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by JdeBP 1y ago
Even more variations encompass the alternate register file (A', F', BC', DE', HL') of the Zilog Z80 and the alternate supervisor-mode A7 register in the MC680xx processors.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Yet another individual country submission. It's 25 countries, now. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45030115 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45034684
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by JdeBP 1y ago
We really don't need two of these each for every individual country, as Hacker News currently has running for Australia and Japan already. It's 25 countries, now. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45030115
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by JdeBP 1y ago
At least this covers 25 countries in one. But see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45030115 and connected items for how much this current well-covered mainstream headline news has become dupes on Hacker News.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Heh! GNU groff, in particular its grotty driver, still does that to this day. There is a lengthy list of things that in ASCII or Latin-1 modes it composes with a character, a BS, and then another character. https://github.com&#
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Wilkinson wrote that back in April 2025, note. * https://time.com/7278774/judge-harvie-wilkinson-opinion-read...
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by JdeBP 1y ago
We're going to get loads of these on Hacker News if we're going to get it twice per country's postal system and also individually for each supplier affected in specific ways. (-: * https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Did you ever use those settings on an old printer terminal? Visible but unusual punctuation for erase and kill made sense with paper terminals, where back space was as non-destructive as forward space was. (Amusingly, TianoCore makes BS de
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It was also simultaneously submitted to lobste.rs ( https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/115093242443397877 ) , and is on multiple Hacker News robot feeds such as https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/115093327746
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Ring mains are parallel, not series. Which means that more than one thing going out is a clue to where the fault is, and an indicator that the job is definitely per the regs one for a qualified electrician. Conversely, only one device goi
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Missing from the "hidden from the user" argument is the fact that .config, and dotfiles in general, are also hidden from the user. It's not the defining distinction that one may think it to be.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Conversely, I disagree; and assert that it is rather John Gruber who has not used nearly enough open ended spanners. If one has only ever used modern forged steel spanners, then one might think that they aren't this width, and have the
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Heh! Your feelings are so strong that you don't even call a spanner a spanner because the word entered mainstream English (during the industrial revolution) after U.S.A. independence. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Bear in mind that the author specifically reminds us, halfway down, that the goal is consistency, not accuracy per se. Making all of the systems accurate to GNSS is merely a means of achieving the consistency goal so that event logs fro
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by JdeBP 1y ago
A person with two watches finds xyrself suddenly in the messy business of doing full NTP, rather than the much simpler model of SNTP. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It depends from the quality of your mouse. There are good quality keypad mice, where the numeric keypad presents itself in hardware as a proper USB keyboard endpoint. Those just work, with more than just Linux moreover. Then there are the
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You are thinking of section 250.104 of NFPA 70, the National Electrical Code published by the U.S.A. National Fire Protection Association. (-: BS 7671 (IEE Wiring Regs) does not require bonding of the pipework if the mains (service) pipe
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by JdeBP 1y ago
kragen should be applauded for getting in early when it comes to the Y10K problem. (-: * https://cr.yp.to/y2k.html
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It's definitely not something for everybody, and I suspect not really a "revolution" outwith the dedicated enthusiasts segment of the population. (-: If one wasn't likely to have a rack of desktop PCs at home, one proba
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Perixx arranges things somewhat differently on the U.K./E.U. version of its WWW site. * https://eu.perixx.com/collections/trackball
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The PERIMICE-520, right there on that page that you pointed to, is a wired trackball. I know because I have one beside me right now with the wire going across the desk. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
In fairness, note that in some countries (like mine) there are tighter regulations for electrical circuitry in rooms with baths and showers, which require work in that sort of area (problems with the pull switch, a joint box, or the ceiling
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Which would make a statement that "they no longer make wired trackballs" a falsehood. So likely not whatever "they" basscomm had in mind, if you think about it.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Who is "they"? Perixx seems to be still selling wired trackballs.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
No. * https://cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/www/people-for...
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Although xe lays the blame for those at the feet of Universal Music Group, not YouTube. Apparently, UMG simply refuses to learn from the experience of having thousands of copyright claims rejected on fair use grounds. It's almost as i
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by JdeBP 1y ago
There's a YouTuber named Fil Henley ( https://www.youtube.com/@WingsOfPegasus ) who has been covering this for some years, now. Xe regularly comments on how universal application of pitch correction in post as an "
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I remember putting dummy GET/PUT/HEAD/POST verbs into SMTP Relay softwares a quarter of a century ago. Attackers do not really save themselves time and money by being intelligent about this. So they aren't. There are a
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It was because adding one to each of the letters in UNIX yields gibberish, but adding one to each of the letters in VMS gets WNT. Era-appropriate joking aside: There's no actual evidence that Cutler held the views on Unix, or even on D
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Anyone who thinks that that is a lot should see how much it, and of course the mailing list, were brought up on Usenet in the 1990s. (-:

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