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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/chupasaurus; my proof: https://keybase.io/chupasaurus/sigs/awEGiixoqxZq5v8DxIsQYRG5yKtmfDbOvz2J1xCuAuE ] Russian sysadmin wearing a DevOps mask for profit.
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chupasaurus··on The metre originated in the French Revolution
> If a basic customary unit of length is an inch, many people can put two fingers together and estimate that on the human scale. But who can estimate or eyeball a millimeter?

If you'd grown with a metric system you could eyeball a centimeter with ease. Also comparing orders of magnitude different measures for estimation isn't fair, how precise would be your guess of a barleycorn?

chupasaurus··on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
> Heck, macOS would be fun!

Especially in licensing! /sarcasm

chupasaurus··on Changes since congestion pricing started in New York
In Moscow there are 2,5 cases of commercial buses: routes that differ from city-owned ones (both local and between parts) and downtown-to-satellite-city_name where there is no other public transport. Both mini and normal buses are being used, as you might guess they are still operating because they fill the niche and are faster than public buses because those have stops each 2-3 minutes. Subway there is far more preferred if it's even remotely an option, due to congestion and reliability.
chupasaurus··on 21 GB/s CSV Parsing Using SIMD on AMD 9950X
Sine Zen 2 (3000) the mobile CPUs are up by a thousand respectively to their desktop counterparts. edit: Or Nx2000 where N is from Zen N.
chupasaurus··on Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)
docker-compose had very unfun mechanism of detecting image updates so it depends (I haven't dug deep into V2).
chupasaurus··on Firefox tab groups are here
With JS disabled only media files could cause a memory leak, so the "safest" option covers that.
chupasaurus··on Firefox tab groups are here
Firefox with any number of open tabs is stable on memory usage because it has a target budget for it, most of the oom situations come either from external processes or a spike from FF's own.
chupasaurus··on Firefox tab groups are here
Basically they have a higher priority than regular tabs, mentioned here [0] in context of unloading and the same applies to execution scheduling.

[0] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/10/tab-unloading-in-firefox-9...

chupasaurus··on Firefox tab groups are here
Pinning tabs is very bad for YouTube because they are always rendered and thus always leaking.
chupasaurus··on Firefox tab groups are here
FF memory management on Linux is usually outpaced by oom_killer.
chupasaurus··on Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks away from court
The smoke detector in question was created in 70s.
chupasaurus··on What If We Could Rebuild Kafka from Scratch?
There are 2 service panels in Windows since 8 and they are quite different...
chupasaurus··on Encryption Is Not a Crime
From my experience this kind of problems are avoided to be solved simply because the difficulty of them is crystal clear and usually there are no champions who are willing to push it to the very end.
chupasaurus··on Encryption Is Not a Crime
Because only the first part adds something to the discussion. Starts with the the problem, then goes about only one of the possible solutions (which usually is the low-hanging one), states why it's bad and ends with refuting the existence of a problem.
chupasaurus··on Encryption Is Not a Crime
> Remember you are not banning all air.

Nope, it's about exactly that. This policy would work only for law-abiding citizens which terrorists are not, that's the point.

Added: The current gulag expeditions in US nor Guantanamo have nothing to do with US citizens, which is a big difference from GGP's comment.

chupasaurus··on Encryption Is Not a Crime
My favorite version of it is "Let's ban air because terrorists breathe".
chupasaurus··on Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
Here's a taste of unopinionated KDE: https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/1
chupasaurus··on Nvidia adds native Python support to CUDA
All 3 are achieved in Python with a simple import ctypes /sarcasm
chupasaurus··on Claim for a missing tooth
I agree on eraser being superior.

I have an even weirder example from Russian language: file, folder and pocket are 3 out of dozen different words being used to describe a plastic envelope for documents in various regions and people don't understand each other. I remember only one more.

chupasaurus··on File Systems Unfit as Distributed Storage Back Ends (2019)
Article is focused on Ceph where FS is a frontend to the storage backend(s), now read the title again...
chupasaurus··on Claim for a missing tooth
Mathematics is uncountable (:
chupasaurus··on Claim for a missing tooth
Even in Soviet textbooks for English in elementary schools (which are garbage by any standard) both variants were presented (:
chupasaurus··on Debian bookworm live images now reproducible
> With reproducible buiilds, a vendor can prove to users that they did build $binary from $someopensourceproject, and then digitally sign the result so that it - and only it - would load and execute on the vendor-provided and/or vendor-controlled platform.

As long as Debian provides source packages and access to their repos - digital signature has nothing to do with Reproducible Builds, you actually don't need one for the same bytes.

chupasaurus··on The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010
> any sport would help with the bad ankles

Futsal will destroy them.

chupasaurus··on IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol
RD Gateway has nothing to do with tunneling, it's just a reverse proxy for RDP connections. Funny note: as you've mentioned in other comment, my guess is that RDG was also licensed from Citrix but at the later point.
chupasaurus··on How many artists' careers did the Beatles kill?
Making songs out of shorter different parts so they could be remembered easier is caused by attention span window, not a cultural thing.
chupasaurus··on A look at Firefox forks
Fits 212 characters on mine.
chupasaurus··on Show HN: We built a Plug-in Home Battery for the 99.7% of us without Powerwalls
Check out this[0] and think about regional markets: half the capacity with 108kWh/yr consumption. I had theirs previous gen one and can attest that the number is correct.

[0] https://www.samsung.com/uk/refrigerators/bottom-mount-freeze...

chupasaurus··on The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome
GeckoView cannot replace built-in WebView [0].

[0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/GeckoView

chupasaurus··on 400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure
> you're going to be looking at $5000 + $300/m

I looked at Hetzner's $150/m for dedicated Xeon server with 1Gbps.

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