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by xoa 5y ago
> My 2007 Toyota Avalon Touring drives pretty well with none of those 'trinkets'. Does it? This reminds me of a constant refrain on the internet about nearly any medical or safety advancement, where people say something along
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by xoa 5y ago
> It's said to be a good fit for ZFS. I tend to lz4 because its baked into the older systems I use, but it may be at a point where my default should be zstd. It is, and you should definitely at least give it a look. I posted a comm
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by xoa 5y ago
Looks like a decent basic rundown of what was another nice jump forward (2020 fwiw, 2.0 wasn't just introduced it launched about 1 year ago, current version is 2.1.1). Worth noting a number of these have significant implications for tu
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by xoa 5y ago
> The main issue with OpenZFS performance is its write speed. At first I thought you were talking about actual raw read/write speed and how things like ARC or write caches can actually become bottlenecks when using NVMe storage, wh
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by xoa 5y ago
Governments though can do that through their own passive demand. Ie., they can issue proper smartcards/tokens for citizens to identify themselves with, and then say that those can (and eventually must) be used for electronic interactio
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by xoa 5y ago
This did get posted a few weeks ago at the time it was written but didn't get much traction at that point, yet seems like a reasonably important issue. The EU has done worthy things for issues like privacy, but whatever pluses and minu
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Mozilla publishes position paper on the EU Digital Identity Framework(blog.mozilla.org)
216 points by xoa 5y ago|156 comments
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by xoa 5y ago
> Doesn't it make far more sense to just put solar panels in a field like this, instead of doing custom work putting them on top of individual homes which may have shade or directionality issues? Depends on what you're optimiz
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by xoa 5y ago
> Is there a lossless format that's smaller than the original DV? The 1.5TB I have is still annoying to handle. Been a long time since I dealt with it, I converted all my remaining DV at long last start of the decade, so I might be
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by xoa 5y ago
A core aspect seems to come at the end as a tossed in aside but gets disappointingly little consideration: > Real business flywheels do exist. Software makers have managed to lock users in and thus generate gross margins typically above
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by xoa 5y ago
> As a developer, I’ve modified quite a few system files I do as well. Given that such things tend to be more fragile between OS releases though and easy to forget I usually prefer to recreate them for upgrades or reinstalls anyway. Als
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by xoa 5y ago
> no? hydrogen to helium is by far the best. Not necessarily for humans. Stars get to be gravity-mass containment/fusion pressure automoderated, but there is nothing known even in blue sky to manipulate gravity beyond sheer mass. S
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by xoa 5y ago
> Gotcha. I'll file a Jira ticket to see if we can easily and quickly raise it to 200 characters (round number). I think we can handle that easily and safely. Thanks so much for the reply, and yeah that's done-forever territor
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by xoa 5y ago
Love Backblaze and it's my go-to backup recommendation, seeing this very late so not sure if you'll see my reply but a few thoughts: > The current limit is 50 characters. There are reasons we don't let it get super long li
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by xoa 5y ago
> I would love a simple utility that could not only neatly encapsulate and display the data being sent from my machine out on the network but also allow me to merely check a box to block that traffic. Does Little Snitch not meet your ne
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by xoa 5y ago
> and I suspect it will have not-great scores until someone writes a game and optimizes it specifically for the M1. Which is most likely never. Don't forget that these days few demanding games are "optimized for Platform XYZ&q
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by xoa 5y ago
However one feels about extra usable screen space in iDevices, doesn't seem like as big a deal on the Mac. macOS has and has always had the core menu bar taking up the entire top of the screen. And even with a significant number of use
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by xoa 5y ago
> I wonder if lithium will give us the same geopolitical results as petrol Highly doubtful. Lithium is one of the most common elements, and the oceans contain hundreds of billions of tons of dissolved lithium. The concentrations are low
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by xoa 5y ago
> To be fair the level of competition in physical stores is way beyond what we have online. That is an absolutely ludicrously absurd statement. Physical stores are physical , by definition they have vastly more scarcity. There is only
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by xoa 5y ago
> and we both were dumbstruck about iphone prices. We agree it's good hardware/products but the price is insane. I'm honestly dumbstruck that people like you are dumbstruck. It's not very hard, and whether you your s
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by xoa 5y ago
A number of military aircraft have incorporated systems as well, and they can be combined with automated celestial fixing systems for a hybrid astro-inertial navigation system. The SR-71 Blackbird used one, the Nortronics NAS-14V2 [0], and
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Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere (1997)(nuclearweaponarchive.org)
57 points by xoa 5y ago|33 comments
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by xoa 5y ago
Yeah, the original 747s flat out had a sextant port in the roof. Could navigate by the stars the old fashioned way. Given how crazy precise (and expensive) inertial guidance systems were developed for ICBMs in the Cold War I have to imagine
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by xoa 5y ago
Obviously we navigated acceptably, including aircraft, long before the development of GPS in the 1970s. GPS is easy and precise and can make risky edge cases (like very low altitude flight) safer or allow higher density in air spaces and su
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by xoa 5y ago
> I mean, you could just as easily argue that the problems of California are what caused his move to Texas Who knows. But the biggest fundamental problem for California here honestly is geography: Boca Chica is the best single land base
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by xoa 5y ago
> and having those machines use e.g. ddclient or similar How does this work on my networked PDU, UPS, speaker, light hub, or even printer for that matter since you mention it [0]? There is vast universe of "machines" that aren
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by xoa 5y ago
> As much as many of us want to attribute positive or negative reasons or motivations to things companies do -- especially secretive companies like Apple -- it's a nice reminder that most decisions are made without malice, because t
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by xoa 5y ago
Yubico's actual press release is here: "Yubico Launches First YubiKeys With Biometric Authentication" https://www.yubico.com/press-releases/yubico-launches-first-... Not sure if that's a better link
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Yubico’s new security keys let you log in with your fingerprint(arstechnica.com)
6 points by xoa 5y ago|1 comments
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by xoa 5y ago
> This doesn't change the fact that there are a large magnitude more iPhones that exist that will never be used for their full potential. Depends I guess? Having a lot of power on tap can show up in transparent ways as well as obvi

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