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by patrakov 6y ago
> Saying rewindable audio is a non-feature might simplify the codebase, but if it makes it work badly for most use cases, it ought to be rethought. Rewindable audio is a non-feature because nobody except two or three people in the world
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by patrakov 6y ago
The article misses important details such as water temperature and the height of waves.
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by patrakov 6y ago
Even if the article gets the "linear RGB" idea wrong, it doesn't matter for the results, because each channel in all explored palettes is still 1-bit: either on, or off, sometimes with the constraint that red and green cannot
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by patrakov 6y ago
As presented, it is not really about going beyond 1 bit. It is beyond 1 color channel, with a twist that the color channels are not independent. And adaptation of dithering algorithms to a black-red-green palette (with a missing yellow) and
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by patrakov 6y ago
> The absence of proprietary blobs running on the main CPU alone is already a great deal. This. The formulated goal is short, self-contained, not overreaching, and to the point.
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by patrakov 6y ago
This wiki page was last updated in 2017.
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by patrakov 6y ago
I already have one (BraveHeart edition).
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Promoting Russian services (Wink, ivi.ru and others) over foreign ones (e.g. Netflix). Removing the uncompetitive advantages that Western services have - because apps for foreign services are typically preinstalled already, and the user had
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by patrakov 6y ago
For me, it is likely already too late. A law has been passed in Russia (effective since April 1) that requires certain apps to be pre-installed on all smartphones that are sold or imported, and some of them (e.g. for the Wink streaming medi
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by patrakov 6y ago
Well, the author could do more research. There are HiFi speakers that are designed to provide the correct frequency response when placed near a wall and sound wrong otherwise. "Klipschorn" would be an extreme example of this categ
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by patrakov 6y ago
Try https://zen.yandex.ru/
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> Sometimes, it's difficult to get paid extra due to organizational barriers. Check local laws, re-examine your contract, complain to the state. Here in Russia 2x payment for work in unusual hours is mandated by the law.
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Get a course on monitoring, so that you can use that to speak with authority and tell others that they are in fact incompetent. Spoiler: case (2) is a big no-no for paging alarms. And "err-on-potential-issues" is a synonym for &qu
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by patrakov 6y ago
> How about if they get woken up each night for an alarm that turns out to not be a big deal? Write a post-mortem on this "crying wolf" fact. It is definitely a bug in your alerting rules, so actions have to be taken, otherwise
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> The snapshots are all made to tmpfs so hopefully does not measure delays introduced by the network or disk activity. This by itself would make an interesting benchmark. In the previous company that I worked for, there was a customer wh
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by patrakov 6y ago
I work (well, until January) for a company that specializes in Ceph support. And it is depressing to see how many customers have crashing OSDs or MDSs, or unexplainabe memory overuse problems. It looks much worse than btrfs. I don't wa
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by patrakov 6y ago
> Having a guest network also means you are not liable if someone misuses it Wrong. Remember Dmitry Bogatov's case. Yes it was a Tor exit, not an open WiFi, but it doesn't matter. Even worse, there is now a law here in Russia t
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Time machines are dangerous.
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by patrakov 6y ago
And it's very unfortunate that Bellingcat had to use this phone/sms data, because this justifies its collection.