LaputanMachine

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by LaputanMachine 4y ago
We had this one too, the one with the blue head. I always wondered how it worked, as cassettes only had two different sides. Watching this video, I noticed that they must've used the left and right channels on either side for a total o
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by LaputanMachine 4y ago
The existence of the Selectric bug was mentioned in an issue of Popular Science from 1987 [1]. In the article, a typewriter salesman from New York correctly describes the working principle of the bug, even though the exact working principle
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by LaputanMachine 4y ago
Nowadays, technology firms are going to the extremes like implementing virtual machines with a custom instruction set inside of PDF files [1], so they can sell exploits to governments who use them to spy on their enemies. I think not much
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by LaputanMachine 4y ago
I think they're mistaking the RAM's heat spreaders for radiation shields. Heat spreaders were common for DDR2 and DDR3 ECC RAM. Some models, like the KVR667D2D4F5/2G, have temperature warning labels, indicating that it's
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by LaputanMachine 4y ago
CL!ng may be what you're looking for [1]. The app is available in the App Store, but I have not tested it. [1]: https://egpu.io/forums/mac-setup/monitoring-thunderbolt-band...
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by LaputanMachine 4y ago
> Seems like a poor safety feature to have it also turn on when you're cleaning. Right, that's bad design. The cooktop I'm familiar with always turns off and beeps if something (metal pots or a liquid) covers a part of the
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by LaputanMachine 4y ago
I think this is a safety function. You may not be able to turn off the stove yourself if something boils over, and the buttons get covered in hot liquid.
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by LaputanMachine 4y ago
Some app ideas from Krzysztof Kowalczyk (author of Sumatra PDF): https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/e4132d5a44014b2aad81d815...
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by LaputanMachine 4y ago
This is the configuration I use: veto files = /._*/.DS_Store/.Trashes/.TemporaryItems/ delete veto files = yes The second line allows vetoed files to be deleted. Otherwise, already existing vetoed files wou
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by LaputanMachine 4y ago
>Just a basic cryptographic risk management principle that cryptography people get mad at me for saying (because it’s true) is: don’t use asymmetric cryptography unless you absolutely need it. Is there any truth to this? Doesn't bas
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by LaputanMachine 5y ago
According to the video in the article, the data rate is 66 MB/s (100kB per frame). So a Pi with 8GB of RAM should be able to capture almost 2 minutes of footage.
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by LaputanMachine 5y ago
This ambiguity was not intended, I have edited my comment.
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by LaputanMachine 5y ago
If you look at the percentage of affected reviews [1], it looks like some customers might be experiencing long term loss of smell. Note how the percentage of affected customers is still considerably higher in mid 2021 (where covid numbers w
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by LaputanMachine 5y ago
The linked graph may be misleading, because more scented candles are sold in the winter. There is still a correlation if the graph is divided by the number of reviews [1], but it is much weaker. It would be interesting to see the data befor
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by LaputanMachine 5y ago
I'd rather live in a world with fact-checking than in a world with gene-checking: »The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate gui
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by LaputanMachine 5y ago
> You'll be expected to never turn on your Pi Zero without an antenna attached again, should your transmitter get fatally confused by the mismatch of hardware-defined impedance assumptions. Can the hardware really be damaged by usin
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by LaputanMachine 5y ago
So if I understand correctly, copy-on-write is implemented using hard links, but the existence of hard links alone doesn't constitute CoW.
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by LaputanMachine 5y ago
If the file system implements copy-on-write, wouldn't a hard link even preserve the original file if the file is edited through the original inode?
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by LaputanMachine 5y ago
> no one predicted anything remotely correct regarding Corona. That is simply not true. The RKI (Germany's main institute for disease control and prevention) almost exactly predicted the current Covid numbers back in July [1]. The t
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by LaputanMachine 5y ago
This post reminded me of the "88x31 GIF Collection" post from a few months ago [1]. Weird to think about how much the Internet has changed. Makes me wonder how people will look back on today's Internet. [1]: https:/&#x2
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by LaputanMachine 5y ago
UK. Here's the Megaprocessor on the museum's website: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/43063/The-Megaproces...
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by LaputanMachine 5y ago
> The smoothing out is done by the elasticity of the belt which provides mechanical isolation and by a flywheel. With the exception of one esoteric Eumig brand deck, all cassette decks have flywheels. I just had to look this up. Interest
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by LaputanMachine 5y ago
I like how some of the photos show the same place years apart. These two images [1][2] show the same junction near St Martin station. Note the patch in the ceiling in these two pictures: [3][4] The pink graffito on the back wall in this [5]
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by LaputanMachine 5y ago
It's still not working for me for some reason. In the second recursion step, when entering the URL manually, the tab remains blank. If I instead try to click on the unedited "portfolio" link, the site opens in a new (native)
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by LaputanMachine 5y ago
You can even open the website recursively within its own "Safari" window. The recursion depth seems to be limited to one though. Nice easter egg nonetheless. Edit: It's possible to bypass the recursion limit. First open the &
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by LaputanMachine 6y ago
You can enter the name without the dash first, and add the dash later.
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by LaputanMachine 6y ago
I also use a 4 bit e-ink display, and there are sometimes large areas of the same color where you can't see any details. After several hours of tweaking I managed to improve the quality, but it's still not perfect. Do you have som