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by jgtrosh 8d ago
Regarding storage, a single data center using only slow but dense storage (magnetic tapes) can store far more data than a data center providing regular web services.
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by jgtrosh 8d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairview_%28surveillance_progr... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A Public information shows that the NSA has been active intercepting as much data as possible.
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by jgtrosh 10d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making alternative political movements care a lot about how decisions are taken. For instance, authors like David Graeber consider that majority voting only makes sense
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by jgtrosh 11d ago
This went both ways https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Osoaviakhim
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by jgtrosh 29d ago
Also, `jj split` can use alternative tooling to the built-in TUI, whereas I don't think `git history split` can.
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by jgtrosh 1mo ago
The VCR became widespread during the 1980s > The industry boomed in the 1980s as more and more customers bought VCRs. By 1982, 10% of households in the United Kingdom owned a VCR. The figure reached 30% in 1985 and by the end of the deca
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by jgtrosh 2mo ago
I wish you could disable fullscreen (enable the navigation bar) on Android though :-(
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by jgtrosh 2mo ago
> Where unsigned does benefit here is when these are used as indices into an array. The signed behavior will almost certainly produce invalid indices which leads to memory unsafety issues. The unsigned way will never do that, it’ll stay
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by jgtrosh 4mo ago
Also in French, different similarity, av2il hav2e Slightly worse in English, av2age mav2ick
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by jgtrosh 4mo ago
I believe this is the most common scenario, yes. If you're used to actively pushing and pulling from the same branche as your colleagues, you need to learn how to manipulate diverging changes and conflicting bookmarks, but other than t
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by jgtrosh 4mo ago
I intuitively feel like more realistic games could be more fun, and that I might just have fondness for Space Cadet from growing up with it; but the more I played other pinball games the more I appreciate that space cadet is a simply great
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by jgtrosh 4mo ago
To those who do not know about this subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Moldova_and_Rom... (My external barely informed understanding is that proponents of unification are largely right wing nationali
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by jgtrosh 4mo ago
Even just the plain etch-a-sketch using motion sensing is cool enough. I suppose this might have been done already?
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by jgtrosh 5mo ago
I was not aware of Radicle; it's a truly peer-to-peer Git forge which aims to guarantee commits are signed by current maintainers (among, I suppose, other goals). The article mentions an us and a you, but I feel like it would have been
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by jgtrosh 5mo ago
After a quick search, there is an NFC web API, but with no general support https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_NFC_API
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by jgtrosh 5mo ago
Sounds like they might have been working the gigs? Maybe a sounds engineer
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by jgtrosh 5mo ago
Yeah, this screamed US date format to me! (Though there's no year in this clock)
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by jgtrosh 5mo ago
I like the Trosh game
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by jgtrosh 6mo ago
Similarly I've used it for technical interviews.
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by jgtrosh 7mo ago
To my surprise, this graph [0] shows that even when taking into account vaping, it seems that smoking has truly gone down in the US. [0]: https://ecigone.com/featured/vaping-statistics/
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by jgtrosh 7mo ago
Your instinctive reaction matches with scientific consensus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing > Each historical invention of writing emerged from systems of proto-writing that used ideographic and mn
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by jgtrosh 7mo ago
The dedicated term GPGPU [0] didn't catch on. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_g...
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by jgtrosh 8mo ago
These rely on undoing within a game's constrained environment. There isn't a way to magically undo any possible procedure with side effects.
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by jgtrosh 9mo ago
I appreciate the fact that they waited two months to check their results before sharing them publicly. However, this feels like there should be a hypothesis for explaining the difference other than “this fits expectations”, especially after
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by jgtrosh 10mo ago
A vimmer*
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by jgtrosh 11mo ago
His crusade is in part about how pods are overdosed which can reduce their effectiveness (and be super wasteful)
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by jgtrosh 11mo ago
The game looks fun and pretty, but am I the only one to get triggered by the “replaced” naming? All of these eager claims to replace humans feel violently antisocial. (And in many instances hypocritical if coming from people who defensively
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by jgtrosh 11mo ago
Is this bait? The whole context is malicious software being installed en masse via NPM micro dependencies.
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by jgtrosh 11mo ago
It's equivalent to xargs -I {} rm {} -I replace-str Replace occurrences of replace-str in the initial-arguments with names read from standard input. Also, unquoted blanks do not termi
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by jgtrosh 11mo ago
"[name-redacted]" is quite distinct and searchable imo

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