SloopJon

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   by SloopJon 6y ago

   This seems to be a supported feature of KeePass 2: "When invoking the 'Save' command, KeePass checks whether the file on disk/server has been modified while you were editing it. If it has been modified, KeePass prompts
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   by SloopJon 6y ago

   Here is one of those tests: https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/real-life-oled-burn-in-test Is it extreme? Sure, but it's not contrived--five hours on, one hour off. If the TV in the office break room was an OL
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   by SloopJon 6y ago

   > Also, who was being quoted in the title? It's from World War I. See this comment on the (flagged) submission of the last post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22897805
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   by SloopJon 6y ago

   You can distribute unmodified copies; just don't use it to disparage Goldman Sachs.
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   by SloopJon 6y ago

   One of the About This Mac dialogs showed an A12Z with 16 GB, which is consistent with the developer transition kit, basically an iPad Pro in a Mac mini case: A12Z, 16 GB, 512 GB SSD.
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   by SloopJon 6y ago

   Besides native apps from Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe (Universal 2), the demo included Maya and Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Rosetta 2), and Parallels Desktop (unspecified virtualization improvements). I couldn't tell if the guest O&#x2F
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   by SloopJon 6y ago

   Here are a couple of submissions on the cryptopals challenges: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8166064 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12720009 One comment in the first discussion is from a user s
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   by SloopJon 6y ago

   I had to check to see whether John the Ripper is still maintained. As a matter of fact, 1.9.0 was released last year, four years after 1.8.0: https://www.openwall.com/lists/announce/2019/05/14/1 Th
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   by SloopJon 6y ago

   Hashcat has long been a user of OpenCL. I wondered whether that was because CUDA really wasn't much better for this application, but this release puts that to rest: > One of the biggest advantages of CUDA compared to OpenCL is the
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    by SloopJon 6y ago

    I'm not sure what the author's background is, but if he did all of this in one day as a Mac-using Linux newbie, I'm actually pretty impressed. There are references to previous posts about the Pi, but it's not clear whet
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    by SloopJon 6y ago

    Note that the only source for this article is the Bloomberg article posted earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23465364
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    by SloopJon 6y ago

    It seems that they're inferring the blood type from the ABO gene, although displaying this on the web site is a "sunsetted feature." Edit: the rhesus factor, on the other hand, seems to have been self reported.
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    by SloopJon 6y ago

    > How many columns/rows can you realistically fit in screen? I don't know why you think many rows is an indication that you're editing. Tables are the first resort for reports, and reports tend to have lots of data (i.e.,
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    by SloopJon 6y ago

    Whole Foods amusingly substituted hot sauce for baking powder. Less amusingly, Peapod (Stop and Shop) substituted Diet Coke for regular. What am I supposed to do with that? Maybe I'll order some Mentos next time.
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    by SloopJon 6y ago

    There is definitely disagreement in C# as to the proper usage of var.
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    by SloopJon 6y ago

    The first two things I looked for are the price (free upgrade): "Logic Pro X 10.5 is available today as a free update for all existing users, and is available on the Mac App Store for $199.99 (US) for new customers." ... and the s
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    by SloopJon 6y ago

    "Information" is probably the most representative category, which shows an unemployment rate of 11% in table A-14, compared to 3.5% a year ago.
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    by SloopJon 6y ago

    For those who aren't a fan of monospaced text at 120 characters wide, there's a PDF link at the bottom of the page that includes the tables and an FAQ list: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
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    by SloopJon 6y ago

    For all of its quirks, I love having a 3:2 display on the MateBook X Pro. Besides the Surface Laptop and Surface Book, there's not much else on the market with this aspect ratio.
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    by SloopJon 6y ago

    > The majority of my mortgage payment goes towards ownership of a product - my house For many (most?) people that's not true. Even ignoring that mortgage payments often include property taxes and/or private mortgage insurance,
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    by SloopJon 6y ago

    A previous post in the series tests a Parchive utility called MacPAR deLuxe: https://eclecticlight.co/2020/04/20/file-integrity-5-how-wel...
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    by SloopJon 6y ago

    There's something to be said for the new Java approach of releasing often, with a stable LTS release every now and then, even if Oracle is muddying the waters with their licensing. The only release after 8 that interests me right now
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    by SloopJon 6y ago

    C++ has sped up the pace of its releases, but I don't have a sense of where C is. I didn't realize until I looked it up just now that there's a C18, although I gather that this is even smaller a change than C95 was. Safe to
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    by SloopJon 6y ago

    I'm curious what you're comparing JavaScript to. Decimal is the native numeric datatype for the stored procedure language of the database I use. Otherwise, even in languages that have a decimal class in their standard library, i
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    by SloopJon 6y ago

    I have an office with a door, and I generally prefer to go into the office, but the company is converting to cubicles, one floor at a time. When my floor gets the ax, I will probably transition to 100% WFH. This experience has shown me th
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    by SloopJon 6y ago

    I see the same errors using Clang with -O1, -O2, and -O3.
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    by SloopJon 6y ago

    I don't remember what UBSan looked like in 2014, but it does something not entirely unhelpful for each of these examples, although they are caught at run time, not compile time: runtime error: index 4 out of bounds for type 'int [
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    by SloopJon 6y ago

    I'm amazed that this is even possible. I seem to recall that there are countries with unusable fighter jets, because the U.S. will no longer supply parts and expertise for maintenance. The article indeed states: "the purchase do
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    by SloopJon 7y ago

    I also came across this the other day: https://candor.co/hiring-freezes I'm curious as to why the redraw performance for the embedded Airtable is so terrible. Is that normal?
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    by SloopJon 7y ago

    Amazon has sponsored a picking challenge for a few years now, but I'm not aware of this level of automation being deployed in production. The last I saw, a Kiva robot would bring a shelf of items to a human picker, who transferred an