Wolf480pl

Sysadmin stuck with k8s,
Linux nerd
Likes The Unix Way
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2025-08-29 18:55:11 UTC

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is compiling it as an out-of-tree module not an option for you?

2025-08-16 09:24:15 UTC

why do solutions to 2nd order differential equations have to be so disgusting...

2025-07-30 14:00:57 UTC

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which is why X11 should live on, in parallel to wayland

2025-07-04 21:45:26 UTC

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why do states allow it?

2025-07-02 19:37:14 UTC

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no i mean
If instead of parsing it once, checking the parsed form, and then immediately using it, or, alternatively, serializing it into a fresh file that contains only verified data and can be used later
If instead of doing that you parse the input file at two different times, once to check and once to use
That's called TOCTOU, right?

2025-07-02 12:46:12 UTC

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I didn't think I'd see TOCTOU used against human checks and human use

2025-05-28 19:13:32 UTC

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oh, I didn't notice the footer

2025-05-24 13:05:23 UTC

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not if you print more money and let inflation eat the existing one

2025-04-01 20:27:39 UTC

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yeah, looks like 27 March...
rip Polish firework exports I guess :/

2025-04-01 20:25:29 UTC

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wait what, this is not an April Fools?

2025-02-25 22:50:47 UTC

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> for repair, I don't really see anything wrong with leaving that up to specialists
Except that causes a lot of downtime. Unless you have a whole spare computer.

2025-02-11 22:39:12 UTC

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all my cheap USB sticks have been always showing up as /dev/sdX... since pre-usb3.0 times

2024-12-25 10:52:27 UTC

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hmm looks like in a dielectric, EM waves only interact with the electron shells of atoms, and the restoring force for those comes from whatever quantum effect binds them to the nuclei[1].
Meanwhile in case of Alfven waves, according to the wikipedia page you linked, it's the magnetic field line tension that provides the restoring force...
Intuitively it feels right that such a force would exist, but I'm curious why.
[1]: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_31.html

2024-12-11 19:39:57 UTC

It seems like techpowerup changed their methodology for testing SSD power consumption around April/May, specifically with regard to the power vs speed graph.
Up to April[1], all the reviews I looked at showed the read power curve mostly flat throughout the speed range. But starting with May[2], it seems to grow linearly similar to the write power curve...
Now, I didn't check all the reviews in those time ranges, so maybe it's sth else
[1]: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/msi-spatium-m580-frozr-4-tb/7.html
[2]: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/corsair-mp700-pro-se-4-tb/7.html

2024-10-15 18:31:43 UTC

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oh, in the sense that it's not a single git repo everyone has - yes, that would be a problem.
I wish they were still doing source CDs :/

2024-09-16 15:03:29 UTC

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until your computer's ground is capacitively coupled to 115V AC (half of mains) and your signal cable's shield is the only thing connecting it to actual ground...
(had that happen with a raspi and a USB cable, to the point the USB device would keep disconecting...)

2024-09-16 14:52:42 UTC

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you know what's the worst?
That I can't outright rule out there being a difference. There's so much stuff going on a CPU with all kinds of interactions...
Although...
Ok maybe we can figure out some rules:
As long as there is no XRUN, can the soundcard be affected by the stuff going on on the CPU?

2024-09-05 12:44:29 UTC

I think Internet Archive and other libraries should be allowed to also lend digital copies.
(I also think AI companies should be required to get licenses for every text they scrape)
But the law and its interpretation isn't always what we'd like, and that's a risk IA should've taken into account. And I think it was reckless of them to endanger their primary goal of digital preservation by doing the righteous-but-risky ebook lending.