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by q3k 4y ago
You can lease fibre/lambda/L2 transport to an IXP (and there peer with other local ISPs and get global transit from Tier 1 providers) from many companies that don't even have any residential offering. Or if (technically/
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by q3k 4y ago
Yeah, in the form of “here’s some excel spreadsheets from the hardware team and half-generated C sources from the validation team, just ask them for more info”.
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by q3k 4y ago
> Isn't it funny how Go offers channels but the stdlib never uses them at all? go/src $ grep -r 'chan ' | grep -v test | wc -l 402 go/src $ grep -r 'Mutex' | grep -v test | wc -l 362
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by q3k 4y ago
> You can also call docker commands by being part of the docker group IIRC. Which effectively gives you root on the host.
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by q3k 4y ago
I don’t. If I’m not actively using something then it just gets evicted from cache. I generally remember the difficult/weird parts that made initial learning slow, everything else I just re-learn as needed from the same sources that I u
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by q3k 4y ago
It does.
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by q3k 4y ago
Good luck breaking a circuit when dealing with lightning discharge conditions. That is unless are okay buying oil immersed equipment the size of a fridge. And that’s probably not enough, either.
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by q3k 4y ago
Every (active) Matrix user in a bridged room (or portal) has a corresponsing user/connection on IRC. That is, if you join a bridged Matrix room as @charcircuit:example.com, the appservice responsible for bridging said room to IRC will
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by q3k 4y ago
All you need for simple SMD soldering is a TS100 soldering iron, good solder and good flux. And that's what I would recommend to any beginner, even if they wanted to solder together THT kits. The only extra tool needed is if you need t
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by q3k 4y ago
Back when I last visited HK (years ago), Dim Sum Labs would have been a great place to learn electronics. But as others said, many of us have learned electronics at home in even smaller apartments. You really don't need much to get sta
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by q3k 4y ago
It’s hard to convey how invaluable an oscilloscope is for most electronics labs, at least when you reach the point where you're dealing with your own designs and/or troubleshooting others' flaky designs. Not for use all the t
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by q3k 4y ago
How do you tie real world tomatoes to NFT tomatoes? Who verifies this? How do you tie an NFT of a grassfed chicken to a real world grassfed chicken? Who verifies these chickens are actually grass fed?
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by q3k 4y ago
Growing up is also realizing that some problems require non-technical solutions :).
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by q3k 4y ago
It’s still in stock in many department stores here in Germany. Didn’t even know they had stock issues for online sales. … but yeah, I remember thinking I was having a stroke when I first saw a row of various sized Utah teapots at a Galeria
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by q3k 5y ago
> And he wants his windows to wobble? What on earth is the point of that? To have wobbly windows.
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by q3k 5y ago
There's always going to be software that supports some platforms but not others. For example, in the EDA world it's very common to have Linux/Windows support but not macOS support (eg.: Intel Quartus, Xilinx Vivado, Cadence V
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by q3k 5y ago
For realtime audio, Pipewire basically solves this problem on Linux. It appears as JACK, Pulse and ALSA to client programs and allows seamless interop between all of them. It's slowly landing in mainstream Linux distros as the default
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by q3k 5y ago
RSI issues are also a reason why I won't ever use a macbook - the only laptop input method that doesn't hurt me after a few hours of use is a trackpoint.
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by q3k 5y ago
> the insane focus-follows-mouse option Is it that hard to believe some people prefer this behaviour?
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by q3k 5y ago
Able to summon? Sure, but it feels unnatural. It sometimes happens when I gather all of my focus on a single task, eg. a debugging session. But then it's closer to talking to myself. My mind defaults to such a jumbled mess of simultane
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by q3k 5y ago
Seeing that splash screen really tickled my brain. It’s likely rose tinted glasses, but I really miss the Visual C++ 6 on Win9x experience and all its associated aesthetic.
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by q3k 5y ago
Please keep in mind that even the slightest error in a silicon mask is likely to cause hundreds of millions of dollars of losses and months of delay in time to market for a modern chip. With that in mind, does it make more sense to come up
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by q3k 5y ago
> Must have changed since I last looked into this Should make you wonder how much other outdated/incorrect information you unknowingly spread in the same fashion. > Sadly, this means that if I lived in Germany, it would be much c
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by q3k 5y ago
Uh. Boston, MA -> Philadelphia, PA (511km): By car: 5h15 By Amtrak (this Monday): $311 for business on Acela, 4h54 By Amtrak (next Monday): $119 for coach on NR, 5h50 Munich Hbf -> Berlin Hbf (582km):
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by q3k 5y ago
> user-controlled memcpy bug in 2021 I'm starting to think these Rust people might be onto something here.
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by q3k 5y ago
> Do we know anything at all about the creators of this device? Where was it made? What kind of tools did they use to do the machining? How large was the workshop or factory where it was manufactured? Who was the target customer, how muc
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by q3k 5y ago
You just need to make it obvious that saving these preferences will cause some state to be written to the client browser, and not use this state for any other purpose than what the user consented to. Placing a “these preferences will be sav
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by q3k 5y ago
… you do realize farming isn’t a whole year thing at most latitudes, right?
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by q3k 5y ago
darktable does. https://darktable.gitlab.io/doc/en/color_management.html
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by q3k 5y ago
Make good espresso :)

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