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961.
by ohazi 7y ago
If anyone is tempted to try encrypting their boot partition like I was last week, allow me to save you some trouble. Yes, GRUB can technically decrypt a LUKS1 partition, but since the kernel isn't running yet, it has to use a standalon
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by ohazi 7y ago
should be safe, in theory, sure. But in practice?
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by ohazi 7y ago
That's a module, not a chip. If it's one of those 1mm x 2mm sot packages, it almost certainly doesn't have embedded switching capacitors.
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by ohazi 7y ago
I've been using XFCE since Gnome 3 was released. It can be configured to look almost exactly like Gnome 2 did, and supports the menubar icons and indicators that Gnome decided to drop.
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by ohazi 7y ago
It sounds like this guy has some sort of axe to grind, but he's wrong. His argument rests on the claim that "most open source code is poor or unusable." When most people refer to Open Source Software, they're referring t
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by ohazi 7y ago
Apparently they're not making a trade secrets theft claim, which seems a little unusual for a case like this.
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by ohazi 7y ago
If you think this is neat, you'll probably also like the "grain selector" technique they use to cast single crystal turbine blades. This is useful for the blades operating in the hottest parts of the turbine, and helps avoid
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by ohazi 7y ago
sigh You're not wrong...
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by ohazi 7y ago
It's literally not possible to hold back the ocean in Florida. The bedrock is porous.
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by ohazi 7y ago
I'm not even convinced that would do it. They'll grandstand, and make a big fuss about it, and try to use the tragedy for personal gain, sure. But at the end of the day, congress as a whole doesn't seem interested in fixing p
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by ohazi 7y ago
> Google's market cap has approximately doubled while Sundar has been the CEO. Microsoft grew similarly under Ballmer, despite losing a lot of their strategic advantages and missing the boat in a handful of important ways.
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by ohazi 7y ago
There's usually a legal distinction. Blocking does require looking at the request, but the accept/request decision is made instantaneously and is usually based on a static blacklist (or whitelist). It doesn't necessarily requ
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by ohazi 7y ago
> We've now banned natural gas Wait, really? Just for heat or also in the kitchen? Electric stove tops fucking suck. Ugh.
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by ohazi 7y ago
That's not exactly a shining endorsement... "Yeah, Google was robbing us blind and kind of scamming us with their geofencing shenanigans, but we were making enough money that it wasn't worth fighting, and eventually we figure
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by ohazi 7y ago
> have they released a full datasheet/reference manual for the Pi 4 SoC yet? Ha. It's Broadcom... They're never going to release one.
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by ohazi 7y ago
Has it, though? Sure, you can now fat-finger a launcher icon and the comically oversized hide/close buttons, but basically all graphical applications (even the tiny handful of redesigned Gnome apps) are still primarily designed to be u
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by ohazi 7y ago
More like terrorism as a crude form of mutually assured destruction. It doesn't have to work, there just needs to be a credible threat of a really unpleasant amount of damage.
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by ohazi 7y ago
I'm not sure people were hating on Gnome because of performance. Their overall design decision to pretend that v3 was somehow running on a tablet instead of a desktop is still pretty questionable.
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by ohazi 7y ago
That's to avoid paying for health insurance (two 20 hour employees with no insurance vs. one 40 hour employee with insurance). Minimum wage applies across the board, so cutting hours wouldn't change anything.
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by ohazi 7y ago
Starship looks particularly shoddy because it's made from relatively small steel plates welded together. The welding process causes each plate to warp slightly, so the end result looks like a quilt rather than a nice uniformly smooth c
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by ohazi 7y ago
In 1997?
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by ohazi 7y ago
Making a chip this large is difficult, expensive, and error prone. It blows past the reticle limit, so you end up having to do multiple (carefully aligned) exposures for adjacent chunks of the design. Signals can't really travel more t
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by ohazi 7y ago
> you can choose which company to be a customer of This is a false choice. This claim is either naive or disingenuous.
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by ohazi 7y ago
The problem is that LAN only can't be verified as long as that LAN also has a route to the public internet. It could be LAN only for the first week so that it passes your initial smoke test, and then goes on to do whatever it wants. Or
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by ohazi 7y ago
Disappointing that this appears rather easy, but hardware access usually means game over.
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by ohazi 7y ago
There's no absolute law that icann will always be the one true registry. It's mostly convention, inertia, and an expectation that they won't try to pull any shenanigans. But I'm seeing an awful lot of shenanigans lately.
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by ohazi 7y ago
So this surveillance technology started in the military to track insurgents, expanded to law enforcement and government to track suspects and the general public, and is now expanding to corporations to monitor customers. This pattern makes
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by ohazi 7y ago
But you can't use many of the sideparts without systemd. I think systemd actually won when they absorbed udev.
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by ohazi 7y ago
Big planes do this. In a little plane, that's expensive and heavy and you still need to have a backup system in case it fails.
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by ohazi 7y ago
Unless you're thinking supersonic travel, the "coffin corner" (difference between stall speed and Mach 1 (or Vne)) also narrows as you get higher. In an extreme case, the U-2 cruises at 70,000 ft, and at that altitude the sta

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