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[–] aard@kyu.de 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

This one approves.

Bonus:

[–] aard@kyu.de 8 points 1 week ago

You can drop that as far as clause.

Long time ago I got a small screw driver from a D-Link employee with the comment that this is the only non shit item with D-Link branding.

[–] aard@kyu.de 18 points 1 week ago

Because we're glad it is finally over after having deal with your election bullshit for the last half year? We made contingency plans for a trump win, so we acknowledged his win this morning, hope the planning is sufficient, and finally move on to something else.

[–] aard@kyu.de 15 points 1 week ago

It's not just cores - it is higher performance per rack unit while keeping power consumption and cooling needs the same.

That allows rack performance upgrades without expensive DC upgrades - and AMD has been killing dual and quad socket systems from intel with single and dual core epycs since launch now. Their 128 core one has a bit too high TDP, but just a bit lower core count and you can still run it in a rack configured for power and cooling needs from over a decade ago.

Granite rapids has too high TDP for that - you either go upgrade your DC, or lower performance per rack unit.

[–] aard@kyu.de 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For people who weren't looking for a developer workstation back then: Threadripper suddenly brought the performance of a xeon workstation costing more than 20k for just a bit over 2k.

That suddenly wasn't a "should I really invest that much money" situation, but a "I'd be stupid not to, productivity increase will pay for that over the next month or so"

[–] aard@kyu.de 34 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Just wanted to comment that this should happen faster than in a few years... and then checked the calendar

[–] aard@kyu.de 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, didn't know those exist.

[–] aard@kyu.de 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Prince of Persia was published by Broderbund?

[–] aard@kyu.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

Also worth mentioning is that there's a plugin for Krita which allows both generating and inpainting from inside krita. Especially for inpainting you can get incredible results by combining with proper selections from inside krita.

[–] aard@kyu.de 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That applies if you're looking at density per weight - but for most stuff driving around the interesting metric is density per volume, and hydrogen sucks there, even if we're looking at liquid nitrogen, which is completely impractical for storage here.

To make matters worse, you're limited to specific shapes for your pressurized tank if you want to optimize pressure it can take (and with that storage volume), while batteries you can stick in individual chunks pretty much wherever you find a bit of space.

[–] aard@kyu.de 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Still you can rely on military logistics to carry a swap battery. But isn’t the military supply chain the first target to disrupt?

That's true as well for hydrogen, though. And I guess there's a higher chance of getting access to "power" somewhere in the field than finding a hydrogen tank. Also, energy density of lithium batteries is higher than for hydrogen storage.

[–] aard@kyu.de 14 points 2 weeks ago

So CrowStrikes strategy is "you installed CrowStrike while TSA told you not to install it, as was clearly proven by us taking down your network, so we're not at fault"?

 

I recently had to add a Mac to my zoo of hardware I'm trying to do productive work on - which prompted me to clean up and document my environment variable importer, which had grown to platform specific functions with lots of code duplication.

On both Windows and MacOS I have properly configured shells with all relevant variables - so it makes sense to query them, instead of duplicating the logic how they create that configuration into Emacs.

On Linux that'd have worked too, but I also have the relevant variables in the systemd user session, and querying that is a tiny bit faster than launching a shell.

 

I'm currently in the process of taking over as maintainer for the emacs-keybindings addon for Firefox.

I've just published the first update in years, with changes including:

  • tested on Windows and Linux now
  • some functionality is now configurable: debug logging, custom new tab page, experimental features, modifier-less high level bindings
  • all keybindings are listed in the options settings page
  • M- keybindings are now also reachable via ESC
  • M-< and M-> was added for scrolling to top/bottom
  • introducing prefix key, currently only used for opening/closing of windows (C-u C-x C-f or C-u C-k)
  • search is introduced as experimental feature - currently it just highlights all matches
  • the extension now registers as browser action in preparation for additional features

Unfortunately a lot of things that used to work with the old XUL plugins few years back just don't work with the new APIs - and Firefox developers have been sitting on relevant bugs for 8 years or more without anything happening now - so this is probably close to the best we can have for now. In combination with setting editing keybindings either via Gnome settings or AHK it makes browsing almost bearable again.

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