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   by TorKlingberg 5y ago

   I have a similar one and could never get the firmware uploading (foo2zjs / hplip) to work reliably. It would randomly stop working and then need an undetermined number of power cycles / USB repluggings to come back. I should have
2. 32.▲
   by TorKlingberg 5y ago

   They are still earning interchange, and profit from foreign currency conversion rates unless you watch out for it. They can also earn money from retailers to promote them to you. Point hunters often end up spending extra to reach a rewards
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   by TorKlingberg 5y ago

   Thank you. It matches my impression that lenders in other countries do share information, but mainly negative factors such as defaults. Than means "credit building" does not exist in the same way. > nearly zero in Japan, histor
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   by TorKlingberg 5y ago

   I take it interchange fees is the reason some small stores will not take credit cards for small purchases, and low-margin stores will often not take Amex. Separately, is the "credit score" system a particularly American concept? I
5. 35.▲
   by TorKlingberg 5y ago

   Controversially: Comic Sans. It turns out to be very readable for short bits of text, especially for people with dyslexia.
6. 36.▲
   by TorKlingberg 5y ago

   I don't think it's the number of people by itself. It's when it's becomes an established business that people have to start optimizing for low cost, max profit and fighting to get to the top of listings. Then the general
7. 37.▲
   by TorKlingberg 5y ago

   I am always a bit suspicions of statistics on countries or other geographical groups of people. The data points are not really independent samples. To take an extreme example, imagine you have a dataset containing Denmark, Sweden, Norway, B
8. 38.▲
   by TorKlingberg 5y ago

   If you are hanging Ikea cabinets they also sell long metal rails that the cabinets can hang on instead of the two screws. Then you can screw where the beams are, or just put a lot of anchors. You walls need to be fairly straight though. ht
9. 39.▲
   by TorKlingberg 5y ago

   The Duo Power plastic anchors shown in the article are made by Fischer. I used to live in an old building in Sweden where the external walls were made of thick concrete containing large stones and straw(!) The cheap drill bits I had did not
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    by TorKlingberg 5y ago

    How much of this is blockages caused by COVID, and how much is increased demand from people buying more stuff instead of going on trips, to restaurants, etc?
11. 41.▲
    by TorKlingberg 5y ago

    Ctrl+Shift+V is great, when it works. Which it doesn't annoyingly often, such as Atlassian's Confluence wiki. So I paste and re-copy things in the URL bar all the time. Ctrl + L V A X
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    by TorKlingberg 5y ago

    I'd say having your Chinese and Japanese text in different encodings would make it worse. In a markup language the annotations can be inline. HTML has e.g. <span lang="ja">, which seems to work well enough.
13. 43.▲
    by TorKlingberg 5y ago

    Unless you have a link to the article from that time I'm going to guess that is a false memory or something unrelated.
14. 44.▲
    by TorKlingberg 5y ago

    I wonder if git had a part in it. That UML doesn't have a good textual format, or really any standard file format, means it really doesn't play well with git. I remember IBM/Rational had some kind of diff & merge tool for
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    Setting up a NAT64 WiFi test network using Ubuntu's hotspot feature(starleaf.engineering)

    4 points by TorKlingberg 5y ago|0 comments
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    by TorKlingberg 5y ago

    Coming from the embedded world, I am far more used to the style bluetomcat showed where the caller handles allocation. It takes more work to use, and you have to make sure to not use it before initializing or after destroying, as you said.
17. 47.▲
    by TorKlingberg 5y ago

    This makes me wonder, does "anti-flash white" reflect more than polished mirror-like metal?
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    Be careful what you copy – proxy arp and reboots(starleaf.engineering)

    3 points by TorKlingberg 5y ago|0 comments
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    by TorKlingberg 6y ago

    I think we should take a moment to appreciate how great UTF-8 is, and how it well it worked out. It's easy to get disillusioned with internet standards when IPv6 is taking forever and messaging is all proprietary locked down protocols.
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    by TorKlingberg 6y ago

    This is very true. You get the same thing with people who live in Japan for a bit and declare that the political climate there is so much better. Eh, no, you just can't read the newspapers.
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    by TorKlingberg 6y ago

    Programming languages like C, C++ and Objective C are compiled to machine code. Apple Silicon support means it is compiled for the ARM instruction set rather than x86. The Apple M1 chip can execute either, ARM code natively and x86 through
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    by TorKlingberg 6y ago

    For background Duke Nukem 3D came out the same year as Quake. Quake had a far better engine that absolutely revolutionized shooters. It could do so much more than the 2.5D engines. Duke Nukem competed by having lot of character in the level
23. 53.▲
    by TorKlingberg 6y ago

    Here is the discussion if anyone wants to go copy the top comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26188710
24. 54.▲
    by TorKlingberg 6y ago

    I mean, it is a big spherical venue. Representing the Sun is more of a secondary use.
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    Zoom and Teams rival StarLeaf is considering IPO(cityam.com)

    3 points by TorKlingberg 6y ago|0 comments
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    by TorKlingberg 6y ago

    I don't know if MIPS is the same, but I worked on an other architecture where NOP is 0x0, and it had an interesting effect. If you called an uninitialized function pointer, and it happened to point into zero:ed out memory, the CPU woul
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    by TorKlingberg 6y ago

    I feel like floating point is a completely separate branch of programming that a lot of coders never use. When they do it's often a mistake, like for currency. Yet floating point is very useful for scientific calculations and simulatio
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    by TorKlingberg 6y ago

    I have heard the opposite: that the higher price of name brand goods means more profit for everyone. It would be good to know what the truth is.
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    by TorKlingberg 6y ago

    I am sort of worried that a lot of internet sentiments go back to just one person. I also have a vaguely negative impression of Dyson, and realized it came from that same Reddit thread. It feels like every internet community just recycles i
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    by TorKlingberg 6y ago

    This seems like really fun project. For some reason it makes me happy that someone has good reason to run their own servers and networking, rather than rent everything from cloud providers.