theandrewbailey

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by theandrewbailey 19d ago
I work in the refurb department of an e-waste recycling company. I put Linux Mint on most of the PCs I list for sale, and I've never had anyone complain. I haven't tried Fedora in like 20 years, but I remember odd things being bro
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by theandrewbailey 21d ago
Someone has to be buying mainframes. Otherwise, there's no point in continuing to develop them. Shareholders would revolt.
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by theandrewbailey 22d ago
I've been using KeepassDX for years, and I've been completely satisfied with it.
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by theandrewbailey 22d ago
The pricing of GPUs themselves aren't really the problem: it's the VRAM that comes with them.
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by theandrewbailey 23d ago
Congrats on Firefox for planning to ship JPEGXL, but AVIF currently works better for my needs (non-archival web quality).
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by theandrewbailey 23d ago
Congrats on Google for reconsidering JPEGXL, but AVIF currently works better for my needs (non-archival web quality).
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by theandrewbailey 24d ago
Same on Chromium-based browsers.
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by theandrewbailey 24d ago
No. AMD was taking 3200+ chips and binning/selling them as 2500+ chips. All it took was increasing the FSB speed in the BIOS, and a bit of luck from the silicon lottery. No hardware mods.
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by theandrewbailey 24d ago
The first time I built a PC, and the first time I mounted a heatsink, was to one of these bare die AMD CPUs. I heard about the fragility of these, and must have read the directions about ten times, and paused and checked each step about fiv
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by theandrewbailey 25d ago
Home: Das Keyboard 4 Utimate (Cherry MX brown, unlabeled keys) Work: Many and I could change them all every day if I wanted to (ewaste recycling company), but main work desktop has a Royal Kludge S108 Typewriter.
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by theandrewbailey 25d ago
Stop sideloading . Start installing .
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by theandrewbailey 26d ago
Ah, don't edit the HTML manually. Name your images brain-dead predictably, and use a script with some regex. My blog has some code that searches for <img> tags just after markdown conversion, then uses the src to find similarly n
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by theandrewbailey 27d ago
I find using <picture> with <source> and <img> is more flexible, particularly with multiple image formats (AVIF and JPG in my case).
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by theandrewbailey 27d ago
Not having fuzzy filtering could be OK if you could filter the datalist and force it to display anyway. (There is no way to force it to display.) I gave up and used <ul> or <ol> instead.
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by theandrewbailey 27d ago
Even better: <button class="primary> button.primary { ... }
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by theandrewbailey 1mo ago
> Each MMX register is 64 bits wide. Internally, the MMX registers were aliases of the x87 floating-point registers. Due to the way the first Pentium 3 CPUs (Katmai) were built, they likewise aliased the x87 (and thus, MMX) registers to
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by theandrewbailey 1mo ago
Take a look at the micro-architecture levels. x86-64-v1 contains all the instructions that the original AMD64 and compatible Intel CPUs supported. v2 is all the SSE levels, v3 is AVX and AVX2, v4 is AVX-512. https://en.wikipedia.
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by theandrewbailey 1mo ago
Some quick research says that the ocean currents there flow north from Antarctica, so it's cold (not much evaporation), and wind mostly blows from the north and east, not from the ocean (west and south).
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by theandrewbailey 1mo ago
Yes. Sometimes PostgreSQL is overkill for a low traffic, simple application. PgBouncer would be even more overkill and add unnecessary complexity.
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by theandrewbailey 1mo ago
Betteridge's Law says no.
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by theandrewbailey 1mo ago
I've primarily been using AVIF with JPG as fallback on my blog for a few years. The efficiency gain is wild. I wonder if AV2 will be integrated into AVIF at some point (AVIF is based on AV1).
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by theandrewbailey 1mo ago
If a trillion dollar corporation is begging you for something, you should consider stop using them.
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First Binary Distribution of the OpenSSL Library: Windows Installer Test Release(github.com)
2 points by theandrewbailey 1mo ago|0 comments
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by theandrewbailey 1mo ago
The Verge sold out to Big Tech a long time ago. Don't fall for their newspeak. Stop sideloading : install instead.
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by theandrewbailey 1mo ago
Doesn't everyone QA their QR codes? I thought it would be as obvious as making sure you got the right address and/or phone number on an ad before distributing it.
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by theandrewbailey 1mo ago
From back when IA-64 (A.K.A. Itanium) was supposed to take Intel to the promised land.
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by theandrewbailey 1mo ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129008
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by theandrewbailey 1mo ago
I would expect it to be picked up by the Eclipse Foundation. They already have the Java Ent- I mean, Jakarta Enterprise Edition.
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by theandrewbailey 1mo ago
Java was never "move fast and break things".
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by theandrewbailey 1mo ago
I work at an ewaste recycling company. Most of what we get is corporate IT department decommissions. It seems like most companies run things for about 5 to 10 years, as most desktops, laptops, and servers I've seen lately have 4th to 1

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