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by radiowave 4y ago
I'd guess the motivation was to experiment with different string constructions, given the string shown in the video. Gut core is not common these days, and I don't think I've ever seen a wound string with alternate windings i
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by radiowave 4y ago
I think buro9's recommendation is pretty sound. I have some smaller/older/cheaper KEF speakers on my desk, where I don't have the space to put the larger PMC speakers I would normally use. They have a dual-concentric des
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by radiowave 5y ago
What's supposed to happen with ZFS is that if the rest of system needs more memory, ZFS should back off and release some of the memory that it's using. It can do this because most of its memory use is just caching, and while there
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by radiowave 5y ago
My first ZFS box (running OpenSolaris 2008.11) ran on 512MB, sometimes including a Gnome 2 desktop. It wasn't fast - I didn't need it to be - but it absolutely did work.
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by radiowave 5y ago
Ah, that's good news. Thanks.
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by radiowave 5y ago
Off the top of my head, the exception to this is functions (i.e. that you declare inside Postgres), because the function body is really just a piece of text, in any of a bunch of different languages. So if you have a function which refers t
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by radiowave 5y ago
I went through much of this a few weeks ago, and this article would have saved me quite a bit of time. Like others here, siglen is new to me, so I'll have to have a play around with that. One thing that bothered me was how cumbersome t
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by radiowave 5y ago
Row-level security, I assume.
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by radiowave 5y ago
Not sure that I qualify as an expert, but in the case of Postgres the choice was probably influenced by the fact that readily available, distributed, fault tolerant, key-value storage wouldn't exist for at least another decade.
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by radiowave 5y ago
"Aright" is probably correct, if a bit archaic from our perspective, but "be" is almost certainly OCR error (plus lack of proof reading), and not the only one. Long live the Grauniad. (That being a nickname given to The
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by radiowave 5y ago
Mikrotik HAP AC2 as router and wifi, with HAP AC providing extra access point. Fiddly to set up, but solid and trouble-free since. Used to use Ubiquiti Edgerouter, until it failed. The Smart QOS feature was pretty good. Used to use Unifi fo
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by radiowave 5y ago
> Just install our 350mb Electron app... Added bonus: repeat this process monthly to ensure you stay up to date!
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by radiowave 5y ago
No, that would be an ETLA - "extended three letter acronym".
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by radiowave 5y ago
As someone who works in the manufacturing of steel components for marine use, the most surprising thing for me is that there's no mention of any quality-system auditor being involved. Did the auditor miss this? Is there no auditor? I
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by radiowave 5y ago
Because it was capable of running the existing (unchangable) software.
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by radiowave 5y ago
For a transaction processing workload (where hitting indexes is the all-important thing), that's exactly right. But if you have more of an analytic workload involving sequential scans, Postgres definitely expects the underlying storage
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by radiowave 5y ago
However, (or unless things have changed recently) you have to license at least 4 cores. The 2-core pack only exists so you can use it in conjunction with 4-core packs to license (e.g.) 6 cores.
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by radiowave 5y ago
An interesting dynamic here is that, having read Yeggie's article years back, I regarded Smalltalk as being somewhere towards the conservative end of the axis (at least, in comparison to other dynamic languages.) E.g.: variables declar
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by radiowave 5y ago
It happens that you don't get the insight into how to do something right until after you've made a few messes. I think Kay takes the view that the act of generating that insight is ultimately more valuable than the act of producin
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by radiowave 5y ago
> Why should the database be the input sanitizer, though? More in the realm of traditional business IT than what HN is focused on, the database is often the point of integration between several different systems, with views and triggers
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by radiowave 5y ago
If you're at all likely to be defining views that contain any of these columns, I would strongly advocate using text with the check constraint, rather than varchar. The reason being: if you ever need to increase the column's maxim
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by radiowave 5y ago
Workstation computers can be a joy of simplicity, as they're intended to be very easy to service. But this comes about because they're full of proprietary parts, so IMO you've got to be happy to accept them as-is. Otherwise,
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by radiowave 5y ago
Note that it doesn't play well with ZFS, but see here for workaround: https://old.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/m9ce8s/got_docker_...
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by radiowave 5y ago
Likewise, have run it for years on a bunch of machines, never had a problem. I think I've got at least one that's been dist-upgraded all the way from a 4.x release to the current 7.0.
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by radiowave 5y ago
It turns out to be the capital 'X' in X86 that is the problem. The same URL but with a lowercase 'x' works fine. Presumably someone in the Pharo team need to fix whatever image metadata the Pharo launcher is working from
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by radiowave 5y ago
Seconded. These are my default choice for pfsense (and probably opnsense in the future). Only issue I've had is that if it's a J1900 Celeron CPU, ensure you have the machine set to boot via UEFI before installing. (IIRC there&#x27
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by radiowave 5y ago
It appears that they're in the 'build' folder for the platform in question, e.g.: https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/blob/Cog/b...
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by radiowave 5y ago
Relevant quote from one of ZFS's primary designers, Matt Ahrens: “There's nothing special about ZFS that requires/encourages the use of ECC RAM more so than any other filesystem. ... I would simply say: if you love your data,
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by radiowave 5y ago
I'm not an IRC person, so I have no idea myself about any of these things, but I notice that this blog post links to an earlier post where the author speculates about what's driving these changes: https://ariadne.space&
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by radiowave 5y ago
Yes, it can be. The reason it's built in to the mic is to protect the mic's output transformer from distorting when recording louder sounds. Most newer/cheaper designs of condenser mic use solid state outputs (unless they&#x2

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