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by TorKlingberg 7d ago
GPUs may have existed in the 90's but they were very specialized to graphics and couldn't do general purpose computation like factoring integers.
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by TorKlingberg 15d ago
This is the same for mains power cables. Permanent installs are usually solid cores, while the "flexi" cables you plug into a socket are stranded.
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by TorKlingberg 27d ago
This is configurable in Github Actions. Many projects want to run CI for each commit to avoid situations where one commit breaks the build and the commit after in the same push or PR fixes it. Broken commits in the history makes bisecting h
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by TorKlingberg 2mo ago
As someone vaguely in the industry: It's because of the huge rise in RAM prices. One of OnePlus' points was high specs at low price. They don't have the margins to eat current RAM prices.
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by TorKlingberg 1y ago
> the camera photos were stuck on the camera I'm surprised no camera manufacturer has created an easy way to get all your photos to Google Photos / iCloud/ Dropbox / etc. They have some wireless photo transfer things,
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by TorKlingberg 1y ago
By "fuel", do you mean reaction mass (stuff that shoots out the back of the rocket) or energy source? A nuclear reactor in space would require an enormous heat sink to get useful energy out.
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by TorKlingberg 1y ago
Interestingly, Cityfibre often reuse the old telephone poles. It means you can get fibre to the home with no digging required. Yay old tech?
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by TorKlingberg 1y ago
The main cost of running a bug bounty program is developer time spent triaging submissions from all the people who just run an automated scanner against your website and submit everything it outputs.
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by TorKlingberg 1y ago
It depends on what Poker variant you're playing. These days Texas hold 'em is dominant, but Five-card draw used to be very common, especially for informal games.
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by TorKlingberg 1y ago
> difference between $6/user and $18/user is 0 I wouldn't go that far. Big companies put a lot of effort into saving $12/seat. But, if you can convince them they get >$18 of value from it they're usually happy
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by TorKlingberg 1y ago
I meant to write a blog post titled "What's good about ClearCase" in 2014, and I wish I did because now I've forgotten most of it. ClearCase is a terrible version control system I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy, bu
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by TorKlingberg 2y ago
> You shoot the entangled photon through a double slit and see if a wave-like pattern occurs, in which case we're still in a superposition and our communicator has not measured Wait, does this work? Are superposition detection devic
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by TorKlingberg 2y ago
Tibetan script has been in Unicode since version 2 from 1996, with some characters added in later versions. Is there are particular human script you want added to Unicode?
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by TorKlingberg 2y ago
Lots of emoji are outside the Basic Multilingual Plane and need 4 bytes in UTf-8 and UTF-16. That's without going into skin color and other modifiers and combinations.
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by TorKlingberg 2y ago
Video calls indeed almost always use UDP. TCP retransmission isn't really useful since by the time a retransmitted packet arrives it's too old to display. Worse, a single lost packet will block a TCP stream. Sometimes TCP is the o
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by TorKlingberg 3y ago
Others have noted you got the CD-R speeds wrong, but sometimes sending is indeed easier than receiving. I used to work on radio signal processing for phones, and we'd spend far more of both DSP cycles and engineering effort on the rece
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by TorKlingberg 3y ago
I used svn only a few years ago and don't remember branching taking very long. Maybe it was csv that had to copy the all files. I do remember merges being horrible in svn. Just branching off trunk, doing some work and merging back is f
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by TorKlingberg 3y ago
TDM seems difficult with the long time delays to satellites, but maybe. LTE is pretty flexible and can use bands as small as 1.4 MHz. It was only 1G and 2G (GSM) that needed to avoid overlap.
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Google Pixel Watch 2(store.google.com)
6 points by TorKlingberg 3y ago|2 comments
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by TorKlingberg 3y ago
OS and security updates until 2030: https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705#zippy=%2Cpix...
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by TorKlingberg 3y ago
Climate change also disrupt ecosystems. Tradeoffs have to be made, and blocking everything doesn't mean things stay the way they are. It means continued CO2 emissions, higher energy costs and housing shortage. Rooftop solar, while a go
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by TorKlingberg 4y ago
Does asking it in the prompt to use different temperatures actually work? I would assume the temperature needs to be set with a side channel? I suspect this is just ChatGPT interpreting "temperature" as a regular word.
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by TorKlingberg 4y ago
> Sucks because my manager was only told this morning As a manager I find their really curious. I guess they were trying to avoid leaks. I wonder how they chose who to lay off. Most recent performance rating? Next level managers impressi
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by TorKlingberg 5y ago
I used to do traceroute to addresses far away like Japan or Australia to which way it takes. Packets often went through the US even when you'd think there's a shorter route. These days traceroute to a random .jp or .au just gets y
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by TorKlingberg 5y ago
I changed the location in f.lux to somewhere south-west of where I am. Yes it gets dark at 3pm in Sweden in winter. That doesn't mean it's anywhere near bedtime.
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by TorKlingberg 5y ago
It's even worse with virtual machines and containers. Those things can be left over anywhere and still appear as a machine on the network.
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by TorKlingberg 5y ago
It's worth noting that the terminology has changed a bit over time. I.e. the old Unix C function 'crypt' actually does hashing.
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by TorKlingberg 5y ago
Great read, but worth noting from the end of the article that "late feature" here means it was added in the early '90s. The late addition to Unix that surprises me is ssh. It was only invented in the late '90s. Before th
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by TorKlingberg 5y ago
These were definitely a thing among my countryside friends. I grow up on the edge of a Swedish city. They always seemed be undergoing some repair or modification. At least upgrading the sound if nothing more daring. Since they only make se
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by TorKlingberg 5y ago
Specifically most UK mains are fused at 30A, which is more than appliance cables are rated for. So you need a fuse in either the plug or the socket.

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