balou23

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by balou23 3y ago
Newfangled stuff... german-bash.org was the original. Has also been dead for 2 years now. I found a 20 year old quote of mine on archive.org. How time flies.
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by balou23 3y ago
I found this very interesting... it's an experience I guess many of us are far removed from. I've talked with people about the prevalence of functional analphabetism*... and I was surprised how people could not believe the numbers
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How I kept a job at McDonald's with an IQ of 70 [video](youtube.com)
3 points by balou23 3y ago|2 comments
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by balou23 3y ago
You can explicitly mark a memory area as write and execute in the elf header. Totally unsafe, but saves important bytes
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by balou23 3y ago
Googling for NEC PC-1702 leads back to this post... did you misspell the model, or is just that obscure?
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by balou23 3y ago
"Sorry there was an error. Try again" Seems to be already broken :(
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by balou23 3y ago
I get a "website down" message, and a neat little space invaders game to play. Quite neat actually, all in a 24kb html file without external dependencies of any kind
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by balou23 3y ago
...or anything else in the readme describing the program in any way or form. The title of this post has more information about the program than the whole readme.
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by balou23 3y ago
I had the misfortune of having to maintain an 18'000 line bash 3 script. Array handling broke in many subtle ways between bash 3 and 4. > If your scripts do that much work that your shell's speed matters, you should reconsider
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by balou23 3y ago
Debian and Ubuntu do it by default
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by balou23 3y ago
Ok, so I was a bit bored... - no external grep anymore - smaller (303 instead of 400 bytes) - cleanup of mouse mode on exit p(){ for i;do printf "\e[$i";done;};r(){ read -rn1 c;[[ $c = $1 ]];};stty -echo cbreak;p H m J ?1003h;
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by balou23 3y ago
is there a name/page/nonobfuscated version/git repo for that script?
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by balou23 3y ago
If you don't want to rely on any specific init system, and not even any external commands (with most shells): echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger
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by balou23 3y ago
unieue? In other words... I don't think so
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by balou23 3y ago
The whole site is a neat idea... but not seeing which collection the search result came from makes the site pretty useless (also regarding license... which the site doesn't show, but if I don't know the icon set I can't even
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by balou23 3y ago
I am very grateful for Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson for inventing Ubuntu and the automatic yoghurt maker.
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by balou23 3y ago
there's also base91, with an efficiency of 6.5 bits of data per printable character, compared to 6.4 with ascii85, 6.0 with base64
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by balou23 3y ago
OKL4 was shipped with 1.5 Billion mobile devices using Qualcomm chips Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20120211210405/http://www.ok-lab... , via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_mi
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by balou23 3y ago
Debian LTS only has 5 years of support, without guarantees, on a volunteer basis. RHEL has 10 years of support, with the option of 13 years. I like debian, but sometimes you have to have long term support. And I fully understand why you wou
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by balou23 3y ago
Thanks, that explains it. I guess good thing you can "cheat" nowadays with digital enlarging (in the case where you "just" want to have a long lasting picture. I have pictures of my great great grandparents, I don'
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by balou23 3y ago
I did not really understand this point. >The first reason is linked to one of the drawbacks of platinum photography. Although the resulting images are far superior, platinum does not react as quickly to light as silver. This means that y
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by balou23 3y ago
Why is the legend on the graphs in a different order than the actual results? Why does the order change between graphs? At best this is a mess, at worst this is an attempt to obfuscate the actual results
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by balou23 3y ago
For the love of god... just show me how it works. Yes, based on a previous product. Yes, privacy is nice. Highly configurable. History of phone keyboards... "Tap, or slide / swipe to type a letter." Slide/swipe how? &quo