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721.
by ajb 2y ago
When I was tapering off a capsule med, I used to pull the two halves of the capsule apart, pour out a bit of the powder, and plug the halves back together. Not amazingly accurate I admit. But it shows that it's not impossible to disass
722.
by ajb 2y ago
It would be a "rumour" if I had stated that it was the truth. If it's not the right explanation then fine, but I see no need for defensiveness. I mentioned that possibility not to criticise elastic, but because it's a se
723.
by ajb 2y ago
Oh yeah. Given that MIPS supports both, I'd have thought most would be configured for little endian, but there are still currently supported MIPS big endian on openwrt.org
724.
by ajb 2y ago
If it's this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41060102 Then they will need to delete(or rename), remake the repos and push again. Any security problem would also require doing some due diligence to make sure you r
725.
by ajb 2y ago
Could be, or maybe that just discovered the GitHub private repo leak issue that was discussed a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41060102
726.
by ajb 2y ago
Oh, I don't know about that :-) If we are looking for the two scariest words, "intermittent failure" would be my candidate.
727.
by ajb 2y ago
Wow I did not know that was still possible. Big-endian seems to be something of Thomasson[1] these days. I wonder if there is any real use case apart from testing code to see if it still runs on old machines. [1] https://en.m.wik
728.
by ajb 2y ago
It's not even just code. I remember once writing a script to generate a large table, only to discover that GCC took forever to compile it as it appeared to have an n^2 time in the size of the file. That can't have been the optimi
729.
by ajb 2y ago
It may not be used so much for clocks now, but you can still buy cheap timed power switches that use this method. For example: https://www.argos.co.uk/product/5440524
730.
by ajb 2y ago
Yeah that's what happens in a normal alarm clock. The OP thinks the design of this one is broken, hence my comment. But some other commenters seem to have a good theory that it's a failure in a component
731.
by ajb 2y ago
I've got a label printer that uses a battery because it needs more current than (pre-pd) USB, but needing a battery when you also have AC seems a poor design. Especially a non rechargeable one.
732.
by ajb 2y ago
Raspberrypi.local normally works; (using the bonjour/avahi protocol for local DNS on both sides, which is set up by default on raspbian). Might be more tricky to get a proper certificate for https
733.
by ajb 2y ago
Sounds plausible. A the start of the photo era, the state of the art for illustrations was for them to be drawn by an artist and then engraved on a wood block, manually, that was then used as a printing plate. There was a period when no met
734.
Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer(lore.kernel.org)
225 points by ajb 2y ago|213 comments
735.
by ajb 2y ago
I devised a grammar for arithmetic expressions which is less readable than either standard or RPN notation. Basically, an arithmetic expression is a tree. Standard notation indicates the shape of the tree with brackets, RPN by listing the n
736.
by ajb 2y ago
Nevertheless, several companies that originally had MIPS implementations did exactly this, to implement ARM processors.
737.
by ajb 2y ago
IBM also did it, with mainframes. But otherwise, no.
738.
by ajb 2y ago
No, but property rights in inventions are supposedly justified by the idea that this publishing will enable implementations when the patent expires. In the software world that means engineers. I don't know what audience you have in min
739.
by ajb 2y ago
The latter points are valid, but for the first - software engineers are usually best advised not to spend time looking at the patent database. For a long time (is it still true?) there were triple damages for knowingly infringing a parent
740.
by ajb 2y ago
The explanation is that this contracted out to Capita, which is the go to outsourcing company for UK government for tasks where a capacity for self reflection would be a disadvantage.
741.
by ajb 2y ago
If you go to the home page, you will see they have collected scans of these letters for every year since 2006. Most likely they didn't expect anyone to go direct to this page
742.
by ajb 2y ago
This is really cool It reminds me a lot of the kind of flow you get in mathematics sometimes. I guess theorem prover languages may be keen to adopt it. I'd be less keen in a language with side effects, unless the language has a way to
743.
by ajb 2y ago
Good to know, although the Readme says: "Planning to close my Google Play Developer Account. Please say hi if you are interested in obtaining the latest gplay release files from me to help in publishing this app."
744.
by ajb 2y ago
Your first scenario is plausible, the second I'm not sure about. Due to the growth rate central routers had a very fast replacement cycle anyway, and edge devices mostly operated at layer 2, so didn't much care about IP. (Maybe th
745.
by ajb 2y ago
One interesting corollary of this is the need to rethink the underpinnings of therapy. Eg, CBT is based around verbal thoughts and replacing bad ones with good ones. I've had CBT practitioners insist to me that thoughts always includ
746.
by ajb 2y ago
The GP's point is that if middle boxes couldn't rewrite the header, NAt would be impossible. And if NAT were impossible, ipV4 would have died several years ago because NAT allowed more computers than addresses.
747.
by ajb 2y ago
IMO the OP has not understood the obviousness test. Its not that a person "skilled in the art" would never make the invention, but that it would require many attempts, thus justifying the reward of a patent for their efforts. Th
748.
by ajb 2y ago
3 sounds like the best option - especially if many of the merchants agree to sell to the same lawyer, maybe it will end up owning the company and reform it
749.
by ajb 2y ago
For me there are plusses and minuses. It doesn't push ads, but it doesn't seem quite so good at picking out phrases in the query. So I will search for something and then have to go back and quote the phrases
750.
by ajb 2y ago
So you can get one for 6 at AliExpress or >100 at western vendors... might be worth playing with the AliExpress one I guess. Wonder what the difference is.

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