serial connection (the old 9 pin d-sub plug[1]) to your individual physical serv

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