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by ralferoo 1y ago
That'd be one way of doing it. You don't technically need 4 reads per pixel either, for instance you can process a 7x7 group with a 64-count thread group. Each thread does 1 read, and then fetches the other 3 values from its neigh
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by ralferoo 1y ago
> I do tend to be a bit suspicious of the one-day "under the weather" events. I bill by days worked, and I'll still take a day off if I'm feeling terrible in the morning. Even taking the hit on pay is worth it, becaus
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by ralferoo 1y ago
That's not quite what qualifies it as PII. > John may be your given name, but that data isn't personal data. One of the numbers 1969, 1978, 1987, 1996 might be your birth year... but https://oeis.org/A101039 is
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by ralferoo 1y ago
I mean, it's an interesting problem for Icelandic sites, but because he's explaining the basic concepts of how declensions work, it seems like he's aiming this at non-Icelandic developers. If they were to use this, no doubt i
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Hmmm, interesting. I've just searched now, and it seems I can't either so maybe I was totally mistaken, but I'm sure I remember reading this a few months ago when I was googling pistachio allergies when my tongue first felt s
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by ralferoo 1y ago
> I just can't eat one. I'm not sure what the magnitude of the power of ten is but I know it's north of "a normal person's portion" After about 300g, my tongue swells a bit and I start to wonder if I'm
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by ralferoo 1y ago
My website has a "public" directory for things I wanted to be publicly accessible, but there's an index.html there so you can't trivially discover what files are there. I was mirroring this to another machine, and I&#x27
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Years ago back in 2001, I had a /29 giving my 5 real IP addresses from my ISP. Back then, I mostly only ran Linux, but for some reason, I needed to run something on a Windows machine, so started installing Windows 98 SE onto a machine,
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by ralferoo 1y ago
> I like the spirit but wouldn't this run afoul of one or two laws? Identity fraud or some such? I would say not, but then again I'm no lawyer. There's plausible deniability in that there's a big "this is satire&
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by ralferoo 1y ago
When you say junk then, I find that interesting as my first was a Redmi Note 4 launched in 2016, that I got in 2017 (and did this unlock process on, as I bought it in China), and the reason I got that phone in particular was its price (in t
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by ralferoo 1y ago
I did that years ago when I bought a Redmi Note 4 in Shenzhen and discovered that the Chinese ROM is very locked down. I created the Mi post, but I don't remember having to make a forum post (although it does ring a slight bell). AFAIK
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by ralferoo 1y ago
I think these systems used RF before, so anything in the vicinity could listen in. That said, if this new system is a phone app, it'll just be using phone data instead, so it'd be hard for that to be intercepted.
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by ralferoo 1y ago
> On the other hand I'm still puzzled why there are no homebrew projects for a dumb dumping device that simply reads all the data on a cdrom, error correction, subchannels completely raw. I think you'd have to write a custom fi
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44676691
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Yeah, the refactor looks somewhat iffy to me, although to be fair, the error here was no recognising that the `rc` was modified in the preceding call back to an it. This means that any code that was explicitly checking against the enum valu
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by ralferoo 1y ago
According to the recall notice, these powerbanks were "manufactured between January 1st, 2016, and October 30th, 2019" [0], so that was very much during the time before this says that they were spun out into a separate company. Go
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Interestingly from the photo of the device on the recall notice [3], this device doesn't include the C3 mark, which is the regulatory approval marker for inside China. In the last couple of weeks, there's been a lot of noise [1] a
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Borg 1.x will still be fine for your needs, especially if you only have a single machine that you want to back up. The main advantage for Borg 2.x will bethat multiple machines can backup to the same repository and de-duplication will work
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Must be fated initials! Before that, Microsoft's Visual Source Safe used the acronym VSS and it was so bad, a lot of users informally referred to it as Visual Source Loss.
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Just from the description, that sounds like a case could be made for willful property damage if they did it without authorisation.
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Yeah, I kind of agree in the latter case. Black Friday deals often have lower priority support etc. I guess with Servarica, they have their standard deals, but for Black Friday deals are generally thin margins, but still enough to cover cos
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by ralferoo 1y ago
They tend to do promotions, typically only valid for 24h and only advertised on certain forums like LET, a couple of times per year - typically at least around their company anniversary date or Black Friday. There are others too, e.g. Serva
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Is the downhill section a cliff? Google informs me terminal velocity of a car is 200-300mph, so to fall a mile at 300mph, the car will need 12 seconds, so let's round up to 15 seconds to account for the time it's accelerating. To
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by ralferoo 1y ago
It can be quite high, but it doesn't have to be. For instance, I have a 7TB storage server from Hosthatch that's $190 for 2 years. That's $7.92 per month, or £5.88 at today's exchange rates. That's under 20p per d
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by ralferoo 1y ago
This wasn't so much a competitive rate, but I literally couldn't have afforded to buy this house if they didn't offer a 105% mortgage - so no deposit and some extra money so I could buy some furniture. To be fair, I had some
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Heh. 20 years ago when I was buying my house, I was arranging the mortgage through HSBC bank. One day I got a random call, started by asking me to confirm my name and date of birth. I asked them who they were, and they refused to say anythi
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by ralferoo 1y ago
I think this hits the nail on the head. Complaining that the current understanding of REST isn't exactly the same as the original usage is missing the point that now REST gives people a good idea of what to expect and how to use the ex
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Over half the UK adult population is married. According to the ONS, 61% of the population aged 16 or above is living with a partner. [1] Unless the demographics of those with engineering degrees is significantly skewed towards singles, this
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by ralferoo 1y ago
There are several counter arguments here. Most people with an engineering degree are probably in a relationship, so they don't need to buy a house on a single salary. There are plenty of houses for sale below the average price, just as
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by ralferoo 1y ago
French also has some weird gotchas, e.g. "la démocratie" where the spelling represents the word's root rather than pronunciation.

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