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hornetblack··on Building the ultimate home office again
Last I checked max you can claim for purchasing home office equipment in Australia is $300. Although he claim the decline in value every year. Which would probably get you $300 again.

https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Income-and-deductions/Ded...

hornetblack··on George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter
First one involves two groups of police sorrounding a group of protesters and tear gassing them. I don't how that can be considered a valid dispersal method (They could not disperse there were police on both sides) Also allegly firing Pepper balls above the waist which is incorrect usage. (There are marks on the walls well above head height)

If you made it practically impossable to disburse when using what are basically torture devices in that situation I don't see how it isn't brutality.

hornetblack··on Emacs as Email Client
Uhhh. jwz.org checks the referer header for hacker news and redircts to a picture of some male gentailia in a egg cup, with some text of what jwz thinks of this site.

I'd advise linking to a archive.org version of the url.

hornetblack··on VexRiscv is a quadcore, Linux-capable RISC-V softcore for FPGA
Low-volume networking hardware comes to mind. Where you need very-high performace routing, but aren't shipping enough units to make up the cost of using an ASIC.

The aren't many of the them so power usage isn't a bit cost, but their performance effects the performance of many other machines, where most of the power draw is.

hornetblack··on Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19
You'd have to get follow up to see if Vitamin D has gone up after taking it.

I was Wrong on the internet (lots of food has vitamin D including Eggs and Mushrooms): Vitamin D supplements may not be absorbed as digestion isn't the normal process for obtaining it.

hornetblack··on Help Take the Fight to COVID-19 with BOINC and Folding@Home
Yea I install the Asus GPU-Z and i was better and gave that it was using 90% of the whole GPU. Windows just doesn't know how to count GPU usage apperntly.
hornetblack··on Help Take the Fight to COVID-19 with BOINC and Folding@Home
Folding@Home is runnign GPU stuff on Windows without any configuration on my AMD RX 580. Although it's not using much of it. Presuably because OpenCL only runs of the Compute units which are relatively small part of the GPU.
hornetblack··on Help Take the Fight to COVID-19 with BOINC and Folding@Home
I had a couple hours earlier today of CPU. Currenlty running on 1 Compute node (out of 3) (OpenCL) on my GPU. Which Windows reports as 3% of the GPU. But it's 99% of the actual Compute module.
hornetblack··on How much a baby is touched leaves measurable effects on DNA methylation (2017)
There's a special thing called "Epigenetics". The genes coded in DNA don't change. But how they're used can change.

There's methyl groups that attach to the DNA. These stop parts of the DNA being read.

There's Histones which wind up your DNA and control how much can be read.

These are used control which parts of DNA are used by which cells. Evey cell has the same Genome, but each cell needs a different program to function, so changing the Gene Expression you get a different kind of cell.

hornetblack··on Zero Rupee Note
Trier made €0 notes with Karl Marx images on them to celebrate his 200th birthday... Which they sold for €3 each.

https://www.thelocal.de/20180418/karl-marxs-birth-city-sells...

hornetblack··on Fuchsia OS Introduction
Case in point. Google's ANGLE library has a in-progress Vulkan back-end. (Used for WebGL in Chrome and Firefox). ANGLE does only provide OpenGL ES, but then so does Android. I wouldn't be surprised if an upcoming android version required Vulkan suppport and Android shipped with ANGLE for OpenGL.

https://github.com/google/angle

hornetblack··on How many keywords I can fit into a single C# expression?
You can set the language version and go back to pre linq, pre async days.
hornetblack··on Mastercard will stop free trials from automatically billing once they're over
For example, last time mine renewed I found out that AWS didn't record the expiry date. I only have to update the CVV.
hornetblack··on Linux 5.0-rc1
I think there was at least a Google+ poll.
hornetblack··on Sydney Opal Tower: Thousands evacuated after 'crack'
They also don't have to finish everything in the building. Moved into a building where the construction company did this, many things were unfinished. Apparently didn't completely pay the workers, so they just took stuff when they left.
hornetblack··on Linux: IO without entering the kernel
There's a concept called exception-less syscalls, which might be similar to what your thinking.
hornetblack··on UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released
Results on mine:

    Benchmarking, the higher ops/sec the better.
    Firefox 63.0 on Windows 10 64-bit.

    Test 100 needles against 16 dictionaries of hostnames
      -                 Set-based x 1,443 ops/sec ±3.46% (54 runs sampled)
      -               Regex-based x 4,093 ops/sec ±1.18% (25 runs sampled)
      -      Trie-based (1st-gen) x 8,993 ops/sec ±1.92% (59 runs sampled)
      -   Trie-based JS (2nd-gen) x 7,923 ops/sec ±2.81% (44 runs sampled)
      - Trie-based WASM (2nd-gen) x 10,100 ops/sec ±1.75% (54 runs sampled)
    Done.
hornetblack··on Do You Have a Moral Duty to Leave Facebook?
They sell targeted screen space seems more accurate.
hornetblack··on Uber Revenue Slows as Quarterly Loss Surges to $1.1B
Depends, where I am there's Uber or Traditional Cabs. My experience phoning for a cab is pretty pleasent though (quicker than using uber). Although their app is unusable.

(When it comes to dodgey companies CabCharge is pretty terrible)

hornetblack··on Web.dev by Google
"Imagine if your favorite game took forever to load because you were on a slow network connection, it wouldn't be your favorite game for very long. "

I can inform you that games I play take forever to load on slow networks. (Overwatch, Darksouls). Although I guess it's not downloading the game. It's just trying to login to the servers.

hornetblack··on .NET Standard 2.1
It's shared with WINE I believe. (The native parts)
hornetblack··on The hidden cost of QUIC and TOU (2016)
I know that for https in NSS browsers (Chrome and FF) you can dump the secrets to a file that Wireshark can read. Given that Chrome is currently the biggest user i would be supprised if that was easy to update.
hornetblack··on 12 Factor CLI Apps
After some time of experimenting with this. I probably can't recommend any colors.

The issue I've found is that of the 16 build in colors. cmd defaults to trivial colors. (eg Blue is 000080 and Bright blue is 0000FF.)

Which give terrible contrast. MS seems to be working on improving things on their end. Then I'll be able to make it readable. (Eg: https://github.com/Microsoft/console/tree/master/tools/Color...)

hornetblack··on Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data
I created a vhdx file on windows 2016 server, formatted it with ReFS and copied it to my PC. And I mount the vhdx as D:. It's such a silly way to do something.
hornetblack··on 12 Factor CLI Apps
Also on Color. Don't got go all pschadelic. I've found that some programs using 256-color is unreadable with my terminal colors.

Also unix commands tend to have illegible colors in Powershell on Windows. (Ripgrep for example). Powershell defaults to a blue background.

hornetblack··on Wi-Fi Alliance introduces Wi-Fi 6
It's been posted here multiple times: https://cafbit.com/post/rapid_dhcp_or_how_do/
hornetblack··on Linux Kernel Developer Criticizes Intel for Meltdown, Spectre Response
I think even a Intel contractor was indirectly responsible for GRSecurity going behind a paywall.

(tl;dr intel contractor were shipping an os that was using grsec tradmark in marketing for a non-grsec approved kernel)

hornetblack··on Earliest images of the moon were better than people realised
It's really hard to orbit the moon anyway, it's not very spherical compared with the earth.
hornetblack··on CoreRT – A .NET Runtime for AOT
I find .net for side projects is much nicer because I don't have to deal with a massive codebase, subrepos, waiting ages for compilation, dealing with weird nodeterministic issues collected from years of technical debt.

Also don't have to deal with Winforms.

hornetblack··on Apps for which macOS applies compatibillity fixes
Insert sort should also be pretty fast for almost stored list, (and works better for not almost sorted).
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