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by chasil 6mo ago
Maybe try copper sulphate? https://crystalverse.com/best-way-to-grow-copper-sulfate-cry... Crystal growth has been on here before. Let me see if I can find a link or two... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by chasil 6mo ago
Compaq notably did this correctly. https://wiki.softhistory.org/wiki/Compaq_BIOS
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by chasil 6mo ago
Bearing in mind that Jobs famously intended to "knife the baby," referring to the cash flow from the 6502 machines, it is ironic that he fought to stop this clone. I remember this phrase from a stage play, The Agony and the Ecsta
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by chasil 6mo ago
On Lineage Android, i see: Settings / Notifications / Notification History. If you drop a settings widget on your home screen, it will let you choose a specific area, including notifications. I don't know if the output is the
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by chasil 6mo ago
First, a critical setting for Signal users: "Signal’s settings include an option that prevents the actual message content from being previewed in notifications. However, it appears the defendant did not have that setting enabled, which
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by chasil 6mo ago
The complete crack of Deere's firmware in 2022 must have had some impact on this. https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/16/john_deere_doom/ Edit: 'Sick Codes confirmed that he believes John Deere
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by chasil 6mo ago
https://archive.ph/JBthm
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by chasil 6mo ago
Alas, I never had access to any of the Next environments, until PPC MacOS. I did hold a copy in my hands for 486-class machines in the college bookstore.
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by chasil 6mo ago
AIX is still supported and sold, so quite current? Some that I used that are gone... Ultrix (MIPS), Clix, Irix, SunOS 4, SCO OpenServer, TI System V. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrix https://en.wikipedia
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by chasil 6mo ago
You might consider taking the database(s) out of WAL mode during a migration. That would eliminate the need for shared memory.
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by chasil 6mo ago
This is the actual problem: "Kamal runs blue-green deploys — it starts a new container, health-checks it, then stops the old one. During the switchover, both containers are running. Both mount ultrathink_storage. Both have the SQLite f
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by chasil 6mo ago
It's fine if you run the equivalent of "init 1" first. Does your OS have a single-user mode?
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by chasil 6mo ago
The POSIX standard manual pages for the utilities can be found here: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/idx/xcu.htm... These would all be in section 1, if I am correct.
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by chasil 7mo ago
It is possible to install a handler for most signals, and that handler can be configured to ignore the signal. Signal 9 cannot be ignored.
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by chasil 7mo ago
HUP is usually sent to daemons to instruct them to reinitialize and reread their configuration files. Is it still passed when a terminal is disconnected? I understand a dial-up modem was involved in the original intended use.
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by chasil 7mo ago
VMS also uses type to dump a file to stdout. I understand that DEC TOPS 20 influenced CP/M and MS-DOS, so that could be the source for type . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPS-20 Edit: type has its own wiki,
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by chasil 7mo ago
I am surprised that the s-process plays no role in the formation of gold.
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by chasil 7mo ago
Can we name them The Dinochrome Brigade ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo:_Annals_of_the_Dinochrome...
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by chasil 7mo ago
Oyster mushrooms are known predators of nematodes. They are not mentioned in the above wiki, but their own confirms that they exploit toxins to capture and feed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurotus
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by chasil 7mo ago
This is a very short comment on SQL Server's code improvements (post-Sybase). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18464429 The top comment in the post is a long complaint about the code quality of the Oracle database
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by chasil 7mo ago
There are three different Db2 databases. I believe the mainframe version was first. There is a version baked into the os/400 operating system (i series). Then unix/windows Db2 came last, if memory serves. https://en.wik
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by chasil 7mo ago
"For how it works in practice: by default, text ads will remain visible on our default search partner’s page - currently Startpage. The idea is that this is what will keep the lights on." The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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by chasil 7mo ago
Does the pollination vastly increase the disease vector exposure, both for the contracted hive and all the insects near it?
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by chasil 7mo ago
In Linux, this is done with inotify. Path units in systemd present inotify, but their use is somewhat constrained. The incron utility is more flexible.
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by chasil 7mo ago
Those ships have literally sailed, centuries ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange
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by chasil 7mo ago
The last time that I checked, XV was still in the OpenBSD ports collection. It fits well with fvwm. I actually bought a license for XV, and I have the manual.
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by chasil 7mo ago
Very true, Bob Colwell was hired with past experience in this, I think from "Cyndrome" (edit: Multiflow). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38459128
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by chasil 7mo ago
If I am correct, the Pentium Pro was the first "out of order" design. It specialized in 32-bit code, and did not handle 16-bit code very well. The original Pentium I believe introduced a second pipeline that required a compiler to
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by chasil 7mo ago
A much larger base for ksh (as a pdksh descendent) is Android. OpenBSD is a tiny community in comparison, although Android has acquired code directly from OpenBSD, notably the C library. The vi editing mode is always present in ksh, but is
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by chasil 7mo ago
The oil products are needed by many industrial processes. My secret suspicion is that Trump knew of Israel's attack on the Qatar/Iran natural gas in advance. If the Persian Gulf is closed for a long period, shale oil in North Amer

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