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by zepearl 5y ago
Same here (born in the 70') - I went as far as allowing temporary access by the page, but then concerning the browser itself (Opera on Android in my case) I had only the options to "Allow" or "Deny" access to the ca
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by zepearl 5y ago
Thanks a lot!!! I really mean it! This might change everything for me. I'm already using MariaDB+MyRocks and Clickhouse for some special/dedicated tasks, but I was really missing a good DB for normal/typical OLTP tasks. So fa
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by zepearl 5y ago
I got sad when I read that TokuDB in Percona & MariaDB was being dropped :( Replaced TokuDB with MyRocks but it's totally different => now finally managed to have good ~constant performance insert&deletes (had to test &
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by zepearl 5y ago
Aha - got it, thank you :)
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by zepearl 5y ago
> The ones you mention, patent trolling and length of patents might be tuned in order to optimize innovation. Maybe there should be at least a differentiation between tech sectors for which the patent is applied (e.g. IT vs. agricultur
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by zepearl 5y ago
General question by throwing ZFS into this discussion: I never exactly understood what's the problem related to ZFS' adoption in Linux (problem related mainly to the ARC algorithm?). I read e.g. here ( https://www.legal
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by zepearl 5y ago
Aha, that sounds a lot better, thx - indeed I was wondering if nowadays common max email size increased a lot since I set up my private email server ~10 years ago... :)
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by zepearl 5y ago
> ...involves emailing the customer a ~120 megabyte zip file... Hehe, nice test for their email servers & antivirus (which probably wants to unpack it to see if any nasty payload is included) :)
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by zepearl 5y ago
> The Cuban vaccine is neither a vector vaccine nor does it work with mRNA technology. Instead, it's a so-called protein vaccine. + > That means it carries a portion of the spike protein that the virus uses to bind to human ce
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by zepearl 5y ago
It's great when it works, but different versions of <OCAML? and/or Unison?> on different hosts/VMs screw it up. I never understood the real reason why (but I never really investigated, lazy) => it's a pity.
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by zepearl 5y ago
I did something like that when trying to boot my brand new root server in Finland a few weeks ago (tried ~50 times while having UEFI enabled plus mdadm raid1 on GPT partitions, never worked, asked support to disable UEFI, worked). Confirmin
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by zepearl 5y ago
All extremely useful: the overview, the examples and the comments. A few months ago while writing a bot/crawler I searched for hours for something like this, but I found only full specs or just bits and pieces scattered around that use
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by zepearl 5y ago
> My modern car made my insurance rate go down. Same here. Bought a Volvo which is more expensive and has a more powerful engine than the Opel that I had before for 16 years, I have even added some options to the insurance coverage com
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by zepearl 5y ago
I initially thought the exact same thing, but apparently that's not correct: https://www.passmark.com/products/pt_linux/index.php (in any case I cannot run it - needs the ncurses v5 shared library, I have alr
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by zepearl 5y ago
On one hand AMD stuff might still not be too easy to get. In my case I had to wait ~1 month to get a server having a Ryzen 9 5950X (the AX101 here https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax ). I was willing
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by zepearl 5y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_dipole : > After initially considering several larger systems (Project Sanguine), the U.S. Navy constructed two ELF transmitter facilities... > Both transmitters were
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by zepearl 5y ago
Thx => you should state those infos. > but it shouldn't be noticeable to the human eye. Well, there are eyes and eyes (e.g. I edited a lot of videos in the past so now I can see video stuttering that my friends/colleagues
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by zepearl 5y ago
1- Does it upload/download anything? I think that I did not see any network traffic when selecting the video nor when saving it, but I might be wrong => if that's correct you might want to state that, as users will be happy to
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by zepearl 5y ago
> now I can’t read or hear someone saying “less than” when it ‘should be’ ”fewer than” Thank you! I love such corrections. I'll try to keep that in mind :) > i should go back to torturing myself with Lithuania’s Eurovision ent
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by zepearl 5y ago
But then probably it should rather be the points that get assigned that would have to be adjusted rather than the thresholds? Reason: if I e.g. got 1 point 2 years ago, that point had at that time more value (less users than today) than the
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by zepearl 5y ago
Confirming #2: I live in Switzerland (low crime rate etc...) but I would not even dream of leaving my phone visible in the car. Btw. in the 90' I used to detach each-single-time that I parked the car the front panel of the car's r
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by zepearl 5y ago
I agree about not underestimating the needed effort, but to be fair that service nowadays is absolutely crucial/important for a lot of stuff, private & commercial, involving $$$/lifes (maybe e.g. police etc... run some service
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by zepearl 5y ago
Don't most devices use just DHCP, which in turn in most cases just use the DNS settings of the Internet Provider (IP) that is being used (indirectly, as usually the local router is set like that) => if a local government asks the IP
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by zepearl 5y ago
Thank you
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by zepearl 5y ago
> In practice this works really well as long as the change is to eliminate an unwanted side effect rather than to change a previously documented behavior. I fully agree with that, didn't understand the rest.
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by zepearl 5y ago
You should add at least some kind of description, a demonstration, something - currently no infos are visible without logging in.
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by zepearl 5y ago
I like a lot Opera on my phone & tablet. (but not on my notebooks & PCs - using there Firefox & Chrome)
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by zepearl 6y ago
> My single biggest beef about PG is the lack of query planner hints. Same here. I did evaluate if to use PG for my stuff, but not having any hint available at all makes dealing with problems super-hard and potential bad situations bec
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by zepearl 6y ago
Aha! Now I understand why some time ago when I updated my Gentoo distro that elogind-package came up! I had some package conflicts because of that... (but I'm not using Gnome, I have just XFCE4 ). Thanks!
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by zepearl 6y ago
> Most don’t provide such a choice, because it’s a huge undertaking to basically package and maintain 2+ versions of everything Yes, I absolutely agree regarding the effort. (not sure about that vote - I honestly didn't follow tha

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