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by orev 4mo ago
Yes. All of the assumptions made with shred and sdelete apply only for spinning HDDs. SSDs require different methods of wiping.
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by orev 4mo ago
That assumption has come up in almost every conversation I’ve ever had with semi-technical people regarding git, so the confusion is just a fact. It happens so often, I think Linus (or whoever controlled the git trademarks at the time) shou
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by orev 4mo ago
What if you have a few local machines you’re using for development, and want to keep them in sync? This method allows that single central repo without having to bounce all the code through a cloud hosting service.
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by orev 5mo ago
It may have been (probably was) a conscious choice illustrating how new things were (i.e. those people didn’t grow up typing to a level where it was muscle memory). Also, keyboard layouts on early machines were far from standardized (other
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by orev 5mo ago
As the models keep improving, wouldn’t you be able to task a newer AI to “clean up this mess”?
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by orev 5mo ago
They’re not describing any kind of burnout ; just fatigue from working or being overstimulated. Taking a break a the exact remedy for this condition, but many people take breaks in a way that’s not actually restorative (phone scrolling, et
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by orev 5mo ago
OpenWRT updates are very much discouraged on an ongoing basis primarily because most devices running it use very cheap flash chips which are small and fail quickly after too many writes. They’re nowhere near the level of SSDs, or even SD ca
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by orev 5mo ago
False Dilemma fallacy
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by orev 6mo ago
Pricing for any item is set by one thing: what people are willing to pay for it. If a business raised prices because of tariffs, and consumers paid the higher price, that was a successful test that consumers are willing to pay that higher p
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by orev 6mo ago
Figuring out how to document stuff for others forces you to think things through at a deeper level yourself, and that’s the main point of the idea being presented here. Forcing yourself to organize your own thoughts is where the personal gr
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by orev 6mo ago
The juice is still much less healthy. It’s the act of having your guts extract the nutrients that makes fruit healthy, because it reduces how quickly your body absorbs it. Once you make it into juice (or a smoothie) by mechanically digestin
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by orev 6mo ago
Zip drives arrived at exactly the same time as digital art, the web, and most importantly Macromedia Flash. Maybe the CS people with a few source code files didn’t fully use the space, but the art kids certainly did. There simply was no oth
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by orev 6mo ago
Sounds like you’re overdoing it when you do exercise. Focus on just getting some kind of motion, not pushing yourself until your muscles or heart feel like they’re working hard. Even if you feel like it’s not really doing anything, somethin
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by orev 6mo ago
The idea that it’s just “more bits” it’s wrong, so I’m not sure your assessment is valid. Maybe at the packet level it’s just “more bits”, but at the network level a lot of processes changed. IP assignment, router discovery, etc. are differ
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by orev 6mo ago
What you seem to be misunderstanding is that your whole process of nuking IPv6 is more work than studying the issue for a few minutes and then listening on both protocols. Setting a service to listen on a port will use both IPv4 and IPv6 by
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by orev 6mo ago
If the app was written using the S3 API, it would be much faster/cheaper to migrate to a local system the provides the same API. Switching to local IO would mean (probably) rewriting a lot of code.
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by orev 6mo ago
Ferrite chokes easily fix this problem. Very useful to have a box of them in an office full of people. It’s pretty clear that most modern standards (HDMI, DisplayPort, thunderbolt, etc) are so close to their physical limits that there’s no
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by orev 6mo ago
Why does there need to be urgency? Isn’t it better to avoid a situation where there’s a critical need?
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by orev 6mo ago
When commas are used as part of a list of items, I treat them as if they’re bullet points written on a single line. For example, if you have items in a bullet list, but don’t want to use up all that vertical space, join the list into a sing
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by orev 7mo ago
Corpos definitely run Windows. There are many highly technical people and advanced software that need Windows. Not every company employee is just a pencil pusher or bean counter. This myopia in tech is so baffling to me. Windows has been ar
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by orev 7mo ago
For solar panels, many people might be interested but also concerned how they look. When another neighbor gets them, people will get used to how they look, realize it’s not so bad, then be more likely to get them. I don’t think the final co
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by orev 7mo ago
Almost all programs treat the “Save” operation as something used with the native format, in this case XCF files. These preserve things like layers, etc. JPG and other formats are exports because after you close the file you can’t get all t
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by orev 7mo ago
Every headphone that has noise cancelling also gives you the option to turn it off, and also to enable audio pass through.
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by orev 7mo ago
When CAMM was announced, they (Dell) mentioned that one of the reasons for soldered RAM was due to electrical tolerances not being met anymore with regular DIMMs at the speeds they were reaching. CAMM was designed to avoid this, and ensures
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by orev 7mo ago
The 13 mini sold poorly because all of those same influencers just would not stop complaining that it had less battery life than a Max. I mean, of course the battery life wasn’t as good, because it was a smaller battery! But the people
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by orev 7mo ago
Microsoft already tried this with the XPS format. If they couldn’t gain any traction with their considerable monopoly position, there’s little hope for anyone else.
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by orev 7mo ago
Consumption of resources always has an impact on the environment. The question is which type is less bad. Oil is extracted and used once before becoming harmful pollution, while minerals for electrical infrastructure like batteries can be e
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by orev 8mo ago
Car companies already alter fuel tank sizes to get a specific range, so it would stand to reason that they would do the same for batteries. It’s cheaper for them to use fewer materials.
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by orev 8mo ago
And you could hear the call waiting beep if you didn’t have a dedicated line for the PC.
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by orev 8mo ago
I don’t see how the thesis is undercut at all. Process the food as much as is needed to make it edible, but not more than that. Of course each food will require different types of processing.

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