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by HankB99 4y ago
> they also serve as a way to inform the listener that the following words aren't the podcasters' own Agreed. One of the reasons I stopped listening to Leo Laporte was how subtly he would slide into the ads.
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by HankB99 4y ago
I'm not getting any audio on Linux/Chrome (Debian.) No audio from this page either https://d21u3ic0kp9e91.cloudfront.net/choir/04/index.html , much to the dismay of our grandchildren. I checked system aud
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by HankB99 4y ago
My first exposure to computers was using punched cards to write Fortran. I wonder if the author was a classmate (at Purdue Calumet.) Otherwise I did not have the patience to read much past that.
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by HankB99 4y ago
> For example v4l2 has an ioctl to send raw read/write commands to a camera module. Having a datasheet one can then check which registers do what and one can set various features, but this requires using different registers and valu
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by HankB99 4y ago
I think I have a lifetime supply of TY media. I hardly ever use it. I don't even know if it is CD or DVD. I'd have to look. I wonder if there is a shelf life for the media before it is recorded. I'm in the spinning rust camp.
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by HankB99 4y ago
Ash: I'm sorry to hear about the health issue that precipitated this. I wish you the best outcome but realize that that does not always happen. Rest: As someone who does not (yet) use Mastodon, I'm curious about the impact of a si
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by HankB99 4y ago
> One approach that had occurred to me was to sieve one block at a time (say, 16 KiB) My thoughts too, though you've clearly thought about it a lot more than I have.
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by HankB99 4y ago
Didn't Byte also use the Sieve of Eratosthenese or am I mis-remembering that. I ask because I've been fooling with that a bit recently and extending it to very large primes (for some definition of very large) is a bit of a challen
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by HankB99 4y ago
And the MSFT store before that. https://krita.org/en/item/krita-in-the-windows-store-an-upda...
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by HankB99 4y ago
I'm old. I prefer a name that hints at the usefulness of a project. Now get off my lawn!
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by HankB99 4y ago
Apparently all 5 of them. https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/09/patreon-security-layoffs/
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by HankB99 4y ago
That's unfortunate but I suppose a consequence of a less active ecosystem. I don't recall dealing with that back in the day but it doesn't surprise me now, particularly with more recent technologies like MQTT. I have written
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by HankB99 4y ago
I've used Perl off and on throughout my career, even working at one job that was pretty much exclusively Perl. I've also used Java and C/C++. I've done a lot of work with embedded systems where C was the order of the day
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by HankB99 4y ago
The CPU is that box that the monitor and keyboard connect to. :-/
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by HankB99 4y ago
Bad SEO I suppose. When I search for something, I often get a page by some "expert" in which the information is wrong, commands don't work and so on. I wish I could figure out how to eliminate them from my search results. The
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by HankB99 4y ago
One frustration with Lenovo laptops is failing hinges. Well, not really the hinges, its the plastic around them that cracks. Neither of these was abused like you described, just occasionally opened and closed, probably not even on a daily b
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by HankB99 4y ago
I'm pretty sure it comes down to cost. Steel rail has to meet certain wear and strength requirements as well as be reasonably inexpensive to manufacture. And there is not likely an alloy that will accomplish that and not expand in the
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by HankB99 4y ago
> Do you think it's due to some kind of network call? Good call! (No pun intended.) I often wondered why my fancy Xfinity DVR is so sluggish when I press a button on the remote. It finally connected when my Internet kept going down
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by HankB99 4y ago
Weed rats. ;) (I thought they looked more like muskrats.)
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by HankB99 4y ago
I canceled when they last raised prices. So far I haven't heard anything that would bring me back. I did not share my password and Generally only watched on one screen. I'm sure they can tell. But they just kept jacking the prices
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by HankB99 6y ago
I've used Google Docs a lot for taking notes on managing my "home computer lab." It fell down when I tried to copy commands I typed into a command shell and then copied/pasted into a Google document and then pasted back
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by HankB99 6y ago
They stated "...administrators to keep up with regulatory demands." I wonder, however, if administrations just take on a life of their own and grow bounded only by available budget. It seems like this happens in the private sector
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by HankB99 6y ago
Would that be for the same reason automobile traffic slows to a crawl when there is a traffic accident to view? (Not talking about traffic in the same direction which is subject to lane closure and slowed down for safety of responders but t
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by HankB99 6y ago
I think that falls into a class of tradeoffs that using various tools involves. With a higher level of functionality the designer of the tool must make decisions about how to implement the functionality. They can provide options or configur
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by HankB99 6y ago
Lubricants get thicker at lower temperatures.
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by HankB99 6y ago
Good points - I'll be sure to include.
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by HankB99 6y ago
I'm on the opposite side of this question. I've offered to explain motorcycle charging systems in terms anyone can understand. My thought is to use the water flow analogy. Voltage => pressure. Current => flow volume. Resista
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by HankB99 6y ago
I wonder if the 6 month "consulting agreement" is 6 months of non-compete. This statement from the article seems to hint that: "Jim will be serving at Intel for at least another six months it seems, in the role of a consultan
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by HankB99 6y ago
Better explanation than mine - thanks I learned something.
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by HankB99 6y ago
At some point in the distant past symbol tables allowed symbols up to 6 characters long. Longer names were allowed but anything beyond 6 characters were gone by the time the linker was invoked. So ThisIsAFunction() and ThisIsAnotherFunction

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