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by utensil4778 2y ago
Storing nanoseconds as a double is probably the dumbest thing I've heard this week.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Generally, yes. That's why people tend to go for quite a while before noticing the damage. The mechanism isn't perfect and there are plenty of scenarios where your brain doesn't fill in the information, like the one I describ
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Typically you'll notice a persistent black spot in your vision. Particularly if you're looking at a bright field like a blank white page on your monitor.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
> features aren’t free to add or maintain. The argument is that is is free because the feature already exists and is being maintained . You just aren't allowed to have it.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Yes, but not really. Practically all Bluetooth connections are encrypted. There's a couple of cases where you can intercept the encryption key IF you capture both sides of the initial pairing negotiation. In those cases it's trivi
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by utensil4778 2y ago
To a close approximation, absolutely zero people need, want, or could possibly benefit from Bluetooth to satellite. The protocol just wasn't designed for anything more complex than a headset. Beyond a single low bandwidth point to poin
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Bluetooth has many different pairing modes. The one most commonly used by pin-less devices like headphones and speakers is called Secure Simple Pairing. It pretty much just accepts any connection. There are other modes depending on hardware
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by utensil4778 2y ago
You should know about the stack and heap as general concepts, yes. More importantly, you need to understand generally how memory management works in your environment. It really, truly, does lead you into writing more efficient code. But t
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by utensil4778 2y ago
I'm really excited to see where ML takes us in cetacean linguistic research. I don't know if it will successfully translate whale song, but we'll learn a whole lot by trying. Whale song is about the closest thing we have to a
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by utensil4778 2y ago
A lot of cheap USB1/2 widgets are actually a 6800 core. It's crazy how these old CPUs have stuck around for so long
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by utensil4778 2y ago
I'm really amused by the concept of Quota becoming a site specifically and exclusively for question-answerers. Question-askers need not apply. Where do the questions come from? Best not to ask.
102.
by utensil4778 2y ago
Just skip breakfast to save money, quit buying avocado toast and Starbucks. Something something bootstraps something something lazy millennials
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by utensil4778 2y ago
From Earth's perspective, you wouldn't see anything interesting except for the sun vanishing. Gravitationally, all that matters is the absolute mass, so all the dynamics of the solar system stay the same. A black hole of 1 solar m
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Galvanic USB isolators are a thing. Mostly for medical applications, but it's literally a chip you can buy off the shelf that provides total electrical isolation (with the addition of an isolated 5v supply).
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by utensil4778 2y ago
It's kind of incredible to think how many things in computers and electronics turn out to just be a serial port. One day, some future engineer is going to ask why their warp core diagnostic port runs at 9600 8n1.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Because TUIs never change. No one removes useful options from a TUI because "whitespace is clean". No one is writing useless changes to TUIs so they can feel like their job means something or to chase some bonus. Because GUI des
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by utensil4778 2y ago
No
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Oh, don't get me wrong, I have zero faith in capitalism. After all, that's the entire reason we're in this situation. However, market forces are actually very real. They just don't work the way capitalists think they do.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
No, that's where we are now. Not in the future, right now. It isn't working. You fundamentally can't prevent someone copying your file. It isn't possible, full stop. You can only make it maximally inconvenient. You can
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by utensil4778 2y ago
The state of Bluetooth on Windows is just an absolute nightmare. My job is building a widget that streams realtime data over Bluetooth from a Windows system. It's so bad that we've totally given up on thr native Bluetooth drivers
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Where I work, we have a really just absolutely radical hiring process. We sit the candidate down, and present them with a task. Then we all sit down as a team and work the problem. The most recent one was building a game of marbles. None of
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by utensil4778 2y ago
People say this a lot, but I really don't think it's a very satisfying explanation for having miles of one lane of a highway barricaded for weeks or months without any workers or equipment in sight, ever. Everyone can name a stret
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Counternite, fort of duty, whatever. I care so little for this class of game that I can't be bothered to spend the brain space to keep them separate. Not saying they're good or bad, I'm just not interested in the slightest.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Probably. I'm so thoroughly disinterested in this class of games that I can't be bothered to remember the difference.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Yup. Short range runs could be two wires, it was more cost effective given the poor performance of the earth return system. Much longer runs were a single conductor on the pole. At either end you'd have a gigantic metal plate sunk deep
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by utensil4778 2y ago
People do, yes. But corporate executives and shareholders are not people and fundamentally do not have the capacity to care what "people" think or value. The decision makers want the number to go up, and they want it to go up now
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by utensil4778 2y ago
My house is pretty old, so it has a cold cellar under the porch. It was originally intended to keep canned goods cool, I've never seen it get to 30°C, even in summer. It's also out of the way enough that I can close the door and t
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Consumers have been signaling for quite some time that they're perfectly content buying Skyrim and Counterstrike every six months forever. Why even bother producing anything at all when you can just put a fresh coat of lipstick on the
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Close Firefox then restore your session. Until you switch to a tab, it stays unloaded and consumes nearly no resources. The tab does stay resident in memory until you restart again, or otherwise suspend it.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
I was honestly shocked at just how much compute you get for very little money on enterprise surplus servers. $150 on eBay for a dell R620, two 16-core Xeons and 64GB of RAM. Sure it's dated, but I still daily drive a quad core thinkpad

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