poizan42

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by poizan42 1mo ago
How? How can a single absolute number indicate broad success? You can't read from it if failure rate is 1% (completely unacceptable) or 0.01% (probably acceptable as long as problems are quickly mitigated). Also what do they even count
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by poizan42 1mo ago
> A Home Office spokesperson said: “Over 10 million people have already successfully used eVisas to prove their immigration status. ..." So how many people did not successfully use it? Could be 100 million for all we know. Do they t
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by poizan42 2mo ago
It doesn't really explain much about its purpose. Is it better than libavcodec? I take it that the point is to re-use techniques from the h264 encoder for encoding MPEG-2 where applicable?
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by poizan42 2mo ago
It's crazy, the last time any PRs got merged was back in January 2024 [0]. Seems it has just become a black hole completely ignored by anyone at framework. [0] https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/EmbeddedControlle
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by poizan42 2mo ago
I have used Opus 5 and some Fable 5 to finally get realtime transcoding of 4K 10-bit HEVC (to 1080p or smaller SDR AVC) working on a Raspberry Pi 4. It was very good at writing optimized NEON kernels. the Argon HEVC hardware decoder outputs
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by poizan42 2mo ago
The proper name for the calendar using the Gregorian system before the start of the Gregorian calendar is "the proleptic Gregorian calendar".
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by poizan42 2mo ago
Nothing more complex than Hello world is easy to implement in C without risking mistakes in checking boundary conditions if you are not really careful.
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by poizan42 3mo ago
Maybe there is something else in Gelidium amansii that it needs, if the tokoroten was produced in the traditional way?
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by poizan42 3mo ago
Windows has its own library built-in: NLS. There have been a lot of back-and-forth about whether to use NLS or ICU in dotnet on Windows because it resulted in different behavior between Windows and other platforms. I think they ended up usi
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by poizan42 3mo ago
But wasn't the whole (claimed) reason that it got banned in the first place that it is a logical impossibility? Reviewing code for bugs is legitimate. Writing regression tests for bugs is legitimate. If the bug happens to be a security
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by poizan42 3mo ago
m68knommu was merged into the mainline kernel in version 2.5.46: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/ChangeLog-2.5.4... Of course the 2.5 line was the unstable pre-release for the 2.6 kernel. Th
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by poizan42 3mo ago
> A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. DMCA Section 3.A
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by poizan42 3mo ago
I really wish they would have asked the representative to confirm that they can only share detailed information with the skeletal remains of an author who died 78 years ago. Not that I think it would make any difference, but it would force
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by poizan42 4mo ago
I have been trying to work on debugging tools using Opus 4.8. As it turns out working with low-level techniques that inspects and alters behavior of other processes is bordering close enough to cybersecurity research that it often hits the
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by poizan42 5mo ago
That's cool and all if you are writing GCC or Clang dialect C, but it doesn't change the fact that it is UB in the C standard.
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by poizan42 5mo ago
It's not difficult not to lie to your customers. If you are actually selling a subscription then don't claim the customer is buying the game, and this law won't apply to you.
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by poizan42 5mo ago
NTSYNC seems quite cumbersome to use for your own linux software though > The ntsync driver creates a single char device /dev/ntsync. Each file description opened on the device represents a unique instance intended to back an i
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by poizan42 5mo ago
They are GINA gaskets[0], they were supposed to last 120 years[1], but it has recently been shown that they may deteriorate faster than previously expected due to being under constant compression[2][3] [0] https://www.trelleborg.
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by poizan42 5mo ago
And if you switch the tty from "cooked" to "raw" mode then it doesn't do the conversion, and a CR just moves the cursor back to the start of the line and a LF just moves the cursor one line down.
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by poizan42 5mo ago
You can tell people what something is, that is nominative use of the trademark. Actually putting it in center of the branding might be infringing, but Don Ho gave their blessing to use that, so that point is moot anyways.
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by poizan42 6mo ago
That was 11 years ago, under DHI Group though. I don't think Slashdot Media have been up to the same shady stuff.
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by poizan42 6mo ago
Is the "genetic testing" for the presence of a Y chromosome or the presence of the SRY gene? And what about people with AIS? If it's just karyotype, are men with XX male syndrome (SRY gene without an Y chromosome) then allowe
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by poizan42 7mo ago
They haven't pierced the corporate veil as far as I can tell - it's not moot or any other executives that have been personally fined. Also as far as I'm aware the UK doesn't have debtors jail.
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by poizan42 7mo ago
See https://reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billi... AutoModerator on /r/linux is set up to automatically remove posts after a set amount of reports.
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by poizan42 7mo ago
Okay, but what does any of that have to do with knowing that the glyph at U+237C originated as a symbol for azimuth?
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by poizan42 7mo ago
Hmm the comment was a bit difficult to parse, but I think they got it correct. Remember that we have arbitrarily defined the time during local winter as the "standard" time. If we want to keep to that then "permanent daylight
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by poizan42 7mo ago
You might need several more dimensions (assuming this quoted claim is correct - it does come with a Citation Needed) > Recent genetic analysis shows the papedas to be distributed among distinct branches of the Citrus phylogenetic tree, a
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by poizan42 7mo ago
According to wikipedia they are cultivated from a hybrid of mandarin orange and Ichang papeda, the latter being from another wild lineage than the three shown.
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by poizan42 7mo ago
It sounds plausible, but they really need to spell out exactly what the formatting requirements are, because it can make a huge difference in how efficiently you can write the json out.
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by poizan42 7mo ago
> The output should be encoded as a pretty JSON string. So apparently that is what they consider "pretty JSON". I really don't want to see what they would consider "ugly JSON". (I think the term they may have bee

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