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by soneil 2y ago
There's a lot of compromise in UPS design. For example, a common topology in offline UPS is that the inverter and the charger are the same circuit driven differently[0] - so you can't charge the battery while the inverter is carry
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by soneil 2y ago
They can offer vouchers but you're entitled to the refund. The problem in that past has been that they weren't obligated to inform you of that right. Hopefully now that the refund entitlement is automatic, vouchers will only make
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by soneil 2y ago
It does seem to be much wider than that. The second page of the EOL notification[0] lists PEG, VEG & AEG variants - DIP40, PLCC & QFP respectively. They've made it clear as mud by putting different parts in different EOL notic
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by soneil 2y ago
If you donate your family don't benefit. If you don't donate, your family don't benefit. The only logic I can find here is spite.
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by soneil 2y ago
That's pretty much my take on it too. Mid-40s, and to be honest if you got my corneas you've hit the jackpot. If you're after anything else .. I've got bad news for you. The idea that 25% of us have goods that aren&#x27
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by soneil 2y ago
> IPv4 representation spec As silly as this sounds, I wasn't aware there was a spec. That's half the fun!
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by soneil 2y ago
To quote Jerry, show me the money? For example, https://www.ebay.com/itm/225315397038 The label of this drive gives us CHS figures for three different models: cyl * h * s * B 127MB = 919 * 16 * 17 *
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by soneil 3y ago
This is a myth. The very first harddrive was 5,000,000 characters - in the 1950s. The first PC harddrives came in 10 & 20MB. Harddrives have always been base10. Linespeed has always been base10. Clock speed has always been base10. It
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by soneil 3y ago
I use Debian on entirely up-to-date servers. I wouldn't call it outdated, I consider it stable, reliable, and trustworthy. But a more interesting point here, is that this issue was caught by someone running debian unstable. So I&#x27
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by soneil 3y ago
I don't think the situation is very typical, so I don't why the response should be. There's two maintainers, one is on an "internet hiatus", the other is either suspected of being the bad actor, or is otherwise so t
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by soneil 3y ago
First, the "bug" jumps through several well-crafted hurdles in order to hide itself from co-maintainers, package maintainers, and anyone else who might be looking. Hiding code in binary objects, hidden within in testcases and inj
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by soneil 3y ago
That's how I understand it. A build script that's in the releases tarballs but not the git repo, checks to see if it's being run as part of the debian/build or rpm build processes, and then injects content from one of t
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by soneil 3y ago
I think it'd be interesting to see the actual prompts that went with this. I followed it through to the accompanying blog post[1] and I found the examples for "we close at 6pm on Friday" interesting because none of them work.
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by soneil 3y ago
This looks interesting - it seems like it wouldn't be a huge lift to turn this into something that compares against an existing spec too. create an AutoSpec, take your defined spec, and spot the difference.
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by soneil 3y ago
Sure does feel like that, doesn't it. "That's a nice IPO you have there, it'd be a shame if anything happened to it."
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by soneil 3y ago
Tonality is nuts. One of the first things you learn is that the questioning ‘ma’ can also become ‘horse’ or ‘mother’ given a tone. “Māma qí mǎ, mǎ màn, māma mà mǎ” - “Mom rides a horse. The horse is slow. Mom scolds the horse.”
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by soneil 3y ago
Does it really simplify the model? It rephrases my google query if I want to call a colleague in the Philippines. That's it. It does not make it better, easier, harder. It rephrases the question, it does not abolish the question.
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by soneil 3y ago
Aside, "published on a hacker website" referring to hackaday tickled me pink.
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by soneil 3y ago
I realised you've already ruled out the full-size ipods as too bulky - but a thought that crosses my mind once in a while, is that given the number of aftermarket parts for 5G/6G iPods - I'm surprised no-one's come up wi
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by soneil 3y ago
User-accounts mean limits can be applied per-user instead of per-IP. Especially when a lot of us are connecting from the same office/site, or the same corporate VPN. But being logged out is more efficient for cached responses. The mor
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by soneil 3y ago
The main threat for normal, well-behaved people is the growth of services that encourage us to put all our eggs in one basket, multiplying the routes by which you might attract the wrath of The TOS Overlords. An example would be the number
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by soneil 3y ago
AIUI mostly the thin-client side. It's my (third-party) understanding that workstation/player/fusion are surprisingly difficult to break out because they borrow strongly from ESXi.
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by soneil 3y ago
Lithium in smaller UPS is mostly stuck in a marketing gap at the moment. Generally lithium UPS win in a 10-year TCO, but SLA wins in up-front costing. Which leaves us with two issues - most consumers look at the sticker price not the TCO, a
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by soneil 3y ago
That's always drove me nuts because the underlying issue is a great idea, frustrated by its implementation. The serial port serves dual-purpose. Along-side the obvious serial, you can also provide some inputs by grounding certain pins
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by soneil 3y ago
There's apparently some still in use - the oldest still in use is in Kent train station in Cork, which has a 160yo postbox. They're increasingly rare - which makes sense, given they have to be 100+ years old by definition. But th
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by soneil 3y ago
Related trivia there is that you'll still find some postboxes with royal cypher - usually GR, ER, or VR (George, Edward & Victoria) across Ireland. But painted green.
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by soneil 3y ago
I'm actually pretty excited by this. VMWare has been the "nobody gets fired for buying IBM" in this space for a while, and Broadcom abandoning and alienating large segments of the market could finally open up some ground for
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by soneil 3y ago
My issues with the individual apps isn't that they're individual, it's that they're all Catalyst apps. This brings with it mandatory sandboxing, so my media files must live on my system drive. Any attempt to relocate t
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by soneil 3y ago
A bit of a tangent, but I'm surprised to hear that Clinton was the first sitting president to send an email, in 1998. The Queen sent her first in 1976, which is quite a gap.
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by soneil 3y ago
They address this in the linked article, under the heading "Wait... Doesn't Cash Rule Everything Around Me?". f.e., > Zed Channels is one example of such a service. It's free for anyone today, but we intend to begin c

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