HankB99

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by HankB99 3y ago
> I would occasionally take my keyboard and move the mouse around which would confuse him. SWMBO and I had the same mouse a while back. One day she grabbed my mouse and was complaining "my mouse isn't working" while wiggl
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by HankB99 3y ago
That ("open") seems reasonable for a bug in the current release or a previous release that is still in wide use. Is there ever a situation where a bug exists so far back in the history of the project that it doesn't make sens
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by HankB99 3y ago
I can enjoy that year 'round thanks to tinnitus. ;) It's about the same frequency for me.
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by HankB99 3y ago
Last year was a heavy mast year in Illinois, at least for some oaks. Under some trees it was not possible to take a step w/out stepping on several acorns. Under others the ground was bare. I never did determine if it was that different
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by HankB99 3y ago
From the article: > any modulation with a period of less than 10 seconds or longer than 72 seconds would not have been detectable. With a carrier of 1420 MHz, I'd expect modulation at a much higher frequency than 0.1 Hz. The narrow
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by HankB99 3y ago
> the chance of rain was reported as below 50%. I've come to think of that as "it is going to rain 50% of the time. I don't know if that's what really is meant by "50% chance of rain," but it seems to fit. A
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by HankB99 3y ago
I came here to suggest similar. I usually go with dd if=/dev/device | mbuffer to Ethernet to mbuffer dd of=/dev/device (with some switches to select better block size and tell mbuffer to send/receive from a
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by HankB99 3y ago
Collectively, yes. Individually not so much.
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by HankB99 3y ago
Ants? That's how aliens might view us. A super AI might find value in minions.
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by HankB99 3y ago
Not surprising that I'm not the first to think of this.
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by HankB99 3y ago
If I let my imagination run wild, I can imagine that at some point AI becomes in some way sentient. By that I mean it gains reasoning, some sort of understanding, and motivation. I wonder what the possibility is that this AI will decide tha
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by HankB99 3y ago
Yeah, right at the top > We may modify this Privacy Notice by posting a new version at this website effective on the date of publication. No actual notification needed. Are they screaming to be regulated?
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by HankB99 3y ago
> The Name Finding Guide is fun, easy to use and extremely effective From https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Finding_The_Perfect_Name I find this ... funny. I'm happy to live in a country where we are free to choo
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by HankB99 3y ago
Bash is pretty much expected to be installed on any Linux distro. On FreeBSD (and likely other BSDs) it is an optional install. If you want a script to run on either, use sh. If strictly Linux, bash is probably safe. Bash/sh is good fo
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by HankB99 3y ago
KDE user here. I'm on Debian so I'm still on 5.27 and will be for a while. That's OK. I like Plasma 5.27 and my only disappointment is that I won't file bug reports if I run into any issues. I don't expect they woul
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by HankB99 3y ago
That's one of the reasons I abandoned Google Docs for keeping notes on administering my home computer lab. I use Linux so much of what I did involved typing commands in a terminal window. I would copy the text into document and later c
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by HankB99 3y ago
Yeah. I've heard folk who should know better (looking at you, John C. Dvorak) call Y2K a nothingburger and suggest the effort to prevent problems was a total boondoggle. Disclaimer: I was part of that effort. The funny thing was that I
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by HankB99 3y ago
I recall it being named for "Bud C Waterfall."
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by HankB99 3y ago
Having owned (or more properly cared for) cats, I've always been a little suspicious.
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by HankB99 3y ago
That does not seem so far fetched to me. So many of the purported alien sightings are beings with bilateral symmetry, two eyes, two arms, humanoid face and so on. The only way I could see that happening is visitors from a distant future. Or
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by HankB99 3y ago
DDR5 uses on-die ECC to improve chip yield (AFAIK.) Any errors are not reported to the OS so the BSODs you experience are not resulting from reported ECC errors. They could be the result of uncorrected memory errors that are undetected but
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by HankB99 3y ago
> Github is a proprietary, closed-source service that makes no promises ... Good point. > Python code has an average shelf life of four years. Wouldn't that also be a problem for examples in print?
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by HankB99 3y ago
Two things come to (my) mind. First, if the problem is broken URLs, does it make sense to try to fix that instead of not using them? Some odd blog is likely to (eventually) become ephemeral. What about Github links? How long will they last?
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by HankB99 3y ago
No mention of on die ECC so far so I'll mention it. It's used in modern RAM (DDR5, maybe some DDR4) to improve yields. A borderline chip may pass tests if occasional bit errors are corrected before being read out. This is transpar
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by HankB99 3y ago
I use some Pis for various things in my house including Zeroes through CM4s and 4Bs. The Zeroes run Raspbian configured with the read-only filesystem option. I have found it necessary to uninstall `unattended-upgrades` because the overlayfs
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by HankB99 3y ago
> There were some drawbacks, but Id love to have one to play with. One of the shops I worked at had an AS/400 and related equipment sitting on a pallet by the elevator bank. I could have had it for free. Drawbacks? I had no way to t
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by HankB99 3y ago
They're examining failed USB sticks, no? How can they draw conclusions about USB sticks in general?
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by HankB99 3y ago
Biden caused problems with both EXT4 and ZFS.
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by HankB99 3y ago
I have lots of SS stuff that has rust spots. I suppose that there are inclusions of "not SS" included in the metal. Steel alloys are not, in general, homogeneous. They are often composed of a microscopic mixture of different mater
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by HankB99 3y ago
Where could I explore this further? Are these sequences specific to the device? My current setup includes two Dell monitors (U2415 with 2x HDMI "MHL" inputs and built in USB-3 hubs.) I'm using these with a Linux X86_64 deskto

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