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by axiolite 4y ago
> quickjs from M. Bellard and friends Is the M key next to the F key on your particular keyboard by chance? Because I've always called him "Fabrice." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard
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by axiolite 4y ago
Full article: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cache%3...
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by axiolite 4y ago
"All Generalizations Are False."
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by axiolite 4y ago
> My mind was blown over how I knew about this very important event the night before Mexico TV broke the news. I've had the opposite experience. It's clear that real-time news is detrimental, and it's better for reportin
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by axiolite 4y ago
The US electrical code uses several different receptacles to ensure devices will only be plugged into a circuit that can sustain its power requirements. The lower voltage 120V commonly used in the US does necessitate a doubling of the numb
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by axiolite 4y ago
> This is a huge usability issue for people with weak eyesight What is it about weak eye sight that prevents someone from turning their plugs over when they find it doesn't fit the first time? Are people with weak eyesight also all
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by axiolite 4y ago
> can't start shipping SD cards formatted with btrfs until Windows supports it out of the box 3rd parties can write drivers for Windows, you know. A small, read-only FAT partition on a USB stick or SD card could contain the install
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by axiolite 4y ago
"two 512MB Flash drives" https://nitter.net/RayRedacted/status/1563021492157579264?re...
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by axiolite 4y ago
> PCBs, sensors, and switches seem to cover most failure modes of modern appliances. I try to minimize the number of each in every purchase. Digital thermostats are far more reliable than mechanical ones, as well as more consistent. The
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by axiolite 4y ago
I would rather go back to the days when phone screens were under 5" so not only did they easily fit in a pocket, but I could also operate them securely with one hand, easily reaching every corner of the screen with my thumb, without ha
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by axiolite 4y ago
> ARM enabled a class of devices that x86 outright didn't support at the time (and largely still does not). What time, and which class of devices? Certainly it's true of very low-power embedded devices, but those aren't of
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by axiolite 4y ago
> I personally doubt it very much. It might help if you specified exactly what it is you doubt... It's a simple fact that Basic English has a shorter wordlist than Esperanto, simple rules, and being based on English it omits things
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by axiolite 4y ago
> Itanium was better than AMD64, No, AMD64 is far superior, Itanium's benefits never materialized. Any BOTH offer backwards compatibility, anyhow. > DVORAK is better than QWERTY, Not by enough to matter except in extreme circums
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by axiolite 4y ago
> I thought if you use compression, you'll always lose at least a small amount of data. No, the terms "lossless" and "lossy" are attached to different compression methods to indicate whether they do or don't
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by axiolite 4y ago
> I was running an x86 VM on my 16Mhz 68030 Mac LCII in 1996 in college - SoftPC by Insignia Solutions. That's called emulation. That's not what VMWare does.
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by axiolite 4y ago
> distinguishing between the generated samples and those recorded from a human will be little better than a coin toss. The synthesis still doesn't know where to place emphasis. You may be unable to distinguish between POOR human vo
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by axiolite 4y ago
> configure I/O, IRQ, DMA etc? As a kid I had no understanding of what these things were so I always tried random values until the sound worked without distortion I got my start in the Win9x days. I cannot begin to describe how con
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by axiolite 4y ago
> Maybe we don’t “need” to use that much (whatever “need” is supposed to mean) He's talking minimal human survival. Though that depends on temperatures, body weight and activity level: http://www.aircav.net/survival
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Blaming other people sounds like a great way to not deal with the issue. I look forward to seeing how you fix it.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Why on earth is it that it doesn't matter which party gets elected, you can't seem to get universal health care? Because Republicans can tie-up such laws in committee to prevent it. Obamacare is a huge improvement over what c
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Been using this for years but apparently not! I don't know what you're trying to say here. Perhaps you misunderstood what's been added? Example: $ sftp HOST Connected to HOST.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> is California real estate really that cheap? California is bigger than most European countries... As with them, some remote areas are much cheaper than others. The Central Valley is the most remote and depressed part of the state, us
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Property in all the now hotly competitive areas was dirt cheap too. Yeah, but you're ignoring all the losing bets. How have property prices in Detroit and West Virginia held up? Industry there was booming at the time, who was to
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by axiolite 5y ago
Electrified trains have a lot of potential...
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by axiolite 5y ago
That was probably true back in 2004, but today there are numerous reader view, full text converter, and advanced web spider projects that anybody can plug in and get the full text from at least 90% of web sites, with no extra effort.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> my content was directly vacuumed This happens with the HTML contents just as easily. Perhaps just include a unique identifier in the text per client, and a link back to the source.
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by axiolite 5y ago
That's great, but unfortunately the HTML view only shows the TITLE, ala HackerNews, and not even a single summary sentence or paragraph there. So we've got a good RSS feed, but a bad HTML view.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Imagine a 100 dollar bill that weighs 30 lbs. That seems...inconvenient. "Carry this 30 lbs box out to your car for me and I'll give you $100..." Sounds like an excellent deal to me. I can't imagine many grocery s
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by axiolite 5y ago
> This replaced a simpler and more reliable analog knob in older fridges. The mechanical thermostats in refrigerators are inaccurate and failure prone (after a number of years). A digital thermostat increases life/reliability of th
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by axiolite 5y ago
I liked my old Sceptre TV, but after 8+ years it recently stopped powering on. The identically-sized replacement has sound quality that is absolutely horrid... and by that I mean my cell phone sounds better! Okay, a sound bar might be a r

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