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961.
by accrual 3y ago
Makes sense though. Some learning English might only understand "run" in the sense of something people do outside, so the latter statement would be less ambiguous.
962.
by accrual 3y ago
This was a very approachable explanation, thank you. Do you have any particular resources you'd recommend for learning more about this?
963.
by accrual 3y ago
> Even old wood furniture -- no one wants it. Old PC or Byte Magazines? Forget it; they're all over. I think the former is pretty true, but old PC magazines are still important to keep around. For one, they can be digitized to take
964.
by accrual 3y ago
I agree, that is annoying. It doesn't work for me either. Nice that they specify "secret" in key name though to help prevent pasting the wrong one.
965.
by accrual 3y ago
BitLocker does this and it's nice UX for walking someone through a recovery key over the phone. Another VERY nice feature is it hashes each set of 6 digits as you type, so if you transpose one, you immediately get feedback instead of &
966.
by accrual 3y ago
I like that some tools also provide a copy button next to fields, it looks like two overlapping boxes (kind of like: ⎘). If I were building a tool that exposed user copyable keys, I'd be sure to add these to my forms and fields. A brie
967.
by accrual 3y ago
This is great. Now we just need a TUI/GUI so we can check the right boxes and output our Geek Code. Or would that be too anti-Geek?
968.
by accrual 3y ago
I also kind of like the double column approach with positive numbers, since neither party is exchanging "negative money", so it kind of underscores the balanced nature of the transaction.
969.
by accrual 3y ago
I wanted to work on satellite operations or planetary science as a kid. Writing code for, and remotely operating and debugging space hardware from millions of miles away felt like the "ultimate" software job.
970.
by accrual 3y ago
I don't know the answer but I agree this tech should be standardized. Over time there will be a massive network of phones and tags capable of finding each other, but it's silly to bifurcate it such that you might not find your dev
971.
by accrual 3y ago
Agreed. I bought a couple Tiles before AirTags were available. They worked fine, but AirTags are just better in every way.
972.
by accrual 3y ago
It makes me happy I can do nearly everything Geek Squad can do, maybe even more in some cases, especially since it's a skill apparently valued so high. I could charge 50% of what Best Buy does and still make a profit, hah.
973.
Tutorial series for simulating NES Graphics (2018)(nesrocks.com)
34 points by accrual 3y ago|1 comments
974.
by accrual 3y ago
Fun fact - Morrowind for the Xbox occasionally rebooted the whole console when running low on memory. A splash screen would remain displayed, so the user would have no idea this was happening. The Xbox only had 64MB of DDR1 RAM. https:&#x2
975.
by accrual 3y ago
The Xbox hardware was also quite advanced for its release date (2001). Many PCs at the time still had 100MHz FSB but the Xbox ran at 133MHz. The Xbox also had DDR RAM, not much of it (64MB), but DDR wouldn't be commonplace until the Pe
976.
by accrual 3y ago
Cool to learn of a VAIO still in regular use! Pretty impressive that it can run Win 10 and technically could be fully patched in 2024.
977.
by accrual 3y ago
Wow, that is pretty cool. I had never heard of a laptop with a switch for discrete graphics before. Sony definitely had some neat features in the VAIO line.
978.
Welcome to the VAIO Library(vaiolibrary.com)
21 points by accrual 3y ago|12 comments
979.
How to Play Games Sober (2019)(kotaku.com)
1 points by accrual 3y ago|1 comments
980.
by accrual 3y ago
It was kinda like that with regular PCI before PCIe as well. A single gigabit NIC could saturate the 133MB/s bus, so two or more wouldn't let you build a router with two full speed gigabit NICs for example.
981.
by accrual 3y ago
Without a stack or heap, are the pre-allocated variables essentially just stored in main memory at a fixed location? I assume if you call the same function from more than one caller, the compiler would just overwrite the return address vari
982.
Why Disabling 8.3 DOS File Name Creation Will Not Improve Performance (2008)(helgeklein.com)
1 points by accrual 3y ago|0 comments
983.
by accrual 3y ago
This is so cool. I love the combination of bringing retro OSs into the present day and mixing them with modern technologies like hosting on AWS, etc. I never got the chance to experience writing code for DOS, but would love to try making a
984.
by accrual 3y ago
Hah, what a cool professor! Running an OS/2 webserver and taking student's mischief in stride. Wish I could go back in time and learn from him as you did.
985.
CurlFtpFS – A FTP filesystem based on cURL and FUSE(curlftpfs.sourceforge.net)
3 points by accrual 3y ago|0 comments
986.
by accrual 3y ago
Yeah, I wouldn't necessarily want it to be my own voice either, but it would be very cool to make it be the voice of someone I enjoy listening to. :)
987.
by accrual 3y ago
A long term goal of mine is to have a local LLM trained on my preferences and with a very long memory of past conversations that I could chat with in real time using TTS. It would be amazing to go on a walk with Airpods and chat with it, as
988.
by accrual 3y ago
I love this and the many other old school websites that are popping up. Same with webrings. High five to the author for their contribution to bringing back some of the old net.
989.
Serial interface 1 – How the RS-232 serial interface works(fpga4fun.com)
3 points by accrual 3y ago|0 comments
990.
by accrual 3y ago
"Just call the dropTab() function and watch as your webpage transforms into a brilliant galaxy of colors and sounds!"

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