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re #2 see metavnc (old at this point) https://metavnc.sourceforge.net/ TLDR: it leveraged a specific client that could a) connect to multiple vnc instances b) display them in a sin…

to lose less money on the prisoners? i.e. its not a good motivation to increase the number of prisoners (even if one looses less money per prisoner, more prisoners will mean more l…

I used to walk from the main library to the metreon every sunday (made a day of visiting library and seeing a movie). It's not a long walk to most americans. It's easy, in that its…

you were thrown that way in Kazakhstan? :)

that's just 3 shamir secret sharings. key is protected by a 3 of 3 keys. 1 protected by 3 of 4 (i.e. SSS the key into a 3 of 4) 1 protected by 2 of 3 (i.e. SSS the key into a 2 of …

before I learned of shamir secret sharing, I wondered why one couldn't do the same exact thing with a par2 like system (albiet with smaller pieces than a par2 system would traditio…

it is annoying that it can't remember it by series. Perhaps for a normal series I don't want captions but for a foreign language one I do. Perhaps for a foreign language that I'm g…

as someone who bought a lifetime pass years ago when it was cheap, I'm more concerned about this indicating that they are in desparate straits and are heading towards going out of …

I had a jellyfin server on the same machine as my plex. I really tried to use both, the jellyfin experience was so much worse overall. It had one technical feature that I valued (t…

why could you not implement it as ptys. Currently the terminal doesn't really process input itself, it just gives the program running the "raw" fd. If instead the terminal gave the…

in the country I'm now in somewhere around 18% of my salary is basically put into my "pension" (basically equivalent to a 401k). around 6% from my salary, around 6% match from empl…

it doesn't cover you getting disabled so you can't work anymore at the age of 30 after working 8 years. 1600% higher return is great when you work from yours 20s to your 50s/60s an…

these policies hurt employees (at least US taxed ones, other countries only tax at liquidity events). Large insiders (founders, investors et al), still get to unload their shares (…

why do you assume we wouldn't have seen value in satellites if we didn't see value in going to the moon (or mars)? There's clearly an extraordinary value in satellites from a milit…

this has been done for ages with a simple kernel module that just wraps the real kernel syscall, no binary changes needed. example how we used it in early 2000s to implement pre li…

lots of cell phone services are no longer doing that either.

"In response to an NPR request, a Navy spokesman acknowledged that 1,500 sailors, their families and several hundred pets were relocated back to the U.S. from NSA Bahrain." Because…

If one is going to store the originals anyways (i.e. the ISO images one backs up from disc), then I'd still stand by my statement, you're not saving anything by encoding it then, b…

I haven't been at TR in 10+ years as well. AT TR, I mostly dealt with Eikon's pipeline for estimates, actuals and the like (IBES data) ingestion, querying and analytics. So can't s…

I disagree. But to each their own, also depends how one watches it. a truehd atmos audio stream for a movie can be 3-4GB by itself. Of course, for many perhaps a TrueHD atmos audio…

it's all about the bas

as someone who worked at TR (now Refinitiv) and then Bloomberg, it's not even the data. it's IB. After IB it's the data. :)

1. easy enough to store it remuxed as an mkv (this tool first converts it to a remuxed mkv via makemkv) to get that convenience. 2. "easy enough" (this is a bit hyperbole, but i've…

IMO, that just changes the calculation a bit. As I said, it depends on the quality one wants to store it at relative to size to determine how long it will take to encode / power co…

IMO encoding is just not that worth it these days. Storage is relatively cheap. An 8TB HD can hold 200+ bluray discs as is (assuming we are talking 30-40TB each). Lets say encoding…