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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.Coding since 1998..NET Foundation member. C# fan https://d.sb/Mastodon: @dan@d.sb

  • Not my problem sort

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  • ECC (and other methods) write the corrected value back to memory

    That was my understanding (it corrects the error and writes the good value back to RAM), but now I'm not so sure! I imagine it must do that, otherwise a second bit flip would actually corrupt the RAM, and the RAM manufacturer would want to reduce that risk.

    Regular ECC adds an extra parity bit for each byte. For each byte of memory, it can correct an error in one bit, and detect but not correct an error in two bits, so they wouldn't want a one bit error to linger for longer than it needs to.

  • Raising a flag

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  • I don't get why the saying is "shoving it down your throat" or "jumping down your throat" when it's more like shoving it down your ear canal. You don't eat what people are saying 🤔

  • Raising a flag

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  • is... Is that a thing?

  • Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division | TechCrunch

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  • They get around $500 million per year from Google, so $1 billion is just two years worth of that. 86% of Mozilla's revenue comes from that Google deal.

  • Censorship is getting out of hand

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  • A better use of your time is to improve documentation. Developers generally hate documentation so it's often in need of improvement. Rewrite confusing sentences. Add tutorials that are missing. Things like that. You don't necessarily have to be a good developer or even understand the code of the project; you just have to have some knowledge of the project as an end user.

  • Censorship is getting out of hand

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  • At least for that we have replacement names that make sense (like primary and secondary or replica).

  • Censorship is getting out of hand

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  • HTML isn't compiled, and unknown attributes are allowed. The best practice is to prefix non-standard attributes with data- (e.g. <div data-foo="test">) but nothing enforces that. Custom attributes can be retrieved in JavaScript or targeted in CSS rules.

  • Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division | TechCrunch

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  • There's no winning. Some people use the regular version and complain about the updates, while others use the ESR release and complain that sites that use cutting-edge features don't work properly.

    The solution to updates is to use Linux, since then it'll update through your distro's package manager along with your other software.

  • Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division | TechCrunch

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  • They're likely preparing for their funding from Google to be cut. Having a lot of money in the bank doesn't matter if your income is lower than expenses, since you'll run out of money eventually.

  • Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division | TechCrunch

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  • I wouldn't mind paying money for a good browser. I paid for Opera back in the day, and browsers are significantly more complex (and cost several orders of magnitude more to develop) now compared to back then.

  • Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division | TechCrunch

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  • w3m

  • Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division | TechCrunch

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  • There's also a new browser based on Firefox/Gecko called Zen. There's way too many browsers based on Webkit or Blink.

  • Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division | TechCrunch

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  • Business Names

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  • Guy makes “dodgy e-bike” from 130 used vapes to make point about e-waste

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  • Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back

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  • Makes sense.

    My wife and I don't commute very far so an EV is fine for us even if we can only charge it with 120V initially (until we install a proper charger in our garage). We've got a BMW iX on order.

    Tesla is opening superchargers to all brands eventually. That'll help a lot, as will the inevitable changes that'll happen to gas stations where they replace some pumps with EV chargers.

    Range is definitely an issue, but it's improving over time. 10 years ago, the average EV range was around 100 miles. I know BMW have tested a prototype car with ~600 mile range, and that tech should hopefully come with their Neue Klasse vehicles some time in 2026/2027. The Lucid Air gets around 500 miles range. Our current gas car (2012 Mazda 3) only gets around 360 miles until the gas light comes on, so it's not actually that different for us.

  • Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back

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  • It might be too large for your use case, but have you looked at the Kia EV9? The EV6 might be worth looking at too.

  • Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back

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  • Not all manufacturers use adaptive headlights, and on some cars it's only available as an upgrade whereas there's a lot of people driving base models.

  • Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back

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  • I saw this, but apparently the European ones don't meet the US guidelines, and the Euro manufacturers aren't yet redesigning and recertifying their headlights to meet the US guidelines. The two brands I was looking at (BMW and Porsche) both still have this feature disabled on their 2025 US models.

  • Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back

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  • Porsche are kinda doing this with their modern cars (e.g. see the inside of the Macan EV). They have flat capacitive buttons, which are better than a touch screen, but still not as good as actual proper buttons.