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by toast0 4mo ago
> Americans have some romance with the notion of "millions and millions of human beings screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones". It's bizarre stuff. Screwing in little, little screws to make stuff used to be a p
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by toast0 4mo ago
> That's an interesting case of a display being off actually indicating something ("loss of power") which can't be replicated with a bistable screen. My kindles usually show a dead battery graphic when I get back to t
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by toast0 4mo ago
I think this site is from the UK where companies are plural (they are made of people after all). Is there some other grammatical issue you have... it is kind of meandering, but that's taste more than grammar. What would you suggest ins
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by toast0 4mo ago
> Theoretically, someone could craft a perfect phishing attack, but who would go to all that trouble? Spray-and-pray, low precision, high surface area, attacks are the ones I end up reading about. I've been at a company that was wel
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by toast0 4mo ago
By default, windows uses an expandable page file. Typically, performance drops enough that the user kills the program or reboots before the page file expands to fill the disk. And other threads here suggest there is something that will prom
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by toast0 4mo ago
Yeah, but you didn't consider the resale value. Or the potential for end of life care. And apparently grandkids are neat, but it's hard to have those without having kids. Not sure how to value that one.
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> allusions to the Swiss flag, It is a big plus.
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Chinese automakers do (or did) make ICE and hybrid cars, too. I suspect it's wouldn't have been good strategy to try to build those cars for the US, CA or EU markets. An ICE engine is relatively straightforward, but hitting emissi
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by toast0 4mo ago
> Just personally, I have seen little evidence (personally, professionally, or academically) that there is any advantage for lossless audio for consumer applications I think the advantage of lossless audio is for archival: rip once, arch
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by toast0 4mo ago
Downes v. Bidwell (1901) created a difference between 'incorporated territory' and 'unincorporated territory' The Second Organic Act of 1912 explicitly extends the constitution (and the 14th amendment) to the Alaksa terr
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by toast0 4mo ago
IMHO, it's more about being a community of choice rather than elitism. When I joined, nobody was there because they had to be. Including vendors. That's a totally different vibe than now. There was also excitement and optimism of
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by toast0 4mo ago
That's certainly a factor, especially if demand was less than predicted, stores don't want to hold on to stock that's not selling, distributors and manufacturers don't want it returned. Better for everyone to reduce the
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by toast0 4mo ago
In the PNW, I'm seeing most 19" crts start around $50, depending on inputs and condition. But, they don't move so fast at those prices. If you're willing to deal with people and local marketplaces, I bet you could get ri
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by toast0 4mo ago
I added it late, but the real case to look at for Indians is Elk v Willkins... The opinion in that case seems to be that Indian nations are sovereign and so an Indian born within an Indian nation is a citizen of that nation and not the US.
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by toast0 4mo ago
> Members of tribes on tribal land have been subject to federal law since 1817, though crimes committed by tribe members against other tribe members on tribal land were within the jurisdiction of the tribes. So you had and have a system
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by toast0 4mo ago
It's not that rural, it's in the Richmond Metro Area. A quick look at satellite view shows suburbia, not rural, but I wouldn't be too surprised if there's some parts of the county with larger lots. Virginia has good conn
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by toast0 4mo ago
Your deleted post elsewhere mentioned the text of the 1866 civil rights act stating not subject to a foreign power, but the amendment uses this text instead. IMHO, that shows awareness of the issue and a different choice. Also, IMHO, The In
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by toast0 4mo ago
Chinese billionaires are bound to do weird shit. I don't think we should amend our constitution to try to prevent that. If the problem is 'birth tourism' and subsequent immigration visas for relatives of the US national child
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by toast0 4mo ago
Many states pay school districts based on attendance. Attendance typically correlates with classroom success. Attendance avoids truancy proceedings. One of the kids in my elementary school got a hat for perfect attendance through 6th grade.
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by toast0 4mo ago
I hope your living area has a big door.
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by toast0 4mo ago
> longjmp panics unless it is called from a stack frame that is an ancestor of a stack frame that considers the zjmp_buf to be valid. Maybe I have things backwards, but I think you mean descendent and not ancestor here? If a() calls b(),
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by toast0 4mo ago
> The promises you get is that the program will always terminate I don't want my programs to terminate though.
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by toast0 4mo ago
DDR4 machines are relevant and usable, but it's pretty unusual that new systems on older ram are still big sellers. The 5800x3d was originally released in 2022, AM5 processors were also originally released in 2022. We'll probably
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by toast0 4mo ago
It's hard to find newer movies on laserdisc, vhs, or home film projection, so analog is out. I buy or rent media from online services occassionaly. Much content I would like to watch isn't on subscription platforms, or is sometime
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by toast0 4mo ago
The first part of formal verification is getting a formal specification. I don't know about most developers, but I rarely get a written specification for anything I work on, and when I do, it's no where near what would be needed
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by toast0 4mo ago
NUMA latencies across machines are way worse than across sockets or across core complexes. :p Single socket doesn't necessarily get you away from NUMA anyway, AMD server sockets are 4 way NUMA (you can set it for interleaving, but
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by toast0 4mo ago
> I'm not sure it's right to label vacuum tubes and core memory as "DRAM" though. Core memory does need a refresh after a read, but since it doesn't need refreshing otherwise, I'd mark it as SRAM. Williams t
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by toast0 4mo ago
I would assume dissect.cstruct was written for interopt with c programs using C structs, or to use formats documented as C structs. Not as a greenfield tool for arbitrary formats. C structs seem less bad than python structs, so why not use
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by toast0 4mo ago
Hundreds of cores is likely two sockets and so you've got NUMA there. Scaling to large core counts has a lot of gotchas.
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by toast0 4mo ago
Stats on wikipedia [1] stopped breaking out coal from other fossil fuel ('thermal') production in 2021. But coal was 4.1 million GWh in 2014 and 5.0 million GWh in 2021; that's a lot of (relatively) new coal. Fossil fuel grow

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