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781.
by Tor3 4y ago
This seems to boil down to a claim that when transfering data from A to B then B may be different from A. No, it won't, and that's the point. Data transfer via a reliable protocol, e.g. TCP (and when using UDP you simply apply a
782.
by Tor3 4y ago
".. some data may be lost in transfer.. " I won't go into your description of why those may be lost in transfer, others have commented on that, but NO, data may not be lost in transfer. Send data whichever way you want, over
783.
by Tor3 4y ago
Yes, kind of.. and I do get it. Back in the eighties I used to do long drives for work, and in the noisy car environment I found that what sounded "best" was old Rolling Stones recordings played from a low-quality cassette tape.
784.
by Tor3 4y ago
Yes. You still see the claim that humans can hear 20Hz-20000Hz. Well, no. We had lab equipment at school and we regularly listened to signals from test equipment - IIRC I could hear up to about 17kHz when I was 16 or 17 (when I could still
785.
by Tor3 4y ago
That's an American thing. Not world-wide. As others have said, outside America the common way is to connect to cold water and use internal heating only.
786.
by Tor3 4y ago
I generally agree, except for the "Some people need cleaner dishes than others". I can't imagine someone actually accepting "washed" dishes with food stains on them. Either they're clean, or they're not. P
787.
by Tor3 4y ago
You don't have to wash the dishes first. Just rinse them under the tap before you put them into the dishwasher. I'm assuming you don't let the dishes pile up before you do that - if you do, you'll get dry dirty plates an
788.
by Tor3 4y ago
Which reminds me about where I worked back in the neolithic.. we had an intruder alarm horn in the corridor, which was supposed to sound if someone didn't enter the magic sequence at the entrance door. But it had some issues, so someti
789.
by Tor3 4y ago
I saw a model house which had two dishwashers. One for extracting clean dishes, one for inserting dirty ones. Switch forth and back. Obviously you wouldn't want dishwashers with alarms for that. As for microwaves.. the good old ones ha
790.
by Tor3 4y ago
Sounds interesting. The water isn't metered where I live, so using more water doesn't matter. If it could be connected to the 70 C hot water outlet as well.. that would be even better.
791.
by Tor3 4y ago
When my dishwasher still worked I did actually care about the speed. Of course cleanliness is the number one priority, but I also cared a lot about how long it took. Having a dishwasher going chunka-chunka for three hours in the kitchen, wh
792.
by Tor3 4y ago
Yes.. I used one when I helped out after a birthday party with 80 guests. Getting the dishes through the washer wasn't the bottleneck.. everything else was slower.
793.
by Tor3 4y ago
I have recently seen some weird icons which I couldn't understand at first, in some software.. turned out it tried to depict a USB thumb drive, and meant "save". So someone, at least, is trying to replace the floppy disk icon
794.
by Tor3 4y ago
Odd indeed. As far as I know the Gotek was invented exactly for use by embroidery machines, and the ads are everywhere. I tried entering "embroidery floppy emulator" into Google and an Amazon link for a $38 Gotek came up first
795.
by Tor3 4y ago
"Is there something about the actual media that put a hard limit on how tightly information could be packed on it that couldn't be solved with a better drive?" For floppies: Yes. It wouldn't help to use better precision.
796.
by Tor3 4y ago
Back when we started to use CDs for backups I was horrified when I found that in general those CDs started to become unreadable after only a year in storage. We never had any problems with original CDs (say, the tons of CDs that came with a
797.
by Tor3 4y ago
That's my experience as well. The ones that fail are 3.5" HD floppies (1.44MB). Over on the ctech mailing list an old-timer expert explained that it's basically because the 3.5" HD floppies are just above the density lim
798.
by Tor3 4y ago
The memories I have are more connected to the sound of the floppy drives on an Apple II, it was very special. It's probably connected to the fact that I was relatively young, and the feeling of using an active computer and software -
799.
by Tor3 4y ago
Firstly, that's not a small minority case, and secondly, in my small town there are people from around 100 nations, and they have family and friends from all over. And, as I said, even central Europe has 3 timezones just inside EU. It&
800.
by Tor3 4y ago
They do indeed talk to people in other timezones as well. We may have online meetings sometimes, with at least three timezones involved. I can't see how one would only contact in touch with people in a single timezone, unless one onl
801.
by Tor3 4y ago
Huh? For me it is, and has been like that for a very long time. I work with various customers throughout the day, and they are in various different timezones. When I'm not working I almost daily interact with family, again different
802.
by Tor3 4y ago
I have no issues with timezones at all. Morning will be in the morning (as per the clock), wherever you are, and timezones are reasonably well defined. Without timezones you would still need a system defining what the local equivalent of
803.
by Tor3 4y ago
I still have a British-made 8086 almost-PC in the attic. It ran MS-DOS - but harddisks didn't work because the interrupt vector was different. That could be fixed - I burned a new EPROM and got it working. The company which imported t
804.
by Tor3 4y ago
If you want to learn the basics of Japanese in a reasonably effective manner, you could try Human Japanese, you can use the 'light' version (free) first (on e.g. Android), it'll give you the first 7 chapters I think, and if t
805.
by Tor3 4y ago
"Duolingos user interface and gamification might have become more annoying, but the real problem is that this approach to language learning is incredibly inefficient at best and probably does not work at all. It just feels productive
806.
by Tor3 4y ago
One reason is that unlike MS-DOS, the OS is hardware independent, except that an 8080-compatible CPU was needed (8080, z80, some NEC chips etc). Other than that you could use just about anything. It wasn't hard to port (more like trans
807.
by Tor3 4y ago
It was definitely popular in Europe, you just had to look at the right places. Both CP/M and the multi-user variant MP/M were used in e.g. accountant offices, and the reason is exactly as an earlier comment said - CP/M and MP
808.
by Tor3 4y ago
Agreed. English is not the only language deeply influenced by other languages. The other "Germanic" languages aren't necessarily any more "pure" than English. The other day I came across an article (unfortunately I
809.
by Tor3 4y ago
As was said in an earlier comment, that wasn't his family name. That would be "di Ser Piero", if even that could be considered a family name. In this case it did simply mean ".. from / of Vinci". As in "
810.
by Tor3 4y ago
Going to Tokyo this spring.. but if not this time, then I'll definitely go there later.

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