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by zootboy 2y ago
It really depends on where (and when) you're going. I've had a decent number of partly full flights going to oddball small airports. But the big hub-to-hub flights tend to be nearly if not completely full.
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by zootboy 2y ago
The ultimate frustration is when you have no real ability to fix the core problem. NTP (and its 'roided-up cousin PTP) are great, but they require a degree of control and influence over the end devices that I just don't have. No a
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by zootboy 2y ago
Yeah, it was a "fun" surprise to discover the errata sheet for the microcontroller I was working with after beating my head against the wall trying to figure out why it doesn't do what the reference manual says it should do.
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by zootboy 2y ago
Indeed. I've been building systems that orchestrate batteries and power sources. Turns out, it's a difficult problem to temporally align data points produced by separate components that don't share any sort of common clock so
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by zootboy 2y ago
And here I sit, longing for the days when trackpads had separate, physical buttons underneath them.
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by zootboy 2y ago
I wonder if that's even technically possible these days. Given the fact that the heads have to float on the moving air (or helium) produced by the spinning platter, coupled with modern data densities probably making the float distance
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by zootboy 2y ago
It's kind of funny that every example the article shows is a screenshot or video. Not a single one was actual ASCII text in the HTML...
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by zootboy 2y ago
And the photos of said C-hooks are pretty damning: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/new-images-of-pge-...
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by zootboy 2y ago
For the unaware (including myself): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalgo_text If you really think you need to programmatically detect and reject these (I'm dubious), there is probably a reasonable limit on the numb
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by zootboy 2y ago
To be fair, Arch's base NetworkManager package does the same thing: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NetworkManager#Checking_con... Though Arch has a decidedly more privacy-friendly stance on their ping endpoint:
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by zootboy 2y ago
There's nothing silly about wanting to avoid the sandcastle-built-on-quicksand world of web applications. Sadly, the world of native apps, at least in the commercial space, seems to be drifting away from the tenants of stability and us
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by zootboy 2y ago
I've seen the "overzealous barcode scanner" issue happen with some gas station POS systems, to the point where the seasoned cashiers know to cover the QR codes with their fingers before attempting to scan an item.
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by zootboy 2y ago
I've been pushing an average of 10 TiB per month through my Sonic 10 Gbps fiber, mainly upload. Never had an issue or complaint. And really, even if my XGS-PON fiber is split between 32 customers, that's still ~300 Mbps per custom
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by zootboy 2y ago
It's saying that it could be either +/-50 ppm from the actual reading, or +/-5% from the actual reading, whichever is worse.
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by zootboy 2y ago
Of course it did, it was less than 14 kB. But in all seriousness, this sort of site is what I wish more sites were like. No ridiculous JS rendering engine, or 11 billion AJAX requests to 3rd party servers, just simple HTML and CSS.
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by zootboy 2y ago
Yet another "Hey, this reminds me of a similar thing" contribution: Sean Barrett (of the STB header-only libraries fame) has a series of coding livestreams going over his OpenGL voxel rendering library and sort of turning it into
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by zootboy 2y ago
Indeed. I've seen a retail toy use a similar microcontroller from Nyquest to accept infrared control commands and drive some H-bridge drivers to make a simple, cheap RC car.
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by zootboy 2y ago
It's a bit hard to find good pictures of it, but the original Kyocera Torque from 2013 was IP 67 and had a user-replaceable battery. Its back had a large fingernail-turnable latch and pretty well-designed seal. Say what you will about
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by zootboy 2y ago
Patents on codecs are probably the worst offenders in my mind. Codecs benefit significantly from network effects, so making it a question as to whether you can legally use a codec muddies the waters and drives people away from good solution
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by zootboy 2y ago
This kind of shit is why we can't have nice things. Software patents' only use is as cudgels for large companies to beat other large companies with, and they leave a hazy minefield in their wake for software developers to wade thr
51.
by zootboy 2y ago
Very cool that they were developing the one-gyro control mode all the way back in 2004, and had in-flight tested it by 2008. Seems like they were well prepared for this eventuality.
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by zootboy 2y ago
Ah, yes, that's the detail I missed for why #2 is relevant. So the answer to #2 is "not by default, but easy to enable." Though other comment threads here have discussed the potential for this to impact NAT hole punching.
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by zootboy 2y ago
Well, of the three mitigations suggested in the article: 1 - Random NAT port allocation Seems like the answer is "not by default." According to iptables(8), SNAT defaults to using the pre-translated ports whenever possible, so it&
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by zootboy 2y ago
No mention of Android and how to DeGoogle it? I mean, I suppose this is mostly an advertisement for ProtonMail & friends, but still... This is, for me, the area where DeGoogling has the strongest downsides: losing access to the ability
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by zootboy 2y ago
Yes, the Pirate Bay is still a thing: https://thepiratebay.org/index.html Feel free to look up your favorite movies from 2024. They're on there.
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by zootboy 2y ago
I run a NAS on a USB 2.0 boot disk, and the only issue I have with it is that systemd-journald really isn't built with slow disks in mind. Doing a journalctl operation with 6 months of log files takes a good minute or two because of jo
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by zootboy 2y ago
The main technical reason is that the vast majority of UPSes cannot take what they give. If you have a 1000 VA UPS that is loaded at or near 1000 VA, it will draw significantly more than 1000 VA during periods of recharging, or if you make
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by zootboy 2y ago
They don't explain it because it basically never makes sense to daisy-chain a UPS. If you want redundancy in your power supply chain, use a dual-PSU computer. If you want longer backup times, get a UPS with a bigger battery.
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by zootboy 2y ago
I meant the latter; I'm fine with Youtube getting a cut, I'm not fine with Mr. Beast getting a cut.
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by zootboy 2y ago
That sure sounds like they divvy up the money based on total viewership, not my individual viewership. I don't like the thought of a large chunk of my subscription money going to channels I don't personally watch.

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