microcolonel

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1. 3811.▲
   by microcolonel 9y ago

   > internet-controlled irrigation and nutrition system Why? What happens when the network drops out on your basil cabinet? Is there any reason not to just put the logic inside the thing? Other than that, I can see this functioning pretty
2. 3812.▲
   by microcolonel 9y ago

   Unfortunately because of Google. Dunno why they did that, it doesn't make it any better; but it's not really the author's fault either.
3. 3813.▲
   by microcolonel 9y ago

   > Just like you spend your time focusing on versions of Linux nobody actually uses (they use stable kernels or distro kernels) but which benefits your corporate sponsors and maintains the churn you want to force everyone to contribute to
4. 3814.▲
   by microcolonel 9y ago

   I'm settling into IF as well, seems to be working okay. It is surprisingly alright to not eat for a considerable number of hours, and extending that period seems to make me less hungry instead of more.
5. 3815.▲
   by microcolonel 9y ago

   I can't even use symbols like that anyhow (I deal in USD, CAD, and NTD). I end up using ISO 4217 codes everywhere. You missed ¥ as well, for which I would use JPY or CNY.
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   by microcolonel 9y ago

   Yeah, I'm getting a bit of fatigue from all of this "brand new voice assistant!" and "amazing text to speech and speech recognition!" crap which just turns out to be the same wrapper script around Google's APIs
7. 3817.▲
   by microcolonel 9y ago

   Though honestly, I kinda like ideographic languages. If the symbols could be enumerated in a byte and leave space for delimiters and punctuation, then I'd be down to be globally colonized by an ideographic language. Really the only dif
8. 3818.▲
   by microcolonel 9y ago

   Sometimes I get i18n fatigue too. I think the world would be a better place if everyone's languages fit in ASCII. That said, the cat's kinda out of the bag. UTF-8 is at least well-done, and the algorithms are widely available. I s
9. 3819.▲
   by microcolonel 9y ago

   If it's literally a table of strings, why on earth would anyone use ODF/OOXML? CSV is perfectly fine for editing in any functioning spreadsheet software, works reasonably well in version control (especially since a given commit wo
10. 3820.▲
    by microcolonel 9y ago

    Yeah, granted there are neural resynthesis packages which do function, they are just waaay too slow for realtime audio production at the moment (and probably will be for a long time, now that moore's law is dead).
11. 3821.▲
    by microcolonel 9y ago

    It has the same problems for any man in power, it's not a matter of "doing your job well". You basically have to record your office at all times to be safe from accusations of this sort. Well, that is assuming you're inn
12. 3822.▲
    by microcolonel 9y ago

    As opposed to whom? Britain? Germany?
13. 3823.▲
    by microcolonel 9y ago

    I always got that feeling, disappointed to see it's a reality. I've been writing lots of things in plain old JavaScript for the last few years, and it's quite pleasant. With a little bit of attention to serialization constrai
14. 3824.▲
    by microcolonel 9y ago

    > In the pecking order of a computer system, the kernel is at the very top, allowing anyone with secret access to it to take full control of a machine. It is also a dangerous blind spot for most security software, allowing attackers to d
15. 3825.▲
    by microcolonel 9y ago

    You're hearing the opposite from people who are trying hard to be negative about the Trump presidency, instead of thinking for themselves. We typically require people to prove that the job they're going to do can not be feasibly o
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    by microcolonel 9y ago

    There's more than 10k lines of C in the repository, 8200 lines of assembly, and almost three thousand lines of headers. Your kernel module is definitely smaller than the whole repo. I feel like I've just called you fat. ;- )
17. 3827.▲
    by microcolonel 9y ago

    Shouldn't take too long, though. It's still about 10kSLoC and it's been more/less feature frozen for over a year. I get the feeling that it's already probably safer than most deployed VPN systems. Most of the rece
18. 3828.▲
    by microcolonel 9y ago

    I'm getting about 300fps on my Radeon Pro WX 7100 w/ Mesa 17.2 on Linux 4.12-rc6. I don't think it's a hardware architecture thing, probably drivers like others are saying.
19. 3829.▲
    by microcolonel 9y ago

    Man, I'm eager for WireGuard to hit 1.0. It's very elegant, and I could build a policy layer on it in a couple days which doesn't suck.
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    by microcolonel 9y ago

    I'm guessing you meant to reply to my reply. It's not published yet, though I might. It's pretty simple, just grabs a static JSON manifest (which is generated by the shell script I run when I add music to the collection, whic
21. 3831.▲
    by microcolonel 9y ago

    Snappy's Git history starts at basically the same time (literally one week apart) as Flatpak, and both of them only became viable recently. Snappy is written in three languages (Go, C, and Python) and two of those are not as popular fo
22. 3832.▲
    by microcolonel 9y ago

    If Canonical didn't spend so much time engaging in Not-Invented-Here fantasy 5D chess, and instead focused on advancing the emerging standards, then they would have had more momentum. By working against the community (e.g. Mir [especia
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    by microcolonel 9y ago

    I just use separate files, honestly. Hybrid could save me a small amount of disk space, which is itself quite cheap. Allows me to have a central repository for files of every bitrate for each device class. Smartphone gets the 128k, I stream
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    by microcolonel 9y ago

    I don't know what you're looking for with the wavpack comparison, but 510kbps approaches the noise floor for most audio that isn't white noise or black metal. 96kbps is widely considered transparent on speakers (you have to t
25. 3835.▲
    by microcolonel 9y ago

    Why enforced? Why can't they just let it be? Next they're going to tell you that you have to use their ciphers and protocols to be in compliance.
26. 3836.▲
    by microcolonel 9y ago

    Words are words, people are welcome to be shocked or amused if somebody uses the word slant, cracker, wetback, wap, gook, frog, or paddy. Trolling, joking, or dead serious, no word should be off the table.
27. 3837.▲
    by microcolonel 9y ago

    Anything with about a centimetre of firm foam is fine. Yoga mats, work mats, etc.
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    by microcolonel 9y ago

    I'm not convinced that a mattress is even a useful product. I have been mattress free for about a third of my life and it's basically fine. The best argument for sleeping on a bed that I've heard is "chicks don't di
29. 3839.▲
    by microcolonel 9y ago

    Minor nitpick: the x86 port was never verified, the 32-bit ARM one was.
30. 3840.▲
    by microcolonel 9y ago

    https://github.com/seL4/seL4 https://www.mitls.org/