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by p_ing 1y ago
Windows 10 introduced memory compression. Here's a discussion from 2015 [0]. And one on Linux by IBM from 2013 [1]. But the history goes way back [2]. I don't know why that '8GiB is great!' -- no, no it isn't. Your
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by p_ing 1y ago
I've purchased plenty of art over the past couple years, mostly original paintings with a few prints. Very few of those came from galleries and when I walked in the galleries, I already knew what I wanted to buy. Etsy and reddit are ea
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by p_ing 1y ago
When I hear that name, all I can think of is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE39q-IKOzA .
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by p_ing 1y ago
Win32 gives you a stable ABI.
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by p_ing 1y ago
NT running POSIX applications pre-dates the existence of FreeBSD by a handful of months. The interesting thing about WSLv1 is the pico process concept, not the syscall compatibility.
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by p_ing 1y ago
Those older CPUs don't support Virtualization-based Security[0] which is a significant upgrade in the Windows security posture. [0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/de...
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by p_ing 1y ago
The ability to change the installed components or configuration of Windows via OOBE has been around since NT4, at least. These tools are nothing new nor novel; they're required for companies that want to have a custom image and removin
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by p_ing 1y ago
Correct title: Spaceship MCP Server > An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for the Spaceship API, providing tools to manage DNS records. Comes with a giant "you're stupid to use this in production... ever" warning.
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by p_ing 1y ago
> compensate the authors this one time. I would assume it would compensate the publisher. Authors often hand ownership to the publisher; there would be obvious exceptions for authors who do well.
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by p_ing 1y ago
If I needed an alternative to tail -f I would probably have found one by now rather than some random blogger telling me to 'stop doing X' like some awful YouTube video.
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by p_ing 1y ago
Is it relevant to the role? Has someone in that role/with that title performed that type of work in recent memory? If so, it's not dated.
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by p_ing 1y ago
No parking mandates here. It's rural. Zoning restrictions are everywhere (except Huston where you have oil refineries next to housing), it's almost all residential. No real public transportation to speak of around that time frame.
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by p_ing 1y ago
You'd be correct on both accounts. There was a small general store which supported a few hundred people just fine (along with farms and fishing) and a gold mine which employed most people -- of course a small general store doesn't
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by p_ing 1y ago
Except the dirt roads then were as wide as the paved roads are now with the same grid-style layout. Feel free to keep arguing how things radically changed just for cars. But they didn't.
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by p_ing 1y ago
The place I live in was founded in the 1880s and incorporated a few years before the Model T debuted. Prior to the 1880s, Native Americans resided here. How is that car centric planning? And exactly how can one afford to live in a city whe
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by p_ing 1y ago
I’m curious to see how the author would react when it is two miles one-way to the crappy grocery store and eight miles to the good one. And there is a bus shows up about once every four hours. While cities can do a lot to improve the non-ca
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by p_ing 1y ago
Two seconds of investigation yields that it is a port of dtrace. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...
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by p_ing 1y ago
> I would argue most code of any license is not actually regularly audited if at all, and certainly nowhere near the levels people seem to think they are. Every device should run OpenBSD. And only the audited part.
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by p_ing 1y ago
A Voodoo2 12MB was only $600 in today's money!
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by p_ing 1y ago
From 5 years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23132549 8 Months - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42608436
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by p_ing 1y ago
Injecting ads into answers will be the next step for the search market. Reddit is doing it already. And unlike reddit post or comment ads, it may be very difficult to block.
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by p_ing 1y ago
When everyone else is the problem, you're the problem. Consider that when working in teams.
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by p_ing 1y ago
> All this leaves Windows curiously unchanged in the sense that Microsoft only cares to develop it when forced to by competition, and entirely changed by abandoning one of its symbiotic compatibilities with its corporate clients, that of
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by p_ing 1y ago
How Animal Crossing letters work: https://youtu.be/8VbwWVvw-zI
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by p_ing 1y ago
TL;DR? > The Plasma clipboard, in the upcoming 6.5 release, will finally let you mark entries as favorites. Starred items are protected from being automatically cleared from the history.
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by p_ing 1y ago
You took my reply a little too seriously :-)
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by p_ing 1y ago
Can you get Linus Bucks by replacing your efivars with Doom?
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by p_ing 1y ago
Pages and the rest of the iWork suite save to iCloud by default. Both Apple and Microsoft give you the choice of where you want to save.
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by p_ing 1y ago
Maybe they have a relativistic kinetic kill system and we’re on borrowed time.
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by p_ing 1y ago
That should be true across medicine. A biotech is best suited to invent new medications for existing diseases consulting with or acquiring in-house talent that knows the disease inside and out. Experts generally benefit from their expertise

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