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by mastax 5y ago
I spent a while making the perfect portable Linux USB SSD with persistent storage and a universally mountable data partition using ventoy - then discovered that my Surface Laptop 3 can't boot upstream Linux and gave up on the whole end
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by mastax 5y ago
The most equivalent Rust type to `Long` would be `Option<Box<u64>>`, which is represented as a nullable pointer to a u64. `Box<Option<u64>>` is represented as a non-nullable pointer to a struct containing a u64 numbe
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by mastax 5y ago
Logitech recently(?) released software plainly called "Onboard Memory Manager." In their own words: OnBoard Memory Manager (OMM) is a utility for pro gamers to quickly configure the on-board memory profiles of compatible Logitech
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by mastax 5y ago
Man I remember reading about this in 2011 or so. I'm glad they're still doing well. It's an interesting project at the intersection of philanthropic eco-hippies and mechanical engineers which doesn't seem very common to
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by mastax 5y ago
To the great frustration of Historians.
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by mastax 5y ago
> Is this a typo - should this say "to the side that had +5V before?" (ie change minus to plus)? Yes. > I'm struggling to understand the design, but I think it's charging a capacitor with +5V, changing the charging
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by mastax 5y ago
.NET native is a dead end technology that only supported old UWP apps. There's the new single file builds but those just concatenate the dynamic libs together into one file. There's also the new .NET linker for trimmed builds, but
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by mastax 5y ago
They do. Everyone in China is using them. Tesla is starting to use them outside of China as well.
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by mastax 5y ago
What happens when multiple packages want to modify the same code?
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by mastax 5y ago
Tale as old as time: VSCode vs Atom WebExtensions vs XUL Mod API vs patching game files Vim vs emacs
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by mastax 5y ago
> Edit 2011-06-30: Was inspired by one of the comments to try and compress the 58 kB png file. IzArc can create a 7z file which is only 705 bytes large! That is 1/71436th the size of the uncompressed image in Tiff format. That’s pre
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by mastax 5y ago
Yeah, I have a midrange NVMe SSD for my root but I have some Optane 905p drives sitting around. The Sequential write speeds were not impressive, but the latency and IOPS were good. I installed Ubuntu on one and running `apt upgrade` was so
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by mastax 5y ago
Malware can set that config option without consent.
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by mastax 5y ago
The Wikipedia article doesn't mention any banning, and I can buy the film on Amazon.
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by mastax 5y ago
Vienna's population intensely declined after it was no longer the seat of a large empire, which gave the government an opportunity to buy up land for cheap. Vienna's population is still lower than it was in 1916, which explains wh
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by mastax 5y ago
Sure, tech companies and even just random people are already working on it piecemeal. I just think of someone with resources put a concerted effort into it we could replace all the parsers of un-trusted data in e.g. Chrome within 2 years. I
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by mastax 5y ago
I think it's mostly that people are continuing to use file format parsers that were written in unsafe languages in 1998. I do sometimes wonder what a "Manhattan Project" of software security would look like. I do think rewrit
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by mastax 5y ago
From what I remember of Veritasium's video on ageing ( https://youtu.be/QRt7LjqJ45k ) there is evidence to support the idea that various activities which are stressful for the body are good at slowing or even reversing a
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by mastax 5y ago
In my experience any popular free to play multiplayer game is eventually inundated with cheaters no matter what anti cheat is used.
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by mastax 5y ago
My uncle is an Industrial Engineer. He has worked for every company imaginable, setting up their production lines and fixing all manner of problems. He can fix or repair anything, and probably has. This past weekend I saw him walk around th
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by mastax 5y ago
Now I'm wondering if those cheap Optane drives from mainland China on eBay are not actually new. They do seem too good to be true.
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by mastax 5y ago
Looks like that ridiculous city the Saudi Crown Prince is building. The difference is he has money to burn. Good luck finding investors for this.
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by mastax 5y ago
Even prehistoric humans were trading metals and pottery (and other things that decomposed and left no evidence, surely) over thousands of miles. It's easy to forget that they were as intelligent as we are but did not have Isaac Newton&
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by mastax 5y ago
The northeast corridor (Boston to DC) is very popular and profitable for Amtrak. They have routes connecting major cities in the rest of the country but they're slow, expensive and unreliable. They're pretty much only ridden by tr
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by mastax 5y ago
These filters have activated carbon in them, though probably not very much of it: https://www.amazon.com/Nordic-Pure-20x20x4-Pleated-Furnace/d...
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by mastax 5y ago
Extra power consumption means extra money and/or bulk and/or noise on power delivery and cooling. Then all that heat ends up in my room which is undesirable for ~60% of the year.
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by mastax 5y ago
Well, yes. The 'art' now is convincing state DoTs that the tech is worth investing in ;)
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by mastax 5y ago
One of the big changes happening in the industry is increasing collection of road line quality data. Previously we'd use handheld meters to spot check pavement markers. The new state of the art is to use continuous laser scanners attac
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by mastax 5y ago
"People who look at forecast maps" know about this stuff way further in advance, surely. That said, Windy is very good.
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by mastax 5y ago
Yes. We've seen chipmaker MSRPs inflated, especially in the most recent releases like the 6600XT. Chipmakers are constrained by contractual obligations and PR though. AIBs have also inflated their MSRPs for cards. They seem to have c

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