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by scq 7d ago
If you have a colour laser printer, not only are the tracking dots not opt in, but there is no way to opt out.
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by scq 3mo ago
Superfest was a brand of ion-exchange toughened drinking glasses. Ion-exchange toughened glass was invented by Steven Kistler in the 1960s, and commercialised by Corning shortly after. Gorilla Glass is essentially the same thing, and it (or
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by scq 5mo ago
10Gbps fibre uses significantly less power than 10Gbps copper ethernet.
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by scq 5mo ago
Ford no longer makes traditional passenger cars. They now only sell SUVs, trucks, and sports cars. You can see this if you go to https://shop.ford.com/showroom/ and select sedan or hatchback in the left filters. No res
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by scq 5mo ago
The approach some JS projects have taken is to use Husky, which automatically sets up the git hooks when you install the project's dependencies during development.
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by scq 5mo ago
There seems to be some JS on the page that messes with the URL. Try this one: https://web.archive.org/web/20260421141017/https://claude.co...
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by scq 5mo ago
No, the author is a crank named Arthur Firstenberg, one of the original "microwaves will give you cancer" people.
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by scq 6mo ago
There are plenty of snappy examples. Off the top of my head: Discord, Netflix, Signal Desktop, WhatsApp Web.
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by scq 6mo ago
Just because a web application uses React and is slow, it does not follow that it is slow because of React. It's perfectly possible to write fast or slow web applications in React, same as any other framework. Linear is one of the sn
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by scq 6mo ago
No. What it can affect though is the bandwidth of the cable, meaning e.g. for HDMI cables, they might not support higher resolutions or framerates. If it's on the border you might see random disconnects or screen blanks. The quality de
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by scq 6mo ago
With EVs, most of your charging should be done at home, with fast charging mostly just existing for trips. I know not everyone can charge at home (especially if you live in an apartment), but the solution to that is pretty straightforward a
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by scq 8mo ago
From my understanding, the new CT machines are able to characterise material composition using dual-energy X-ray, and this is how they were able to relax the rules.
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by scq 8mo ago
Mods didn't remove it, user flags did.
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by scq 8mo ago
There are definitely use cases. Pis have lower power consumption than NUCs. This is the main reason I went for one to run Home Assistant rather than a NUC. I have a NAS/home server that I could put it on but I don't want my home a
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by scq 8mo ago
That is not how PKI works. Your cert provider does not have a copy of your private key to give out in the first place. Having the private key of the root cert does not allow you to decrypt traffic either.
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by scq 9mo ago
If you don't want anything to do with EA, Konami ain't much better. They actively sabotage their former employees job prospects. > One employee from a staffing agency said that Konami "files complaints to gaming companies
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by scq 9mo ago
Rust is already making substantial inroads in browsers, especially for things like codecs. Chrome also recently replaced FreeType with Skrifa (Rust), and the JS Temporal API in V8 is implemented in Rust.
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by scq 10mo ago
One aspect of Transmeta not mentioned by this article is their "Code Morphing" technique used by the Crusoe and Efficeon processors. This was a low level piece of software similar to a JIT compiler that translated x86 instructions
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by scq 11mo ago
bcrypt is the industry standard.
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by scq 11mo ago
Usually presents as a keyboard that types commands, yeah. Win-R -> powershell -> execute whatever you want. E.g. https://shop.hak5.org/products/usb-rubber-ducky
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by scq 1y ago
There's no way to test on Safari without either buying Apple hardware or subscribing to services like Browserstack. This is a problem of Apple's own making.
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by scq 1y ago
By "pivot into mobile" I suspect the other poster is referring to Facebook Home, an ill-fated Android skin and line of smartphones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Home
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by scq 1y ago
Amprius has released a statement: > Amprius Technologies, Inc. has never developed or manufactured batteries for power banks. For accuracy, please attribute the certification issue to Apex (Wuxi), not Amprius. Recent reports have incorre
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by scq 1y ago
Yugoslavia.
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by scq 1y ago
You probably haven't looked at it for a while. It's a conformant OpenGL implementation. Zink is now the default for Nvidia GPUs in Mesa, replacing Nouveau. https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-even
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by scq 1y ago
You can also set it in the application manifest, which is recommended over setting it programmatically: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/hidpi/settin...
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by scq 1y ago
- Fractional scaling: That's because X11 itself does not support it. Many older Windows apps also have problems with fractional scaling. - HDMI 2.1: The HDMI Forum blocked it, as they don't want the details of HDMI 2.1 publically
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by scq 1y ago
Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch should be forced to open up as well. Closed ecosystems only benefit the corporations that control them.
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by scq 1y ago
Apple accepts them, but Google requires a physical address.
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by scq 1y ago
The red colour is iron oxide (i.e. rust). Source: https://www.perimeter-solutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/...

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