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by reisse 3y ago
Adding insult to injury, Germany (and other European carmakers) voluntarily withdrew from Russian market, writing down local assets. Then Chinese companies entered the country, negotiated very cheap reusing of abandoned factories (the main
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by reisse 3y ago
Not for compute, but for performance per watt. Raw compute is much better served by Intel/AMD + Nvidia workstation.
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by reisse 3y ago
Jet liners do not need to descend to feed ambient air into the plane. Cabin pressurization is done by feeding compressed air from the engine to air conditioner and then to cabin. So in theory yes, this is possible. However in case of fire,
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by reisse 3y ago
From my memories NT branch was unstable until at least XP SP2. Not sure if it was because of the OS itself, or because most of the software and drivers were written for Windows 98, and required few years to catch up.
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by reisse 3y ago
Not sure about the ads, but telemetry definitely increases reliability. It allows to debug very specific issues with a comprehensive information about user environment. Source: debugged proprietary app multiple times using telemetry informa
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by reisse 3y ago
> How did we get to the current state of software? Though playing mp3 was a heavy task consuming most of the CPU. It was hard to do anything while listening to music. Or think about how pressing Ctrl-S once a minute became a reflex, beca
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by reisse 3y ago
Dropping support, so what? That does not make these PCs obsolescent in any way. People still use Windows 7, and even Windows XP. Especially in the many contexts where "security" is not important at all.
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by reisse 3y ago
> And the average length of a flight in the US is longer, obviously. Not really. For US in 2018 it was ~700 miles ( https://www.bts.dot.gov/newsroom/2018-traffic-data-us-airlin... ), and for EU in 2020 it was ~1000 k
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by reisse 3y ago
> This is why almost no normal US citizen can afford to fly personally, even just occasionally for fun. In EU you can get to a lot of destinations for much less than 100€. And I bet EU regulations are not less stringent than US. Adding i
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by reisse 3y ago
I lived in a building with heat pumps in Europe. In colder climate, they're loud. As in, LOUD. It's likely fine when you can install the external module somewhere on the roof (poor birds though), but in many apartment buildings yo
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by reisse 3y ago
I can wholeheartedly recommend two Yuzefovich's books about Ungern, a fascinating read - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/two-mirrors-on-leonid-yu...
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by reisse 4y ago
Your comparison between China and US from 1973 to now is fundamentally wrong. In 1970s, US already was a developed country, while China was barely rising from poverty. It's unfair when the western countries demand lowering emissions fr
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by reisse 4y ago
Oh dear. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues And speaking of safety records, A32* is better than B737* by any metric.
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by reisse 4y ago
737 MAX MCAS issue pale in comparison to 737 classic rudder issues (two crashes confirmed because of the issue, three crashes suspected, and a few more cases where pilots were able to overcome the plane). Yet it happened in the era without
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by reisse 4y ago
> What do people who end up doing haxxy dev work in windows do in these kind of situations Windows has ping and tracert installed and working without administrative priviliges by default. Truly extraordinary feat many Linux distros are s
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by reisse 4y ago
Yeah, requirement to rename files makes it no-go when you want to continue seeding your Linux ISOs.
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by reisse 4y ago
Haven't seen airport-only chains in Europe, do they exist here? In Stockholm (Arlanda) there is standard McDonald's (among other chains) in the terminal.
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by reisse 4y ago
> Could you elaborate? The whole selling point of cryptocurrencies seems to be to start from scratch, without those pesky KYC/AML and tax laws. > The set of people who like cryptocurrency is not small. There are two sets of peopl
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by reisse 4y ago
It's not really a contradiction. People who want financial system free of government control and people who want government to prosecute for crypto crimes are mostly different people. The latter usually care about 100% APR on dollar an
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by reisse 4y ago
One thinks about crypto as a clownworld only until one had to work with or inside the real financial system. Techincally, it is in no way better than crypto. The only difference is that in real financial system there is a strong legal cover
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by reisse 4y ago
> Controlled digital lending had a chance of getting off the ground. Fuck it. It should never get off the ground, really. We, as a society, don't need controlled lending for something that can be copied for free. What we need is a f
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by reisse 4y ago
Yes, you're right here, that was what I wanted to say but probably was not able to formulate.
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by reisse 4y ago
So if I got it right, you're using fork(2) as a glorified shared memory interface. If my memory is (also) right, you can allocate shared read-only mapping with shm_open(3) + mmap(2) in parent process, and open it as a private copy-on-w
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by reisse 4y ago
Please read the parent comments. Overcommit is necessary exactly because kernel has to reserve memory for both processes, and overcommit allows to reserve more memory than there is physically present. If kernel could not reserve memory for
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by reisse 4y ago
The data won't be copied, but kernel has to reserve the memory for both processes.
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by reisse 4y ago
> Blame UNIX for that, and the fork() system call. At least that design failure of UNIX has been fixed long ago. There are posix_spawn(3) and various clone(2) flavours which allow to spawn new process without copying the old one. And a l
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by reisse 4y ago
Just a year ago, that was not remotely fever dreams for a lot of people in Ukraine.
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by reisse 4y ago
Quite sad Mullvad doesn't have the donations page. One of the rare projects I'd actually like to donate. Guess buying a few more VPN keys will count though...
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by reisse 4y ago
The title here is kind of misleading (need to report @dang, I think?). The tweet talks about healthy life expectancy, which is different from life expectancy overall: > the average American now has the same healthy life expectancy (years
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by reisse 4y ago
> similarly airplanes stopped getting faster because we hit the point where the atmosphere starts melting you to death, and not much can be done about that. While I agree with your point in general, have to nitpick here. Thermal protecti

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