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by spockz 3y ago
Sure. But windows was/is the loss leader for that. No gaming or office without windows. Even Azure benefits from it as it ties into Active Directory with Azure AD. This makes it a completely integrated story. So that they are even stil
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by spockz 3y ago
FYI. This comes from Robin Hood: Men in Tights” by Mel Brooks.
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by spockz 3y ago
I’ve been on a similar hunt. My devices are littered with copies of videos that were shared via iMessage, WhatsApp, and other means. Each of these apps then store the copy locally which then gets backed up in iCloud. Unfortunately I haven’t
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by spockz 3y ago
In our case it is mostly faster when provisioning a machine with significantly more cores. In cloud machines you get “vcores” which are not the same as a core on a local cpu. I’ve been integrating psrecord into our builds to track core uti
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by spockz 3y ago
This is why and how I use a 5k ultra wide. It allows me to make two more-or-less square windows in the same monitor.
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by spockz 3y ago
Again, the argument is never that we won’t be able to survive as a species. The argument is that the climate change will greatly disrupt the current status quo, changing large parts of coastal parts into sea, displacing many people. Then cu
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by spockz 3y ago
Electricity here is €0,30-0,40/kWh after tax. (Netherlands) (For fixed contact, dynamic contacts have bigger variation). That makes it way more interesting to save on energy. Although getting solar panels is still the fastest investmen
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by spockz 3y ago
What is the longevity of such a wind turbine? How much maintenance goes into it, both hours and money for parts? 15 years is quite a long time.
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by spockz 3y ago
Databases mostly cache the right things with the right indices and execution plans. I don’t see how the push for OOP and ORMs has anything to do with databases not caching. Are you suggesting we move application logic down into the database
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by spockz 3y ago
Where do you live? When I was still living in the city we could talk outside at a slightly raised voice when walking or biking. You had to speak in the direction of the other person obviously. Only sometimes at something like a gas station
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by spockz 3y ago
In the Netherlands vehicles are taxed at sale, before VAT so VAT is also payed over this tax, based on emissions. Then there is a quarterly tax based on the weight of the car. Currently zero emission cars get a 100% discount on the latter a
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by spockz 3y ago
TrueCrypt and other tools had this around for ages. Something with nested partitions. One key unlocked the main partition that you are supposed to fill with something credible. And then another key that looks a partition even deeper that sh
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by spockz 3y ago
The concrete walls of my house already resemble a 4x2 block, although slightly higher in the body relative to the “pins” on top. Or are you referring to something else? Lego is plastic. Houses need wood or concrete and all kinds of isolatio
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by spockz 3y ago
Love the content but one snag about the site itself. On iOS by default there is a big black void to the right and the text is constrained to the left 2/3 of the screen. That would be okay but somehow the safari feature to double tap on
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by spockz 3y ago
I suppose because Jepsen is written in Clojure. And that is probably because the author was versed in Clojure and that is the language he picked.
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by spockz 3y ago
Finagle fixes this with Retry Budgets: https://finagle.github.io/blog/2016/02/08/retry-budgets/
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by spockz 3y ago
IIRC, Spotify applies a similar strategy also for deciding which music to already fetch from the servers when listening to a playlist to minimise the gap between pressing next song and actual playback. It seems like it should be exactly the
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by spockz 3y ago
Hetzner also has ARM servers you can order. Also on GCS: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/arm-on-compu...
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by spockz 3y ago
Can cosmopolitan replace the whole llvm toolchain required by GraalVM’s native-image? Currently cross building with native-image is a pain, especially compared to golang. (Or resource intensive as you need to compile it on each platform&#x2
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by spockz 3y ago
What is that saying? Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of harddisks. I guess this is the solar equivalent.
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by spockz 3y ago
I think the pihole docker image uses dnsmasq. It definitely supports being the dhcp server and integrates clients into its dns responses.
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by spockz 3y ago
I think this is more of an Anglo-Saxon vs rest of Europe distinction. In UK (and presumably US) the letter of the law is more important than the intent. In the rest of Europe the intent is more important than the exact letter. In both cases
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by spockz 3y ago
Be careful with arriving just on time. We were refused boarding the Thalys once because on the station attendants watch it was 4 minutes to the time instead of 5. So we were refused on the platform even though the conductor of the train a f
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by spockz 3y ago
I suppose a large part of learning is not just seeing things happen but also deciding to do something, executing on it, and then feeling the result. So not surprising.
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by spockz 3y ago
So which Malloc should we be using? How about setting that as a default? If apparently the trade off is so cookie cutter clear.
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by spockz 3y ago
Sure it can. If the material being used allows one speed normally. And by changing something like voltage you can make the light go faster or take a longer round. Then you can speak of light being “early(Ier)” or late compared to the defaul
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by spockz 3y ago
Channels with passing messages has been around as a solid way for doing async and multi threading since forever. These systems are called actor based systems. Erlang is a good example which uses it as its core. Then on the jvm there is Akka
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by spockz 3y ago
We tracé everything and first collects all spans in their trace. Then we sample the successful traces and we retain all traces ending in a failed state. This greatly reduces the need for storage.
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by spockz 3y ago
FYI. Java has functions now as well, although they are indeed also objects. Records have been introduced as a flavour of structs.
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by spockz 3y ago
The GP wrote about replacing plastics because they are ubiquitous in our daily life. They are everywhere in manufacturing and transportation, and technology/electronics. So indeed we have survived for a long term as humankind. Most of

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