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One option is to stick a mini-UPS in-between the wall the devices. Such a thing is internally a handful of lithium cells and some DC outputs. For powering a handful of things that …

Yeah, as someone who had to implement a protocol stack to talk to a X.400 server, it was not fun at all. Weird encodings, monster spec, all sorts of weird server-specific stuff tha…

So this is basically Pick ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system ) for the modern world. Which is a good thing, its about time we resurrected this idea. I wish them …

In a comment he says he is doing it for some research into a related thing (somethiing to do with GaN sheets?)

I was there, reading the ipv6 mailing list eagerly. Address space exhaustion was a smaller problem because NAT was pretty primitive, so called carrier grade NAT was not even a thin…

A couple of years later ipv6 became unnecessary. A big driver for ipv6 at the time was routers not being able to manage the increasing size of the core routingtable. Then 2 years l…

Just get some clear nailpolish and apply it with the included brush. Not as good but dead easy.

Collabora was unhappy about the LOOL revival, but not enough to leave. It was only when TDF contrived reasons to expel Collabora people that Collabora decided to leave. (Full Discl…

I suspect that Time Machine is no longer used by a sufficiently large % of their customer base for them to care, and they are slowly sunsetting it. They are quite aggressive about …

motors do not like the impact loads that wheels see, which is why bicycles with hub motors do not have a long lifespan

Or.... smoking may be indicative of people from poorer backgrounds, where health is generally lower. (cant say for sure, but thats the case where I am from) Statistics 101: Correla…

Unfunded pension and health care

That is a pity. Clearly we need some kind of Home For Abandoned Code :-)

Is this not what the Linux Foundation was about at one stage? Taking ownership of unmaintained projects so that at least they have the bare minimum of patches being applied, CI/CD …

There is a Chinese player that has taken effective control of various internet-related entities in the Seychelles. Various ongoing court-cases currently. So the seychelles traffic …

If you repair it yourself, you have more flexibility in terms of replacing spares with newer items i.e. replacing a whole module when it a part of that module becomes hard to come …

Sadly the US military (like a lot of militaries) are in love with custom requirements. And there is very little leeway for negotiating them out. So unnecessarily custom solutions a…

It was muuuch cheaper that way. Because adding in repair stuff requires the supplier to provide documentation, frequently training, a parts manifest, guaranteed 10-20 year availabi…

If you have specific performance issues and are able to share the associated documents, please log them at https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/ . Of course, we cannot always help, …

There is ongoing bugfixing in this area. If you are able to supply the documents associated with broken workflows in this area, it would be helpful to log bugs in our bugtracker at…

Wonderful tool. Has been incredibly useful in optimising LibreOffice.

Sounds like an opportunity to get an inland lake!

this might trick the heuristics in the right direction ie. feed the GPU a bunch of small tasks (i.e. with a small number of samples) instead of big tasks.

This article starts by saying "we dont know what actually happened here, or why" and then goes on to make various insinuations and suppositions, and then proposes policy based on t…