nine_k

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by nine_k 6mo ago
> You may have a cool product in the field of sports betting, casinos, or lotteries. I stopped to think what a cool product in this area may look like, without being toxic. Maybe a site explaining why betting loses money in the long te
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by nine_k 6mo ago
It's Linux, it's a C API, so there's little hope. I wonder if Redox has a much better API; at least I hope it does.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Neither Windows nor macOS have it, so it's surprising to new users. If your target market (as in support contracts) is EU public servants, it's sort of understandable.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Indeed, many bugs are API usage bugs, something that no language can verify. (The API is implemented in C anyway.)
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by nine_k 6mo ago
A single stick of DDR5 RAM on Amazon in about $450 now. Three sticks would be $1350. Do most people drive old clankers with less than $1500 resale value? You still need a few terabytes to enter the real cars territory.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
An LTS releases that are soo old usually run on servers, where pulseaudio is not really a thing. My distro's compile farm compiles kernels for me (thanks guys!), and switched to pipewire years ago.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Same here. I wonder if a third party could offer a keyboard with a trackpoint, now that the keyboard is an individually upgradeable part.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Who does still run pulseaudio when pipewire exists?
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Once the big valuable vessel is found, it can be reasonably tracked from orbit. The interesting thing about drones is the ability to attack from many directions at the same time, overwhelming the short-range defenses. IIRC no fewer than 5 n
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by nine_k 6mo ago
It's amazing how much one motivated person can achieve. Also, how competent the result seems to be. The test suite alone is pretty impressive.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
3G was up for about 20 years, between roll-out and shutdown. LTE has been up for 15 year in the US as of now. Chances are it may not be up after another 15 years.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
> most people are going to want a new a phone. This is going to be harder, or, at least, harder to replace your current phone with something objectively better. RAM and Flash shortages / high prices are likely going to last for ye
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Will we even have a compatible wireless standards in 15 years?
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by nine_k 6mo ago
How much of the total volume of the device was the case/housing? I suppose the glue-everything approach is partly due to the desire of making a device very thin. There's no room for strong, load-bearing outer case, the internals a
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by nine_k 6mo ago
This is true. But even within this window, e.g. between 1100 nm infrared and 700 nm red, we could put 40 different "colors" at 10 nm steps. Separation at the receiving end may become hard though.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
It's called orange. Much like bright gray is called white, and bright teal is called turquoise.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
But that's literally what a "future" is.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
The point is that's a dubious derivative of a market that makes sense. As usual, it's a tax on naive and those who get addicted; the twist is that they are willing to pay it, demand and beg to pay it, so providers spring up, leg
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Two wavelengths do it; one does not suffice. It's like a perfect fifth can not one note.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Indeed, I missed the "two servers" part; a two-node mirrored config is what I suggested myself elsewhere in the thread. It's still much less expensive than anything comparable in the cloud.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Immediately: * You can pack many more different colors into fiber optic communication lines. Every color carries a few tens of GHz in modulation, but the carrier light is in hundreds of THz; there's a ton of bandwidth not used betwee
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by nine_k 6mo ago
What we call "magenta" is the sensation of both red and blue color-sensitive cells in the eye being excited at the same time. There's no single wavelength that produces this effect (unlike e.g. yellow). The closes you can get
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Same in Emacs, and, I suppose, in any editor with enough self-respect to support vertical blocks.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Sadly, hardware breaks. You still need a working backup and a working failover plan, even if it's just setting up a new server and running your Terraform / Pulumi / Saltstack scripts.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Besides, "Migrated 34 websites in one go with zero downtime" looks good on a resume, and is actually a useful skill.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Just spend 3-4 days of quality time with it, watch a few youtube tutorials when stuck, and things will fall into place. (Same story, shotcut → kdenlive.)
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by nine_k 6mo ago
That's pretty weird; both Gimp and Krita (very different tools) were rock-solid to me. Speaking of KDEnlive, I experienced a few anomalies and crashes using the version from my distro; I switched to an AppImage version, and with it, ev
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by nine_k 6mo ago
There are two interesting parts in the post. One is about all the steps of zero downtime migration. It's widely applicable. The other is the decision to replace a cloud instance with bare metal. It saves a lot in costs, but also the lo
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by nine_k 6mo ago
High bandwidth may mean the need to consult some very large but immutable data structure. As a trivial example, multiplying two matrices requires accessing each matrix fully multiple times over, but neither of them is altered in the proce
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by nine_k 7mo ago
The title is sensationalist; cat is fine. What is unsafe is iTerm's ssh integration, which is pretty obviously unsafe, because it includes a side control channel that is not cleanly separated from the the data stream. Don't use it

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