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by bazzargh 4y ago
see https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0301.html This is that feature in xmpp, but it didn't send as you typed, it batched up typing and sent just one packet a second (or so) with timed keystrokes in the packet so it
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by bazzargh 4y ago
I hadn't seen anyone else use that pair when I suggested it in early Jan https://twitter.com/bazzargh/status/1477998502747779079 ... but I guess there aren't many choices with those letters and other peo
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by bazzargh 5y ago
I find the split between Cmd-backtick (cycle windows of an application) and Cmd-tab (cycle front window of all applications...which isn't all windows) super annoying, there is an app for that: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.a
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by bazzargh 5y ago
I had this problem too, so I wrote some code. It's not open sourced yet and who knows if I'll get round to it, but here's a detailed description of how it works, it is not a lot of code so you could probably reproduce this
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by bazzargh 5y ago
One we see a lot is this: https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/1151 worker_processes auto; in a kubernetes environment where the nginx container only has 1 cpu share, but is running on a 64 core node...thi
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by bazzargh 5y ago
Huh, I had a look at the belt drive thing - Allen added that in 2012(!) when belt drives were still relatively new - Gates went mainstream around 2009, and Center Track appeared 2010-2011. At the time many more belt drives would have been r
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by bazzargh 5y ago
There is room for a followup paper on experiments to detect blueberry exoplanets; if only to put an upper bound on the probability of planets spontaneously turning to jam, which fruit they consist of, and if they are spread across the unive
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by bazzargh 5y ago
a normal D6 and a D10 with 1-5 twice. If total is 7, use the D6 plus 6 instead. The roll table for that is exactly that of 2 D6 with the 7s removed. The 7s shift to the last column. 1 2 3 4 5 <- D10 1 2 3 4 5 6
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by bazzargh 5y ago
Same. I found that my neighbours were swamping my signal in the outer rooms of my (small) flat and did the booster thing, a couple of ethernet-over-power wifi routers: TP-Link TL-WPA8631Ps https://www.tp-link.com/uk/hom
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by bazzargh 5y ago
Weirdly, I have watched the Goon Show. But only one episode - the last episode of the radio show was on tv too. (I grew up listening to my dad's tapes of the others) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Goon_Sh
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by bazzargh 5y ago
There is one here https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/em... though you'd be hard pressed to recognize it as being this bug, since it doesn't mention the error message that everyone
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by bazzargh 5y ago
Honestly - you spend 20 minutes with someone teaching them that git only stores diffs ...except that isn't what git stores (as loose objects); in fact it's one thing that distinguishes git from earlier tools. See eg https:&#x2F
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by bazzargh 5y ago
Nero Wolfe made a feature of that, using a repertory cast for all the roles except the leads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Wolfe_(2001_TV_series)
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by bazzargh 5y ago
there's also landscapes that shouldn't be forested https://www.theflowcountry.org.uk/flow-facts/flow-fact-1/ - in the past, tax breaks led to attempts to drain and reforest the flow country (an enormous
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by bazzargh 5y ago
I was disappointed, because actual Hydraulic RAM does exist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory (using Wikipedia's own definition of Hydraulics as "involving the mechanical properties and use of l
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by bazzargh 5y ago
On the other hand, if you can hand off to a cameraman disguised as a carseat, that makes it all worth it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxb9xzAaYjM (The Raid 2, car chase behind the scenes)
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by bazzargh 5y ago
They do mention it, it's at the end of their conclusions: "The results explicitly show the strong tension between null results from disappearance searches and appearance-based indications for the existence of light sterile neutrin
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by bazzargh 5y ago
hmm, I tried this yesterday, Catalina, fresh install of podman/qemu: ; podman machine start INFO[0000] waiting for clients... INFO[0000] listening tcp://0.0.0.0:7777 INFO[0
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by bazzargh 5y ago
No - your £85k guarantee is across all your accounts with that bank (even across the same group of banks). Straight from the source: https://www.fscs.org.uk/what-we-cover/banks-building-societi... _If you have money in
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by bazzargh 5y ago
I'm kinda surprised this references RFC-4180 as the most formal spec when there is a _much better_, and more realistic, spec developed by the W3C csv on the web working group ( https://www.w3.org/2013/csvw/wiki
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by bazzargh 5y ago
Saw these via a tweet showing one in action https://twitter.com/KevindotHickman/status/14260979444413767...
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Swing Cranks for Disabled Cyclists(cornant.uk)
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by bazzargh 5y ago
This is just lovely. But I am also tickled by the nominative determinism of the dots on the fish being generated using Poisson Disk sampling. https://github.com/LingDong-/fishdraw/blob/main/fishdraw.js#..
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by bazzargh 5y ago
the sandals helped his blisters, but also he switched to flat pedals from clipless. That gives you extra freedom to move your foot to find a comfortable position, which can help with some joint pain. Me, I find saddle height is the biggest
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by bazzargh 5y ago
Except Jeeves would add "...but is sir sure that investing such a large sum in Cousin Eddie's racehorse is wise? You will recall his "sure thing" at the parish tombola." And then later when you lose your shirt, you&
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by bazzargh 6y ago
Previously (2018): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16978913 Previously (2009): https://twitter.com/selfrefer/status/3128391843 https://twitter.com/spoonhenge/status/
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by bazzargh 6y ago
I didn't recognize the movie but the two onlookers are John Turturro and Mel Smith - which pegs it as Brain Donors (1992) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103872/
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by bazzargh 6y ago
I'd seen most of these before too (UK/Ireland), a butter curler is common and cheap. However the right angled curler is new to me; it seems to be a consequence of their butter dishes being different tho? My butter dish (and most o
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by bazzargh 6y ago
I spent 3 months cycling all over france back in 2013, and long trips in subsequent years - pretty much every campsite I stayed at used captive portals. A handful handed out password cards to guests only, but those ones were almost always &
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by bazzargh 6y ago
For those looking for motivation - you can see examples of the related base2048 encoding used in tweets to the bbc micro bot twitter account: https://www.dompajak.com/bbcmicrobot.html ...encoding and decoding (to learn from

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