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by pja 5y ago
> his argument would either be mute It’s “moot” by the way. (A term who’s etymology goes back a very long way: https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2015/ja... )
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by pja 5y ago
None of these can fix security issues in the binary blobs provided by the chipset manufacturer. And since this includes display drivers a security issue in the binary blobs is open season for every App on your phone. If an App or website ha
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by pja 5y ago
> Had the test been done in a big round loop, current wouldn't start flowing at the far end immediately. Otherwise you'd have made faster than light communications. Yes, this is obviously the case. But it's also not the s
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by pja 5y ago
Here’s the video I was probably remembering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpWYtXtmEFQ
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by pja 5y ago
One theory I’ve seen put forward on YouTube is that this is because modern digital cameras use a linear LUT when recording, which means that images displayed to everyone during the production process are naturally very washed out compared t
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by pja 5y ago
His presentation is not very clear & imo the way he answers the question is not actually helpful in actually understanding what’s going on, but he is correct that current will flow in the far side almost immediately. As is made clearer
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by pja 5y ago
Even programming related topics now return heavily SEOd sites with instead of high quality programming content. Often the SEOd content is not completely awful for these searches, but it’s usually not great & never as good as the best si
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by pja 5y ago
The bubonic plague killed a third of the population of Europe. I imagine that felt pretty apocalyptic at the time & it had a long term impact on the entire region. A plague that killed a third of those infected spread by modern internat
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by pja 5y ago
Kernel compiles are not particularly memory hungry. LLVM compiles on the other hand are very memory hungry, especially during linking. I’m sure there are other 'workstation-ish' jobs that people would happily run on their laptop i
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by pja 5y ago
Secure boot currently results in the Linux kernel disabling hibernation for security reasons IIRC.
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by pja 5y ago
NB. Hopefully the 'no hibernate with secure boot turned on' is going to get sorted eventually - I believe Matthew Garrett has been working on it. At the moment, the inevitable battery drain while asleep is quite annoying on modern
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by pja 5y ago
The frame.work people are very explicit that they’ve designed the cooling system to permit you to run the CPU fairly hard. It can dump 28W continuously according to https://frame.work/gb/en/blog/the-upgradeabl
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by pja 5y ago
Sure: 4 cores, but 8 hyperthreads. LLVM builds eat memory in my experience & end up swapping if you don’t play games with the build system to reduce the parallelism of memory intensive parts of the build. If you’ve got a VM or two sitti
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by pja 5y ago
Personally, I've found fractional scaling on Gnome makes the window furniture too large for my taste. I've settled on boosting the default font size in gnome-tweaks to 125% instead, which makes font rendering match the DPI of my m
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by pja 5y ago
Raw CPU perf obviously favours the M1, but if you're a dev, then a laptop that can take up to 64Gb of commodity RAM & as much fast storage as you can cram into it is pretty compelling. Compiling LLVM eats a lot of memory for instan
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by pja 5y ago
It's an Intel Xe GPU, so it's probably integral to the CPU package.
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by pja 5y ago
You appear to be missing the VW Up. Even smaller & cheaper than the Polo!
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by pja 5y ago
I think that’s the OP’s point? Apple optimised the snot out of their chip for the code they run. Vertical integration works, in other words?
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by pja 5y ago
Place names are notorious for this in English. Family names too, sometimes. Honestly though, mispronouncing words is a rite of passage for ordinary native English speakers too, especially ones who acquired a large chunk of their vocabulary
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by pja 5y ago
It’s probably not obvious to the English guy that what is being spoken is not UK (or US) English, but is instead a "Global English" that is (mostly) a subset of the language they already speak. It’s very easy for a native English
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by pja 5y ago
There are one or two Haskell applications you might touch in real world use without realising that they’re written in Haskell. Pandoc is the obvious one.
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by pja 5y ago
This was by design. Java has a history of these kinds of wild exploits ever since the XML days. The original use case was probably something like: we want to be able to customise the logging on a per user/customer basis, so if we can m
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by pja 5y ago
That video has been removed by the uploader according to YouTube.
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by pja 5y ago
groups.ycombinator.com redirects to Google groups.
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by pja 5y ago
WireCutter has really gone downhill since they were bought out imo.
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by pja 5y ago
Recently my Google suggested search completions has started suggesting that I add "reddit" to a lot of my searches. I can only presume that so many people have given up on the web as indexed by Google and are just searching for &q
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by pja 5y ago
If you strip out the unix socket stuff (which I need for oddball network config reasons...) it’s just standard ssh authorised keys configs & ssh-agent working exactly as designed. It’s quite elegant really! It’s the unix socket dance th
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by pja 5y ago
It’s right there in the abstract.
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by pja 5y ago
Do I have the horrible hack for you! It is possible to do pull backups with borg, with some gruesome ssh hackery. On the backup client side, you need to have a /root/.authorized_keys line like this (edit borg options to suit):
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by pja 5y ago
Nah, it’s electromagnetic & your ears are too small to intercept the transmission to any kind of significant extent. A few MW sounds a lot, but the inverse square law applies - once you get to the ocean the power density is going to be

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