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Been running jabberd for probably >10 years. Horrible experience (for the users) and terrible clients. Sometimes you'd just appear online while not sending/receiving anything. I sw…

How is there an entire page without a single line describing how it works?

Add that before UDMA modes any disk I/O burned CPU cycles as well. A single core CPU spent most of the time reading from a slow disk. Good times!

Windows before some version (maybe before XP?) only supported BMP wallpapers. BMP is uncompressed, a 1024x768 24-bit BMP is 2.25MB. That could be 7% of the 32MB system RAM and if t…

This ^ I debugged an app a couple of years ago that from time to time brought entire MSSQL down. The server had to be physically restarted. Nobody could figure out for years what w…

See the other comment below. Maybe you also have a hash of the patches? :)

I'm not sure if I can. But if anyone else has the file, the hash is: 82c6658d53fa611273a4742ac824cc98196fd35e Should be pretty magnetic :)

I got the audio part, but didn't download the patches :(

That's where the disagreement is. Yes, it can be shared but RedHat under their license is not bound to provide you with any further updates. However, this makes it as if you are be…

I survived by saying since it's bottomless I never reach the ground. "It's the ground that kills you, not the fall" :)

Definitely helps by leading the prompt, I survived this scenario by saying I relaxed, focused and suddenly a familiar feeling returned as I remembered how to breath again :) Anothe…

The problem is not the same...Shuttle's main engines were dead in orbit after jettisoning the main tank. Only OMS thrusters were working and it landed unpowered, gliding to the sur…

That's really bad. I refinanced last month to a 3.7% fixed 20-year because the fixed rate here is currently lower than base variable rate (6-month Euribor at 4.1%, which would mean…

My UPS is showing 236V at the moment (continental EU). We also used to have 220V IIRC, but are now closer to 240V it seems.

That ~9kW is probably split over 3 phases. Here you have 3x20A main breakers and then each circuit has a 10A or 16A breaker. So about 3.7kW limit for larger appliances (16A * 230V)…

I'm searching for something that would stamp a custom date on a PDF, like "Received\n$(date)". I'm solely printing my stuff to stamp a date and then scanning them back... Haven't f…

JPEG is 30 years old so we need something more modern (better compression, less visual artifacts, web optimized, etc...). There already was a plan to change it with JPEG 2000, but …

I briefly used LXD once when I needed a full system inside a container. But podman also supports systemd inside a container and along with macvlan networking you can pretty much bu…

I'm good at what I do (at least I think I am), yet I don't know what to use it for. For specific questions, I find (and trust) the results faster on Stack Overflow. The code that C…

They don't. What they do is centralize CO2 production which can be then mitigated on a larger scale (switching power production to nuclear/solar/wind, CO2 capture from industrial p…

I wonder how much compilers could be improved with AI? I'd imagine outputting optimized avx code from an existing C for() loop would be much easier than going from a "write me a py…

It should be noted DOSBox uses it's own ZMBV codec for video compression which is lossless, optimized for game graphics and fast to compress in real-time during capture. By convert…

I'm having the same issues... Although I'm not a full time developer, I do some small coding and I'm also sort of responsible for the dev team. I rarely use a debugger. I do most o…

But one of the GME points was (is?) that stock is sold without being borrowed first. Or being borrowed without permission and multiple times... If you sell empty bags on the street…

How about space propulsion? Maybe I'm naive, but inertial confinement fusion seems like a great candidate for a space engine.