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by watersb 7mo ago
I think a read cache device gets set up like RAID0, interleaved reads rather than redundant data. Examples of auxiliary devices where you want redundancy: there can be a write cache (the ZFS Intent Log, or ZIL). You can also dedicate a fast
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by watersb 7mo ago
It's almost as if no healthcare legislation gets passed before private insurers have figured out how to extract shareholder value. (Which makes the system worse. The fiction of a fiduciary responsibility to extract top dollar from a bu
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by watersb 7mo ago
I use two Intel 905 SSDs as mirrored cache devices for ZFS.
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by watersb 7mo ago
Wild. For the 6K displays, I'd go with the Asus ProArt 6K - Thunderbolt 4 support. These Kuycon monitors might be your choice if you want dual HDMI.
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by watersb 7mo ago
In the United States, anything they beat out of you could be considered legally inadmissible evidence, and thrown out by the court. (Whether or not that's a limit on law enforcement behavior depends on their particular aims.)
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by watersb 7mo ago
Although the lede suggests that this is about the consequences of healthcare costs in the United States, the research is from Denmark. Even so: Denmark has a universal healthcare system, [not] massive healthcare bills that usually ruin peo
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by watersb 7mo ago
Just yesterday, I saw this 16- inch portable display mentioned in another HN thread. I don't think it's OLED. But I thought it was an interesting design that might fit in with an Apple display collection. SOTSU https://
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by watersb 7mo ago
Asus ProArt Display 6K PA32QCV Since about six months ago, 4th quarter of 2025. I haven't got one yet, but it has the magic Mac 218 dpi for $1289
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by watersb 7mo ago
While the original OS X display model, Quartz, evolved from Display PDF via NextStep, I believe that it shifted back to pixel rasterization to offload more of the display stack onto the GPU. Quartz Extreme? John Siracusa, Ars Technica: It&
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by watersb 7mo ago
From TFA: You can find the code used in this blog here: https://github.com/AhmadHamze/PlutojlProjects
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by watersb 7mo ago
Termux on Android. Lots of hardware choices.
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by watersb 7mo ago
I'm typing this on an iPhone SE (2020). It runs the latest iOS, although it's likely missing some of the new bits. I prefer the size, although the screen that spans the entire front surface would be the superior device; I like the
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by watersb 8mo ago
"If you had a bus full of Japanese people, the watch would have been precisely where you left it!"
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by watersb 8mo ago
A couple of years ago, National Geographic magazine had a feature on the use of origami in engineering and art; the print edition featured a striking cover photograph of a gold colored sunshade for a space telescope under test at JPL. The w
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by watersb 8mo ago
The most fun I've had stargazing has been to share it with other people. I'm not very knowledgeable about the night sky, but I've loved looking up all my life. Just naming a few objects, like pointing out planets, can be enou
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by watersb 8mo ago
Excellent question! The longest wavelengths of light are generally classified as "radio". So radio telescopes have been tasked to explore the very early universe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reionization If
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by watersb 8mo ago
Forth invented as a monitor and control system for one of the radio telescopes at NRAO in West Virginia... So I have a tribal affinity for Color Forth, by original creator of Forth.
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by watersb 8mo ago
> The RP2040 can only do USB FS (full-speed), which is capable of 11 Mbps. At the 320x240x16 bpp we were originally targeting, every frame is 153.6 kB. At our maximum USB FS speed, that's less than 10 FPS! Embarrasingly, I had orig
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by watersb 8mo ago
Subtitle: “Post reporter was compelled to unlock MacBook Pro with fingerprint, however.”
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by watersb 8mo ago
Esoteric programming language developed for the superconducting super collider, Glish, was picked up by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, which used it well into the 2000s. Glish supported networked remote procedure calls, made then
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by watersb 8mo ago
PCalc -- because it runs on every Apple platform since the Mac Classic: https://pcalc.com/mac/thirty.html My other favorite calculator is free42, or its larger display version plus42 https://thomasokken.com&
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by watersb 8mo ago
Maybe it's no longer obvious: This is an app that plays "MODs", a sampler-based chiptune format that originated with the Commodore Amiga. Inspired by the technical limitations of a 40-year-old design, a demo scene community h
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by watersb 9mo ago
Mostly we have wood stoves.
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by watersb 9mo ago
> not an impactful decade The Trump reign is a direct consequence of 1980s Social and Economic policy. Although the libertarian hellscape vision of the 1980s would reject state ownership of (for instance) Intel, it might embrace the Chev
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by watersb 9mo ago
My elementary school years in the US really pushed metric units. And every science class I've ever had was exclusively SI units. Except for Thermodynamics, which sometimes uses BTUs and steam engines.
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by watersb 9mo ago
NATO is unbelievably, stupendously critical to US security.
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by watersb 9mo ago
I believe that the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL, really a Linux subsystem on Windows) uses the Plan 9 network protocol, 9p, to expose the host Windows filesystem to the Linux virtual environment.
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by watersb 9mo ago
I generally like it, too, but on my iPhone that very first sentence puts a spotlight in the lack of an 'fl' ligature in the word, "influence". Now I'm reconsidering my resolve to look for AI slop - my enthusiasm for
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by watersb 9mo ago
In general, if there's enough water to grow chocolate, then a relatively hot, empty state chooses to build single-family housing developments and five-lane roads. The really empty states lack the water.
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by watersb 9mo ago
> Most of the interesting questions involve energies or distances way beyond what's reachable by experiment today. Astronomers can observe extremely energetic environments from a great distance. It's not a controlled experime

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