AStonesThrow

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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
What, no A/UX or Mach? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel) Hey, you should pick up some carrier-grade Cisco routers and switches, and run IOS t
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
People believe that "my computer" or "my smartphone" has an Internet address, but this is a simplification of how it's really working. The reality is that each network interface has at least one Internet address,
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Cross-site requests have been built in to the design of the WWW since the beginning. The whole idea of hyperlinking from one place to another, and amalgamating media from multiple sites into a single page, is the essence of the World Wide W
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
I once encountered malware on my roommate’s Windows 98 system. It was a worm designed to rewrite every image file as a VBS script that would replicate and re-infect every possible file whenever it was clicked or executed. It hid the VBS ext
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
The strangest TIL for me this year is that Fred Noonan was indeed on board for the doomed flight, and he was just as lost/dead as Earhart was. I've surely conflated Earhart with Lindbergh, who was known for his solo marathon fli
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
> can't even agree on the meaning of "local" Well, who can agree on this? Local network, private network, intranet, Tailscale and VPN, Tor? IPv6 ULA, NAT/CGNAT, SOCKS, transparent proxy? What resources are "local
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
It is not, in fact, an umlaut, but a diaeresis, which has the same shape but a different linguistic purpose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic) In fact, the lede paragraph of the Wikipedia article note
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Ask any Unix filesystem developer, and they'll tell you that unlink(2) on a file does not erase any of its data, but simply enables the reuse of those blocks on disk. Whenever I "delete" a social media account, or "Trash
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Amelia Earhart's doomed final flight may have suffered from 3 conflicting timezone settings: https://youtu.be/zTDFhWWPZ4Q&t=1528
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/26410290525... Reddit may presume that the user holds the copyright and is legally able to grant a license, but it isn't necessarily so. There are users w
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Chris Siebenmann weighs in with thoughts on: Browers[sic] can't feasibly stop web pages from talking to private (local) IP addresses (2019) https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/BrowsersAndLoc
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
I have a feeling that LLM model collapse will be accelerated as humans lose control of smaller Wiki projects like Wiktionary. They’ll be unable to effectively patrol or prevent generative updates to the project, and for all intensive porpoi
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Archaea: https://m.xkcd.com/3095/
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Although it is written in the "LICENSE" file for purposes of uniformity and GitHub compatibility, a dedication to the Public Domain is not a "license". As you can see, they waive all their rights to claim copyright prote
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Or decreases the effectiveness, as the listener perceives pain or offense or low intelligence, and tunes out the rest of the utterance.
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
I've been using The Clear Sky Chart to predict cloudy conditions. There is an hourly "Seeing" rating corresponding to the cloud-cover forecasts. https://www.cleardarksky.com/csk/
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Castilian/ Castellano already carries a distinct name. But just to complicate the matter, “Castellano” is also used in South America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_the_Spanish_language
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Even more so, there were software projects (IIRC, the Gnu C Compiler) that conformed to the 8.3 DOS filename restrictions, and so for example, “realtime analysis” in a source file named “rt_anal.c” handled without drama for years.
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Portuguese The word "European" was chosen to avoid the clash of "Portuguese Portuguese" ("português português") as opposed to Brazilian Portuguese.
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Are you proposing a Trolley Problem here?
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
By contrast, Monty Python fans reacted in horror: https://youtu.be/zP8Kah6vXsQ?si=mwHBUJPYM-Zmazg_
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
I think you misspelled "Anglican" there
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
> 01:20 on Wednesday is on Tuesday night But that's subjective. Even my grandmother in the early-80s said differently. Everyone's computer-time and our smartphones and our digital clocks we've plugged into the wall, all ha
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
In a world of touch screen devices and OnlyFans fetishes, descriptions of women who "vote with their feet" carry a whole new set of mental images!
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Well, I'm interested to know how you define "the problem" then, and what "solving" it would look like, and why that "solution" can be approached by unfamiliar notation.
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Don’t forget Deep Impact , sort of a summer companion blockbuster, but which “astronomers said was more accurate”, could feed your Hobbit obsessions, and NASA went on to name a space probe after it! https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
If we’re not accustomed to this “overflow” notation, it only looks like a typo and an error. In my world, the day-of-week begins/cycles at 00:00, so don’t tell me that is happening on a Tuesday! It also does not help for entry into a p
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Aware, yes; writing to Congress, sure; but have they stocked up on butterfly nets? https://m.xkcd.com/1523/
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
It is often the case that a machine in poor repair is already difficult to play, almost without intending it. And from 1999-present, I have found plenty of machines in poor repair, in a convenience store just designed to eat a few quarters.
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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
NOAA's gotchu covered! https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/radio-communications

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