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Who lives in a Pineapple in the Algorithms Library for C? SpongeBob BinaryTreePants!
Right image, but under those each one below would also be wearing large pants covering each side of the subtree.
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Who lives in a Pineapple in the Algorithms Library for C? SpongeBob BinaryTreePants!
Right image, but under those each one below would also be wearing large pants covering each side of the subtree.
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Does anyone else notice the infuriating trend of people renaming youtube videos and swapping thumbnails?
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Yep, YouTube even has an A/B testing tool for automating this.
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concerning.......
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IIRC the PS3 had it's firmware encryption key published not the source code.
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Should I bother with HTTPS over Tailscale?
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It can still have issues with potential attacks that would redirect your client to a system outside of the VPN. It would prevent MitM but not complete replacement.
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Upgrade vs Reinstall
Your experience may depend on which distro you use and how you install things. If you use a distro with a stable upgrade path such as Debian and stick to system packages there should be almost no issues with upgrades. If you use external installers or install from source you may experience issues depending on how the installer works.
For anything complex these days I'd recommend going with containers that way the application and the OS can be upgraded independently. It also makes producing a working copy of your production system for testing a trivial task.
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It's always nice to revisit my old code.
As someone who also has produced code that looks like random characters spewed onto a terminal while using fpdf, I feel this one.
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Trying to understand Consent Forms, Cookies and Third-Party Vendors
It's not well explained for sure but judging by the names of the cookies I bet those store the consent (opt in/out) values for the other tracking options. Another way of putting it would be those are functional cookies related to the cookie consent form itself so that you don't have to re-select consent options every time you visit the site.
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Running into inconsistent extrusion when printing a circular model
It looks like underextrusion at speed. It might be a clog or you might want to try a higher hotend temperature. PLA can have inconsistent ideal temperatures even with the same brand due to different colors and additives between batches and 185 is on the low side.
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Mine's still around here somewhere.
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I had that very device right about 2002. Put my whole CD collection on a few mp3 disks. Replaced it a few years later with a 6GB mp3 player.
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[Solved] [Help] Should I use zram?
It can often improve performance and memory latency and usually only has a minor CPU performance impact as it trades cycles waiting for memory for cycles decompressing memory. It is usually decent even on low power embedded devices.
There are a few edge cases where ZRam is not great. If your data is already compressed or encrypted copying it around in memory is much more expensive. It's also harder to tell exactly how much data can be loaded into the "free" memory. It's also a bit slower for serialized memory access in large data sets if the compression ratio is low.
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Thanks to dust I deleted a 70 gig file on my drive
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PTSD from the days long ago when X11 error log would fill up the disk when certain applications were used.
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Weird error copying MKV file
It's very likely that your disk is failing.
dd if=/path/to/file.mkv of=/new/file/path.mkv conv=noerror,sync bs=4k
Should give you a file with just the damaged bits missing.
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What's going wrong with my prints?
The biggest issue is that your corners are lifting from the bed during the print. Fixing this is usually a combination of making sure the bed is clean and adding a brim to increase adhesion. Maybe messing with temperature and cooling fan settings for the first few layers.
Second is things look a bit over extruded. This could just be due to the corner issue though so fix that before any other changes.
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Can I get a filesystem cleanup on aisle 6?
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Initrd contains the systemd binary and enough libraries, services, and kernel modules to get booted this far. The system failed at switch root which is where the real root disk is mounted. Initrd can contain as much or as little as needed to get a working system which can be a lot of you are using a network filesystem as a root for instance.
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I mean it could be right
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The underutilized post pre increment operator.
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Surely, one of you fine folks has a better solution to attach a spare fan to an ISP gateway without damaging it?
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The plastic and wire twist ties that come on cables would work too.
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Ping is so mean 🥺
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"Invalid" or "unparseable" are more understandable descriptors in normal language. I don't think I ever heard of garbage/junk being used for that in language theory but it may be domain specific usage.
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How do I install Ethernet drivers on Ubuntu 22.04?
If it isn't showing up in lspci then it isn't currently attached to a PCI port. lspci will show all devices with or without a driver, known and unknown. You can try lsusb to see if it is attached internally to USB (very uncommon). It might also have a firmware level power saving disconnect feature that needs to be either disabled or managed by the OS in some way. It might also be showing up as a different device than you expect (also very uncommon) most cards will show as either Ethernet controller: or Network controller:.
Make and model of the laptop and any identification details from the ethernet device under windows would be helpful for diagnosis.
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Is full caps account names not normal ?
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Business systems from the 80s used to automatically convert everything name related to caps. It made it easier to do string matching which was generally case sensitive in the DB. It also made data entry easier as you just turn capslock on and type.
No so much formal as lazy semi-formal.
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Measuring performance in a hardware-agnostic way
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You don't need to use big-O. You can calculate the full complexity in algebraic notation. It's just a lot more work as you don't get to discard terms.