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by JdeBP 4mo ago
It's an interesting fact. I have been surprised at how often The Guardian sneaks in to stuff that is otherwise overwhelmingly North American sources only. The Legal Eagle channel on YouTube has cited The Guardian a few times that
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
No, You're the one stretching things. If you want to provide an example from The Guardian that actually works, and it is as easy to do so as you say, go ahead. As I said, I wouldn't be surprised if they had a blind spot, given
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
Yes, and I was slightly disappointed, from a statistical point of view, that they didn't tell us how many people they excluded from the original sample for this reason. That could have told us things. If (say) they threw out 967 to le
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
Not quoted as saying that there should be some sort of budget or spending increase, which is the sort of evidence being presented in this report, but merely some historical context statement about how the armed forces had been 'right-s
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
A correct analogue would be 'The expert stating that more should be spent on treatment X was employed in the NHS five years ago and currently runs/directs/consults for a business selling supplies for treatment X.'
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
It is interesting to look at the details and see who the (news) 'media' are in this case. Going through the details, I find 1 instance (under Kemp) of the BBC, and everyone else is the 'usual suspects', the Telegraph ,
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
In 17 of the 19 detailed instances, it is stated that they are promoting increases in budgets and spending. The two others are reported as speaking with different conflicts of interest.
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
We should tell the Unix people that they've been giving /usr/share/dict the wrong name for over three decades. (-:
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
My computers ignore USB HIDs other than the ones that I have explicitly permitted. Unfortunately, this is a major architectural revamp for many operating systems. The idea that every HID is automatically added to a keyboard/mouse &
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
There are a few lettered extensions to the base RV32I instruction set. e.g.: * https://docs.riscv.org/reference/isa/unpriv/m-st-ext.html
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
Indeed. This is one of the differences between the Unix and the MS/PC/DR-DOS command-line world. In the latter, recognizing empty final pathname components actually did become a way of differentiating such situations. I wrote a
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
It's called a post, the same as you used for Hacker News. And yes, I debugged one of the issues. I made the second comment in one of them. Markus Mayer did some debugging, too. Then I had to deal with something completely unrelated
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
Pre-World Wide Web, strictly, as the Internet pre-dated Fidonet by some years. The Internet almost, but not quite, preceded Teletext. But yes, people did all of that many years before it was done on the World Wide Web. (There's some
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
Given that someone wrote this up directly as a recipe for agents to follow, and put it on the WWW where it has been scraped many times since 2025 no doubt, it's not that amazing. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by JdeBP 4mo ago
Aviation aside, it is worthwhile remembering that IBM traditionally had a whole other jargon vocabulary for computing. A 'crash' was an ABEND, an abnormal end.
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by JdeBP 5mo ago
No. After the 'Login incorrect' (or equivalent on non-Solaris systems) message, login(1) loops around back to prompting for the user name afresh. Try it. What's unusual here is rather the missing password prompt after &#x27
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by JdeBP 5mo ago
Almost. The explanation there is that effectively jtnimoy did the terminal user equivalent of motion capture. Xe ran some shell sessions, which were recorded, and the animators took them and reconstructed them in Adobe and Cinema 4D.
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by JdeBP 5mo ago
Interesting. * https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/blob/2.1.1f/src/font-topaz.t... Although Unscii populates Unicode from a number of sources and leaves the source fonts at their original repertoires.
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by JdeBP 5mo ago
I have that forked, as well as a fork of funscii. Both have fixes in the main branch. I've added a fair amount of stuff beyond that in a branch of unscii. * https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/tree/2.1.1f
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by JdeBP 5mo ago
Don't jump to the conclusion that they all mis-read the name several hours ago, though. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310191
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by JdeBP 5mo ago
No inline images is not a restriction of the protocol. It's a restriction of the text/gemini MIME content type, and of the browser implementations. A server can still respond with text/html content over the GEMINI protocol,
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Playing Wireless Audio on OpenBSD(xosc.org)
2 points by JdeBP 5mo ago|0 comments
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by JdeBP 5mo ago
It's worth mentioning at this point that one can still get (Open)Solaris descendent operating systems: OmniOS, SmartOS, and Tribblix. The latter still has SPARC in its installation guide. * https://tribblix.org/install
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by JdeBP 5mo ago
It's also superficial and wrong, and as bad as dividing people up by hair colour into blondes, brunettes, and redheads. The way that the BSDs differentiate cannot be reduced in this way, not least because there is a lot of what Justin
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by JdeBP 5mo ago
We don't have to guess. There are several mailing list discussions: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=177625153728067
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by JdeBP 5mo ago
That's not specifically OpenBSD , though. The BSD world is not the monolith that it was back in the 1980s.
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by JdeBP 5mo ago
Looking back over the times that the page has been submitted to Hacker News, it's almost an even split between with 'index.php' and without. It's an interesting question for CIS URLs whether a url-path with an empty fina
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by JdeBP 5mo ago
That 'nearly' is important. I can think of one operating system that you cannot possibly have access to, because it was never published. (-:
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by JdeBP 5mo ago
Two thoughts amused me. Firstly: There's a 2025 (sic!) erratum to RFC 1055 that isn't in the www.c here. The erratum (q.v.) makes a good case for how it changes the decoding algorithm, and it actually is Linux on the other end of
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The gen on the family of 'vi' clones(jdebp.uk)
2 points by JdeBP 5mo ago|1 comments

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