jwandborg

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by jwandborg 4mo ago
Volvo Cars is still headquartered in Sweden, and employ 22.4k people in Sweden out of 40k globally[1]. Given that the market for Volvo is global, it seems to me that Volvo Cars is still overwhelmingly Swedish, while at the same time being o
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by jwandborg 2y ago
Experts deeply understand their subject. - Experts that tailor their answers to meet the audience are experts, but not only experts, they also have the luck of finding good analogues for parts of a system or topic, and a skill, or luck, of
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by jwandborg 3y ago
Every person is part of the definition of the average person. Of course, you can take a look at the outliers, but they are rare, by definition. If you start segmenting the set of people along all possible dimensions in order to find "
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by jwandborg 3y ago
Imagine debugging hyperoptimized machine code. - Or would you just blame yourself for not stating your natural language instructions clearly enough and start over? I guess all of these complex problems would somehow be solved for everyone w
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by jwandborg 3y ago
I figured out how to FCC-unlock my Lenovo-branded 4G modem to get it working under Linux based on a Lenovo snap with binaries to unlock another model from the same manufacturer, and then I was stupid and generous enough to tell the ModemMan
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by jwandborg 3y ago
Could be unnecessarily costly unless the files are written ahead-of-time. I propose some kind of GraphQL-like interface to only read what you need.
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by jwandborg 3y ago
Just take the Unix philosophy and replace the word "file" with "JSON file".
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by jwandborg 3y ago
Could be that I missed the joke.
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by jwandborg 3y ago
In fact, 10 in any base represents the base number.
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by jwandborg 3y ago
10 in binary _is_ 2 in decimal. I think you've made an off-by-one error in your critique.
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by jwandborg 3y ago
I think it's a breath of opportunity to hear that there is tooling for Rust to write Kubernetes operators, previously my impression is that there is no match for Golang when it comes to writing operators, and that has invited me to try
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by jwandborg 3y ago
I've had motherboard, screen, keyboard, 4G modern swaps, all at my office.
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by jwandborg 3y ago
> Apple has great support. Apple does not have support good enough for professionals, my colleagues are suffering with defective MacBooks until they can justify a full replacement, because Apple repairs cost a lot of time, while Lenovo s
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by jwandborg 4y ago
I can't download any iOS apps. Sometimes I try but it doesn't work, even though I'm using the latest web browser.
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by jwandborg 4y ago
> For broad-based usage, things are less likely to break with glibc. For a specific use case, that may be less important. As a dangerous generalization, musl is usually lighter on resources, but glibc is faster. If using ARM or very limi
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by jwandborg 4y ago
Cell pagers are also deemed secure in some places, despite being broadcast over a wide area. Both of the technologies can be seen as "secured" by laws outlawing listening to the information sent in cleartext. I wouldn't call
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by jwandborg 4y ago
Relatedly, Linus Tech Tips has a recent video https://youtu.be/4YpRJtvFmP8 about a 3DS dev kit they got their hands on, in that video they also mention that there is a similar device for the DS that was used to capture vide
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by jwandborg 4y ago
You can learn about feelings, but that means you misunderstand or is completely ignorant of the mechanics of the feeling until you are taught about it, once you're taught about it you can try to interpret the signs, but it's still
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by jwandborg 4y ago
> promoting kernel Rust will not fix anything, howsoever personally gratifying it may feel to engage in it. I totally agree, you'd need to fix the broken things to fix anything, hopefully without writing more broken things on your w
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by jwandborg 4y ago
It could also not count as wiretapping, since it's about transcription, not about audio recordings. If the transcription service's presence in the call isn't hidden from other participants, is it still wiretapping?
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by jwandborg 4y ago
My interpretation of "it's hysterical to use canvas" was that it would be hysterical to draw content elsewhere and then send it to the browser for display. Implementing something that looks like and behaves like a web page in
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by jwandborg 4y ago
Every other page load fails for me. I get 3 different pages 1. The page I'm looking for 2. A Content-Type: text/html, body: "The service is unavailable." page 3. A more elaborate "Stack Overflow is currently offline
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by jwandborg 4y ago
IIRC factorio's blueprints are represented, or have one representation, as base64-encoded gzipped JSON on the clipboard (with a version byte as prefix in the b64 form, double-IIRC), meaning you can copy/paste blueprints between th
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by jwandborg 4y ago
I would say that the invention of the concept of "reputable ASNs" is the root cause.
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by jwandborg 4y ago
Does Google Cloud also have that reputation? I've seen renames and well-motivated deprecations, but not the Google Graveyard kind of events.
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by jwandborg 4y ago
You're probably right, the issue might be that there's no standard way for an OS to hook into that.
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by jwandborg 4y ago
Datacenters sometimes have redundant main power providers, I'm guessing that could change the assumption to "there should be a number of supply boxes nearby, which all need to be interfered with".
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by jwandborg 5y ago
Talking in front of a group can be a stressful situation depending on your emotional state. It sounds like you've found a system that works for you, imagine not having that system, being sleep deprived, or simply focusing on the next t
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by jwandborg 5y ago
The filesystem is horrible too.
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by jwandborg 5y ago
Isn't Belarus a dictatorship? If so, that's such a nice thing for a dictator to do.

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