mat_epice

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by mat_epice 3y ago
Something something logical fallacy [1]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
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by mat_epice 3y ago
Glad to help. Luckily, it's noted in the manpage for dd, so I can know it even after I forget!
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by mat_epice 3y ago
I just backgrounded the process for pedagogical purposes. Usually a process I'm concerned about is running in the foreground anyway, so I signal the process from another terminal.
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by mat_epice 3y ago
You can get status on-the-fly from dd on Linux as well by sending the USR1 signal. [user@machine ~]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null & [1] 3254428 [user@machine ~]$ kill -USR1 %1 19061394+0 records in 190613
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by mat_epice 3y ago
It seems easy to miss. I've got multiple domains that I manage this way, and upon inspection at least one of them doesn't have this configured properly.
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by mat_epice 3y ago
Under "my email addresses" in settings, I have "*@example.com" as one of the entries. With this arrangement, fastmail properly fills in the appropriate example.com email address when I reply.
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by mat_epice 3y ago
There is no need to come up with a new term, they already exist. You call the group what they want (e.g., Dine’e, tribe name, etc.), or indigenous American if referring to several groups. You may be shocked to learn that many indigenous gro
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by mat_epice 3y ago
I was about to dig this one out myself!
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by mat_epice 4y ago
Oh wow, I feel exactly the opposite. Windows 2000 was no-nonsense, but all good stuff. The good bones that Windows XP got came straight from Win2k. The only real problem it had was a narrower hardware compatibility profile, but it still was
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by mat_epice 4y ago
You responded to the second sentence, not the first. "The early chapters of Stolen Focus by Johann Hari provides a good overview of the research, which shows that people are increasingly switching their attention from one thing to anot
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by mat_epice 4y ago
Thanks. I took a look, it seems that they only have the "cloud servers" there, no dedicated. Those aren't as economical, as a 64GB server like the 44€ dedicated model starts at 153€/mo.
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by mat_epice 4y ago
Gosh, I wish there were something similar in the US. Right now I'm on the IONOS "server of the month[1]," which is $33/mo for dedicated six-core, 16GB, 1TB HDD. I run game servers, which could benefit from SSDs and more
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by mat_epice 4y ago
Insurance is not the only health care expense. Her level of illness indicates need for round-the-clock supervision, which could be satisfied by a nursing home at $10k per month, which would allow her husband to work. That’s a pretty miserab
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by mat_epice 4y ago
That was never said.
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by mat_epice 4y ago
Let me tell you: $325k/yr is not enough to manage a debilitating health condition that requires constant care. For a creator of her size, patreon takes 12% right off the top. ($39k) In addition, there is a transaction fee of 2.9% + $0.
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by mat_epice 4y ago
Ten seconds probably would have done it.
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by mat_epice 4y ago
It’s really a single-board computer, analogous an 8-bit Raspberry Pi. Not expensive for a SBC, but not as cheap as I would expect an 8-bit thing with vga would be. Being that 8-bit processors have been gone from interactive systems for so l
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by mat_epice 4y ago
Almost certainly user level libraries. Coordinating at the kernel level is either a single system image[1] or a distributed operating system[2], which are very uncommon in scientific computing. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by mat_epice 4y ago
Seems pretty heavy handed for something that happens at the cadence of Australian passport renewal (10 years in most cases). I believe I replace my printer at least that often.
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by mat_epice 4y ago
I had thought that smartwatches didn't have cameras, but it looks like some do, at least. I can't imagine they're very good, since iPhones have a hard enough time fitting good cameras.
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by mat_epice 4y ago
Wow, this brings back a memory that was quite heavily buried. Either in middle school or high school, we had some similar amber terminals for searching the card catalog. I appreciated at the time how much quicker it was to use those than th
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by mat_epice 4y ago
omg.lol was probably a premium domain of some kind. Random three-letter .lols seem to go for about $150/yr (according to gandi).
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by mat_epice 4y ago
Interesting that this is per child. The amount they are offering (~7500 USD) is significantly less than public school cost per pupil per year (10k-30k USD in US schools).
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by mat_epice 4y ago
BusyBox -- A user environment that lets me know that shit has gotten REAL. On a different note, in a past life, I had a lot of fun instrumenting BusyBox's ash to do some extra systems-level magic. Having small, accessible implementatio
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by mat_epice 4y ago
My read on it was that this person heard what their coworker has to go through, and has formed an opinion based on that. I understand that climbing Mt. Everest is fairly difficult, despite not having done it myself.
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by mat_epice 4y ago
You nicely summarized the second and third paragraphs of the article.
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by mat_epice 4y ago
They counted 103% of users and couldn’t find a single one using emacs!!! /s
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by mat_epice 4y ago
Perhaps they have very long tendrils extending into the ground that can allow them to use geothermal energy! I'd usually say built-in solar and batteries, but they work even if you place them at night.
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by mat_epice 4y ago
Very nice hack. Knowing all the random stuff that basically has an SBC inside makes me wish it were easier to get at least that piece out and use once the device is toast. Especially since many Raspberry Pis wind up in end products anyway!
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by mat_epice 4y ago
I must say, nice looking plate. That lettuce is already not looking so hot, though.

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