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How do you tell the difference between a datacenter and a supercomputer cluster? According to wikipedia, the government data center in Utah is pulling 65 MW.
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> advocate for activating bio lockout at the border This is a terrible idea. When you're crossing a border you have to submit to the rules of entry. If one of those rules is that you let them create an image of your phone with all o
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My screen realestate changes several times a day. My work daily driver is a laptop that has a built in screen of a particular resolution. In the office it plugs into a dock with one monitor that has a different resolution than the built-in
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On the spectrum from bare majority to unanimity, being in the bottom 20% of the range is not "a wide margin."
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It's not a matter of what's located in France. It's a matter of what documentation about your company requires you to keep. Regardless of where the computers you use are physically located if you can't produce the requir
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Hard to see how a company can imagine it can do business in a country and not follow that country’s record keeping laws and be subject to criminal and civil statutes in that country.
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> If you were designing the flight software for the Ariane 5, which choice would you make? I would take note of the underlying hardware and what range of inputs are allowed and code appropriately. Stop pretending that your software doesn
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"Infinite monkeys" would produce Shakespeare and every other book, document, and all future possible book and document in the amount of time equal to the number of letters in the book and the typing rate of a monkey. It wouldn
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Prior to recent years, the singular they was more often used as the generic pronoun. I'm old. No offense was intended. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
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I think they were more references the human readability of HTTP/1.0 in general instead of binary encoded data.
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You do it at the file system layer. Clone the template which creates only metadata referencing the original blocks then you perform copy-on-write as needed.
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Government institutions are not meant to be autonomous. Outside of a narrow set of explicitly political positions, everyone who is in government should be apolitical in the carrying out of their duties.
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Reasonably certain that when the parent wrote "We'll comply" they very explicitly said Apple is complying. Which removes the majority of your bullet points.
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Yes, why would they go above and beyond to create unrecaptured expenses for themselves? I mean, you as a human only ever pay the minimal price for a product that they will sell it to you for. Why would any other human do otherwise?
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I mean in terms of his quest for GPU + ARM. He's been futzing around with Pis and external GPUs and the entire time you've been able to buy a variety of SBCs from nVidia with first class software support.
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> If NVidia wanted their GPUs to work on Raspberry Pi, then it would already be done. It wouldn’t be an issue. But NVidia doesn’t care, because that’s not a real market for their GPUs. It's weird af that Geerling ignores nVidia. The
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> loop: move.b (a0)+,d0 move.b d0,(a1)+ ... > loop: mov al,[rsi] mov [rdi],al This hurts my brain. When we invent time machines I'm going to use it to go back and slap w
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You're failing to see the secret that is exposed by the fact that their Chief Engineer comes from hyperloop. They're going to dig tunnels connecting all their destinations and run the airships underground in a vacuum sealed networ
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This seems like those bums who run out and smear up your windshield at stop lights who then want to be paid. If you want to get paid for software development, start a business and sell to customers, or get a job. The number of "develop
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If that one million people dying is followed by 3649 days of no one dying from that cause, yes it is.
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Yeah. There are plenty there that would convert a yes to a no. Many of them give the impression of lawyering and make me think the person knows they will routinely act on the margins of acceptable.
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$ uname -a SunOS bob 5.11 11.4.68.164.2 sun4v sparc sun4v kernel-zone $ pwd /usr/bin $ file * | grep 32-bit | wc 46 1008 8890 $ file * | grep 64-bit | wc 1036 21449 185122 I think Solaris is f
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If you have physical access to a device that you can solder an antenna you can compromise a TPM or anything else by sticking a custom DIMM in there that you can program from the “back side” so you can replace any part of memory with anythin
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Sun used common stuff quite early on, well before "the bitter end". They adopted PCI in 1997. Their workstations they moved from SCSI to ATA around the same time, though the servers are still with the SCSI family today. Regardless
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Not Copenhagen, but if you are in the Seattle area you should think twice before gardening or eating fruit from free growing plants if you are south of Elliot Bay on the Puget Sound. https://apps.ecology.wa.gov/dirtalert
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>Sadly, every culture has had a slave or slave-like underclass. Even the US has one - anyone with 50K in student loan debt, working a minimum wage job, with the debt growing faster than the payments, can tell you it feels awfully close t
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On Github. Doesn't give them a license to fork it to their workstation.
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This is wrong: >While the license included in the original doesn't bind the recipients to v2, recipients can't restrict successive recipients to a later version only. They have the option of v2. The program was licensed under G
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In the README.txt distributed with the release it says: > Licensed under the GNU General Public License 2.0. Which is the only text that puts it under the GPL at all. There is no later version mentioned. https://github.com
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> I dont see why people would have any GPLv2 rights for this version. Because the code is licensed under GPL v2. Not or any later versions. In the original distribution there was a filed called LICENSE.txt which is just the literal GPL v
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