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by trollied 1y ago
USA food is absolutely crazy. Lots of stuff that’s banned in the EU. Lots of high fructose corn syrup. If you eat out, portion sizes are off the scale. I ordered a starter salad at a restaurant once when I was over on business, and it would
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by trollied 1y ago
Interesting. I’ve not seen that mentioned before.
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by trollied 1y ago
That’s great, but you need a solid HA/backup and recovery strategy if you even remotely care about your data.
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by trollied 1y ago
Was lucky enough to see them live at a small venue in Manchester in the 90s when I was at University. Epic times.
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by trollied 1y ago
Launch platforms are PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X.
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by trollied 1y ago
Why? It’s not being released on PC at launch.
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by trollied 1y ago
Used to work for a telco. Cell sites have battery backup. Some have generators. Any fibre repeaters also will, as do any radio based backhaul sites. The HLR/core network etc will run indefinitely due to generators & strict fuel sup
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by trollied 1y ago
In the UK, the grid used to have to manage the load when millions of people would all put the kettle on during popular TV advertisement breaks.
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by trollied 1y ago
It was Practical Engineering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOSnQM1Zu4w Very good video. Very good channel.
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by trollied 1y ago
England/Wales/Scotland form an island. None of that is true.
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by trollied 1y ago
You were probably in the same place using the same IP address, and both browsed - doesn’t matter which sites you both visited, the trackers have you. You might have shown him where you were going. Ad trackers thought “I’ll serve ski ads to
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by trollied 1y ago
They cannot.
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by trollied 1y ago
I read the whole thing and missed that. Thank you for the correction.
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by trollied 1y ago
No. The grandparent comment was essentially saying that we, as a species, were not designed to live as long as we do. It’s only been <10 generations since medicine has been a thing. Cancers, dementia etc just weren’t a thing before becau
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by trollied 1y ago
Backblaze don’t charge egress if you put it behind Cloudflare (even the free tier).
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by trollied 1y ago
The author does not state how he knows he is on the MAL. It’s an important part of the story. If he doesn’t actually know, it’s more than possible it is random.
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by trollied 1y ago
You might want to read this https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sanctuary--supremacy--h...
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by trollied 1y ago
Really? Crikey. I am happy to be wrong.
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by trollied 1y ago
HN certainly leans one way. X has gone more central. BUT remember that what you see is driven by the people you follow, mostly. Don’t like what they say or their political persuasion? Unfollow.
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by trollied 1y ago
Looks like a good alternative to istat. The “new version” upgrade model that istat now do has put me off for life.
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by trollied 1y ago
Thanks for the laugh!
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by trollied 1y ago
> They also have one shared brain cell. You will appreciate: https://www.reddit.com/r/OneOrangeBraincell/
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by trollied 1y ago
I was talking digital. The output has to hit a device that does something with pixels at some point. At that stage it isn’t encrypted. (Think ribbon cable to LCD, or equivalent). No reason why an FPGA or some custom hardware can’t grab that
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by trollied 1y ago
Look at glibc. eg: https://github.com/lattera/glibc/blob/master/string/strcpy.c
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by trollied 1y ago
The DRM doesn't need to be broken. If it can be displayed on a screen, it can be captured. Just requires electronics engineering effort.
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by trollied 1y ago
This made me think, I used to love playing with Enlightenment back in the day. It was really trying to push what X11 could do. Surprised it's still going https://www.enlightenment.org/
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by trollied 1y ago
Or you could just follow the guide on the UTM site & use the installer. https://docs.getutm.app/guides/ubuntu/
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by trollied 1y ago
Given how they started... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30011965 (Today I learned)
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by trollied 1y ago
Remember the game Ecco The Dolphin? Related... https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-ketamine-secrets-of-sega...
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by trollied 1y ago
You’re correct that modern web apps support keyboard shortcuts just fine. Unfortunately the reality of it is that the modern web is bogged down by the mess that is npm modules, react etc, and the majority of web apps are slow. Oldschool ter

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