This is the military. There is no bill.
There is a bill, it is paid, too. Russians leave a LOT of papertrail on all their operations, including military and secret service, you just can't always see (aren't allowed to see) the papers.
Readit Newskvakvs commented on A ghostly radio station that no one claims to run (2020) bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/throwup238
kvakvs commented on A ghostly radio station that no one claims to run (2020) bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/throwup238
The Russian wikipedia article sheds a lot light on why this exists. With it operated and maintained by the army, and the majority of messages transmitted in the working hours, this is to verify through the logs of receiving radio operators, that the random message been correctly heard, received and logged. Which means the operator was ready at any given time and fully awake/operational, to hear other real important transmissions.
kvakvs commented on A periodic table of visualization methods (2007) visual-literacy.org/perio... · Posted by u/Daub
This is something i'd prefer to save forever.
Who knows if i need it in 5-25 years and the website is not there anymore.
kvakvs commented on · Posted by u/colinprince
You get what you're paying for. Choosing hosting providers mainly by their price, will get you to the cheapest one. Guess how they make it cheap? By cutting on staff (also by moving the data center to a country with lower wages) and hardware and internet and backup power etc.
Date picker is broken, also it is really slow webpage for what it is doing. Every web developer in 2024 and forwartd should have average device released at least 10 years ago to understand that what they are writing these deys using this horrendous web frameworks is unusable on these devices.
As you click the date picker, it updates entire page for that incomplete date, and it QUEUES dates for more update, even if you manage to click the correct year, it continues slowly through every year you touched/scrolled before that.
kvakvs commented on FCC launches inquiry to increase minimum broadband speed [pdf] docs.fcc.gov/public/attac... · Posted by u/KoftaBob
Why shouldn’t there be a cap? Bandwidth isn’t free.
It’s sad seeing people on a forum called hacker news having no idea how networking infrastructure works.
Cost of the traffic is: hardware (staggered cost covered over many months), and running costs (subscription to higher tier internet carriers, electricity, rent of the premises, salaries etc). Most of this is covered by the monthly fees, to have a profitable business one must have those costs covered as a minimum. None of the above affects how much internet data goes through, zero or maxed out capacity, cost is the same.
kvakvs commented on Mold linker: targeting macOS/iOS now requires a commercial license github.com/rui314/mold/re... · Posted by u/Kukumber
Well fair enough if they're trying to make enough money for this to be a business. I still suspect they won't succeed. How many businesses are so constrained by link times on Mac that they're willing to pay to reduce them? (And go through the admin effort of paying for something.) But I hope we don't see any tedious comments here about how this is a moral outrage because all software should be fr£e.
Also `sold` is a genius name.
Businesses may be not constrained with the link times, but they for sure are worried with growing executable sizes. And large dev teams rarely reduce the code size, they just keep adding layers and layers of code as the time goes, eventually running beyond the permissible app size on the appstore. Can it solve such growth problem? Many large companies will be "sold" on this idea instantly https://twitter.com/stantwinb/status/1336890442768547845
kvakvs commented on Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera catphones.com/en-us/cat-s... · Posted by u/thebetatester
I don't understand why everyone is acting like replacement batteries are unavailable.
Here's an amazon link to a variety of options:
https://www.amazon.com/CAT-S60-Cell-Phone-Replacement-Batter...
The statement about battery not being replaceable is false. They are replaceable. But the phone body is sealed to deliver the water and dust resistance rating from its technical specs, so opening it is an entire new adventure in itself.
kvakvs commented on Undocumented 8086 Opcodes part 1 (2017) os2museum.com/wp/undocume... · Posted by u/rwmj
The used font is great for text but atrocious for programming uses: 0 looks same as O, and the article is full of hexadecimal codes.
Amazon is rapidly developing its own jargon such that you need to understand how Amazon talks about things (and its existing product lineup) before you can understand half of what they're saying about a new thing. The way they describe their products seems almost designed to obfuscate what they really do.
Every time they introduce something new, you have to click through several pages of announcements and docs just to ascertain what something actually is (an API, a new type of compute platform, a managed SaaS product?)
Amazontalk: You can build on <product name> to analyze complex documents... Human language: There is no product, just some DIY tools.
Amazontalk: Provides the intelligence and flexibility Human language: We will charge your credit card in multiple obscure ways, and we'll be smart about it