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by pmontra 11mo ago
So, the requirement is a system to store all your keys and that it can be duplicated as many times you wish. It looks like a local password manager, let's say keepass. I use it and have copies of the encrypted db on every device of min
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by pmontra 11mo ago
That's always the case for through stations, I believe. However even terminus stations don't have their platforms locked to a fixed destination. Milan Central station has 24 platforms and each of them hosts multiple routes. Rome T
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by pmontra 11mo ago
If it's only pay and go why have Sales at all? At the very best you need only a slimmed down Sales Department, so being against pay and go is self preservation.
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by pmontra 11mo ago
Yes and I use the Atkinson font in my emacs (for code) which is proportional and sans serif except for those characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_Hyperlegible
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by pmontra 11mo ago
Desktop and mobile: Firefox and uBlock Origin. Mobile: Blockada to prevent apps from reaching their ad servers. NewPipe. Desktop: Freetube. uBO has the bonus to have an element picker that I use to remove the empty areas where ads would sho
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by pmontra 11mo ago
Fabricated citations are not errors. A pre LLM paper with fabricated citations would demonstrate will to cheat by the author. A post LLM paper with fabricated citations: same thing and if the authors attempt to defend themselves with someth
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by pmontra 11mo ago
Most likely that photo would have been on film in 2002. Shoot it, then wait to shoot all the pictures on the roll, bring the roll to a shop, get the prints, either scan the screenshot or mail it, with a stamp. A Polaroid would cut most of t
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by pmontra 11mo ago
Warfarin needs blood tests at least every 2 or 3 weeks. I bet those tests are not cheap in the USA. Furthermore you can't have any food with significant amounts of vitamine K or its precursors. There are pills that cost more but don&#x
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by pmontra 11mo ago
Those Django models are a pain to work with if you have to access the database with any other tool that is not the original Django app. The only sane way to design a database managed by Django models and migrations is not using any inherita
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by pmontra 11mo ago
That's a series of engines, not a single model. The FIAT FIRE [1] series has been in production for 36 years from 1985 to 2021 and, maybe you wouldn't expect it from FIAT, those engines were reliable. [1] https://en.wik
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by pmontra 11mo ago
> Putting things on a screen was (is) stupidly simple. This is why HTML is still a great language for building UIs and that's why Visual Basic had a huge success in the early 90s: drag UI components on a panel, write the callbacks f
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by pmontra 11mo ago
> Checking email once a day In an ironic twist of life, this is almost what I'm back doing right now. I turned off notifications and pull messages years ago because of all the messages I'm getting for a dozen different systems.
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by pmontra 11mo ago
There are technical regulations and sporting regulations. I'm not very familiar with IndyCar anymore but my feeling is that F1 got stricter on technical regulation but IndyCar is even stricter: only one chassis and more standard parts.
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by pmontra 11mo ago
I favor little regulation and tight cost caps. Example: you get 100 millions, 100 kg of this kind of gasoline per race, do whatever you want. Any chassis size is probably not a good idea because cars collide with each other and they must do
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by pmontra 11mo ago
This is the last season with Renault as a F1 engine manufacturer. Their team (Alpine) will use Mercedes engine from 2026. There will be many changes next year. Audi enters as manufacturer with its own team (they bought Sauber.) The two Red
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by pmontra 11mo ago
And when demand eventually crashes, all the new production capacity is left without buyers to sell to, so maybe it does not even make sense to create it.
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by pmontra 11mo ago
As non native English speaker I mix British and American English all the time, and you should hear me speaking. I mix in some novel accent too. Anyway, the author answered in a sibling reply.
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by pmontra 11mo ago
Maybe they keep the brand to resurrect it some years in the future when the surge of data centers has faded away and they'll have to find custumers between consumers.
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by pmontra 11mo ago
It's not only the sellers of the other party. You have to work with the buyers of your company too. Stuff that costs no money and needs no contracts move faster than stuff that must be negotiated, agreed upon, paid for.
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by pmontra 11mo ago
> The password icon being invisible is just funny Sometimes the icons in the dock are also invisible. I thought that it was my RDP client playing bad with the server on Windows but eventually I found bug reports about that. This is exact
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by pmontra 11mo ago
I think that you missed a /s at the end of the post. I can continue it with "Yes, we had an explosion in software quality and it's in shards all over the place."
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by pmontra 11mo ago
Yes, my CS program of 40 years ago had 4 parts. Sorted by decreasing abstraction level: Math, physics, statistics Theoretical CS, the one in my original comment OS, compilers, networking, computer vision, transmission codes Computer languag
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by pmontra 11mo ago
When I walk into those kind of shops I press a few keys of every laptop and check which keyboard flex. Usually the cheap laptops flex and the expensive ones don't. By cheap I mean 300 or 400 Euro and by expensive I mean 800 or 1000 Eur
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by pmontra 11mo ago
Well done but is this a guide to Computer Science or to Software Engineering? In a Guide to CS I expected to find information theory, computability, complexity, finite state automa, language grammars etc. Anyway, the audience is > Underg
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by pmontra 11mo ago
> Culture doesn’t reliably reward the serious. Neither does business. It rewards the resonant. The clear. The human. The work that connects. Culture maybe, but business rewards what make business going on. Only that and Ruby proved that
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by pmontra 11mo ago
This is hypothetical, in the spirit of your "economy crashes and money means nothing": if one has zero profit (in dollars) but somehow manages to own all the land and run the country, I'd say he profited a lot. Land and rulin
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by pmontra 11mo ago
A customer of mine has two projects. One running on their own hardware, Django + Celery. The other one running on AWS EC2, Django alone. In the first one we use Celery to run some jobs that may last from a few seconds to some minutes. In th
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by pmontra 11mo ago
No so thankless: there are many interesting links that never make it to the front page and the only way to find them is browse the first two or three pages of New. It's self rewarding.
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by pmontra 11mo ago
A customer of mine has the implementation of several API endpoints starting with a simulate_slow_connection method that basically sleeps for a random amount of ms. I think it sleeps 0 ms when running tests and definitely sleeps 0 ms in prod
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by pmontra 11mo ago
Maybe 75 W without disk is not terrible but it's not good. My unoptimized ARM servers idle at about 3 or 4 W and add another 1 or 10 W when their SSDs or HDDs are switched on. 75 W probably need active cooling. 4 W do not. Anyway you c

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