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by wolrah 5y ago
I'm not talking about comfort, I'm talking about ability to handle the surface properly. Skinny nonsense race bike tires get swallowed up by cracks in the road that reasonable tires just go right over. They're more fragile
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by wolrah 5y ago
Bad as in not smooth, like far from perfect but also nothing I had ever thought twice about while riding a couple hundred dollar retail store mountain bike. Average Ohio roads, not the worst but definitely weathered. My former housemate ha
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by wolrah 5y ago
> Just to give you an example, lookup the swissair in-flight entertainment fire incident. Tacking couple of screens and media server onto an existing plane should be fine right? turns out not really and 215 people paid the price of that
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by wolrah 5y ago
This is of course why we now have QUIC now, and why it's explicitly designed to be as opaque as practically possible to middleboxes.
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by wolrah 5y ago
The second most annoying thing to me about cyclists are the number of them who complain about the quality of the road or path while riding what is more or less a race bike. Shockingly, road race vehicles of any variety generally are not bui
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by wolrah 5y ago
Relevant video discussing fire keys and other common keys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9b9IYqsb_U And since this thread is about elevators, I have to also mention another video of theirs: https://www.youtube
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by wolrah 5y ago
> But they will never do that because that would break existing systems that depend on the old behaviour. Which is an inevitability for anything that's been a dependency for long enough. Either you admit that things have to change a
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by wolrah 6y ago
http://www.texfaq.org/FAQ-TeXfuture > Knuth has declared that he will do no further development of TeX; he will continue to fix any bugs that are reported to him (though bugs are rare). This decision was made soon after
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by wolrah 6y ago
> The ME, on the other hand, is obviously good since it "allows" you to watch 4K Netflix on your PC. The ME has nothing to do with this, it's entirely about the GPU. 7th generation Intel GPUs and 10xx or newer nVidia GPUs
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by wolrah 6y ago
In the server market Intel had 92.9% for Q4 2020. AMD is actually up a lot in that market, Intel had 95.5% in 2019, but outside of a few specific use cases Intel still owns the market most likely to contain interesting information an attac
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by wolrah 6y ago
> Any game with a large mod community, mostly single player games like KSP or minecraft, generally stays far away from any form of DRM. Many major first person shooters stand as counterpoints to your claim. Most Valve games for example
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by wolrah 6y ago
As I understand it that's more or less what the older MS Office formats were, just a dump of the entire OLE object representing the document as-is. I believe SimCity used a similar strategy as well, the .cty and I think SC2k's .s2
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by wolrah 6y ago
This is one of the reasons I chose a Moonlander over an Ergodox for my first split keyboard, the ability to fold the thumb cluster down to an angled position seemed like it'd be more natural. So far in the two months I've been us
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by wolrah 6y ago
I did see someone linked documentation for how they did a build recently in the pfSense subreddit when this same article was posted there, so I guess it is in fact possible, but the process was certainly nowhere close to straightforward. I
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by wolrah 6y ago
> Americans not knowing (or not caring) and being unwilling to spend money to make it less fragile. And of course the fact that for the most part those most impacted by these outages aren't the ones making the decisions about what m
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by wolrah 6y ago
I'm not sure about the kernel alone, but the last time I tried to build the entire pfSense system (a few years ago, but still in the 2.4.x era) using the build.sh in the pfsense/pfsense repo it fell apart due to references to Netg
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by wolrah 6y ago
> (try getting help with DAHDI if you aren't using it). I mean, is it shocking that the Digium Asterisk Hardware Device Interface is primarily supported with Asterisk? > I'm just curious if it's and product worth learni
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by wolrah 6y ago
I have daydreamed about the same many times and considered trying to start it myself, but it didn't take too long before realizing that the reason I'd want it is the same reason I wouldn't stand a chance at building it. It wo
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by wolrah 6y ago
IMO the best mice ever are the Logitech MX Revolution and MX Master series that have an electronic clutch on the wheel. It's clicky by default but if you whip it the clutch unlocks and you can traverse an entire EULA in 0.6 seconds. S
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by wolrah 6y ago
Eh, "grave vulnerabilities" seems like quite the overstatement to me for a lot of ESP32 use cases. The described exploit requires physical access to the device PCB and precisely timed fault injection, so it requires moderately sop
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by wolrah 6y ago
This article was posted when it was new, and I still have the same opinion now as I did then. Why was Netflix putting effort in to supporting a device that the vendor clearly didn't care about? This unnamed vendor was, in late 2017, pr
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by wolrah 6y ago
Based on the way certain files are listed in the complaint I suspect this is something along the lines of what happened with youtube-dl where there's some part of the test suite, some example, or even some comment in the code that refe
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by wolrah 6y ago
> That's likely a national statistic. Remember, these are police in DC, a very liberal area. Still cops. I personally know two DC area cops who are quite red. Remember, police organizations have been pushing the idea that anyone w
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by wolrah 6y ago
> Separate, but equal isn't equal. The world of mobile web sites demonstrates that this swings both ways. Some web sites have mobile-specific interfaces that greatly enhance the experience when using the site on a small screen touc
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by wolrah 6y ago
I think they may have been referring to the actual mainstream retail availability of ECC RAM. I can buy non-ECC RAM at almost any retailer that sells computers. If I need non-ECC RAM right now I can have it in my hands in 30 minutes. ECC
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by wolrah 6y ago
> I'm not sure what you mean by the second sentence but you can't use most appliances made for Europe in America and vice versa. Most electronic appliances depend on the input voltage and supplying 240V can easily cause a fire.
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by wolrah 6y ago
You have misunderstood. The hardware device that was misbehaving had not yet been released to the public, yet it was running an ancient and out-of-date OS build. That's what I'm saying is idiotic. Netflix can and should support
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by wolrah 6y ago
The reason it caused a problem is because Netflix wasn't loading more than a frame worth of data at a time. That's a strategy that makes sense for a game streaming app like Stadia or Steam Link where every frame of latency matter
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by wolrah 6y ago
> This is particularly a problem when people are leaving buildings onto sidewalks unaware of cross traffic moving at 10+ kph. Bicycles belong on the road with other vehicles. I can never understand how anyone can make this argument witho
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by wolrah 6y ago
> If a car hits a walking or cycling person, whatever the situation they are at fault. This is insane. Cyclists run stop signs, red lights, etc. all the time. Pedestrians run out in to traffic from behind parked cars. If they get hit

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