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by toast0 1mo ago
At least on the bikes I had access to growing up, rim brakes were hard to adjust so you could easily lock up the wheels, but not drag when not applied... Especially if you had safety levers. V brakes hadn't been invented yet: we just h
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by toast0 1mo ago
I run actual Winamp for my music streaming, and windows task manager claims it's using 4.1 MB. Even that seems pretty high, but whatever, but given y'all are spending hundreds of mbs, I think I'm ok. Yes, spotify has features
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by toast0 1mo ago
Not if you're procrastinating on the right things. Defered tasks are sometimes completed by others, or otherwise become obsolete while you wait.
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by toast0 1mo ago
If the failure is replicated by multiple groups, that would be reportable. Otoh, not sure that anyone wants to read a report that some finding that nobody reported on couldn't be replicated.
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by toast0 1mo ago
Here's one. I always leave my procrastination for later.
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by toast0 2mo ago
Well ok ... If a full width newspaper needs the whole sheet and you put columns to reduce the necessary whitespace, you would end with blank space that you can fill with more articles or ads. You don't really want to reduce the number
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by toast0 2mo ago
Dictionaries in columns statistically reduce white space and thus reduce the page count. Especially for the definitions that are very short, for example when they only reference a more preferred spelling or a more prominent word that has th
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by toast0 2mo ago
After the first two times, do they even need to collude? Can't they count on each other doing the profitable thing? Especially when they PR it: > Furthermore, focused investment in HBM is creating a virtuous cycle that improves prof
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by toast0 2mo ago
You'd best behave or you'll be sitting in Stonehenge!
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by toast0 2mo ago
When these things come up, what usually happens is implementations stop following the spec as written. Many issues can be handled with minimal coordination, but some things work much better with consensus and you see flag day campaigns. Ipv
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by toast0 2mo ago
All the recent generations accept USB controllers, is there really much locked down in there?
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by toast0 2mo ago
Wikipedia claims [1]: > The HFS Plus file system transparently defragments files that are less than 20 MiB in size and are broken into 8 or more fragments when the file is being opened. Which I expect would have significantly reduced the
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by toast0 2mo ago
You don't need one, but it's convenient for listing the files in the archive without having to scan through it.
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by toast0 2mo ago
> Also this is a side thought; but I wonder if AWS AMIs and EBS volumes will boot faster if also organized sequentially. Probably a measurable, but small, difference. I would expect it's not worth the effort unless you're spend
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by toast0 2mo ago
Page caches are nice, but you would see meaningful reduction in load times for the OS and applications by getting data in order on spinning disks. Especially games that used most of your ram and loaded reasonably large level files. fat seem
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by toast0 2mo ago
It's more complex than that... Sequential reads are faster than random reads across most mediums (including system ram), but if there's enough prefetching, you might get better throughput on an SSD with the data fragmented than co
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by toast0 2mo ago
Love the warning for using on a mobile device.
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by toast0 2mo ago
There's tons of marginal hardware out there, and game developers sometimes push hardware pretty hard and may run early drivers, etc.
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by toast0 2mo ago
Well Lutnick's brother for one. But Wikipedia has a list of notable people who died [1]. David Angel, an Emmy winning TV writer and producer. Garnet Bailey, an acomplished hockey player. Carolyn Beug who directed the award winning musi
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by toast0 2mo ago
> While it’s important to make this explicit, at what point do we just assume a high-reliability UPS is table stakes? Several years after they become commercially available? My experience with small UPSes is they tend to cook the batteri
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by toast0 2mo ago
Yahoo access logs used control characters to separate fields beyond a fixed width field, but it wasn't the record separators. It used ctrl-E to separate fields, which had a one character identifier. Some of the fields had sub-fields wh
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by toast0 2mo ago
Windows networking doesn't suck that much. Microsoft does do some good things with networking (they originated receive side scaling, which is really useful for high volume servers), this is just bad defaults and poor feedback. Other OS
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by toast0 2mo ago
Take a pcap on your router while you're downloading things and it should be enlightening. If you don't have a router you can capture pcaps with, setup a box with two nics, bridged, between your ps5 and your router and take pcaps o
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by toast0 2mo ago
> Not sure what to make of this. What was their rate of last minute cancellations? I suspect people in that circle frequently change plans, sometimes at the last minute, so having changed plans on that day would be unremarkable had that
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by toast0 2mo ago
It's pretty hard for the shortcuts to be consistent and localized. Especially if you also use different keyboard layouts when you're using different languages... Even for keys that aren't mnemonic, do you want undo to be ct
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by toast0 2mo ago
> Google Maps (at least in the US, in my experience) is really great about telling you what lane to be in. Having recently driven in Boston[1], the problem is that Google Maps tells you what lane you need to be in when the route divergen
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by toast0 2mo ago
> It is so frustrating that this can bring down the rest of the network to the lowest common denominator. It shouldn't? I have 10M to 10G in the same ethernet collision domain everything works at appropriate speeds (my 10G hosts don
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by toast0 2mo ago
> For example, why did Edge and possible chrome, remove support for Back via the backspace key? Because alt+left is a better choice? Really f**ing annoying when some dumb javascript removes focus from a text box you're editing and t
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by toast0 2mo ago
> showing the relevant keyboard shortcuts in the UI can be overwhelming Underlining the accelerator key is subtle and shouldn't be overwelming. Keyboard navigation unaware users probably won't even notice.
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by toast0 2mo ago
TV stuff doesn't tend to need more than 100Mbps, unless you're playing blu-ray 4k discs which have higher peak rates. Saving a buck or two on the SoC adds up for the manufacturer.

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