murderfs

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by murderfs 2y ago
Temperature control isn't usually the real problem, it's insufficient power to heat the board up to the liquidus temperature of the solder. This is an especially annoying pain in the ass when you're desoldering components fro
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by murderfs 2y ago
From the Department of Transportation's statistics on aviation fatalities at https://www.bts.gov/archive/publications/by_the_numbers/tran... : "NOTES: 2001 figures exclude two events—the September 11
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by murderfs 2y ago
This analysis claims someone that detonated a bunch of fireworks and then shot himself in the head as a "fire fatality" and acknowledges it .
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by murderfs 2y ago
They're declared off-limits because the military doesn't want them . Biological and chemical weapons aren't useful to modern militaries. Landmines and cluster munitions are, so none of the countries that actually matter have
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by murderfs 2y ago
They paid three million euros to integrate existing open source software into Firefox?!
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by murderfs 2y ago
> The correct answer is four dozen (I wanted to make the number harder to calculate before you count them). No it isn't? I counted 34, and a python oneliner agrees.
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by murderfs 2y ago
Does it make sense for every function to have those four cases, though?
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by murderfs 2y ago
Lots of manufacturers will add copper pours to your board unless you explicitly tell them not to, for electroplating reasons. Here's a link to a JLCPCB post about it: https://jlcpcb.com/blog/the-importance-of-coppe
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by murderfs 2y ago
> That Samsung cap he quoted is about 1 or 2 cents in volume from Digikey or Mouser. That cheap Chinese quote means that they are probably substituting inferior parts. No, they aren't. LCSC is a very reputable distributor that has l
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by murderfs 2y ago
No, that would be utterly pointless. It's LTE from the sky: https://www.starlink.com/business/direct-to-cell
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by murderfs 2y ago
Over 60% of the U.S. population don't have college degrees, but you obviously wouldn't expect Facebook's hiring to be proportional to that. The demographics of CS graduates is much closer to what you'd expect the hiring
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by murderfs 2y ago
The Shield TV came out in 2015, was last refreshed in 2019 (which you can still buy today), and the entire line is still getting updates. That's longer than e.g. the PS Vita.
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by murderfs 2y ago
The reason the clothing dumps exist is greenwashing. If we weren't pretending that reusing clothing is meaningful to the environment, we'd just burn the clothing locally.
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by murderfs 2y ago
I think photos 2 and 9 are actually JetBlue. There weren't any Alaska flights in the area at the time [1], but there were two JetBlue planes flying in the area, before and after an American Airlines jet. If the images were posted in th
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by murderfs 2y ago
I believe the other 3 pictures are this helicopter: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ab19fa&lat=39.865&lon=-... Image 8 is too blurry to make out, but it's probably also a plane.
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by murderfs 2y ago
> Swiss banks are notoriously expensive and have terrible investment products that hold trillions because of their obsession with protecting capital. What? Their second largest bank, Credit Suisse, imploded only last year. They hold tril
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by murderfs 2y ago
GPT-4 is, but ChatGPT is fine-tuned to emit sentences that get rated well (by humans, and by raters trained to mimic human evaluation) in a conversational agent context.
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by murderfs 2y ago
The raison d'être of Oxide isn't Rust, it's continuing to pretend that the bloated corpse of Solaris still has some signs of life.
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by murderfs 2y ago
You can get pretty cheap 10GBASE-T NICs on ebay. I've had pretty good success with this abomination, a server-pull NIC with an HP proprietary physical interface plugged into an adapter to PCI-E: https://www.ebay.com/itm
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by murderfs 2y ago
Yeah, gaming in a VM is fairly easy and reliable nowadays (the keyword to google for is VFIO). The cost savings is pretty substantial from consolidating multiple machines into one bigger machine. Unfortunately, there's an increasing nu
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by murderfs 2y ago
Why do you believe that archiving and compressing belong in the same layer more than sharding does? The unixy tool isn't zip, it's tar | gzip.
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by murderfs 2y ago
The most recent example you're citing is from 34 years ago...
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by murderfs 2y ago
Unfortunately, it's more permissive than mathematical notation: `3 > 1 < 2` evaluates to True.
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by murderfs 2y ago
By that logic, Linux isn't open source. Plenty of companies have abandoned products because maintaining a downstream fork of the kernel is too hard. Companies not being willing to invest resources into maintaining a fork doesn't m
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by murderfs 2y ago
virtual address space is cheap, but changing it is massively expensive. If you have to do a TLB shootdown on every free, you're likely going to have worse performance than just using ASan.
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by murderfs 2y ago
...no, it isn't? Even if you're claiming (incorrectly) that the window manager, etc. contain javascript, the same would apply to GNOME!
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by murderfs 2y ago
By what metric? It's a gentoo deriviative with glibc, coreutils, etc.
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by murderfs 2y ago
This only works for aerospace because everything and everyone is held to that standard. It's stupid to hold automotive autopilots to the same standard as a plane's autopilot when a third of fatalities in cars are caused by the pil
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by murderfs 2y ago
> What I'm really asking is if a sufficiently determined person couldn't have avoided all these headaches by building and/or standardizing equivalent technologies. https://xkcd.com/927/ The reason tha
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by murderfs 2y ago
Yes, the impediment is that there isn't a single IBM machine that everyone's cloning.

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