tifkap

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by tifkap 5mo ago
Correct. any nuclear power plant would take forever to build, and be to late to help. Meanwhile electric cars are here *now*, and solar + wind + batteries are not only much faster to implement, but also cheaper. Nuclear is to little, to lat
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by tifkap 5mo ago
I still use sc (apt install sc) < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc_(spreadsheet_calculator) >
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by tifkap 6mo ago
Ascii art porn was easy. It was a drag to download a image, because those files were so big. Downloading a .mp3 file was frought with danger, because those file were a whopping 2mb or more in size. You could never know if you actually manag
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by tifkap 10mo ago
CAR-T-cell therapy might help in the future: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/11/lupus-car...
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by tifkap 1y ago
This is most likely an attempt to connect to a webserver on your own device to collect data and/or do tracking. Remember back in June when Facebook/meta got caught tracking users trough a webserver on Android phone thought Messeng
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by tifkap 1y ago
On windows it is still my go-to filemanager (although double commander does the same)
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by tifkap 1y ago
vi(m), sc (the spreatsheet), awk, Perl (for quick oneliners), mutt, grep, tcpdump
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by tifkap 2y ago
Because it can already export to CSV/TSV and exporting to json has no direct added value? Note that Excel and Google Sheet can also not export to sc (spreadsheet calculator), to DuckDB, etc. Just because something is possible, does not
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by tifkap 2y ago
s/MySQL/MariaDB/ * It works out of the box, and continues to work with no (or only minimal) tuning (no vacuum, etc) * Scaling up through replication is straightforward * Every techstack supports MySQL/MariaDB In short: G
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by tifkap 4y ago
I always disliked that saying, because i'm never in it for the money. Money often follows, through paths I could not imagine when starting the adventure, but it was never the goal. Following your interests and going on weird adventures
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by tifkap 4y ago
"Trust, but verify" Used mostly in bookkeeping and nucleair monitoring, but very usefull outside it as well.
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by tifkap 4y ago
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive anyway. In other words: relax, experiment, take a change on new or weird things, and don;t believe that the thing you're working on right now is super-duper impo
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by tifkap 4y ago
Not low latency, but onion-adresses/services are actually ideal for this. You only need to know the onion adress, to know that you connect to the correct node. * encrypted * automatic NAT punching * complete location independence * use
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by tifkap 5y ago
A ABI is the low-level implementation of any programming interface, no matter if it uses interrupts (0x80), sysenter, or long jump to code that the OS put there, etc, etc.. It is the nuts and bolts that do the low level real work of impleme
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by tifkap 5y ago
ABI is what you use when a Papa process and a Mama kernel love each other very much.
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by tifkap 5y ago
It's not a thing anymore, for two reasons: 1, It used to be that the only 'real' domain name was .com. Nowadays this artificial scarecity is over. If you want to launch a service as foo.io, that is fine. 2, You can sue to hav
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by tifkap 5y ago
They are next to the sea. Flushing with salt water, and membrame based desalination for potable water?
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by tifkap 6y ago
But these can and will be fixed (by banks, the legal system, etc)
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by tifkap 6y ago
I'm using one (a Nokia flipphone). It's quite impressive considering its limited hardware. It has thetering, google maps, a browser, etc (the first 2 were hard requirements). My demands were: 1. Long battery life 2. Small attack s
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Leaked Chinese coronavirus database at FP(foreignpolicy.com)
2 points by tifkap 6y ago|0 comments