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by Dwedit 1y ago
You can still use a third-party mail client to POP off the server, then use IMAP to send it to Gmail.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
note: Do not actually put a critical section inside of shared memory. They allocate semaphores specific to one process.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
I was referring to the tiny surface-mount capacitors. Are those often electrolytic?
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by Dwedit 1y ago
I've seen a whole lot of videos of laptop repairs where the only problem was a bad capacitor, and replacing the capacitor removed the short and fixed the laptop.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
One time, I was patching up some buggy code that had dangling pointers just to stop it from crashing. My approach was to check if the vtable was correct. Sure, actually fixing the underlying bug would have been a lot better, but this was
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Can it tunnel arbitrary TCP ports?
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by Dwedit 1y ago
I never had the music-box style Fisher Price record player, I had the one that was an actual phonograph.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
To be fair, the stereo versions of The Beatles recordings badly needed remastering. Lots of things were hard-panned. They treated the original stereo mix as some novelty, and put all their focus and effort into the mono mix.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
I mean you can put a critical section inside of shared memory, but the heavy mutex is used for situations where you need to actually name the mutex, then have another process open it by name. Example uses include preventing multiple instan
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Literally, the only thing I know about "Denon" is that they once tried to sell a $500 Ethernet cable. https://www.cnet.com/culture/denons-500-ethernet-cable/
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Different names can be a huge source of confusion. The C++ standard library uses `std::mutex` as a lightweight synchronization lock. But on Win32, `Mutex` refers to a heavy kind of lock that can be used across processes. Very different t
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Merge Sort is much easier to explain when you do the non-recursive version that's upside-down. Merge size 1 together, merge size 2 together, merge size 4 together, merge size 8 together, etc...
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by Dwedit 1y ago
I never understood why use Quick Sort when you could use something else instead, like Merge Sort. Using a pivot seems backwards compared to something guaranteed to be NLOGN time.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
> creating this garbage consumes staggering amounts of water and electricity, contributing to emissions that harm the planet This is highly dependent on which model is being used and what hardware it's running on. In particular, so
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Proof of Concept or GTFO issue 0x14 is a PDF document file that can also be run as a NES ROM. The file will display its own MD5 hash in a PDF viewer, and also displays its own MD5 hash in a NES emulator (only first 40KB+16 bytes are actual
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by Dwedit 1y ago
BZip3 is a thing now.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Back in 2001, ATI got in some hot water after it was revealed that they intentionally blurred all textures (used a lower resolution mipmap) if you were running Quake 3 Arena. Changing all strings from "Quake" to "Quack"
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Technology Connections did a video about those very batteries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsA3X40nz9w
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Yeah, there's a very famous screamer that has you looking for Waldo...
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by Dwedit 1y ago
There is an unvote link.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
With the gap, it's effectively three pixels wide. Basically a 3x5 font with one pixel chopped off. On some displays, you can also divide RGB into three subpixels (R, G, and B stripes). A 3x5 pixel font (9x5 subpixels) can be drawn as
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by Dwedit 1y ago
The thing to do with a 3x5 font is to make the capital N into a giant lowercase n. Then M H and W all become similar letters, just with a different location for the horizontal bar.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Meanwhile, 3x5 fonts are actually usable.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Order now from China and wait 8 weeks to receive a pair of fake Gucci sunglasses.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Meanwhile Shift-JIS has a bad design, since the second byte of a character can be any ASCII character 0x40-0x9E. This includes brackets, backslash, caret, backquote, curly braces, pipe, and tilde. This can cause a path separator or math o
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by Dwedit 1y ago
My only question is if you really need a prefix before every value to say what type it is.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
I heard it was a DNS-based block, and picking any other DNS server would bypass the block.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
No right-click menus anywhere. How am I supposed to Lock The Taskbar? (As seen in https://madeupandprobablydoesnotexist.com/taskbar/ )
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Very annoying how HTML changes your two spaces into one space.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Allegedly they do that for "referer protection" reasons to hide the search term that was used to get to the site.

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