Laforet

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by Laforet 16d ago
The author has some valid points (i.e. people criticise business decisions made to appease shareholders without realising they may be the shareholders in a roundabout way) but chose some rather odd examples as proof.
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by Laforet 2mo ago
Relativistic effects are observed with many other 6th and 7th period elements. For example, the yellow colour of gold and caesium comes from altered electron energy levels due to relativistic orbital contraction, so are the special catalyti
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by Laforet 7mo ago
It seems like they are doing a port based block similar to how residential lines often have their SMTP ports shut off. That said in this day and age, servers on the public network really ought to use SSH.
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by Laforet 9mo ago
A lot of earlier digital timepieces come with arbitrary date range limits and I have always wondered what is the reason behind such limitations. For example, a lot of camera date backs (used to physically embed time and date on film) could
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by Laforet 2y ago
This paper you linked does not even involve aspartame. The only sweetener they experimented with is saccharin. You can check out the main figures from the link below: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265791239_A
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by Laforet 2y ago
Scenario C is more likely the culprit. I have seen multiple examples of prebuilt PCs and laptops defaulting to software RAID mode for reasons unknown, and they did not always have a toggle just like in OP’s case. The only time I have come a
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by Laforet 2y ago
IMO this is still a passive type of security through obfuscation. Active defence would be more like returning zip bombs to known intruders in order to crash the process.
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by Laforet 2y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-this-is-too-ab...
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by Laforet 2y ago
> Given the other context of your comments I doubt this is a confession of contribution of hubristic affluence contributing to our modern disposable society but I feel like this underscores the point I'm trying to make in my reply.
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by Laforet 2y ago
> everyone I knew either donated theirs and/or moved CRTs into smaller rooms when they replaced a working one. That might have happened for a while but by 2008-ish CRTs were being dumped left right and center. My city runs a annual
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by Laforet 2y ago
Yes, I am aware of those arguments and I am inclined to agree with you. Compared to cultural artifacts which are mostly neutral in terms of externalities, relics of the industrial era suffer more from the cobra effect. Others in this thread
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by Laforet 2y ago
The other parties you mentioned would probably have less motivation to preserve it, let alone restore it to a fully functional state. I find it rather bizarre that many posters here seem to think that it’s morally preferable for the TV set
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by Laforet 2y ago
> I love gaming, and I destress by playing games, but it's not worth the now much higher opportunity cost to play the newer (usually worse) stuff. This appears to be the reason with all the recent remakes of “not so old” games. Peop
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by Laforet 2y ago
There is a system wide setting that changes all non-Unicode text encoding to another code page e.g CP932 for Shift-JIS. Third party tools are available to do the same conversion on a per application basis. It’s not as bad as trying to load
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by Laforet 2y ago
Not surprising because only the edges of the back glass are glued for iPhone 15 so most of the surface is just floating there without support. On prior generations the entire panel is glued. Not sure what the justification for the change wo
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by Laforet 2y ago
Hi, OP here. I did not respond since another poster had beaten me to it but here we go. The reply above yours is mostly correct though I have to admit that “data center IP” could be a bit of a misnomer when it comes to IP reputation. There
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by Laforet 2y ago
I had to read the article twice to be sure that it was a utilitarian move (however questionable it might be) rather than a grand ideological stand that the article seems to spend much time portraying. FWIW, data center IP addresses are alre
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by Laforet 2y ago
Cyber- is pretty much a code prefix for anything targeted at the public sector. I too see it as a kind of dirty word TBH.
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by Laforet 2y ago
> P67 chipset was trivially electrically compatible with LGA1156 CPUs Well it’s possible to shoehorn in support for the determined but iGPU support is definitely out of reach and I am not sure what segment of the market is that targeted
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by Laforet 2y ago
Intel actually intended for LGA1151 to remain unchanged for Coffee Lake but found out late in the testing process that many existing motherboards did not have enough power delivery capability to support the planned 6 and 8 core parts. Hence
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by Laforet 2y ago
I am not too worried about anything pre-2000 as emulation has got really good over the last few years, just in time as the surviving legacy hardware became prohibitively expensive to acquire. The internet archive has also made it easier tha
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by Laforet 3y ago
Bruce Schneier wrote a similar post back in 2016, and he was ridiculed pretty badly by everybody. Interesting to see how the opinion has shifted to the other extreme in less than 10 years. https://www.schneier.com/blog/
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by Laforet 3y ago
Support for PCI-E bifurcation on consumer motherboards was really good for a while when PCI-E 4.0 first came out, however it has since regressed again. Not many motherboards in the latest gen can do a proper x8+x4+x4 split. They may claim t
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by Laforet 3y ago
There is no need to make every port fully featured. Even MacBooks doesn't have that for the kind of price they demand
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by Laforet 3y ago
It might be worth pointing out that reviewers are only on board to offer their opinion with the material given at face value. After all they are probably not in a position to experimentally verify whether the results are reproducible. The e
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by Laforet 3y ago
Nikon started off as a defense contractor making rifle scopes and artillery sights for the military. Camera lens was a side business that took over after the war. While no longer on the cutting edge, they still have a significant presence i
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by Laforet 3y ago
Technical issues aside, the current crop of crypto people took the half baked Austrian school economics to their hearts, where scarcity begets value and hyper-deflation makes a desirable outcome. Satoshi invented Bitcoin as a form of protes
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by Laforet 3y ago
On a related and lighter hearted note, back in the beginning of the 20th century the government of Hungary once mandated adding the pH indicator phenylphthalein to locally produced wine as a way to mark its origin for tax purposes. The comp
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by Laforet 3y ago
Yes, sequoia are lucky to be able to rely on each other for support. There are many species of trees are technically capable of growing to hundreds of feet tall but they are invariably lost to strong wind and lightning strikes long before t
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by Laforet 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the current 32-bit build of CPU-Z does not use any modern SIMD extensions for its benchmark, only pure unadulterated x87 FP instructions. And the results can be hilariously confusing unless you know what is going on. I

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