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> 1 loss sets you back 10-20 wins Good old eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.

The main issue with evaluating content for what it is is how extremely asymmetric that process has become. Slop looks reasonable on the surface, and requires orders of magnitude mo…

High speed finance is msec and below. Fastest publically known tick to trade is just shy of 14 nanos. Timekeeping starts to become really hard, often requiring specialized hardware…

Built in KVM is not that important any longer, with all the new options for adding an external one. gl-inet comet kvm, nanokvm pro, jetkvm, etc.

You can use more than one key you know. Keep the private key you actively use in the secure enclave. The system you actively use is most at risk. Keep a secondary offline private k…

I remember a few years ago when our niece came to visit. One evening, we started watching a movie on Netflix together. We only made it halfway before bedtime, but since she was com…

No, it looks nothing like a reinvention of torrent.

Norway has a penguin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Olav

Frankly, it’s so good I use emacs just for git even when coding in other editors.

> I don't own an iPhone so I don't know for sure if old messages clog iPhones too but the article hints that this is the case. > Maybe Apple is happy to sell new phones with more s…

We had a fleet of dedicated hetzner boxes w/10 gbit, it’s just an option you get and pay a little extra for. Generally had good performance as well.

We got day or maybe even week of linux on the desktop at least :)

With a crowdstrike kernel driver, so technically not a microsoft/windows issue.

Generally gets attributed with: - Increased liquidity. Ensures there's actually something to be traded available globally, and swiftly moves it to places where it's lacking. - Tigh…

Not that different for the prodesk/elitedesk small form factors IMHO. There’s a steady supply of cheap used ones available on most online marketplaces (there’s probably millions of…

I worked for a FX market maker, and we just used "yards". Removes any confusion for european and american collaboration. Got old roots dating back to cockney trading slang: "The Ol…

Link to implementation: https://github.com/maghoff/id30

By following the same vague “can be used to grow piracy” logic, there’s a pretty big percentage of github repos that can be slapped with a DMCA and taken down..

In what way is ZFS a good filesystem for lightweight devices like watches, phones, pads and single ssd/nvme laptops? APFS and ZFS have very different design goals. That said though…

There are m2 adapters that break out to 4-6 sata ports. Ex: https://a.aliexpress.com/_Ey8htlr

I think maybe you’re overestimating the idle power consumption of modernish x86 (especially the last 5-6 gens of intel)? I’ve a i5 9600T system that’s drawing less than a Pi at idl…

Whenever bazel prints that it’s compiling one of the rust parts of the codebase at work, then I mutter something about needing more faster better CPUs, and go fetch a cup of coffee…

There’s been generic microcontrollers (usually single shot programmable) available for less than 3 cent per mcu for half a decade already. Check out Padauk and similar MCUs.

Model Y RWD sold in europe is LFP

Those were great. I turned one of mine into a 4G enabled garage opener some years ago, battery backup and everything. Was a real pain to find an archive of the flashing utility and…