HenrikB

I don't recall 2s latency, but do remember 0.25-0.3s latency one way for transatlantic phone calls in the 90s, which happens when the call got related over geostationary satellites rather than over Atlantic cables. It was basically a 0.5-0.6s roundtrip delay enough to cause you to talk over each other.

It only happened when there were too many callers at the same time. The solution was often to redial and hoping you ended up with a non-satellite call.

Agree - I read this as it will be easy to replace the battery when it reaches its end of life and no longer can hold my charge. It will still take time to replace it, but that's okay since it'll only be done once every few years. It's not meant to re-introduce swappable battery packs, so you won't be able to carry spares on long trips etc.

... or Baccaruda or Baba-rara-cucu-dada (https://youtu.be/2tvIVvwXieo)

The copyright holder can set whatever license they want, including writing their own.

In this case, I'd interpret it as they made up a new licence based on MIT, but their addendum makes it non-MIT, but something else. I agree with what others said; this "new" license has internal conflicts.

It's humbling to know that the RAM of computers like ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 would fit in a single IP packet. It took minutes to load that "paket" from cassette tape.

OpenStreetMap supports annotating poles and theirs cables. It's common for power lines (local and long distance). There are also annotations for communication lines (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:communication%3Dline).

There are also public and proprietary "aviation obstacle" databases across the world.

Another way to donate is to proof read documentation and report on typos, spelling errors, etc. Some projects have documentation in multiple languages - helping out in a language you know is another excellent way to contribute.

Many projects have great communities, making it all fun and engaging.

Seems like a technical problem that could be solved, if they want to

FOIA = Freedom of Information Act (United States)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(...

WISH: Don't pad the hours with zero when using the 12-hour time format, e.g. '7:15:03 AM' instead of '07:15:03 AM'. The padding with zero is used in the 24-hour format, e.g. '07:15:03'.

I remember connecting a VHS video camera directly to a cathode-ray tube (CRT) teve to produce funky patterns back in the 80's.

You did it in a pitch dark room, aimed the camera towards the teve, and have someone briefly light a lighter in between. That generated a visual feedback loop.

By rotating the camera upside down, the feedback loop would introduce systematic effects, because the camera's vertical scan is now opposite to the teve's swipe. It would create random, constantly changing, colorful, spiraling patterns.

You could move your hands in front to adjust the patterns and control the brightness that could increase due to the feedback loop.

Stunning, cool, and fun.

That type of synesthesia is referred to as Number Forms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_form).

I read a long time ago that it's quite common, like 1 in 7 people got it. Some people don't even know they have it. I always had it as far as I can recall, but it wasn't until my mid 20s, when I stumbled upon a picture, that I reflected on it and the fact that not everyone sees number forms.

"shh"? (to calm, to silence) with spelling variations

FWIW, the 'AVX' CPU feature is part of the x86-64-v3 level of the x86-64 microarchitecture standard [0].

There are chips produced in 2015 that are only supporting x86-64-v2 [0]. Also, according to [1], "The new server-class CPUs released in 2020 [2] do not implement the AVX instruction set."

FWIW2, RedHat Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL9) requires x86-64-v2 or newer [1]. So, as a reference, they decided to not yet require support for AVX.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Microarchitecture_level...

[1] https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/05/building-red-h...

[2] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/pro...

In the video on https://vimeo.com/818040730?embedded=true&source=video_title..., it appears around the 1m29s for a few seconds corresponding to 08:46:54 - 09:57:09 UTC in real time.

In the same situation here.

Yes, it looks like traveling outbound from some major hubs is more expensive than from other places. A round trip SFO-XYZ two week ticket can be substantially more expensive than XYZ-SFO round trip for the same period.

Note that depending on when you travel and for how long, a SFO-XYZ-SFO ticket might be more expensive also because it is a shorter ticket (1 month or 3 month ticket) and it hits a high season period ("tourist season"), whereas the XYZ-SFO-XYZ is a long-term ticket (12 months) that avoids (most of) the high season.

I'm pretty sure Google Drive Desktop software by Google doesn't restrict the syncing to these basic for formats.

I certainly joined GDrive believing it is designed as a cloud drive where I put whatever I'd like.

In curious, what makes "DanTaxi" funny? Is it the sound, similarly to another word, does it mean something, ...? I'm assuming you're Dan-ish :p

(I'm Swedish, if that helps the explanation)

Mate, please be more constructive, especially since "FOSDEM is a two-day event organised by volunteers to promote the widespread use of free and open source software."

UPDATE: I see you did so independently just moments after I submitted the above. Thanks for doing so

Yes, the amount of CO2 each person produces is noticable, especially in such a small room.

If possible, keeping a bedroom window a bit open makes a noticable difference. Avoid closing bedroom door too.

Similarly, if you work from home, make sure to create a draft once in a while.

We got an Aranet4 CO2/humidity/temperature sensor mostly out of curiosity two months ago. Outdoors it's ~430 ppm CO2. 500-1000 ppm indoors is considered okay (according to the defaults), 1000-1400 ppm high, and >1400 ppm bad.

It's amazing how you don't notice how it slowly creeps up to 900-1000 and beyond. Without the device I would notice, except that I'd slowly get tired. I'd probably also drink more coffee. The device helps you see what's going on and how bad it is. Creating a big draft for 5 minutes clears everything out.

Also, you can definitely see from the historical data when one goes to bed in a ~12 m2 bedroom and then an hour or so later the second person goes to bed. Same if one gets up before the other. Definitely good evidence that keeping a window open is a good thing (if you got clean air outside)

It's been many months since I tried, but I think you have to redo thateach time you restart Firefox, i.e. contrary to Chrome, you cannot make it persistent.

The asymmetry stems from the days where we connected through the phone lines, which was not designed for data. There it was possible to have a higher bandwidth out from the phone switches than in. That is, dial-up modems and DSL modems could have a much higher download speed than upload.

I don't know about cable, but I suspect it's the same there.

OTH, fiber-based internet often has symmetric speeds. Don't know the stats, but I suspect most fiber ISPs gives you that.

Prime members get an additional 11% off, which probably explains the difference

"15. Use shellcheck. Heed its warnings."

(Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors)

After falling in love with ShellCheck several years ago, with the help of another person, I made the ShellCheck REPL tool for Bash:

  https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/shellcheck-repl  

I found it to be an excellent way of learning about pit falls and best practices in Bash as you type, because it gives you instant feedback on possible mistakes. It won't execute the command until the ShellCheck issues are fixed, e.g. missing quotes, use of undefined variables, or incorrect array syntax.

It's designed to be flexible, e.g. you can configure ShellCheck rules to be ignored, and you can force executtion by adding two spaces at the end.

License: ISC (similar to MIT). Please help improve it by giving feedback, bug reports, feature requests, PRs, etc.

I think this was well prioritized; they struggled with the issue at times, found a temporary workaround, but when that workaround stöd being efficient and the bug hit them everyday, they decided to track down the source. Then they reported upstream, it was reproduced, and someone patched it, and rolled out new, fixed kernels.

That is a perfect example of how things works and should work. They contributed to the community. I think it was a great prioritization.

I'm certain there were lots of other people hitting this bug and killing processes or rebooting to get around it. The troubleshooting and reporting done here, silently saved a lot of of other people a lot of efforts - now and in the future. I don't think they were after it to be heroes; they just shared their story, which I'm sure will encourage others to maybe do the same one day.

... can submit patches to address accessibility later.

I'm not experienced with accessibility, but I pay attention to it whenever I can to increase my own awareness. A very common feedback when it fails (e.g. in software, online conferences, ...) is: "Accessibility must be part of the plan from early on. Trying to add it afterwards basically always fails."

There are working groups under the R Consortium umbrella that work on FDA-related tasks with a focus on R [0]. Folks from the pharma industry and FDA are involved.

One of the working groups is dedicated toward submissions: R Submissions Working Group [1]. They recently announced: "The R Consortium is happy to announce that on Nov 22nd, 2021, the R Submissions Working Group successfully submitted an R-based test submission package through the FDA eCTD gateway! The submission package has been received by the FDA staff who were able to reproduce the numerical results." [2]

[0] https://www.r-consortium.org/all-projects/isc-working-groups

[1] https://rconsortium.github.io/submissions-wg/

[2] https://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2021/12/08/successful-r-ba...

This is true also for fiber. Depending on the ISP fiber setup, the fiber can run for many 10's of km without a power relay.

I can run 1 Gbps symmetric for ~48h without power by running my optical network terminal (ONT) and a teeny travel router on battery packs. (Used this set up through several long power outages.)

"AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open, royalty-free video coding format initially designed for video transmissions over the Internet." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1

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