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by wolrah 5y ago
Proof that deprecating support for ancient software run by change-fearing businesses can still be done properly. The people responsible for this are heroes, they did what even Microsoft themselves were unable to do without their help, and t
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To me this article seems to miss the point. Obviously science can't provide objective answers to subjective matters. The problem we have in society right now regarding science, as I see it, is that we have a significant group of peopl
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> It wasn’t operational, it was being comissioned. You're telling me that you don't see a problem with the idea of starting up a bleeding edge system intended to store incredible amounts of energy without the monitoring systems
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by wolrah 5y ago
Hosting files takes almost no CPU power. If you're running in to trouble on anything you're transcoding, which means converting the files from the format they're in on disk to something else for streaming (usually to reduce t
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by wolrah 5y ago
> I wonder why they never used that Ethernet-over-hdmi, which is a thing for many years now. The same wires on the HDMI cable are used for HDMI ARC, which is far more useful to most TVs (as it allows smart TV apps to back-feed their audi
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by wolrah 5y ago
The open WiFi thing I have yet to see any evidence of, as discussed elsewhere in this thread, and while HDMI has supported ethernet for years I legitimately have never seen a device claim to actually use it. You'd need both the TV and
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by wolrah 5y ago
> Why does my TV need updates nowadays? My car? Because they're connected to the internet or to internet-connected networks. Anything that's connected to the internet needs to be receiving at least security updates. If it&#x27
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The extra cost would be building the "dumb mode". Smart TVs took over in part because they were cheaper than regular TVs because they could be subsidized by ads, placement deals for apps, etc. Also most normal consumers don't
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by wolrah 5y ago
I've been using a Moonlander exclusively on my desktop since November 2020 while having no trouble continuing to use a Macbook Air or my old Acer laptop. The differently placed modifier keys on the laptops screw me up infinitely more t
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There really isn't anything because there isn't much reason to do it beyond "because I can". The SoCs used in smart TVs are mostly older ARM and MIPS chips with just enough power for what they need to do so it's not
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by wolrah 5y ago
> Jam 80 Cores, 768GB of RAM into E-ATX Case with This Tiny Board The headline sounds like a brag, but isn't exactly impressive. There have been multiple EATX Dual EPYC motherboards on sale for some time now. The limited board area
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by wolrah 5y ago
> Those failures are all very reasonable Except for the whole part about non-treaded tires. That should have been obvious to anyone who gave it even a half second's thought.
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> a system of mirrors would solve the problem. A system of mirrors prevents a single node going down from taking the whole system (in theory at least, we've all seen plenty of times where failover goes poorly), but it doesn't d
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by wolrah 5y ago
When people talk about good reliable Brother printers they're always talking about their cheap laser line. Inkjet printers exist in two forms: Quality photo printers and complete garbage. They are not for documents or other normal pri
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by wolrah 5y ago
I blame marketing departments being given too much (read: almost any) control over product development. No developer cares about the level of analytics being pushed today, and unless they're profit sharing they probably don't care
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by wolrah 5y ago
In a previous twitter thread linked from the post here Elon mentions having tried many times to get John to join.
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by wolrah 5y ago
> Semantic version is mostly bullshit anyway. You can never guarantee that a non-breaking change is non-breaking for every single one of your users. You are misunderstanding the scope of SemVer. It's purely about intentional change
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> Also I'm aware of at least one game that uses an internal executable restart routine to reboot and reload data on PS4 and X1 since it's just easier than dynamically unloading all engine data and loading it again following an
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> Is this a Linux feature or FreeBSD magic, as like the article seems to credit it? Being able to just send wave data to the audio device "file" is pretty common on most systems that smell like Unix. The netcat trickery from th
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by wolrah 5y ago
The biggest problem with failsafes of that nature is that they get disabled, either because the users find them annoying day-to-day or because something in the system failed in the field and getting the equipment back in service was priorit
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by wolrah 5y ago
iOS apps can be given access to files and folders created in other apps. I have no idea when this was added, I didn't use iOS between 3.x and 14.x, but it's there. https://juno.sh/ios-file-system/ for some i
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by wolrah 5y ago
> There used to be a Chrome extension that did exactly that but Google removed it. (They were the authors) Not sure about something Google themselves made, but I've been using this one called "Unpinterested" for a few year
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> I guess it's too slow to calculate and causes too much server-side processing? Bingo, game servers need to be as lightweight as possible because whatever calculations they have to run need to run per player per tick. Detailed occ
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And at least the Xbox supports plugging headphones in to the controllers, since the controller refresh in the middle of the Xbox One generation. This doesn't entirely solve the same problem but it gets close.
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by wolrah 5y ago
> Also, most of the issues will not be with obscure email servers, they will be with Outlook and Gmail. When you send email, you will never know if your email will be delivered to inbox, delivered to spam folder, or blackholed entirely.
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by wolrah 5y ago
> A large CPU with a small GPU would nice, while we're wishing. My biggest annoyance with switching to AMD has been this. My previous Intel system has a Core i7 4790K, Intel's top tier CPU for their consumer platform at the ti
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by wolrah 5y ago
Can confirm, I was playing with this in my neighborhood years ago. I'm pretty sure it was the gas meters I was seeing.
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by wolrah 5y ago
So what do companies do that serve wider areas spanning multiple area codes? I'm based in Northeast Ohio, so a the majority of my clients are in the Cleveland/Akron/Canton metro area. Those who do on-site services, say a sep
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by wolrah 5y ago
You can't just port the number to a VoIP provider and keep it regardless of location? I work for a VoIP provider so when I got rid of my secondary phone I just ported it to my system and now I can do whatever I want with it. A bunch of
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by wolrah 5y ago
Tools that are intended to be used in scripts often have fairly quiet default modes. tar, cp, and many other *nix tools in that general realm tend to only speak up when something goes wrong, at least by default. That said, I'm on your

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