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by toast0 4mo ago
negative leap seconds aren't too bad. jumping forward a second won't lead to a time loop like jumping back did on several systems (some twice!)
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by toast0 4mo ago
Italian-american cuisine is quite distinct from Italian cuisine (which is really a lot of regional cuisines with a shared language and some shared staples)
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by toast0 4mo ago
> It is basically always better to run more APs at lower power in the areas where you need coverage, than to boost the power. Only if your clients are competent at roaming.
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by toast0 4mo ago
My college had a 'rapid prototyping' machine circa 2000 that worked in paper. Roll out a layer of paper, cut through the top layer, something something glue, roll out the next layer, etc. No reason that couldn't work with alu
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by toast0 4mo ago
> There is no chain of resolvers. There absolutely can be a chain of resolvers. It's very common to run a caching recursive resolver on client nodes that sends its requests to an external recursive resolver (usually the network owne
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by toast0 4mo ago
a) different DNS systems get the change out to all the authoritatives different ways. Some of them with much delay. Delays are hopefully minimal on modern systems, but I've worked with bad systems where you change dns in the api and it
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by toast0 4mo ago
> failing to install Windows 2000 RC3 on a DEC Alphastation 600. My friends and I were scratching our heads when somebody figured out that RC2 (the build referenced in this blog post) was the last Windows build to support Alpha. If you h
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by toast0 4mo ago
> The tradeoff is that you might have slow performance from HDD thrashing while everything else finishes starting up. You would often get audio buffer underuns on the startup sound, if enabled, especially if you had auto login.
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by toast0 4mo ago
> Why didn’t the DMARC spec say that a domain is “not present” if it lacks MX records? That doesn't match the SMTP spec, RFC 5321 says > If an empty list of MXs is returned, the address is treated as if it was associated with an
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by toast0 4mo ago
> Video game companies still remember when they owned the arcade machines and players were required to constantly insert money into the machines to keep playing. I know Sega and Namco operated some arcades, but mostly companies sold arca
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by toast0 4mo ago
Not really. Have to be in the region and have an accepted requirement for PI space (dual homing is accepted). If you want a second /24, you need to have a plan to use it within a year. If you need more space, good luck have fun. (You&#
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by toast0 4mo ago
APNIC also has the advantage of having /24s reserved for new applicants (last I checked)
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by toast0 4mo ago
> So, the downtown core is going to produce far less in property taxes in the foreseeable future, with fewer tenants paying (at least in short term) occupancy taxes, etc. This is going to play out in a decade. > According to this, com
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by toast0 4mo ago
This is great. I knew a kiddo who had to use gaze to talk, due to paralysis, but it was all a bit cumbersome, so she didn't have her talk screen most of the time. I never did get to see how it was organized. Having something more perso
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by toast0 4mo ago
Adding on to everyone else. Games that did run wince included the wince logo on the dreamcast splash screen.
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by toast0 4mo ago
> I expect someone who uses an ORM to understand SQL well. From experience, I don't. ORMs are usually sold as 'learn this instead of learning SQL'. For many, the ORM creates the tables, alters the tables, and queries the t
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by toast0 4mo ago
Should license movement noises from Hanna-Barbera. Jetsons or Flintstones are good, but there's probably other options.
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by toast0 4mo ago
> Someone that uses an ORM knows when they shouldn't use them That's not been my experience. But admittedly, I've usually been brought in when the slow query is killing the database. Then I look at the query that nobody wi
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by toast0 4mo ago
There'a a push in the news industry to want the scoop. I don't know the exact timeline and circumstances, but if you leave the press room to go call in your story from the opinion releases, and notice it's been several minute
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by toast0 4mo ago
> All they are saying is "I won't be a team player" and "I don't actually understand the subject matter". I get the first part, but not the second. Preferring to use SQL rather than an ORM + SQL is all about
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by toast0 4mo ago
Do you want to know if they're alive because of your personal relationship with them or because of their celebrity? Maybe this isn't quite worship, but it's certainly related.
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by toast0 4mo ago
> She saw some activity around the court, asked about it, heard "retirement announcements," You missed the nuance. She had left the press room and noticed many others hadn't; asking about why not, she heard "retiremen
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by toast0 4mo ago
UPS, Fedex, and Amazon all use USPS for some last mile deliveries. It's usually a little less when using UPS and Fedex; not sure if Amazon bills less for it because I use prime shipping so the cost is hidden.
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by toast0 4mo ago
> even if you have to run 20 km for each customer. That's, what, $10k a pop? I don't know if we're still talking Africa or in general, but $10k doesn't get you anywhere near 20 km around me. I got municipal fiber rece
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by toast0 4mo ago
Eh? Kind of depends on what you mean by the "big one" and "absolutely cooked". I grew up in socal, and moved to the PNW recently. From what I can tell, the 2001 Nisqually earthquake brought earthquake safety to the atten
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by toast0 4mo ago
I dunno where you live, but I've got year round fireworks stands near me. Is that the best explosive payload? Almost certainly not, but it would probably work.
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by toast0 4mo ago
> It depends on what you’re measuring. What I want to know is do I have enough physical memory for what I'm running. Sure, I can drop disk backed pages and recreate them as needed, but when it happens too often, there goes performan
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by toast0 4mo ago
> I would hope that the system knows precisely what is using every single byte of physical and virtual memory. Of course the system knows what is using every page. The difficulty is really in how to account for pages that are backed by d
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by toast0 4mo ago
Sure, but also some tools needed fixing.
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by toast0 4mo ago
The carrot is clearly not enough for accessibility. That's why the ADA provides the stick. There's a large benefit for society when society is more accommodating. It's easier to notice the accommodations for limited mobility;

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