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Alex Rivera's 2008 movie Sleep Dealer is not without flaws, but it left quite an impression on me. I watched it it after seeing it recommended here in a comments thread on an artic…

> as long as I am confident it is correct Are you? Does it cost you extra (time or money) to be?

Do you mind me asking, what kind of problems did you run into with Neo4j? Did you encounter performance issues after the DB grew to a certain size, or did you realize that the data…

I've wanted this for i3, but I guess I wasn't sufficiently motivated :) Given that sway's homepage describes it as a drop-in replacement for i3, I'll try it out tomorrow.

> - Ports exposed by Docker punch through the firewall I've been using ufw-docker [1] to force ufw and docker to cooperate. Without it, Docker ports do actually get exposed to to t…

Previous posts in the series: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-windows-r... https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-windows-r... https://googleprojectz…

> CAN uses bit arbitration and the lowest address wins. And in doing so it prioritizes important messages and enables deterministic timing.

There are a bunch of modules, you can connect them in various modulation configurations. > Module is a basic element of the SunVox. There are several types of modules (...) https:/…

> As an optimization, it is helpful to use a local variable for the reference to the first pointer. Doing so improves the perfomance substantially: C# is not happy when we repeated…

> while Denisovans left at the same time into Asia ending up concentrated in Serbia. You probably meant to write Siberia.

Hashing is not compression, it should not be reversible/inflatable.

> they go with the aesthetic de jure You probably meant to write "du jour" :)

Furthermore, from the same article: > Lem, however, considered one science fiction author as exempt from his scathing criticisms – his denouncer, Philip K. Dick. The title of an es…

> Having said that, I personally detest the particular populist-with-lack-of-nuance approach Sabine (and others like her) take. Not arguing against the point you are making, just h…

For a webserver, scalability (as in ability to handle a large number of concurrent request) is a performance metric. Speed of handling each one of those requests is another perform…

Is this a machine translation? > The old woman gave various interviews during the Ecce Homo boom era, where she revealed her skills as an artist. He painted for a long time, had ex…

Any recommendations?

One of the top comments on the youtube video: > That was 1971. Now 43 years later, we still use the over 100 years old combustion engine. Something is seriously wrong in this world…

This guy explains the process of creating a basic bass sound quite well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XbrTC0NndM

Not sure how they compare feature-wise, but take a look at FoxDot: https://github.com/Qirky/FoxDot

I wouldn't call that "what was once known in the scene as DivX"...

One of the old Opera mobile browsers (Mini or Mobile) worked in a somewhat similar way.

It is possible to disable kibitzing for a table (or a tournament, or a team match etc.), but kibitzing is a feature. It's often both educational and entertaining to kibitz high pro…

A similar thing has been happening in online contract bridge. https://bridgewinners.com/article/view/the-2020-online-cheat... https://bridgewinners.com/article/view/confession-of-a…