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by ploxiln 2y ago
> The doctor is the boy's father. This is a classic riddle that highlights gender bias - many people assume doctors must be men, but don't initially consider that the doctor could be the father. It identified the pattern, but i
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by ploxiln 2y ago
The left-click switch on my Logitech G305 started glitching-out after a couple years, particularly noticeable when trying to drag something, the drag would drop randomly in the middle. Disappointing to only last a couple years. I found repl
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by ploxiln 2y ago
I think you can't avoid the fact that these holiday weeks are different from regular weeks. If you "change freeze" then you also freeze out the little fixes and perf tuning that usually happens across these systems, because t
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by ploxiln 2y ago
Hehe ... yeah, single threaded, in some benchmarks. Very impressive chip, the M4. Multi-threaded loads that take more than 30 seconds, no way, come on. But to see the X3D chips really shine above their competitors, you need to slot in a hig
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by ploxiln 2y ago
Better analogy: you're paying 30% to apple, and over 50% in bad payday loans, and you're worried about the 3% visa/stripe overhead ... that's kinda crazy. But that's where we are in computer performance, there'
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by ploxiln 2y ago
They actually did that (see sibling replies), and it actually delayed adoption of ipv6 by a few more years, because of things like: 1. some OSes can listen on ipv6-mapped-ipv4 automatically when some application listens on ipv4 2. app
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by ploxiln 2y ago
These keys could have related signatures from other keys, that some users or maintainers may have reason to trust. (But for 30% of keys this was not even theoretically possible, while for another 40% of keys it was not practically possible,
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by ploxiln 2y ago
I got this $6 soldering stand, I use it with my pinecil v1 (and the pine64 silicone usb cable), it works pretty well for me: https://www.microcenter.com/product/659412/eclipse-enterpris...
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by ploxiln 2y ago
https://danluu.com/nothing-works/
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by ploxiln 2y ago
IIRC the brokenness was simply due to a bug in an upstream release of bindgen, which "was quickly fixed upstream, but as far as I know it's still broken in Debian" (which must have some reason of not updating bindgen again ..
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by ploxiln 2y ago
Shouldn't the filesystem utilities be base-system packages, though? Like e2fsprogs, xfsprogs ... I guess rust just isn't appropriate for base-system packages, because the dependencies move too fast, and so rust components need to
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by ploxiln 2y ago
The skepticism and criticism in this thread is against the hype of AI, it's implied by people saying "this is so amazing" that they think that in some near future you can create any video game experience you can imagine by ju
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by ploxiln 2y ago
What percentage of CPU time is used by the pipe in this scenario? If pipes were 10x faster, would you really notice any difference in wall-clock-time or overall-cpu-usage, while this decoding SDK is generating the raw data and ffmpeg is pro
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by ploxiln 2y ago
Indeed. In the author's case, the slow pipe is moving data at 17 GB/s which is over 130 gbps. I've used pipes for a lot of stuff over 10+ years, and never noticed being limited by the speed of the pipe, I'm almost certai
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by ploxiln 2y ago
I agree, this is the key question. It seems like all the distros, and microsoft, need to coordinate on the "security generation", whenever grub (or other linux boot component) releases an update or patch? Maybe that's an extr
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by ploxiln 2y ago
Except that in this case, the answer to that question is no, this could not conceivably affect security. It's the rough shape of something that could, but actually it could not. So we're back where we started. It's still subj
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by ploxiln 2y ago
> Occasionally the torpedo would get stuck in that turn and run in a circle. Well that's not a great failure mode, if it can come right back at vessel which launched it ... imagine trying to implement a self-destruct failsafe with t
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by ploxiln 2y ago
Wow, that's disappointing. It seems there's really a lot of reasons to just accept overcommit on linux. (Browers, js engines used in various components now, databases that fork, many existing libraries not expecting allocations to
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by ploxiln 2y ago
> malloc() in Linux will never fail for small allocations That's in kernel-space, not user-space processes. If you have overcommit disabled, it will be user-space processes making syscalls mmap() or sbrk() to get more heap memory (i
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by ploxiln 2y ago
Just using the example of "df -h" and "mount" ... all the extra stuff that wasn't there 15 years ago, is from systemd. The idea is to auto-enable anything anyone might possibly want, to whatever extent possible, and
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by ploxiln 2y ago
Oh ok, sounds great. (... I did solder the pin headers and PM-sensor cable connector on my DIY basic, which was fun, but I still think it's a great option even if only available pre-soldered.)
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by ploxiln 2y ago
I'm sad to hear that the DIY Basic is "discontinued for now", rather than just "out of stock". I built mine about a year ago and I'm quite happy with it. (I later got the "ONE indoor kit" for my paren
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by ploxiln 2y ago
That's a misunderstanding in your use of this ingress-controller "ssl-passthrough" feature. > This feature is implemented by intercepting all traffic on the configured HTTPS port (default: 443) and handing it over to a loc
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by ploxiln 2y ago
Pick a slight variation on the name, look through the unmerged upstream PRs to find some "obviously good" ones (or to fix other deficiencies you noticed personally), merge them to your fork, and who knows ... your fork might becom
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by ploxiln 2y ago
SD Cards are just so damn cheap. Less than $20 USD for a 128GB microsd is unbelievable (cost and size). Only the most premium of the premium have a chance of surviving significant random or small writes, it seems. "Ultra" isn&#x27
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by ploxiln 2y ago
The industry tends to do this everywhere: we have a system to contain things, we made a mess of it, now we want to contain separate instances of the systems. For example, in AWS or GCP, you can isolate stuff for different environments or te
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by ploxiln 2y ago
> we operate in networks where outbound MQTT and HTTPS is simply not allowed (which is why we rely on encrypted DNS traffic for device-to-Console communication) HTTPS is not allowed (locked down for security!), so communication is smuggl
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by ploxiln 2y ago
Even more, fonts having multiple colors in a glyph was a huge complexity explosion for font rendering, for terminals, and more. You can see a very quick technical summary of different ways of encoding colors in fonts here: https:/&#x2
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by ploxiln 2y ago
I think this issue was sort of cracked-open and popularized recently by this particular video from Level1Techs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzHcrbT5D_Y Towards the middle of the video it brings up some very interesting
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by ploxiln 2y ago
It's amazing how powerful hardware is in the past decade, and how masterly crafted and efficient some software is (linux, nginx, etc) ... while other software is so profoundly inefficient, that we forget.

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