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by somat 4mo ago
My personal exposure to the PID algorithm was my GPU fan. There is supposed to be some sort of internal fan curve to control it's speed but mine was not working, crashes everywhere. I Could still set the speed by hand. and while I was
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by somat 4mo ago
I definitely enjoy RTS more as a spectator sport than as a player(I am probably not competitive enough to enjoy playing vs people) but I do enjoy a good match every once in a while. But... I hate the "casts" I much prefer to watch
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by somat 4mo ago
No campain but there are stand alone scenerios you can play. There is also a fun swarm defense sort of thing(rapters) if you like tower defense style gameplay.
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by somat 4mo ago
The comparison between a statefull firewall and NAT is often because they feel like they are doing the same thing from a mechanical point of view. For example here is how to achieve the same result in PF, note the single additional operator
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by somat 4mo ago
It's me, CORS was the stupidest thing I encountered in a long line of stupid when trying to put together a simple web app for the first time. "So let me get this straight. We tell the client whether the application we gave them ca
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by somat 4mo ago
Hell I half expect X11 to outlast wayland at this point.
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by somat 4mo ago
Windows media player always sort of sucked. I remember when I discovered mplayer. What a breath of fresh air by comparison. ostensibly worse, with it's barely there user interface. But... all it did was play video, it would play anythi
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by somat 4mo ago
The article also raises an interesting question. My understanding is the big difference in North American and British color TV is that NTSC was engineered to be backwards compatible with existing black and white broadcasting standards, this
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by somat 4mo ago
Would not the definitive answer to this be a computer screen. On one side you have an apple, illuminated by natural sunlight. it fills your eye with a rich texture of subtly mixed frequency's covering the whole gamut of visible and inv
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by somat 4mo ago
Whee, my chance to be the useless use of cat asshole. Why the echo? "for" should handle a list of terms just fine. Pedantic assholery aside, genuine question. Is this some sort of shell expansion injection countermeasure of which
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by somat 4mo ago
I think of skeumorphism as orthogonal to good ui design(it can be a good or bad ui with or without skumorphism) Even in the Steve Jobs era Apple produced some real stinkers of a UI, achingly beautiful but a right pain to use. A specific exa
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by somat 4mo ago
The b-52's role on the modern battlefield is basically a cruise missile truck. It lets you launch a bunch of cruise missiles(cough, I mean kamikazi drones, gotta use the modern lingo) from random locations.
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by somat 4mo ago
The eight engines is a side effect of of how large the aircraft is vs how big the engines of the day were. they are basically business jet engines by modern standards. During the recent engine replacement project using one full sized engine
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by somat 4mo ago
In a fractional scaling setup you first create a homogeneous virtual screen at the dpi wanted then get the right size by scaling the monitors out to fit. A dpi aware application will draw itself at the correct size on the appropriate screen
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by somat 4mo ago
The irony is that despite the myth to the contrary wayland does not even try to handle mixed DPI at all and only fakes it via the fractional scale hack and X11 has supported mixed DPI from probably day one. Admittedly X11 mixed DPI was usin
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by somat 4mo ago
My favored article on the subject is http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/
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by somat 4mo ago
I suspect(with out reading the source to find out) that screens are the traditional X11 screens as opposed to the modern xrandr combined screen. Traditionally each screen in an X11 setup was it's own separate thing with it's own s
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by somat 4mo ago
This is a thing I have wondered about. are arabic numbers little endian when embeded in arabic text? The text is read right to left. But the numbers are the same as we put them in our left to right text where they are big-endian(read big to
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by somat 4mo ago
Conversely, English has a joined form(cursive) that is nearly dead because mechanical text assistance devices (first typewriters, now computers) work much better with the block form. While sad in a cultural loss sort of way the joined form
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by somat 4mo ago
There is something... weird about this. this tech has existed.... a long time. And I am not familiar with what is common in electric cars so may be missing something obvious but thought this was already how it was done. let me explain my li
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by somat 4mo ago
It is easy enough to search for what happened over the Taiwan strait in September 1958. But here is the best report I have found on the incident. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/20
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by somat 4mo ago
There is something wrong with the internal fan curve on my old rx580 as well. I ended up writing a controller to manually set the fan speed via the /sys interface. I still need to figure out why the internal curve is not working, but h
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by somat 4mo ago
That is not true. By my calculation the first human killed by drones was probably September 24, 1958 when planes were shot down by fully autonomous rocket powered kamikaze drones released over the taiwan strait. My point being A. we have be
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by somat 4mo ago
DoH is intended to be indistinguishable from HTTPS traffic, if the application specifies a specific DoH server a DNS based ad block will not work. Right now The ad companies have not really figured this out and DoH largely works like port 5
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by somat 4mo ago
Ship has already sailed, it's called DoH. Please note, that it is to make your DNS safer and has absolutely nothing to do with removing your ability to resolve DNS in whatever way you want to(cough adblock cough).
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by somat 4mo ago
Another interesting concept here is that the solar system is a second generation(minimum) system, too much iron+ for a first generation system. So the first generation star had explode to form all the heavy metals. Where is the original ste
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by somat 4mo ago
The juxtaposition between what perhaps the best single use case I have seen for AI and how bad of an ad for it is killing me. I love it. "I told my bumbling assistant to plan a trip for me and he got nothing right but I enjoyed it beca
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by somat 4mo ago
It is why I don't think tidal wave is a bad term for the phenomena, A wave that comes in like the tide. at least as good as tsunami, literally harbor wave, Which I guess is a wave you get in a harbor(a place with no waves usually)
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by somat 4mo ago
With regards to the more advanced tubes (tetrodes, pentodes, etc) Was there any experimentation with integrated circuits before transistors took over? Put 10 tubes in the same enclosure, 100. I am imagining something like a vacuum florescen
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by somat 4mo ago
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." -- C. A. R. H

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