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Never knew until I immigrated to the US. And even then, its merely a brief mention on it and calls it “communism” (its not lol) and then the teachers proclaim its why “communism” is bad, USA constitution rule of law blah blah.

That's when you bring up Kent State

How about a 6.4TB sqlite database?

https://boyter.org/posts/searchcode-bigger-sqlite-than-you/

They'd run afoul of the whole "editing your own article" restrictions.

Yep, this lets somebody use the ESP32 as part of an attack, not actually attack them remotely.

The "attack" is from the host side, any remote attack is theoretical and would depend on exploiting the software on the host first to then gain access to the BT chip.

They really want to promote their AVIF format, and supporting JXL would hinder that (Since JXL is a much nicer upgrade path from JPEG/PNG than AVIF is)

Like you can transparently go from JPEG to JXL and back with no loss, which isn't possible with AVIF. And PNG to JXL gives you a smaller file, while it's usually the opposite with AVIF (Unless you get lucky, as lossless AVIF can be beaten by a BMP in a ZIP file). There's also the issue of speed, AVIF is slow to encode compared to other formats (And while hardware decoding is possible, it's also geared towards video, so the quality is often lacking, and can sometimes be slower than plain software encoding)

It’s unclear why Google stuck with PNG for HDR screenshots instead of a format supported by Ultra HDR such as JPEG.

Because for good lossless HDR you've got a grand total of 2 options, PNG and JPEG XL. And Google don't want people to know of yet another use case for JXL.

I take that there isn’t much motivation in moving to 128 because it’s big enough; it’s only 8 cycles (?) to fill a 512 (that can’t be right?).

8 cycles would be an eternity on a modern CPU, they can achieve multiple register sized loads per cycle.

If we do see a CPU with 128 bit addresses anytime soon, it'll be something like CHERI, where the extra bits are used for flags.

I think CHERI is the only real attempt at a 128 bit system, but it uses the upper 64 bits for metadata, so the address space is still 64 bits.

He named the recovery barges after sci fi spaceships (modern sci fi, not old nazi stuff)

It's pretty clear to me that Elon's never read a Culture novel, they're antithetical to him.

NTFS was designed back in the mid 90s, when the plan was to have the single NT kernel with different subsystems on top of it, some of those layers (i.e. POSIX) needed case sensitivity while others (Win32 and OS/2) didn't.

It only looks odd because the sole remaining subsystem in use (Win32) barely makes use of any of the kernel features, like they're only just now enabling long file paths.

Yep, Apple paid with shares (More specifically, the right to buy $1 million dollars worth at the initial share price) which, according to a share calculator I just tried, would be worth nearly $328 million these days, I wonder if Xerox kept them or offloaded them early.

Considering Xerox was utterly uninterested in any of the tech they had, it's worked out well.

I think it’s a good thing that telcos NAT their customers. The last thing we want is for the Internet to be able to easily connect to those devices.

That's the job of a firewall, not a NAT.

That a NAT also blocks connections is incidental, it's blocking them because it just has no idea how to handle them.

That's because those adapters aren't DACs, they're straight electrical passthrough adapters.

I've got an actual USB DAC, a relatively cheap one, and it was still close to $50.

Edit: Doubled the price in my memory.

If somebody is playing a game with the gamma set to 3 and brightness at 120%, and they're still finding it too dark, they need to check if their monitor is actually turned on.

If it's any consolation, in Australia that'd make you far-left.

He just mentions Elon knows computers very well.

Which is proof it's just more nonsense.

Both 4G and 5G support low frequencies.

Yep, and they're in use too. Telstra/Optus/Vodafone all run 4G at 700MHz (compared to 850/900MHz for 3G). It's slightly different for 5G, Telstra use 850MHz while Optus/Vodafone use 700MHz.

Australian Mobile Network Frequencies (Whirlpool)

Stuff that's spec compliant has to follow the rules, non-spec compliant stuff can obviously do whatever, so yeah the cheap cables off ebay or amazon won't use the right logos.

It's USB2, so either for charging or simpler devices that don't need USB3 (Like keyboards).

Edit: Federation issue? I swear there wasn't an existing reply when I responded.