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by ReidZB 5y ago
Yes! OpenMW is amazing. I just did a full play-through without any issues and heavily modded to boot. Very stable, good performance, etc. I also recommend this site: https://modding-openmw.com/ for a good curated list of mo
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by ReidZB 5y ago
I find myself doing unit queries like 4 all the time. "80 bytes / second * 1 year" results in ~2.5 GB. Etc etc. It's very convenient for making sure that you're handling units correctly. It's also really good f
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by ReidZB 5y ago
I suppose eBPF could be used to implement real-time index updates, which could be neat. Maybe I'll investigate doing that as a little side project. Though from a quick look, doing it efficiently may require some modification to mlocate
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by ReidZB 5y ago
Yep! I've had two nasty bugs (intermittent audio dropping and HDMI CEC power off being broken) that were fixed by firmware updates. I don't keep the firmware preemptively updated, though. I just did it as a debugging step in tryin
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by ReidZB 5y ago
I have a couple modern LG 'smart' TVs that I don't connect to the internet, and they work just fine. As you say, they just display whatever is on the HDMI input. I've updated their firmware a couple times. I connect them
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by ReidZB 5y ago
That's assuming you're varying only speed and not e.g. following distance. I try to leave at least 3 seconds' distance pretty much always (often more), so I have a pretty consistent amount of time to react regardless if I&#x2
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by ReidZB 5y ago
I don't get it. The article clearly outlines the factors accounted in the safety score, and vehicle speed is not one of them (at least not directly). Yet the author and apparently others are intentionally driving slowly to boost their
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by ReidZB 5y ago
> Being able to effectively reason about what the automation is doing is such an important part of why these technologies have been so successful in flight, and examples like this illustrate how far off we are to something like that in c
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by ReidZB 6y ago
For superchargers, where you'd want it most, no. Superchargers use a specific protocol to communicate with the car for purposes of billing -- tied to the Tesla account associated with the car. I don't think the plug itself is diff
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by ReidZB 6y ago
Definitely. Enmity between elves and dwarves is a deep theme in Tolkien's world. The Silmarillion presents several in-universe historical events responsible for that enmity. It's also foreshadowed by "God" (Eru) when h
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by ReidZB 6y ago
Fun fact, that inscription also contains of the few continuity errors in published Tolkien material. It starts with: > The Doors of Durin, Lord of Moria but as the Tolkien Gateway explains: > The name Moria means "Black Chasm&quo
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by ReidZB 6y ago
Yes, it is arguably an unholy contrivance, but someone's already written it, and invoking it as a shell alias or likewise is both easy and useful. $ jq-structure my-file.json
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by ReidZB 6y ago
I regularly use jq to summarize the structure of big JSON blobs, using the snippet written here (I alias it to "jq-structure"): https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/243#issuecomment-48470... For ex
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by ReidZB 6y ago
Although it's about a different subject matter, I'm reminded of this quote from a patio11 article: > [A bank's] CS department is scored on number of tickets resolved per hour, and each rep’s incentives are simply to classi
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by ReidZB 6y ago
I'm pretty sure CNAME setups are allowed on the Business plan ($200/month). I had to set one up not too long ago.
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by ReidZB 6y ago
Another huge difference: the current FSD feature set will not make turns at intersections as demonstrated in this video. It now (as of recently) can be configured to automatically stop at appropriate traffic signage (stop signs, red/ye
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by ReidZB 6y ago
Stack Sets are a killer feature, and so much easier than trying to do the same thing in Terraform. CloudFormation Drift Detection is very limited currently: it only supports a small subset of resources that you can create with CloudFormatio
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by ReidZB 6y ago
Drift detection is only implemented for a very small subset of resources: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui... Terraform does indeed reconcile drift 'automatically' across all
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by ReidZB 6y ago
Drift detection is only implemented for a very small subset of resources: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui... For a concrete example of one that bit us one time, database parameter grou
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by ReidZB 6y ago
They do, and obviously it is workable, but I think every big MySQL org ends up with a tool/workflow like gh-ost: https://github.com/github/gh-ost which have their own set of challenges, like not playing well with
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by ReidZB 6y ago
That does not seem like a very generous interpretation. I'd wager that most of Discord's clientele don't have any specific expectations for the word "server". Regardless, I think "server" was carried over
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by ReidZB 7y ago
I haven't used it or looked into what it supports, but I did remember this announcement which may interest you: "New – Port Forwarding Using AWS System Manager Session Manager": https://aws.amazon.com/blogs&#x
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by ReidZB 7y ago
I'm not sure about what they've said in the past, but their site is pretty clear about the current state of Autopilot / Full Self Driving: https://www.tesla.com/model3/design#autopilot and for a more in-
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by ReidZB 7y ago
The HotSpot JVM may decide to stop building stack traces in some circumstances to improve performance (see the 'OmitStackTraceInFastThrow' option, enabled by default). Not sure about other languages / runtimes though. That sa
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by ReidZB 7y ago
I've used Fastmail for many years now, and I have nothing but good things to say about the service. In particular, it's insane how well notifications work in Fastmail, especially compared to Gmail (which I use at work). (Honestly,
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by ReidZB 7y ago
I did the same switch like 5 years ago, and I remember having to `sed` (i.e. global find + replace) the LastPass output .csv to fix special characters before importing it into 1Password. Sadly I don't remember any more detail than that
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by ReidZB 7y ago
I'll also recommend Evan Palmer's Ainulindalë comic: https://www.evanpalmercomics.com/ainulindale
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by ReidZB 7y ago
Oh man, I have to disagree. I love the Ainulindalë. Plus, without it, I imagine you'd have a difficult time figuring out who exactly the Valar are or what their role is. That said, my advice would be to not get too caught up on the n
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by ReidZB 7y ago
Oh, sure, maybe trivial isn't the best word for it, but it's all relative (to me). $20k is remarkably cheap for a practical cryptographic attack compared to the rest of the field, and there's plenty of software to do it, and
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by ReidZB 7y ago
DES is a good example here: it was designed ~45 years ago and it's still theoretically surprisingly strong when you compare it with other areas of cryptography. By that, I mean it's held up very well to cryptanalysis that attempts

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