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by pedrocr 7y ago
Isn't an h264 stream even worse given that unlike a random image it has a very well defined repeating structure? The risk isn't that someone will look at zoom traffic directly and see the content Matrix-style. The risk is that it
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by pedrocr 7y ago
If the objective is to put the risk in perspective, then comparing to normal times makes more sense. Our perceived risk of dying in a car crash is based on the times we are actually normally driving and not when we are quarantined at home.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
Although probably not enabled by default.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
This is similar to the best estimates we've had so far for the death rate with great care. Even then doubling the yearly deaths is still a very large event, and that's if we can flatten the curve enough that the health system cope
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by pedrocr 7y ago
Steve Blank is well aware of that. It seems it was used in the title but not explicitly in the body. He's written about it in the past though: https://steveblank.com/2015/03/31/hacking-for-defense-in-sil.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
This would be a reason for gradual supply issues as quarantine goes into effect. That's not what happened, we had a huge spike. It also happened right after clickbait hungry journalists all over the world started running this story, ev
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by pedrocr 7y ago
The vast majority of what runs on a modern Linux system doesn't come from GNU at all and that percentage is trending down over the years with things like LLVM making even the last few generally used core pieces replaceable. I don'
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by pedrocr 7y ago
All else being equal it does not. Shares are worth the same as the company now has less shares but also less cash.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
What filter would be needed to make this into an N95 replacement instead? Seems like the full face mask would make this even more effective as it also protects the eyes.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
It's 800GB, not Gb. Original title has been replaced completely and used wrong units. Original is "Report: unidentified database exposes 200 million Americans" which is far more useful.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
Batteries have also been improving exponentially, it's just a much slower factor of 5 to 8% a year. I haven't seen the same data for optics but wouldn't be surprised if the situation was the same.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
Germany seems to be doing the South Korea solution of very extensive testing and quarantine so that they end up with more confirmed cases that in other places would not even be found. That drives down their mortality rate just because the d
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by pedrocr 7y ago
Everyone except the UK and the US notably.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
That's starting to look quite interesting, thanks! 5TB of rsyncable storage for 22€/month could definitely replace one of my NAS boxes. The 10 concurrent connections are the only big limitation really. Not being able to run my own
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by pedrocr 7y ago
Where are you getting that price? Google Drive is 300$+ for that and GCP archive storage is 140$. Edit: apparently that's the unlimited storage in GSuite for 12$/month/user as long as you have 5 users or more.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
From what I can see on the website that block storage consists of SSDs priced at ~50€/month/TB which is a non-starter. The cloud instances are incredibly cheap though, I may have a look at those.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
It's probably feasible to reach these levels of cost. I certainly still keep NAS in two locations because even places like hetzner don't sell lower powered machines with lots of disk space. But the build they specify doesn't
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by pedrocr 7y ago
> I'm not so sure whether Rust's strong immutability/exclusivity guarantees are worth the trouble though. Unexpected mutation hasn't been a major source of bugs or mental burden for me in other languages, at least no
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by pedrocr 7y ago
>>but maybe the last few AMD chips also killed that. It's definitely quite close but PassMark just shows that it's a tie and it's not necessarily representative of game workloads. It all depends on how much overclocki
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by pedrocr 7y ago
> If you're a home user (gamer, programmer), is there any reason to buy Intel today? There's definitely not much. I believe absolute peak single-core performance can still be slightly higher on Intel which is important for ga
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by pedrocr 7y ago
> Moore's law is about transistor density, which has already slowed way past what Moore's Law (more like Moore's Observation) noted, a doubling of density around every ~18 months (give or take 6)... What makes you say th
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by pedrocr 7y ago
I've been speccing something like this recently and you will definitely get a nice server for not much money. However the CPU performance may not be great compared to specifying a new low cost Ryzen with ECC Ram. And the power consumpt
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by pedrocr 7y ago
How do you imagine we could make hydrogen distribution better than electrical grids with their ~5% losses? Hydrogen is notorious for leaking easily and converting electricity->hydrogen->electricity is incredibly inefficient. We'd
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by pedrocr 7y ago
Is there a similar rule of thumb for how accuracy tracks with the added resolution?
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by pedrocr 7y ago
A lot of your specific claims are dubious at best but more importantly this isn't someone installing Linux on their own random laptop. Doing Linux deployments across a set of machines whose hardware and installed applications you contr
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by pedrocr 7y ago
If you felt mistreated I'm sorry. But it was a genuine question.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
All the examples are indeed over 2.6Mb as that's only 325kB. You probably mean 2.6MB instead but since you're using Mb consistently and the discussion is about transfer sizes I'm not sure.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
Look at gollum for a wiki that works exactly like that. Might give you a nice web frontend with linking over the repository you already have.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
The LaTeX algorithm isn't general enough to use automatically. It will often return an error for you to manually fix if the spacing required creates ugly results such as the ones complained about in this page.
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by pedrocr 7y ago
I believe the correct variable these days is: MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 firefox This makes firefox a full wayland app. But I only use sway, so maybe there are KDE specific bugs.

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