throw0101a

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by throw0101a 5d ago
Maybe "macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage": * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787535
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by throw0101a 5d ago
>> You can't deny that Sun hardware was top tier and always ahead of its time (until Oracle bought them). > SPARC stopped being ahead of its time way before being bought by Oracle. You seem to be focusing strictly on perfo
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by throw0101a 5d ago
https://archive.today/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada... https://archive.is/jcqar
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Probes into Toronto's shooter-for-hire network thwarted by impenetrable phone(theglobeandmail.com)
18 points by throw0101a 5d ago|5 comments
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by throw0101a 5d ago
> China brought 50 new coal plants online in 2025 alone but keep telling yourself that. If China (and India and …) sees the US and other industrialized doing nothing, why should they do anything? The most straight-forward way of solv
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by throw0101a 5d ago
> Because it'll create value. The New Yorker published Tom Toro's one-panel comic/cartoon in 2012, and here we are in 2026: * https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
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by throw0101a 6d ago
> Other things: since no companies sponsoring its development had any interest in raid 5/6, which is mostly a home enthusiast thing. I've used RAID-Z1/2/3 at a couple of jobs: yes IOps is suck-y, but if it's fo
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by throw0101a 6d ago
And Btrfs still does not have a RAID-5/6 that they themselves recommend for usage: * https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-man5.html#man-b... What have they been doing for the last decade(+)?
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by throw0101a 6d ago
> drama matters because most users don't want to have their favourite FS randomly removed from the kernel unexpectedly after some OS update :) Jokes on you then: my favourite FS can't be "randomly removed from the kernel
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by throw0101a 6d ago
> […] why limit yourself to 24-bit numbers? For compatibility with UTF-16: o Restricted the range of characters to 0000-10FFFF (the UTF-16 accessible range). * https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html
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by throw0101a 6d ago
> That is one interpretation on the purpose of companies (and a relatively recent one): Self-reply: see also Boeing company ethos pre-McD acquisition versus post-McD acquisition ethos: * https://www.goodreads.com/en&#x2
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by throw0101a 7d ago
> companies aren't human beings with morals. Companies are not sentient beings in themselves: they are made up of human beings with wills. If the human being(s) make moral choices the result will be companies that do moral actions
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Apple Explains Why the iPhone 18 Pro Has a Variable Aperture(petapixel.com)
2 points by throw0101a 7d ago|0 comments
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by throw0101a 7d ago
> For one, it avoids telling all processes and their mothers the IP of the DNS resolvers they should query, but hands them 127.53 instead. What "all process" are you referring to? What kind of software on Unix-y systems is no
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The Myth of the Cynical Genius (2021)(psychologytoday.com)
3 points by throw0101a 7d ago|0 comments
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by throw0101a 7d ago
> It is insane to me that judges consistently rule that the constitution doesn't apply because there's a "border" within 100 miles. 100 miles (160 km) covers about two-thirds (66%) of the US population: * https:&#x
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by throw0101a 7d ago
> The President has embroiled us in an unpopular war in the Middle East and has lied about it. The Republican President has embroiled us in an unpopular war in the Middle East and has lied about it.
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by throw0101a 7d ago
> If someone on a military base with no attacks going on, got a heart attack by watching the news, probably not a war fatality. Were they at that base as a (say) mechanic servicing aircraft engines for flights over the Persian Gulf? Ar
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by throw0101a 7d ago
> But that’s precisely what it allows you to do And if I don't want a building block like logind or journald, can I not use them? Can I take those blocks elsewhere, like over to FreeBSD and use them there? SystemD is not "bui
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by throw0101a 7d ago
> The reason for seeing overcomplexity in systemd components is usually that you never considered the use cases of other people or proper server management What use cases of "proper server management" does fucking with my res
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by throw0101a 7d ago
> I think we just have different ideas of what the word "reasonable" means. I think we just have different ideas of what the term "building blocks" means. You cannot add (or remove) part of systemD as you wish: on a
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by throw0101a 8d ago
> […] of weak, corrupt, divided and authoritarian alternatives. Is the US included in the set of alternatives/possibilities with these attributes?
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Switzerland Is Scrapping ILS as GPS Spoofing Hits Crews Daily(migflug.com)
1 points by throw0101a 8d ago|0 comments
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by throw0101a 8d ago
> And the government buying 150 F35's is just a slap in the face when there's a massive chunk of the population that is, very quickly, going to need extra care. Japan is looking to increase defence spending to a whopping… 3.5
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by throw0101a 8d ago
> There isn't a country as infamous as Japan for starting wars it cannot win. Except against Taiwan, Korea, Russia (1905), Manchuria.
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by throw0101a 8d ago
> What has China done new? * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War https:/&#x
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by throw0101a 8d ago
> Maybe because of Japan's history of horrific war crimes and occupation in China? I'm sure Uyghurs and Tibetans have an opinion on the pot calling the kettle black.
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by throw0101a 8d ago
> See the comment of vocx2tx https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750698 To: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44264958 * https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemal
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by throw0101a 8d ago
Related, from three days ago, "Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms": * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715318
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by throw0101a 9d ago
> Running it for more than two years now, without any hassles. On single SSDs though. But still, waddya even talkin about? Running ZFS since it was originally released on Solaris (June 2006) with zero problems (then FreeBSD, then Linux

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