Nick_C

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by Nick_C 15y ago
I think it stinks. But... Give it to your wife/husband for free. Wife sells it for whatever and however she wants. Apple have no comeback.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
That's fine for typeset print where other aids to scanning are used, such as a double space between sentences. HTML, though, removes the double space. Which means you have to consciously read every single word rather than scan and parse i
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by Nick_C 15y ago
You use whatever language you want to send an HTTP request with the parameters you want, get the data back, parse it, fiddle with it into the format you want and output the HTML. Or put it in a database for retrieval later. Or whatever you
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by Nick_C 15y ago
The answer (for software engineering) is to stop thinking of time as a continuous flow with periodic markers such as second, minute, etc. Instead, think of it as chunks. Mostly one chunk flows seamlessly into another. Occasionally, a chun
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Can the BIOS be reverse-engineered to hack out the UEFI code, sort of similar to how crackers just NOP the DRM part a game? You could even return the correct response to any kernel interrogation of the BIOS to check keys. Seems to me that
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I suspect you're talking in generalities, but from an outside perspective the US is far from best practice. Three things that you could implement that other democracies already have: - electoral boundaries are controlled by a statutory ind
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> Rodney Zak's "Programming the Z80" The first and still the best programming book I ever read. It taught me architecture, instruction fetching and decoding, how the clock comes into it, as well as the usual assembly programming. I lo
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Because the U.S. won't ratify the Treaty if they don't. Same thing happened here in Australia. From Singapore's perspective, the FTA brings trade benefits. Presumably they judged that those outweighted the negatives.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I think we've reached the stage for an "Ignore" button. Clicking it would make that user invisible to me in the future. There are some people who I am never going to agree with. Their comments are invariably ignorant or proselytizing or c
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> old sentimentally attached hardware work so well I know what you mean. I was running NetBSD on an iMac G4 (the sunflower one) for years and it was great (then the macppc NVidia broke for several months so I switched to OpenBSD). I us
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I'd be wary of putting NZ ahead of others. NZ is currently negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. If it is anything like Australia's, and it will be simply because the U.S. has more clout, NZ will have to agree to implement, am
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Which is the correct idiomatic way. The article's author is wrong in enclosing foo in quotes.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> Sadly, this awesome example of evolution is one of the poster-children for creationist Coincidentally, last night's TV had "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" where they rebutted the creationist view quite successfully, at lea
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Assuming Arch is still based on Slackware: Slackware 13.37 on my Compaq Presario (C700 series) works great. It never used to, back in the 12.0 Slackware days, and then I gave up and forgot about it. A few months ago I decided to try again
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I wonder what AOPA's stance is. On the face of it, unmanned aircraft don't seem able to comply with VFR's see-and-avoid. I'm not saying it isn't possible, just that it seems problematic with current airspace and flight rules and light airc
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I think that is more to do with SSH than screen or tmux. I just tested it on a SSH session across the Pacific. No difference whether it is a straight xterm or if it is within a screen session.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
How did you go?
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Is that more of a "who cares, I'm in Australia now", or will the Aust. Tax Office support the US IRA by disallowing deductions?
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Just FYI, they weren't that much shorter. Below decks everyone was stooped over. Sometimes the captain had a full headroom cabin depending on the size of the ship, and later perhaps the officers in the wardroom as well.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> end user should have ultimate say in what does and does not come across their computer. They still will. ABP is proposing that it be a user-configurable option.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Funnily enough, I just got my Dreamhost bill for the next year and was thinking of switching to Bluehost due to cost. Not any more.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
You are using averages where the min and max are extremely wide apart. For example, the Moon is not actually at -25C, it is either +130C or -110C (or transiting between). We know the time when those temps occur, so we can look for other o
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Anathem - Neal Stephenson. Recommended here last year, it blew my mind in a similar way to Name of the Rose but with a sci-fi theme. Dr Zhivago - Boris Pasternak. If you have not read any of the Russians, give this a go. Initially
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by Nick_C 15y ago
The boundary of the heliosphere and the other bits it entails. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere
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by Nick_C 15y ago
According to comments on Colin's message, all BSDs as the bug has been there for years. OpenBSD doesn't have telnetd in its base distribution (and I currently don't have access to my OpenBSD server to check on the ports).
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Whenever I have been called, my first question is, "Does X know that you are contacting me?" If not, I close the conversation.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Effectively never. The fuel is kerosene which has a high flash point, and the plane is grounded to the refuelling apparatus to prevent any static sparks.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Planes that often fly upside down typically have low camber wings. Some of them have almost symmetrical wings. Those wings have less lift in upright flight than a more highly cambered wing would, so (and for other reasons too) the manufac
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> have to update DNS records every time something changes on the host. On the other hand, you might want to be able to do that rather than not be able to. I'm thinking of the situation where your host goes down. If it is host-wide, you
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Nice article. You could expand on it by mentioning the config file. For example, I have a remote proxy server, a different remote web server, github and so on, all with different user names and ports. I can alias each with their own setup

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