zabardasth

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by zabardasth 6y ago
I was paranoid for a long time about things like SIP and SecureBoot but think of it this way. What is the likelihood that you are infected by a bootkit versus some 0day that affects your browser? My main beef w/ rootless/SIP/
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by zabardasth 6y ago
nVidia is on its last legs, honestly. If this is the best they can come up with, forget it. What is the real world application/use case for this GPU? I doubt it would be used for autonomous driving - you could buy some cheap used Tesla
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by zabardasth 6y ago
This form factor reminds me of the Commodore 64 and old school retro computing. Long live the user developer! :)
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by zabardasth 6y ago
Yeah, I was surprised there is no mention of drift and technical debt. These are the things that make software engineering hard. Someone new will always suggest a rewrite, which is tempting but is almost always a trap and massive timesink.
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by zabardasth 6y ago
Yes, I too am a fan of repdigits.
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by zabardasth 6y ago
The neoluddite take is kind of like beating a dead horse. Smartphones are a tool; how you use this tool is entirely dependent on how disciplined your mind is. Not everyone who has their first sip of alcohol will become an alcoholic. It is t
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by zabardasth 6y ago
> And she took on another heart—no longer minded toward earthly things—but ecstatically in the angelic dialect, sending up a hymn to God in accord with the style of the angels. And as she spoke ecstatically, she allowed “The Spirit” to b
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by zabardasth 6y ago
Consider this: China can close their economy tomorrow and most of the world’s economies would crumble almost overnight. The supply chain of most developed and developing nations is primarily based in China. It would take decades in a develo
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by zabardasth 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W--KU79Y0DQ
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by zabardasth 6y ago
My manager mentioned Hacktoberfest a while back. Honestly I’d never heard of it. When I went to check it out, I was greeted with millions of commits of whitespace. Now I dream of the whitespace. I’ve learned to embrace the whitespace. And i
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by zabardasth 6y ago
There is also Vyadha Gita within Mahabharata. In it a sanyasi learns of enlightenment from a lowly butcher.
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by zabardasth 6y ago
I'm reminded of the scene in the "Last Emperor" when the young Emperor Puyi is weaned at a much later age from breast milk. Have there been any studies on long term consumption of breast milk, well into adulthood? If you thin
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by zabardasth 6y ago
It is the same in Japan, isn't it? Hikikomori, NEETs, those hiding in net cafes, etc. The culture will hide them from tourists and society at large.
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by zabardasth 6y ago
It's a lot simpler on embedded devices. U-Boot for example is extremely simple and much more robust than GRUB or LILO.