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by cduzz 3y ago
I worked as a relay operator that summer -- AT&T had a TTY terminal and a billing terminal and me in between; I'd get phone calls from someone with a TTY/TDD (typically a person "hard of hearing") and a person withou
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by cduzz 3y ago
What's the process for steaming a patch of soil? It seems like running a mobile autoclave would be really good at killing everything in the soil, which is probably both good (gets rid of the weeds) and bad (kills everything). Are ther
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by cduzz 3y ago
In my youth I'd endlessly try to optimize things. You should see my fvwm setup. "Chef's kiss" perfection. Regarding 2 keyboards -- mostly it just works. Try it. If you're like me you probably have a stack of ran
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by cduzz 3y ago
Regarding the astonishing flexibility of USB -- I've got a 1994 vintage keyboard / mouse combo (lexmark/IBM M4-1, compact keyboard + trackpoint) -- I use it regularly using a USB to PS/2 adapter connected to a kvm switch
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by cduzz 3y ago
I've found that the best "split" keyboard is simply to use two decent keyboards on the same computer. When I am in a situation where I'm doing tons of typing (not that often anymore) I'll have the two keyboards a
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by cduzz 3y ago
The whole point of the 737 max was that the pilots wouldn't be trained on the "max" part of the 737 -- they were qualified for the 737 and there's some hidden emulator making the "max" fly like a 737. As soon a
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by cduzz 3y ago
I've tried a couple times to coerce my kids into watching Koyaanisqatsi (one of them really likes watching "the way things go" so it isn't an absurd reach). I keep landing on that video rather than the "proper"
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by cduzz 3y ago
There are a huge variety of things you can do in shell that you simply shouldn't. If you're adventuring into a world where it matters if there's a newline at the end of your output as a result of your script running on noodl
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by cduzz 3y ago
I have to take exception to some of this; it's "technically correct" but like much of shell, likely full of terrifying edge cases that are best avoided. For instance, using eval to have variables with variable names is madnes
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by cduzz 3y ago
The base license seems like an MIT style license; with the comment that 'things in an ee/ directory are goverend by the license in that directory' -- so Amazon will just rewrite only that functionality when / if they dec
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by cduzz 3y ago
I've suspected; have no evidence to back this up, that "plan9" is a play on the roman numerals IX (9) at the end of "UN IX" and also that "research unix" never had a 9th or 10th version fully developed and
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by cduzz 3y ago
I wonder if mentioning "Kibo"[1] will summon him as it did in the days before the endless summer? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Parry
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by cduzz 4y ago
Right -- microwaving the ground is just moving the energy, which may or may not actually be efficient. On the face of it it seems silly, but so does making a rocket out of water towers and landing it on it's ass on the moon, so I&#x27
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by cduzz 4y ago
Even things like electricity and water, which move pretty well, have "place value" -- people commonly move water from place to place by growing grain with the water and then moving the grain (not the water) to places that don&#x27
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by cduzz 4y ago
Each step took some part of a weekend; there were typically several months between each step State: 1970s house weirdly full of pre-1970s outlets (probably using whatever the builder could get on the cheap). "Basement" bedrooms h
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by cduzz 4y ago
I had an AFCI breaker constantly tripping when put under load. I went through and replaced every receptacle in the circuit (everything in the house is nasty stuff from the 1950s). Still tripped constantly. Opened up every box going back to
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by cduzz 4y ago
Is there a windows equivalent of "chmod 0000 /file/to/be/made/unavailable" ? Even that seems pretty brutal but at least it's easily reversible if you discover that "oh I needed that to download
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by cduzz 4y ago
This is the classic Sutherland "wheel of reincarnation" cycle -- a function (commonly graphics acceleration or network connectivity) will be provided by the CPU, which is found to be a bottleneck so the function is offloaded to a
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by cduzz 4y ago
I've got a pile of legacy hardware in the basement that's all in some way tedious to try to use. One of my sons watches "speed running" videos that spend endless amounts of time discussing how mario jumps here or there t
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by cduzz 4y ago
A mainframe style system is a couple of things that the x86 ecosystem is only recently started to get. Some of these (not every "mainframe" had every feature in this list) * nested virtualization -- anything can run inside anythi
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by cduzz 4y ago
I think it's astonishing the thing continued to fly after having parts of it explode and random engines seemed to shut off. With the energies and margins involved staying in one piece through a failure is both amazing and critically im
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by cduzz 4y ago
This highlights the importance of SOPs, training, checklists etc. What's the value of a unit-less fuel gauge? Why not a warning light or two per tank and / or a calibrated fuel gauge? If you want to move the fuel hoses out of the
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by cduzz 4y ago
The executive in charge of that strategy, by then, will have moved on to Google. Also, likely microsoft has realized there's zero long term revenue in operating systems -- you'll have been forced to move all your data to their Off
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by cduzz 4y ago
Desirable to who ? Windows 11 users are the product not the _customer_ You, a windows 11 licensee, are a captive market for microsoft to sell your eyeballs to advertisers. "I am going to sell clicks to advertisers and the cost of
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by cduzz 4y ago
Microsoft clearly has zero interest in the idiots who buy retail licenses, especially home licenses. They'll cash your check, but they're not going to pay any attention to your opinions. You're trapped in their ecosystem
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by cduzz 4y ago
I'll try to be clear here: Microsoft is selling your eyeballs to advertisers: You are the product not the customer. Vendors are buying windows from Microsoft and installing it onto a computer and selling that computer to you. You
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by cduzz 4y ago
If you buy a car from a dealership, then yes indeed you are "less" of a customer of the manufacturer. Consider this relationship: Toyota makes a car to the specifications of general motors, who brands the car as a "Pontiac Vi
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by cduzz 4y ago
Please define "Customer" in this context? There are several parties at this party. One is the person who bought a computer with an operating system on it; possibly they even paid for the operating system itself, though more likel
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by cduzz 4y ago
Everything back then was a bit buggy. I had an old ISA bus 386/486ish thing with linux on it. I was so excited when I got it to run X and I could connect to my other computer and set the DISPLAY and run programs here or there and have
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by cduzz 4y ago
Actually, I'd wager that the most dangerous animals in north america are deer and dogs. Deer because they are constantly walking in front of cars and dogs because they're everywhere and bite people. The deer / car encounter

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