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by lloeki 3y ago
Well, no: - IPs of peers can be obtained from any source, not necessarily a centralized one. you could argue that this is centralized if you use only one, but there is no central authority and you can move to any other one or use a sizeable
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by lloeki 3y ago
The two major areas where caching is used in Rails are: - database queries - template rendering First one because round trip to db + running the query + allocating ORM result objects that otherwise get thrown away. Second one because alloca
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by lloeki 3y ago
query a known (or attempt reaching a previously known) peer
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by lloeki 3y ago
As with all things measured from a wrist worn sensor, and ove the course of the order of a decade of essentially continuous wearing, I've found that the device may be wrong (and completely off the mark at times) but is also mostly righ
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by lloeki 3y ago
> don't have breathing detection FWIW my Garmin watch reports a breath per minute metric. Dunno if this is what you were alluding to.
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by lloeki 3y ago
> With competition it would lower the parts price Around here repair shops with lower prices than first party get shitty parts. At best they're not on par spec-wise on non-breaking things (e.g max nits or color reproduction on a dis
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by lloeki 3y ago
It even predates 5G by a long shot, I recall anecdotes running the news headlines about some folks claiming newly installed (2G? 3G?) cell towers were causing them debilitating headaches, and covering walls and windows with tin foil made it
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by lloeki 3y ago
IIRC the EM thing was marginal, a bigger deal was privacy (behaviours could be inferred and resold), and most of the outrage was that people feared being charged more.
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by lloeki 3y ago
WiFi 6 is in the 700Mb/s range, not MB/s. (In practice I get about 500Mb/s, so on par with USB 2.0, which is 480Mb/s)
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by lloeki 3y ago
Even without that philosophical angle, local backup is the only way for backup and restore a phone or tablet 1:1 (except Secure Enclave) as some bits are not backed up on iCloud. (this can be seen once restored: via icloud authentication is
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by lloeki 3y ago
USB 2.0 Hi Speed is 480 Mb/s I get about that with my 13 mini on my WiFi 6 AP. BT 5.x I have no idea.
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by lloeki 3y ago
They absolutely do. I have three and use them all the time. Use case (beyond charging) to have them right in the box is that they can be used to transfer data from a previous Mac to a new one upon setup (heir to the good old "target mo
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by lloeki 3y ago
Agreed, it was not so much en passant as much as I did not want to elaborate a comment into an essay ;) Also agreed, running heel first feels like a terrible idea (and that's a skateboarder talking here, so I know my share about impact
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by lloeki 3y ago
> If you're in a running club I bet you do too. I'm not in a club but am a runner myself, although currently in a trough ever since I got a kid, and in the process of picking the habit up. I do know a bunch of long-time runners
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by lloeki 3y ago
If there's one thing the human body has evolved to do over aeons it's running. One can marvel at a slow motion video capture of a sprinting cheetah - the fastest running mammal -, where every bit of their body springs into beautif
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by lloeki 3y ago
France. Crit'air is gearing up in highly polluted major cities subject to LEZ, with accelerated calendars to comply with emissions regulations. Mine is ranked tier 2 (EURO V petrol) and will be forbidden to drive starting January 2025
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by lloeki 3y ago
A quick litmus test would be any car that is able to connect to the internet or to a manufacturer app on a smartphone. My car (Honda EDM) is 2018 and is - if we want to make lousy parallels - essentially a "dumb phone". Sadly I wi
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by lloeki 3y ago
Note that darwin prevents dylib injection in certain scenarios. https://web.archive.org/web/20161007013145/http://pewpewthes... IIRC it has been further tightened since the above was written. DYLD_INTERP
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by lloeki 3y ago
> imagent [...] processes incoming messages does it? IIUC (from a cursory look) according to the diagram it delegates all message processing to MessageBlastDoorService/IM{Transfer,Transcoder,Persistence}Agent, relying only on locall
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by lloeki 3y ago
What if the maidens' first names are Belle? They could be Belle belles, adding one?
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by lloeki 3y ago
Will, will Will will Will Will's will? – Will
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by lloeki 3y ago
It's longer than that: "Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fis
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by lloeki 3y ago
There's a list on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example_sen... The non-english examples section is fun too! The Czech ambiguity one with 5 words giving 7+ sentence meanings (raising t
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by lloeki 3y ago
> I would argue that iMessage is way to problematic to be used safely, at all. Maybe I'm missing something but every single time the only part of iMessage (actually Messages.app) that is insecure is the bit that automatically unfurl
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by lloeki 3y ago
> unless it is one of the device's primary function to transmit out I'd argue that even in that case it should still "function" without public internet connection, in the sense that everything but the egress transmiss
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by lloeki 3y ago
Scenario 1: corp buys into Apple's protection, gets rid of (most) third party software Scenario 2: corp keeps third party software, which bangs its head against Apple's protection which prevents such god processes to access info
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by lloeki 3y ago
> If I open a document or spreadsheet in the default installed apps, saving them will save them in the proprietary shitty Apple formats Do you mean Pages/Keynote/Numbers? Since these are not 1:1 (neither on feature nor in conce
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by lloeki 3y ago
Either QEMU or Virtualization.framework, pickable on vm creation. colima is a layer upon lima that sets up a VM the easy way docker-machine/boot2docker style.
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by lloeki 3y ago
Is there a place I missed where macOS does not respect the user's default browser setting? (I'm using work-mandated Chrome as default on work laptop, never had an instance of Safari opening) (can't comment on iOS since I use
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by lloeki 3y ago
Over here volume boosting is illegal, so instead they DSP ad audio to maximise envelope across all frequency bands. Since ad sections are your typical break from a program to get to the fridge or toilet or whatever, the DSP transform makes

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