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by oofabz 7d ago
In an alternate reality, the prime meridian could have been chosen to pass through Florence, making 180° and the edges of the world map pass cleanly through the Bering Strait.
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by oofabz 19d ago
Would be sweet if it could use the microphone to auto-tune the speakers by playing audio and listening to the result. Microphones are not perfect but a cheap microphone has much better frequency response than cheap speakers. If you assume t
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by oofabz 24d ago
I was shocked when I imported a 1.5M row dataset into Office365 Excel and found that it had silently cropped my data to 1048576 rows. One million items is a ridiculously low limit for a modern computer, and deleting 1/3 of my data with
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by oofabz 1mo ago
There are many historical events of Indo-European speakers invading India from the north, like Darius the Great, Alexander the Great, the Mughals. AIT refers to a theory from an earlier time period but rejecting it does not rule out subsequ
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by oofabz 1mo ago
The Indo-European speakers invaded from the north. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_migrations
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by oofabz 3mo ago
Why not multi-mode? The transceivers are a lot cheaper, especially for 100G and above.
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by oofabz 3mo ago
If you want a 10GBASE-T SFP+ module that doesn't run hot, look for one with 802.3bz support. Any module that supports 2.5G and 5G speeds has newer silicon which runs cooler. There is an old but still good list of transceivers with this
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by oofabz 4mo ago
I recently got a Grandstream GWN7615 access point to add coverage on the other side of the house from the main router. It does not meet the minimum spec listed in this article but for more modest requirements I think it's an excellent
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by oofabz 4mo ago
Every generation of CPU has high-power and low-power variants. The i9 is a high power variant that generates a lot of heat but what you want is the low power variant. I recommend looking for a used laptop with a Core Ultra 7 165U (<$500)
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by oofabz 5mo ago
I see their 60-bit float has the same size exponent (11 bits) as today's doubles. Only the mantissa was smaller, 48 bits instead of 52.
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by oofabz 10mo ago
One of the main differences from Linux is BSD's separation between the base system and installed applications. On Ubuntu, Arch, Mint, etc. there is no such distinction. Everything is made of packages, including the base system. You hav
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by oofabz 1y ago
I first read about continued fractions in HAKMEM from 1972. These things have fascinated programmers for decades. https://web.archive.org/web/20190906055006/http://home.pipel...
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by oofabz 1y ago
I find it interesting that the transform was controversial in the '90s. Today, it seems like a normal solution to the problem to me, and the controversy seems silly. I have much experience with the map function from Javascript. It is t
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by oofabz 1y ago
Very impressive work. For those who aren't familiar with this field, Valve invented SDF text rendering for their games. They published a groundbreaking paper on the subject in 2007. It remains a very popular technique in video games wi
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by oofabz 1y ago
Authentically bad is a good way to put it. My favorite part is the 3300 line Game::updatestate() function and its gigantic switch statement.
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by oofabz 2y ago
You can do selection first in Vim by using visual mode. For this particular example (5dd) you would want to use visual line mode by pressing shift-v. Then you can select the lines you wish to cut, and press d to delete them, or apply any ot
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by oofabz 2y ago
timegm() is even available on Haiku
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by oofabz 2y ago
Beatriz Marinello is a professional chess player who was Chilean Women's Chess Champion in 1980 and was vice president of FIDE until 2018.
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by oofabz 2y ago
The die size of the B580 is 272 mm2, which is a lot of silicon for $249. The performance of the GPU is good for its price but bad for its die size. Manufacturing cost is closely tied to die size. 272 mm2 puts the B580 in the same league as
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by oofabz 2y ago
Never had this problem with Gnumeric
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by oofabz 2y ago
Instead of trying to cool the surface of the glass sphere rapidly, maybe it would be more practical to heat the interior.
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by oofabz 2y ago
Since 50% = 0.5, and proof doesn't take a percentage, I believe "50% proof" would be 0.25% ABV.
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by oofabz 2y ago
A lot of people, including myself, prefer living in rural areas. They have more natural beauty, more solitude, tighter knit communities, cultures that prioritize family. Not everyone shares your own personal preferences. It is true that the
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by oofabz 2y ago
Proxmox Backup Server
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by oofabz 2y ago
More evidence for Sangamon's principle
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by oofabz 2y ago
1 Planck time
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by oofabz 2y ago
A strong username also helps! Most SSH brute force attempts are for root, admin, or ubnt.
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by oofabz 2y ago
This mug is well on its way to becoming a tsukumogami.
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by oofabz 2y ago
2600:: is shorter than 8.8.8.8 and iproute2 is much more pleasant to use than ifconfig.
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by oofabz 2y ago
But drug companies do make effective pharmaceutical derivatives of Vitamin D, such as Calcipotriene.

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