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Do you have a source or a link? From my experience Brother is the best brand of printers that I have worked with (monochrome, laser).

I feel that dd is never the correct tool to write to SD cards. At least cp can figure out the block size itself. Or the more elaborated bmaptool can even skip empty blocks which are often found in disk images.

I live near a major university that has as many as 4 fablabs listed. All of them is reserved to students. If you are an outside "thinkerer", you need to pay something like 400€/month to show up and use a soldering iron. Sometimes there is only a "contact us" form where you can ask for a quote! These efforts are completly sterile. Students have free access, but nobody from the outside world of the university to learn from.

I had access to a local hackerspace during my studies that was 100% run by volonteers, without any university involvment. It was glorious. I sat next to software and hardware professional doing amazing projects on their free time.

I guess I still have to tinker on my own instead of sharing it with people eager to learn in a common space. I think that somehow big universities actually prevent such spaces from emerging by creating their own sterile initiatives.

Which fire? Are you not confusing with OVH SGB2 fire in 2021?

On Linux, this could be done using an userspace FUSE driver I guess.

The other counters on the page are updating after each refresh. I think only the ICMP counter is broken. The IP address points to a Norway provider. I do not think there is a CDN, elsewise the counters would be frozen.

" in people with severe hypertension"

This title is misleading. Original title: "Severe hypertension: Drinking too much coffee may double mortality risk".

Worse, stalebot makes it looks like the project has no issues nor known problems. Issues should be closed either with "wontfix" or let open if they detail a real bug that others may stumble upon. In the end, I agree that it takes time to do that, and who am I to dictate how people spend their time.

Maybe the best solution would be to completly disable issues and PRs on Github. Still better than having to deal with stalebot. At least you know what to expect: external solicitation is not welcomed.

> Data structures and algorithms: We used a dictionary instead of a list to go from O(S) to O(1) operations.

The list in TFA is so small that I wonder at what point creating a hashtable is more economical than going through a 9 items arrays. In C, accounting for allocations, etc. I would not be surprised that strcmp on an static array would be faster.

As always, measure with benchmarks (which does the article, but not on array vs. hashtable). In theory, O(1) is better than O(N). In pratice, with memory allocations and all, the order of magnitude of N plays a role.

Anyways, I would have used a hashtable also to convey the idea that I only want to check if the item is in the list. Python makes this easy. In C, I would have used an array unless N is "large enough".

Reddit is already aggressively pushing for users to go to their official app when browsing on mobile. I would not be suprised that custom-made apps will be more limited in the future, up to the point of being pointless. Twitter did it. Reddit may do it (only allow read-only as a first step?). They also may disable old.reddit.com at some point. Enjoy the ride while it lasts.

This also explains app size, IMO. Querying an API and displaying remote videos/images should not require 40+ MiB Android apps. I think most of the app size is the tracking code that analyze how much time you glare at ads.