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by Tor3 2y ago
I'm interested too. I'm using XFS only, and have for many years. On my own boxes, but my company also uses XFS for all the data on customer computers. We did extensive testing many years back, and XFS was the only filesystem at th
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by Tor3 2y ago
Using text streams between piped-together processes is not a requirement though. I'm using binary streams for some of the stuff I do, as I write simulators for some hardware (and other things) which gets processed by something else thr
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by Tor3 2y ago
I use charge card plans for those phones - I pay only for the usage. I push what amounts to about ten euros into the plan and that lasts a long time. To avoid non-activity I send a text message a couple of times a year.
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by Tor3 2y ago
Same - I never need to give my personal number to anyone. It's not even listed, so I avoid 99.9% of scam/phishing calls (unlike my work phone). Only family and friends use this number[1]. I have another number which I only use for
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by Tor3 2y ago
Mostek was also one of the producers of the z80 (and as a Mostek z80 was in my Nascom I was always aware of the company as different from MOS)
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by Tor3 2y ago
Watched it. He didn't present _any_ sources supporting his claims. There's nothing there.
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by Tor3 2y ago
There was a SuperH in my parents' Panasonic TV - I found the GPL license and kernel info deep in the menu system.
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by Tor3 2y ago
If there's a ton of evidence for this, please provide some citations. I for one have never heard a single scientific claim for individual people having 20-30% Neanderthal DNA. As the sibling comment said, there may be that much Neander
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by Tor3 2y ago
I still have a Toshiba Dynabook lying around. Big and heavy, but otherwise a fine laptop.
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by Tor3 2y ago
Yes, that's true for that code. But that wasn't really the point, the point I wrote in my earlier post was that ASCII is 7 bits, it's 0..127, and, depending on where the characters came from, only values below 128 are valid A
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by Tor3 2y ago
The parity bit is not part of the character. It's external, an error detecting device. To read ASCII you always look at bits 6..0, seven bits. You don't filter away the character because it has the parity bit set, you filter off t
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by Tor3 2y ago
Parity bits are not part of the character. They are for detecting transmission errors. You filter off the parity bit before looking at the byte.
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by Tor3 2y ago
ASCII is 7 bits (the eight bit would be parity), so that makes perfect sense, in an ASCII world.
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by Tor3 2y ago
One reason that waterfall method I mentioned actually managed to produce a working system was that the customer (together with all the companies working on the project) put extensive effort into the requirements phase. Working on the requir
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by Tor3 2y ago
At that time the waterfall model method was one solution to the problem of software quality. Other methods hadn't yet been developed (or at least not become well known yet), and waterfall was in use by the industry (not everywhere thou
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by Tor3 2y ago
"Every time I read about the Waterfall Model, I think to myself: I'm sure there must be companies out there that have tried this approach, but I have a hard time believing some software book would seriously propose it as the best
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by Tor3 2y ago
.. or a 6502 microprocessor doing 16-bit arithmetic with an 8-bit ALU. The 6502 was designed by a team who used to work with the big endian 6800, and chose little endian for their 6502 for a slight performance improvement.
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by Tor3 2y ago
I had another look at the actual article/RFC: This is more than just the little endian/big endian byte order, it's about the bit order of serial messages, where, unlike bytes, the bit order could actually be different (for by
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by Tor3 2y ago
Well, the bits jump around.. bytes are ordered, but the bits aren't, with LE (between bytes) so there's always room for a never-ending discussion about what's best ("Are you a bit person? Or a byte person? Then your pref
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by Tor3 2y ago
No, way too little sun out here. The sun is just a dot far away. The Voyagers both use RTGs, radioisotope thermoelectric generators. Decaying plutonium, essentially. That's for the electrically powered systems. The thrusters use liquid
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by Tor3 2y ago
The vast majority of my 5 1/4" floppies (including "HD" 1.2MB ones) read just fine still. The vast majority (just about 100%) of my old 3.5" HD (1.44MB) floppies are unreadable. The 3.5" 720kB ones are mostly
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by Tor3 2y ago
There's no confusion, the problem is simply that seeing "kph" automatically expands to "kilos per hour" in non- native English brains. That's overridden by logic, obviously, but that jarring effect is always th
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by Tor3 2y ago
The most common error I see is "kph" which doesn't even have any possible meaning. 'kilos per hour' would in most places be taken as "kilograms per hour". As in "my weight increases by 3 kph when I vi
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by Tor3 2y ago
That's what it looks like, yes.
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by Tor3 2y ago
A big difference between now and earlier is the timeouts.. they weren't there before. When I worked at a customer's place back in 1997-1998 I used a CVS server in my home country as a code repository. I stayed at the customer&#x27
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by Tor3 2y ago
That's what we did in electronics too. There were kits with electronic circuits (this was back in the day with transistors.. and a bit more), where the teacher would introduce a fault somewhere. What we were taught was to start measuri
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by Tor3 2y ago
I'm not sure how many countries in Europe count like that, the online information is totally unreliable. For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/mvnkja/floor_numbe... That map is abso
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by Tor3 2y ago
The UK is firmly in Europe. Always been.
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by Tor3 2y ago
For me it was like "if forced to pick, cyan is more like green ". So I kept clicking green and got 184.
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by Tor3 2y ago
Same thinking here, though I got 184

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