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paulmlewis
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Comment #16817334
Ted Unangst had a few posts where time getting featured heavily, e.g. https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/firefox-vs-rthreads and the linked mailing list thread https://marc.info/…
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Comment #14534649
I don't follow Wayland closely but there's a thread proposing stabilisation from a little while back https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-Ma...
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Comment #14460541
They're a big enough problem that they created Rust to deal with them.
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Comment #13678582
Nor your boots! :-)
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Comment #12222640
I'm no expert so may be corrected, but I assume just an inverter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_inverter
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Comment #12222587
> The primary chops up the high-voltage DC from the PFC circuit and feeds it into the transformer. It chops it up to AC for the transformer.
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Comment #11906434
heh, brings back memories, we had a real-world Logo Turtle at secondary school in about 1990. This one's a little shinier though.
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Comment #11537795
We have plenty of human biting mosquitos in the UK, I'm quite allergic to some of them.
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Comment #11341792
I ask this from a position of seeking knowledge rather than being adversarial, the discussions on undefined behaviour from a C language perspective always seem muddled to me betwee…
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Comment #10786722
Only a handful of comments but it was posted a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10759434
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Comment #10577932
Does it need to be? I think the suggestion is allow using your own tablet with a standard interface, if it breaks in a few years replace it with a newer one. That way the you're no…
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Comment #10523574
Thanks for mitmproxy, used it for the first time the other day :-)
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Comment #10468478
That's a fair point, my cars are old enough to come under the older UK road tax rules so are not taxed based on emissions, but their emissions are better than the requirements for …
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Comment #10464839
I think the majority of modifications are simply adjusting the calibration or lookup tables for things like fuel maps, enabling / disabling things like key left in ignition buzzers…
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Comment #10464654
I'm sure there's some irony in that sentiment ;-) Aside from the VW thing I think pretty much all diesels are above emissions standards in open road testing.
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Comment #10460640
Thanks, first time submitting, I didn't spot those ones.
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Comment #8740500
There's a core-utils in rust repo https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
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Comment #3977793
Interesting, I'd given up all hope of the flickering being fixed.