HankB99

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by HankB99 8y ago
I worked from a home office and our children were grown and out of the house. My wife came in a few times to ask for this or that while I was "at work." I explained to her that when I was in the office I was "at work" an
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by HankB99 8y ago
Definitely. I started with a Heathkit H-8 because I could not afford an S-100 based system. I would have very much liked an IMSAI-8080 with the paddles for address and data to manually load RAM data.
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by HankB99 8y ago
I have the Comcast "X1 Infinity Entertainment System" and IMO it stinks. It's a bad sign when the instructions tell you to restart it to solve problems. And at best, the delay from button press to response is nearly intolerab
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by HankB99 8y ago
> ... the filesystem has to be aware of the zones. Does that mean the drives simply will not work with an unaware filesystem or that it will work but performance will be poor?
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by HankB99 8y ago
I'm confused. An entire paragraph scraped from a ZDNet article [0] states: >>In a conversation, Erich Andersen, Microsoft's corporate vice president and chief intellectual property (IP) counsel -- that is, Microsoft top pate
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by HankB99 8y ago
Can this move (WRT patents) be revoked if MS decides that it is not in their best interest to share freely? At present it looks like they really have changed. Could they change again?
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by HankB99 8y ago
C++ is IMO a bit at the deep end of the pool. I would begin with tutorial information (Meyers and Stroustrup) and work with that. At some point you will get tired of tutorial exercises and start to see how you can use C++ for the topic of D
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by HankB99 8y ago
I was looking for an opportunity to say something similar. I didn't realize there was that much prior art!
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by HankB99 8y ago
Point taken. That makes me curious if any cameras were ever produced in that format. I would suspect that circular format photography might be used in astronomy where every last bit of the image is valuable.
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by HankB99 8y ago
Not a pro here, but the greater the distance, the better my pictures look. ;) Back to the subject at hand, it is a little surprising to me that a format closer to square didn't catch on at some point. I suppose that the image quality o
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by HankB99 8y ago
I stopped reading when I got to "C also operates inside of a virtual machine." Is the author confusing virtual memory with virtual machine? Perhaps they're referring to the way a high level language abstracts away the details
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by HankB99 8y ago
Breaking benchmarks... Is that like the time I fiddled with the corresponding C program trying to get it to run at least in the same ballpark as the Rust version? That was until I determined that the Rust optimizer noted that the results of
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by HankB99 8y ago
I wonder what happened to the linked tweet.
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by HankB99 8y ago
I'm amused that JCD can look out his window at the mud flats and refute careful measurements by the NOAA. [0] They do some interesting analysis and some digging and often paint a pretty poor picture of typical news outlets but there&#x
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by HankB99 8y ago
I won't have that! He wasn't always wrong.
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by HankB99 8y ago
And the Dvorak Horowitz unplugged podcast: https://www.dhunplugged.com/
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by HankB99 8y ago
Am I the only one who sees a big PR push for Julia? Up until a few weeks ago I'd never heard of it. Not I see it all over, frequently touted as the "one language to rule them all."
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by HankB99 8y ago
I think one difference is that Sun and DEC were selling to enterprise/business markets whereas Apple sells to the consumer market. I think the former tend to make decisions more based on cost/benefit while the latter tend to be mo
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by HankB99 8y ago
cdparanoia was the cornerstone of my favorite CD ripper back in the day. The package was a Perl script that would 1) watch the CD drive for a CD. 2) When one appeared, launch cdparanoia to rip the tracks 3) Grab some ID key from the CD and
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by HankB99 8y ago
Ah... thanks!
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by HankB99 8y ago
My first firewall was a Thinkpad 750Cs. ;) I can't recall the distro I was running at the time - likely Debian or Slackware. At one point I returned from vacation to find that the hard drive had failed a couple days earlier. Since the
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by HankB99 8y ago
I have an Asus router too. (RT-AC68W - W => white) It used to provide my security and as near as I can tell it did a reasonably good job of it. Things that lead me to believe it rates as above average: - Does not enable management on th
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by HankB99 8y ago
AST? Asynchronous System Trap? :o
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by HankB99 8y ago
That's awful. I can't even find a link on store.slackware.com to slackware.com. :(
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by HankB99 8y ago
Could you do something like that from another cloud service? I suppose the difference would be whether 10K requests from one IP address would be the same as 10K requests coming from 10K IP addresses. The further you move from the actual pro
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by HankB99 8y ago
When I checked it out, the site seemed responsive but search was broken. I searched "usb flash drive" and was presented with 2 results. I pondered this for a moment and then realized that there were 400 pages with 2 results/p
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by HankB99 8y ago
Oh... right. Work done is force * distance so distance varies linearly with speed.
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by HankB99 8y ago
I'm sure that United would have appreciated that kind of regulation when they had that guy drug off one of their planes.
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by HankB99 8y ago
And FWIW, I ride a motorcycle with a shaft drive. The fastest motorcycles all use chains. Many now use tooth belts, but I think they may be limited in the power they can transmit.
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by HankB99 8y ago
>Wind resistance increases with the square of the speed. To be pedantic, wind resistance varies with the cube of the speed. That's my recollection and seems to be used in the formula used to calculate power required at https:/

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