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by pmjordan 7y ago
I believe Wireguard is implemented in the kernel. I'd argue there should be a kernel-wide wrapper function for this sort of thing, or if that already exists, Wireguard should probably use it. That doesn't explain why systemd uses
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by pmjordan 7y ago
They have credited a bunch of DTS incidents back, but that normally only applies where they determine that they either: * can't help you * don't want to help you TBH, compared to the person-hours required to write up the DTS incid
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by pmjordan 7y ago
I assume this is about having to use other people’s devices, which aren’t configured how you’d configure your own. I personally have muscle-memory for my own programming-optimised adaptation of Type 2 Dvorak, regular German layout, and UK&#
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Driver development docs on macOS largely haven't been updated in 10+ years. I started doing macOS kernel stuff when Snow Leopard was the latest release, and the only documentation I can think of since then has been sample code for Audi
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by pmjordan 7y ago
For Austria at least, their car travel estimates are eerily accurate in my experience, including accounting for normal levels of traffic for that time of day/week. Traffic jams mess with it to some extent of course, as they appear and
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by pmjordan 7y ago
I generally call the user-space portion of a driver that's loaded into applications to be plugins and keep them outside of the umbrella of "drivers" but in this case I think we both understand what's going on and are ju
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Library validation has nothing to do with drivers. Depends on the type of driver. For GPU drivers, it is indeed a problem. I'm going to assume from your comment that you haven't actually written many (any?) device drivers on mac
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by pmjordan 7y ago
It would be very nice to be able to use libvirt from my Mac in the same way as my Linux workstation. I believe libvirt as such is supposed to work on macOS. Furthermore, recent versions of Qemu apparently support using macOS's Hyperv
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by pmjordan 7y ago
The macOS kernel (XNU) does not have any kind of containerisation support. I believe "Docker for Mac" is actually a Linux kernel running inside a hyperkit/xhyve VM, and uses Linux's container support. Apple hasn't p
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by pmjordan 7y ago
those are all matters of how those transit agencies are run, not issues with the payment system. I think that was the point of the originator of the thread - the technology is there, it's just not applied properly. It may have improv
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Yes, the country/countries where your physical office(s) is/are located (or rather, where people - founders or employees - are doing the work that is the basis of the revenue on which you're generating a profit) will likely w
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by pmjordan 7y ago
I don't know about employment, but Stack Overflow has become one of the main lead gens for our 2-person software development consultancy. I monitor the tags that are relevant to our niche and try to answer any sensible questions that c
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Backups (both hardware and data) or not, a month turnaround is still awful and unacceptable, and reason enough to switch suppliers. Companies that take business customers seriously offer same-day on-site service.
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by pmjordan 7y ago
while I had obeyed all the rules at the time, they were retroactively changing the rules and I needed to declare all the interest I had earned on my offshore account over the last 8 years. Are you sure they changed the rules? It sounds li
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by pmjordan 7y ago
I thought babies produced more lactase (lactose-digesting enzyme) anyway, even for people (and ethnic groups) with lactose intolerance in adulthood? Human breastmilk contains lactose - so the body expects to have to break it down at that ag
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by pmjordan 7y ago
I've seen variable size accesses (sometimes 32-bit, sometimes bytewise) to memory locations (almost certainly field access via a dereferenced struct pointer, i.e. operator ->) when reverse engineering x86-64 code known to have been
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by pmjordan 7y ago
The EU is a big(ish) and diverse place. We pay about twice that for 40Mbps VDSL and about 2.5x that for 50Mbps LTE. To be fair, we could get something slightly (~20%) cheaper as we've got a "business" deal to get static IP ad
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Having close connections to both countries, I can say that kids in Austria are definitely freer than in the UK. For one, in Austria, kids have a legal right to go to school on their own, be it on foot or by public transport. A lot of parent
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Perhaps you'd like to explain how people driving through the country, or anyone else in fact, drives down ADSL speeds to single-digit or low tens of Mbit/s. Or indeed how population fluctuations of about 1-2% might cause cellular
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by pmjordan 7y ago
As a Central/Northern European I noticed the same thing when spending a few months in North America. Particularly the "low-flow" toilets in the US & Canada which seem to be considered an improvement(?) have a ludicrously
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Thanks! My email address is in my profile. In case she wants to get in touch, feel free to pass it on, I'm happy to answer any questions etc. (This also goes for anyone else reading this who has or suspects they might have Lyme disease
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by pmjordan 7y ago
but if your tests for Lyme were negative, it wasn't Lyme (borreliosis). Depends on the test. The ELISA test is cheap but extremely unreliable. ELISPOT/LTT seems to be the most reliable antibody test out there, at least for Europ
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Fellow chronic Lyme patient here. I was given 2 rounds of doxycycline which seemed to do absolutely nothing. 1. Doxy is not the worst antibiotic for targeting lyme that's got into the central nervous system, but from personal experie
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by pmjordan 7y ago
This may or may not be obvious, but the Lyme vaccine for dogs is not the same as the discontinued one for humans. So it's (unfortunately) not a simple case of rebranding/repackaging the vaccine they're already producing for h
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Fortunately she had quite the grim sense of humour to help her deal with the cases she worked on. Unfortunately, even a sense of humour doesn't protect you from PTSD when dealing with this sort of stuff, particularly on a daily basis
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Maybe it's a technological limitation? I've heard this second-hand (or third-hand) and my EE knowledge is nowhere near good enough to say how accurate this is, but: Apparently the power delivery negotiation mechanism in USB-C is
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Once you've started this process, I believe you can just move the mouse (without clicking) to move the window as well. This tends to be faster than using the arrow keys, especially at modern display resolutions.
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by pmjordan 7y ago
As a driver developer, I've been on the receiving end of stuff breaking due to changes in macOS many a time. Based on my experience, I find it much more likely that Apple simply does not care about this problem/does not consider i
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Correct, the built-in drivers only cover the "Kepler" architecture, as that was the last one that Apple used in a Mac. The 3rd party Nvidia drivers which support more modern GPUs are only offered up to macOS 10.13 High Sierra. The
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by pmjordan 7y ago
I think it might have worked in some earlier generations of Core i, perhaps Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge.

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