JdeBP

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901.
by JdeBP 3y ago
There wasn't, and it in fact did.
902.
by JdeBP 3y ago
I have this vague memory that Carl Sagan did similar in _Cosmos_, with motorcycles.
903.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Some of us have, you will find. (-: But, that said, I'm more interested in the discussions about verification, neutrality, and the reasons that people have for still clinging on for grim death that, in a few hours, will likely be push
904.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Some of those block diagrams were a bit oversimplified. One cannot address 9 rows with only 3 address lines, for example. Or do block graphics with just 4 NOR gates.
905.
Looking Out for Number One(roads.org.uk)
1 points by JdeBP 3y ago|1 comments
906.
by JdeBP 3y ago
In my experience: Ask U.K. residents about the baffling little blue and white signs, even now when they've been around for years, and still quite a few will not know that we've actually been not-very-secretly marking our motorways
907.
by JdeBP 3y ago
As pointed out later in the thread, the code in question is checking for dates before 1975, and is actually likely triggering on a zeroed-out superblock in a filesystem somewhere. More interesting, and not noticed here, is the discussion
908.
by JdeBP 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36957558 answers your question.
909.
by JdeBP 3y ago
The FediVerse doesn't work that way. There is no "the" mods. The people posting this stuff won't be posting to the BBC. They will be posting to far away places each with their own moderators. They'll either get
910.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Not necessarily, no. There's a whole long standing organization of sysops dedicated to silencing and blocking the (few, I've never even heard of one myself) places on the WWW that the sort of stuff that you are talking about wou
911.
by JdeBP 3y ago
This is the first major "name" to have set itself up in the FediVerse, after smaller outfits like (for examples) the Texas Observer and Bylines have been established there for some time. It does indicate which way the wind is now
912.
by JdeBP 3y ago
So this move that does not do this is a good thing, in your view?
913.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Unlikely. The BBC would be very daft to run an open-signup server. And a closed-signup server would only have the problems that BBC employees themselves bring.
914.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Since one of the newly awakened accounts is @BBCTaster@Social.BBC, we can be fairly sure what taster.bbc is for.
915.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Indeed. Voyager 2 has in fact been listening via its backup receiver since 1978.
916.
by JdeBP 3y ago
The Voyager Neptune Travel Guide mentions things like the Canopus Star Tracker and the Sun Sensor. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19900004096
917.
by JdeBP 3y ago
What this is telling us is that attempting to condense to "it was bricked" has actually introduced ambiguity, and that "brick" doesn't really explain a technical situation. The JPL doco ( https://news.ycom
918.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Those interested in current events should start with section 7.
919.
Voyager Telecommunications (JPL Descanso, 2002) [pdf](descanso.jpl.nasa.gov)
2 points by JdeBP 3y ago|1 comments
920.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Start at the Voyager book at https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/DPSummary/summary.html .
921.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Your memory is serving you very ill. These various symbols were standardized in 1973. The one that you are searching for a name for is the standby symbol. Standby buttons do not actually power computers off. (Circuitry that handles wa
922.
by JdeBP 3y ago
It's not a power off symbol. It's a standby symbol.
923.
by JdeBP 3y ago
This is the problem with the Hacker's Dictionary. Some of the stuff in it turned out to be just plain not what the people involved were actually doing.
924.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Did the musl people never get around to implementing EDNS0? There's lots of talk here about not implementing DNS/TCP, but the musl people could have ameliorated that, and side-stepped the years of complaints to an extent, by impl
925.
by JdeBP 3y ago
It sort of did until the first Dot COM Bubble burst. There were also "Enhanced CDs" with both audio and data on them, and lots of other such gimmicks. It is telling to note that whilst one can still read the CD and LP inserts, WW
926.
by JdeBP 3y ago
It didn't always work that way. Only the people with bookcase style storage had to squint at the spine labels. (-: There were, at the time (and still are, a quick trip to Bing informs me), flip storage containers that one could buy,
927.
by JdeBP 3y ago
And so, all these years later, I finally learn who is being referred to by the tiny credit on the cover of my copy of THHGTTG. They did the LP too, I discover, although I don't own the LP. I do own the towel though, and I know exactl
928.
by JdeBP 3y ago
As clearly stated, the above is not what I think the way to do it is.
929.
by JdeBP 3y ago
It isn't what I think it is? Oh. Then it must be: command ls -F directory | grep -v '[/@]$' | nl | tail -n 1 | cut -f 1 (-:
930.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Easily locatable under that name. The Daugherty is the late Richard D. Daugherty, who was Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University.

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