Avernar

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by Avernar 10y ago
The part about the switchgear vendor deciding to do something a certain way that the customer didn't want because it can cause a rare failure reminded me of something that happened to me. Way back I bought a 1500VA UPS that was not an
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by Avernar 10y ago
I've long ago stopped using C's standard library floating point routines and use Gay's code. Main reason was inconsistencies between compilers.
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by Avernar 10y ago
Those saturated images you're thinking of started as HDR but to display them on a non-HDR monitor they had to be converted first. The conversion process uses various tricks like local contrast to make it seem they're still HDR. T
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by Avernar 10y ago
Except if you have a computer with Intel Management Engine or the AMD equivalent. Then it can be accessed when off. And mobile devices can be turned on remotely as well. You'd have to pull the plug or remove the battery to be truly
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by Avernar 10y ago
Many don't consider mobile phone two-factor authentication as real two factor authentication. The reason being is that while the phone looks like "something you posess" it is really just an interface for another "someth
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by Avernar 10y ago
That's a result of having the marketing department as the ones who interact with the public. Pretty much every industry has this problem. To get at the truth you have to find some enthusiast website and find someone there who has done
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by Avernar 10y ago
I wasn't arguing about superiority. It was just a though of what things would be like if it had gone the other way. Speaking of intuitive, a tiller on a car is only intuitive if you've used it on a boat. Pushing the lever in the
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by Avernar 10y ago
Taking ideas from REST and putting it into your JSON-RPC API doesn't make your API REST. But you call it REST anyways. It's like reading a book on building a house and using ideas to build a shed. Sure your shed has electricity
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by Avernar 10y ago
Simple solution to the danger of filling up on the side of the road: Don't run out of gas. How many times have you run out of gas where the reason was not "I'll skip this station and hit the next one since I still have 1&#x2F
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by Avernar 10y ago
Can you imagine a head on collision with a tiller instead of a wheel? Especially before seat belts became mandatory. And forget about an air bag in there. Might as well put a bullet in there instead and finish off he driver before he impa
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by Avernar 10y ago
I've seen several middle class houses that had the laundry room on the second floor (1st floor = ground floor here). Most homes have the laundry on the 1st floor here. I would like a house with the laundry on the 2nd near the bedrooms
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by Avernar 10y ago
Talent is a perfect word for it. I do consider myself talented at programming and yes I do feel I was born with it. I taught myself how to program. Now several things make up that talent. Logical thinking, good at math, problem solving,
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by Avernar 10y ago
I kind of agree with you. If the job just requires putting something together or fixing something that has been done before then you only need a programmer with talent. Like your plumber example. But if the project is something different
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by Avernar 10y ago
The main reason I use Firefox over Chrome is that the Chrome devs are very against users having a choice on how the browser operates. They also tend to over-engineer solutions to problems. Here's an example. There has been a bug repo
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by Avernar 10y ago
I had to use an optical cable between my TV and AVR to get audio. The only thin ARC did was allow me to control the AVR volume control using thr TV's remote. Not very useful when no audio is coming back.
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by Avernar 10y ago
If you announce verbally on a plane you have something that can explode even if you do not you will still get arrested/jailed. What difference does it make that you decided to do so electronically?
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by Avernar 10y ago
More eadable as in "I can read english"? Yes. More readable as in "I want to read code fast"? No. I much prefer C style languages over Pascal style languages.
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by Avernar 10y ago
Thanks, nice to know.
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by Avernar 10y ago
While the features of IIIA are nice, it will be a while until all the existing ones are replaced by IIIA. The more immediate nice thing about the IIIA launches are that it adds more satellites that can transmit the L2 signal. Currently the
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by Avernar 10y ago
As long as you have an unobstructed view of the equator. To get 2-4m accuracy with commercial GPS you must use WAAS. The sattelites that tansmit the WAAS signal are geostationary. So if you have buildings, hills or mountains blocking your
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by Avernar 10y ago
You may not agree with me but don't call it nonsense. From the article about the fallback path: "This mechanism is not designed for booting permanently-installed OSes." Plus there is only one fallback path so we're back
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by Avernar 10y ago
The flaw with UEFI is that the list of installed operating systems is stored in the motherboard's NVRAM and not in the EFI system partion on the disk itself. When your motherboard dies and you need to put in a new one, now you have to
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by Avernar 10y ago
So that's how Spaceball 1 could reach ludicrous speed. You learn something new every day...
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by Avernar 10y ago
Solved the sofa problem getting a large couch into my basement about half a year ago. Still haven't got around to fixing the drywall...
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by Avernar 10y ago
Anyone have "systemise" on their bullshit bingo card?
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by Avernar 10y ago
In my Jeep Wrangler, I can instantly tell I forgot to switch from 4WD to 2WD as I turn onto pavement from a dirt road.
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by Avernar 10y ago
All those examples are hard coded algorithms in the bulk copy category. They pretty much just use the GET method to download all or a specific subset of a site. To truly drive a REST API requires a human or an AI. The AI doesn't need
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by Avernar 10y ago
That's why I declare pointer variables one to a line. Wish the language would work the other way with the asterisk associativity. Mainly because this just looks wrong to me: int *p, *q; typedef int *intp; intp p, q; That
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by Avernar 10y ago
Not disagreeing with you. But those people had a choice and they chose a subsidised and/or cheaper phone that was locked down.
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by Avernar 10y ago
For the carrier specific models, yes. But you can get a non-carrier specific one. Nexus models get updates direct from Google. Otherwise you have to wait for the manufacturer to do their customizations. Or you just install one of the many

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