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daneel_w

4,065 karmajoined 7 years ago
Intermittent reader; account created as I felt I had to speak up on something.

Fine. You may reach me on daneel_wahid <at> protonmail.com.

Submissions

NATO to Replace Boeing Awacs with Saab GlobalEye

reuters.com
3 points·by daneel_w·5 days ago·0 comments

Openprinter

opentools.studio
8 points·by daneel_w·3 months ago·1 comments

Nord-Lock Bolt Washers

pr0gramm.com
1 points·by daneel_w·4 months ago·1 comments

comments

daneel_w
·yesterday·discuss
He does not know.
daneel_w
·2 days ago·discuss
OpenBSD's FFS can be told to be fully synchronous, making it about as robust as can be for not being journaled. If you lose power it will lose the specific data currently being written to disk. It won't lose other data, because it doesn't keep a bunch of it sitting around in a RAM cache while lying to the writing process about the I/O op already being completed. A journaled file system, too, will lose in-flight data that has yet to land on disk if the power is cut.

I've had my share of sudden power cuts hit OpenBSD during the 20+ years I've been using it, and I have yet to ever see its file system actually go corrupt.

A sincere question: what important data does your router frequently and busily need to persist? If you don't have a UPS for it, perhaps it isn't too important after all. Maybe we have different perspectives of what a router is and should be. I manage a router (with OpenBSD) and it can drop off the power grid at any moment without losing anything of importance. If your router is in fact a multi-functional server I can understand the notion. Consider making all of the file systems fully synchronous. It has worked great for me for two decades.
daneel_w
·3 days ago·discuss
This is not a case of "convenient debugging".
daneel_w
·3 days ago·discuss
They didn't produce garbage by accident. They followed a plan and made a decision.
daneel_w
·3 days ago·discuss
And that's something very different than a complete product designed from scratch by a Chinese team in Shenzhen.
daneel_w
·3 days ago·discuss
What a surprise.
daneel_w
·7 days ago·discuss
So the Earth's magnetic poles are not involved at all then?
daneel_w
·7 days ago·discuss
Interesting article until you reach the gooey, messy bottom where the author takes a sudden personal turn and decides to pick apart the "spineless" creator of the programming language - who is the article's actual subject - by wielding their own ideologically and morally superior perspectives as truths. Smug, ironic, personal and somewhat unpleasant.

I had never heard about the language until today. In my observation, Rust is C's main competitor.
daneel_w
·9 days ago·discuss
Yes and no. It is the standard for audio in film, which explains the author's focus. But is the audio CD bigger and more "standarder" than DVD and Blu-Ray? I think they're equals, and I personally think this encoder only makes sense for video content. Given all the caveats the author mentions (in particular about the sample rate) I would steer clear from using it when ripping CDs.
daneel_w
·11 days ago·discuss
What if the focus of their pro-remigration stance is families deemed impossible to integrate due to their persisting criminal activities and rejection of functional societal norms? Because that's the exact demographic this one policy of that party is concerned with.
daneel_w
·11 days ago·discuss
The "really bad one" is a policy calling for what in the Swedish debate is now termed "re-migration" of families who sustain themselves and their children, in their entirety, solely on crime and fraudulent extractions from the welfare system, while actively rejecting integration, education and employment. The misrepresentation is that the policy is strictly about non-white residents, all of them, on the sole merit of race and ethnicity.
daneel_w
·11 days ago·discuss
And you know very well that he said all of this in the context of families who for years have refused to integrate in favor of sustaining themselves and their children exclusively on crime and systemic welfare fraud. Their party manifesto clearly elaborates on this topic. You are just highlighting an isolated part of his spoken paragraph while sweeping all the rest in under the carpet hoping that unfamiliar readers will take your word for it. Frantically spamming the thread with "It's ethnic cleansing!!" and "They want to deport every non-white person from Sweden!!" doesn't change the facts.

I'm a non-white non-native who came to Sweden with my family just over 35 years ago. Go ahead and ask me if I or my family fear their policies, and I'll tell you why we don't. Or, just relativize and say something like "well that's not the same thing" and I'll tell you the real reason why my family and I aren't the same thing as the demographic your comments relate to.
daneel_w
·11 days ago·discuss
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daneel_w
·11 days ago·discuss
You're right, it doesn't take long. That's the sad part. The evidence is in them echoing just one single cherry-picked policy, in a misrepresented way, while conveniently ignoring all their other far more numerous left-leaning policies.
daneel_w
·11 days ago·discuss
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daneel_w
·11 days ago·discuss
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daneel_w
·11 days ago·discuss
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daneel_w
·11 days ago·discuss
How do you know the political party of the story is "the worst of the worst"? You don't.
daneel_w
·11 days ago·discuss
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·11 days ago·discuss
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