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by torgoguys 1y ago
For panels in northern climates, if the tilt is fixed or just seasonally adjusted (i.e., not tracking the sun), we often will bias towards a bit more vertical tilt than mathematically optimal to encourage snow shedding.
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by torgoguys 1y ago
>The point is that they are prioritizing this over new features. Good! Shoring up infrastructure vs. delivering the latest hotness is something that is rarely prioritized. I'll take boring and reliable every day of the week.
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by torgoguys 1y ago
> There doesn't really seem to be anything interesting about this. Agreed. Seriously, am I missing something or are the compact chargers from various other companies at least as compelling as this? I've got a nice one from Leno
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by torgoguys 1y ago
I'm the one who submitted this link. (I have zero affiliation with the authors). What you say is fair enough, but I thought the article an interesting data point nonetheless. In particular, I found it interesting how a vulnerability: 1
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XZ Utils Backdoor Still Lurking in Docker Images(binarly.io)
113 points by torgoguys 1y ago|58 comments
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by torgoguys 1y ago
It sounds like you are adding things with care and thought, but is there a reason the user might care that the link is to an external site?
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by torgoguys 1y ago
In what ways is it better? Security margin or something? I thought Speck has held up pretty well to cryptanalysis (unlike you I'm not in the security field so maybe I'm wrong). I quite liked the remarkable simplicity of Speck. Per
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by torgoguys 1y ago
>Even the tiniest MCU can typically perform more than one cryptographic operation per second. If your MCU has any cycles to spare at all it usually has enough cycles for cryptography. >1 operation per second would refer to cryptograph
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by torgoguys 1y ago
He was a psychiatrist and did in-person corporate trainings on understanding and maximizing interpersonal communication in companies and teams. Myers-briggs types of things but I like to think his stuff was more valuable.
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by torgoguys 1y ago
I had an elderly friend that still subscribed to AOL dialup until he died a couple of years ago. He had built his small business, which was very dependent on email, using an old AOL email address. The type of business he was in could involv
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by torgoguys 1y ago
In the USA I subscribe to Youtube Premium family. The rate is just $3.00 a month more than Spotify family. For that price you get both the Spotify-equivalent Google-owned service (confusingly called YouTube Music) AND you get ad-free Youtub
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by torgoguys 1y ago
Framesets were great. >If you right click a link and open in new window (or middle click), the frameset was gone and only the piece in the frame was visible. Feature, not bug in my book. Same thing happens in today's iframes. But fo
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by torgoguys 2y ago
It looks nice and works well. Unrelated, but I think we all need to migrate to a new word instead of "minimal" for such things. Perhaps just "simple." I get what we all mean as applied to this project, but it isn't
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by torgoguys 2y ago
One eye-opening experience for me in this regard was when I installed an old version of Microsoft Excel--I think it was either the 2000 or the 2003 version--on modern hardware. The snappiness of every action was AMAZING. Every click, drag,
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by torgoguys 2y ago
There have been no announced plans to remove win32 nor would I expect one. Too many apps still in use are win32. Win16 support was only discontinued after basically zero actively developed apps were still using it. You might be thinking of
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by torgoguys 2y ago
>Not oddly specific. When I said "oddly specific," I didn't mean that there might not be reason to label eggs with an expiration, I meant that it was oddly specific to require eggs to be labelled while not requiring some f
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by torgoguys 2y ago
> To adhere with the requisite language outlined, any food products with a date label — with the exception of infant formula, eggs, beer, and malt beverages — must state “Best if Used By” to indicate peak quality, and “Use By” to designa
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by torgoguys 2y ago
That isn't the only Starbucks environmental initiative. A relevant one for this purpose is they've pledged to cut carbon by 50% between 2020 and 2030.
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by torgoguys 2y ago
Yes, this. It is an affront to the open web to serve one set of content to one person and different content to someone else (unless there is a user experience benefit to the customization I suppose). I place most of the blame on the publish
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by torgoguys 2y ago
caniuse reports that a regression bug broke it in Safari 17.0 and 17.1: https://caniuse.com/colr
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by torgoguys 2y ago
>...the glicko2 crate for elo management That's kind of funny. When this project said it had elo rankings, I had the thought, "it's a shame they're using elo when there are better options." It seems like you are
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by torgoguys 2y ago
...and which libraries are those?
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by torgoguys 2y ago
Ditto. When I clicked on the article, it was an "oh yeah, that makes more sense" moment, but I certainly don't feel stupid for making the mistake. The Twitter -> X is terrible. I hearby rebrand it to "Wasteland."
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by torgoguys 2y ago
Ditto. When I clicked on the article, it was an "oh yeah, that makes more sense" moment, but I certainly don't feel stupid for making the mistake. The Twitter -> X is terrible.
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by torgoguys 2y ago
Yes, he SAYS that but it's not true which is part of what irks people. It has needed an update for a long time. He or Leo on the podcast have long said or implied 6.0 is more or less "bug free." But for example, read spinrite
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by torgoguys 2y ago
Yes, he did. However, that was the first release in close to 20 years.
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by torgoguys 2y ago
Yes, I did forgot that!
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by torgoguys 2y ago
And before that, it was conflated with some of the more recent ML techniques. And before that, it felt to me it had gotten mostly pigeonholed for a while as a marketing term to refer computer opponents in games. Before that, we are finally
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by torgoguys 3y ago
The reason I didn't like the name when I first came across it is that I think of shaking the tree for harvesting the fruit. The fruit is what you want, not what you want to eliminate. But it's an ok term overall.
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by torgoguys 3y ago
Wow! What were the specifics?

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