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by somat 2y ago
Same with Satifactory, The larger powerplants need a lot of energy for their infrastructure to run and an overload will trip breakers and shut the whole grid down, a naively designed grid death spirals very easy. My factory was needing incr
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by somat 2y ago
What was the nature of the stolen(infringed really) code? Because a naive first glance show that they were distributing source code from a project that requires that you distribute source code.... shrugs, what's the problem here? So wa
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by somat 2y ago
We already have a carbon tax, you pay it when you buy the carbon. 3 cents per liter federally and an additional 18 cents per liter in California specifically.
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by somat 2y ago
Very cool project, what did OpenBSD do post 6.1 that interfered with the project tracking later versions? By which I mean, completely understandable to pick a version and stick with it. If I were trying to develop a tricky layer replacement
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by somat 2y ago
This is better than twitters nonsensical verification but still does not close the loop all the way. I think what is needed are a set of equivalency verification's. Sort of like the domain verification used in getting a TLS certificate
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by somat 2y ago
The whole point is to avoid data loss, floppies are notoriously prone to failure, if you can do raid on floppy, you can survive loss of a disk. Now if you are stripping... Well... then sure the data loss is your own fault, you have taken th
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by somat 2y ago
the tape may last 30 years. but do you really expect the tape drive to last that long, or, to even be able to get a tape drive that works in the future. That was my big problem with the economics of tape. the drives are expensive and don&#
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by somat 2y ago
I have done it with usb floppy drives under openbsd, I am sure it is just as trivial under linux but I had obsd and a bunch of usb floppy drives at my disposal. #it has been a few years I don't remember if it works with bare driv
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by somat 2y ago
FFF is... ok... I guess. It does bother me that if you watch your network requests, You find out it is an intuit product. I mean the IRS has one job, to receive taxes, why do I have to go through a third party company that I do not trust, t
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by somat 2y ago
https://ftb.ca.gov Easily searched, but I wanted to make an observation, why is it only the government who actually makes use of the hierarchical nature of DNS
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by somat 2y ago
The cube engine also works in this manner. A block engine where you can independently push the corners. http://cubeengine.com/index.php
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by somat 2y ago
At least one of the more obscure platforms openbsd supports are often due to someone(one person) willing to step up and do the builds. I love reading when the luna88k maintainer comes out of the woods a month or two after release to announc
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by somat 2y ago
A number of traditional unix utilities change their behavior based on what their name is. /bin/test and /bin/[ come to mind. but I just checked and a quick survey of openbsd finds. eject mt [ test chgrp chm
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by somat 2y ago
For my personal projects I am drifting towards the simple side. More and more I try to stick with a simple single level key value configuration. But if you do require a complex configuration, I think it is beneficial to both yourself and yo
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by somat 2y ago
Wow, I have never seen one of those before, and now I need one. It would have to be a very specific environment, more specific I think than the standard shovel configuration. I think loose dirt, and shifting it or lifting into a wheel barro
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by somat 2y ago
I never really understood the rational for using fastcgi. For everything I wanted to do it always made more sense to just use custom http servers and proxys. CGI makes sense, it fills a specific environment, one request, one process, but fa
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by somat 2y ago
I half bricked a laptop once. (never disable usb in the bios when all devices are usb) there was no reset header. so the only recourse was to reflash it the hard way, with a clip and a programmer. So I buy a cheap clip and programmer kit...
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by somat 2y ago
one of the more underrated features of them little pcengines apu-2 router boards was that they used coreboot. I never needed to build my own firmware, but I made sure I could, and slept a lot better knowing that I could maintain it my self
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by somat 2y ago
A good joke, I like it, but... Look up videos of escalators breaking, it is a bit horrifying. all that moving metal eating itself. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=escalator+break... https://www.youtu
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by somat 2y ago
Isn't this just a specific case of sturgeons law? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
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by somat 2y ago
it was always a protocol, however it is never good when the protocol is defined by it's only implementation My understanding is that this is the whole reason for the existence of openrsync. The people doing work on the rpki standards w
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by somat 2y ago
"The early Mac keyboards used the same RJ11 connector as a telephone handset. However, the wiring was reversed, so you couldn’t replace the keyboard cable with a handset cable." If I remember correctly, telephone connectors split
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by somat 2y ago
I was trying to figure out what is in class A firefighting foam last week. Nobody really wants to say, it is all trade secrets, evading a direct response, using vague sweeping terms, like it contains surfactant and foaming agents. However b
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by somat 2y ago
Yeah that sucks, the hard life lesson where you have to swallow your pride and go "fine, I will put quotes on the infernal thing" But... it does not print a string, a string goes into it but what comes out of the function is not t
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by somat 2y ago
With regards to the first one described the TDK with the UV guard, I am curious as to what that is. My guess is it has more to do with avoiding UV related damage than blocking UV. I am not sure the authors spectrometer test(which was very c
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by somat 2y ago
Also all reads and writes have to go across pcie and through the cpu, which should be fast but you are not going to get vram to gpu access speeds
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by somat 2y ago
One of my favorite man pages is scan_ffs https://man.openbsd.org/scan_ffs The basic operation of this program is as follows: 1. Panic. You usually do so anyways, so you might as well get it over with. Just don&#x
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by somat 2y ago
Blender is still a mismash of hundreds of semi random buttons and options, That is a core feature of a professional UI, In order to cater your tool to a user that will spend many hours operating it the most critical aspect is to reduce fric
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by somat 2y ago
"Blender embraced the use of pie menus, and Gimp ignored them" Instinctive recoil "cue xkcd https://xkcd.com/386/ somebody is wrong on the internet" I had to take a little walk and think about it, W
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by somat 2y ago
I don't want to be too mean, The blender team has done a lot to make good solid UI improvements over the years. However as a long time casual user (since 1.7 minor projects once or twice per year) My take away was that the blender UI w

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