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by petree 2y ago
AWS' Nitro platform is no longer based on Xen and the Xen stuff is being replaced/deprecated, including moving some of the old Xen instance types to run on Nitro instead of Xen.
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by petree 3y ago
Latin 1 doesn't cover all languages that use a Latin script, and has an incomplete character set for others.
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by petree 3y ago
Sometimes the lack of diacritic can change the meaning of the name for the worse and either way, names are deeply personal things that people are attached to, so they might want to have it written correctly, regardless. I wouldn't want
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by petree 3y ago
Sure, it is definitely more expensive than I would like. But you still have the option to watch the ads if you don't like paying a sub. Expecting it to be completely free is unrealistic though.
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by petree 3y ago
Having a loss leader like this is exactly monopolistic behavior though. The fact that Google are trying to make money from it is expected and more fair to their competitors than just having it completely free, and not having ads either.
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by petree 3y ago
You can use NoScript to disable JS and see how well that works. But more to the point, yes, a browser is a client, but without the economic incentive of either ads or direct monetization from users, many sites, YouTube included, would simpl
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by petree 3y ago
Beyond being way less carbon intensive and less polluted, they're objectively better places to live.
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by petree 3y ago
I think I first found this site around 2007 or 2008. I've been using Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot ever since.
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by petree 3y ago
An open source maintainer is a person volunteering their time and resources to offer something usually free of charge. As such, they decide what usecases they want to support and for how long. You can't expect someone to do work for fr
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by petree 3y ago
There is a very good reason: the maintainers want to make the change. They don't even need a good technical need to do it, but usually there is at least something that drives the change.
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by petree 3y ago
Either pay someone to maintain it for as long as you need or engineer around whatever issues you encounter; it's a you problem, and possibly the development process or software stack you are using is not flexible or robust enough to su
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by petree 3y ago
They're not really VMs. They are metal instances, which run without a hypervisor, but have virtualized network and storage attached instead.
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by petree 3y ago
A star is just a giant fusion reactor. We just need to add more fusion material (hydrogen) and remove the waste material, which gathers in the core and makes it more difficult for the fusion reaction to continue. It would be possible to pro
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by petree 4y ago
You're right, it's not believable that only 1/3 don't know the rules, most likely it's 2/3 of people that don't know the rules, given how people drive.
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by petree 5y ago
Firecracker uses KVM, but KVM is only part of the equation. KVM exposes some very basis functionality (vcpus, memory) that an application like Firecracker or rust-vmm (or more commonly QEMU) use to create a Virtual Machine. The Virtual Mach
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by petree 5y ago
For me 21:9 is the ideal resolution right now. It can be split in 2 or 3 screens side-by-side and it still works well. A single 4:3 doesn't really give a lot of flexibility in the same way and bezels are annoying.
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by petree 5y ago
3:2 is very close to a 16:10.
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by petree 5y ago
Sounds like great customer service from Tesla, the most valuable car company in the world... Hopefully people can at least recover their money easily.
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by petree 5y ago
You install Linux and tell Microsoft to fuck off with their stupid ideas.
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by petree 5y ago
It can't scale up if it still needs to be produced in the same quantities. It takes a lot of farmland, about 80% in fact, to produce feed for livestock (especially for cattle) even with calorie-dense feed like cereals. You'd have
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by petree 6y ago
The whole world economy relies on 3 countries in balistic rocket range of each other; not great. Having foundries distributed around the world sounds way more resilient to any conflicts or disasters that might arise in that particular regio
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by petree 6y ago
Having expicitly optional/nullable types is great in languages which are religious about it, since they remove a lot of useless branching and complexity from the code. If it's just tacked on, then it just tends to look ugly, witho
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by petree 6y ago
I think the issue there is that versions are arbitrary and being able to tell when a library is 1.0 is a non-decidable problem. There are lots of 0.x crates which are stable and feel feature complete, but aren't specifically versioned