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by wolrah 6y ago
> Or the drone wash was the straw that broke the observatory's back. Technically not impossible, the drone was close enough to the cable that it was likely exerting some force, no matter how small, on them. There is certainly some
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by wolrah 6y ago
Arecibo was also a massively powerful radar transmitter, used to map other bodies in our solar system and arguably more importantly to get precise position and trajectory information for the various objects floating around out there. Losin
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by wolrah 6y ago
The drones were being used by the engineers on site who to monitor things and help plan for the intended demolition. It was more or less pure luck that one happened to be there at the time it happened. Unfortunately for the viewing public
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by wolrah 6y ago
Agreed 100%. Basically anything that would stop a scraper from downloading or interpreting a single page will also get in the way of search engines and screen readers. The former is generally not desirable and the latter may actually be il
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by wolrah 6y ago
Exactly! The biggest problem with most progress bars is that they tie together multiple unrelated things that aren't even measured in the same way to a single indicator. If there are multiple independent tasks, give me multiple indepe
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by wolrah 6y ago
> People hacked Windows onto early Intel Macs before Apple made it official with Bootcamp! Slightly different there though, considering that the early Intel Macs were more or less identical to contemporary PC laptops internally other tha
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by wolrah 6y ago
> $20 at the volume they sell does add up. So charge $50 more per laptop and make $30 more profit while not producing 8 GB junk that'll be e-waste in a few years because that's barely enough RAM to run an average browser sessio
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by wolrah 6y ago
It's the same RAM, as long as you have one of the few models that is still upgradeable at all. The fact that so many laptops have gone to soldered-in RAM is an entirely different problem, those are all ripoffs no matter what.
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by wolrah 6y ago
That's interesting that you feel this way, personally I take the exact opposite position. I want printer drivers to be a thing of the past. I just want to pass the printer a file that represents a document and let it handle things fo
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by wolrah 6y ago
Now the web browser can crash the entire system an order of magnitude faster! That said I love the idea from the perspective of a wonderful hack, but I truly hope no one actually has a use case where running classic Mac OS on modern hardwar
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by wolrah 6y ago
FWIW I just upgraded from an Intel 4790K to an AMD 3900X and while I had a big Hyper212 cooler on the Intel at the moment I'm running the bundled stock cooler on the AMD. I understand why they're doing it and I don't disagree
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by wolrah 6y ago
Exactly. All else being equal more memory is either neutral or better, but all else is not always equal. If the larger capacity memory is slower, then any applications that didn't need more memory just lost performance.
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by wolrah 6y ago
A larger but slower cache would be a downside for an application that did not need the extra capacity. Now it's cache accesses are slower with no gains anywhere else. Of course if you don't have enough memory at a given tier and
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by wolrah 6y ago
> I'm not aware of USB interfering with anything 2.4Ghz. https://usb.org/sites/default/files/327216.pdf "USB 3.0 Radio Frequency Interference Impact on 2.4 GHz Wireless Devices"
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by wolrah 6y ago
> Is this a uniquely USB3.0 problem? https://usb.org/sites/default/files/327216.pdf Paper by Intel about USB 3.0 interfering with 2.4 GHz WiFi. The fact that the USB-IF hosts this paper on their own site
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by wolrah 6y ago
> You're shifting around a lot when driving. Legs moving on pedals, arms and hands wheel turning, head+shoulders turning to look left and right. As someone who lives in the midwest, I have to disagree. Pick pretty much any random 1
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by wolrah 6y ago
> HDMI out and boots Linux, so could function as desktop replacement. As someone who has tried to run a desktop environment on various Pi-like devices for years, with every generation being "the one that will replace your PC" I
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by wolrah 6y ago
Relevant tweet: https://twitter.com/stahnma/status/634849376343429120 "Everybody has a testing environment. Some people are lucky enough enough to have a totally separate environment to run production in.&quo
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by wolrah 6y ago
If you like that, check this out: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d7eddj/4chan-does-first-g... Obviously I in no way support the politics of the people responsible for this, but from a pure "this is t
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by wolrah 6y ago
Yeah, that was my immediate thought as well. I have a WQHD (3440x1440) main display with two old 1680x1050 panels mounted side by side above it. Even amongst those with three monitors my setup is quite unusual and thus would be incredibly
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by wolrah 6y ago
This has nothing to do with DisplayPort itself and everything to do with a bad implementation in the monitor. The DisplayPort spec actually explicitly says to not do what these defective monitors are doing.
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by wolrah 6y ago
> If I'm a client, and I've bumped my dependency from 1.2.3 to 1.3.0, it doesn't matter in that moment whether my deployment is on fire because there was an unannounced but intentional change, or a breakage because of a bu
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by wolrah 6y ago
Like boomboomsubban, I have never had this happen. My current laptop shipped with Windows 8 and has had Windows 10 installed since the weekend after the public beta was released. It's also had an Ubuntu dual boot since exactly the sa
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by wolrah 6y ago
> at sufficient scale, there’s no such thing as a non-breaking change I don't disagree with you that unexpected breakage can come from the strangest things, especially as systems get larger and more complicated. That said, that&#x27
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by wolrah 6y ago
Your experience tracks with mine as well. I run VoIP PBXes and they occasionally need to send an email, usually for voicemail to email but occasionally for other alerts. By default they just send straight to the internet, sending from pbx@p
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by wolrah 6y ago
> so you can find out if how much effort it's worth putting into validating it as a platform. I don't understand the logic here. We're talking about the new version of your target OS. You will presumably always need to s
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by wolrah 6y ago
Yup, there are a ton of people, myself included, who would love to be able to build an all-in-one router/firewall/WAP box for a small environment where such a thing makes sense, but we like pfSense for the router/firewall par
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by wolrah 6y ago
> What is the cause of this situation? Is it simply that commercial entities using FreeBSD does not have wifi as a requirement? I don't have any numbers to back it up and I'm not sure if anyone even could know (does FreeBSD hav
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by wolrah 6y ago
It's an enormous advantage in one specific case, where you have enough non-technical users who would otherwise need to manually choose a binary. That was a big deal for Apple during their two previous transitions, but not as much these
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by wolrah 6y ago
Ah yes, Java, with the promise of "write once, run anywhere"...as long as anywhere has a specific version of the JRE installed that's been EoL since 2007. Obviously that's not the case for all Java software, but has alwa

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