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by cnvogel 11y ago
Its part of the hardware (emulated by qemu). A VGA card (or any other text mode capable video adapter) will use either a portion of ROM or some part of video memory to hold the font from where its accessed simultaneously to the beam drawing
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by cnvogel 11y ago
Given that there are 4 possible places between fingers where to put a separation (2⁴), two hands (⨯2), and each finger could be extended or bent (⨯2⁵) and the hand could be shown from front or back (⨯2), I'm actually quite amazed that
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by cnvogel 11y ago
The Unicode Standard, Version 7.0 Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs -- Range: 1F300–1F5FF http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-7.0/U70-1F300.pdf Chart Page 4 at Codepoint 0x1f595 Description on Page 14:
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by cnvogel 11y ago
Dann, tried to play it but my homemade multi system joystick to USB adapter went bust. Any recommendations on a ready made adapter easily procurable on Europe/Germany?
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by cnvogel 11y ago
Of course you could put a small internet connected embedded box to your clients place... (maybe even a commercial terminal server, if you trust the security of it) and directly emulate the whole modem+POTS line.
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by cnvogel 11y ago
Yes, but on the other hand it's a good reminder for everyone processing user provided files to sanity check or convert them to a canonical format in a sandboxes and resource limited process.
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by cnvogel 11y ago
As late as 2008 or so, when leaving university, there was still a PC running DOS for it's pulse height analyzer card for spectroscopy. Same thing: still works, and the pain to use it is not bad enough to warrant the $10k or whatever it
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by cnvogel 11y ago
Even .format() is quite redundant for the "standard" usage, as we had string interpolation using '%' with dicts for a long time. '%s blah blah blah %s' % (x, y) '{x} blah blah blah {y}'.form
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by cnvogel 11y ago
Mister systembrigger, I can assure you that there's no problem with bugs... (for anyone who has not seen the movie:) http://writelephant.com/2015/06/26/typo/
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by cnvogel 11y ago
The submitter might have been triggered to look the topic up on Wikipedia by the most recent (Aug 10, 2015) installment on Ben Krasnow's Applied Science videos: Learn how magneto-optical storage discs work, and see how a focused laser
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by cnvogel 11y ago
I think the idea of a "jule thief" basically is a extremely low power boost converter to run a LED as a nightlight on the remaining few % of an otherwise depleted battery. A standard switching power converter wouldn't be call
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by cnvogel 11y ago
I really like watching his videos, but frankly they often lack depth. Take for example the series of videos about the "Batteriser". Three videos, hours of footage, and the same facts repeated all over again. He very often mentions
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by cnvogel 11y ago
I really salute your diligent testing and the thought you've put into it, most people won't do that much. Then again, I also don't want to scare you by suggesting that your solution might burn down the house and kill the dog,
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by cnvogel 11y ago
While I found the article quite interesting, the stuff he writes about his electrical work makes me think that he shouldn't really do electrical work in the first place: <quote> But when you are pumping 30 AMPS of current through
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by cnvogel 11y ago
Being in control of so much of your hardware of course some hardwired logic could be included e.g. in the keyboard matrix that would make some physical interaction necessary during firmware upgrades, but not require a hidden button. Nevert
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by cnvogel 11y ago
The hypervisor on EC2 will (or rather: it can, and I assume it will) block your virtualized Kernel (running on Ring-0) from messing with the APIC. This (running a hypervisor) is one of the possible mitigations for the sinkhole-exploit.
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by cnvogel 11y ago
I've used them to build a serialization/deserialization library for a proprietary protocol. To cut down on needless boilerplate I had the metaclass build setter/getter/en- and decoders from a static member variable. Insp
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by cnvogel 11y ago
I played 15 names, and 13 of them where non-porn. Was this just by chance or is the repository that biased towards agencies? Maybe the creator did not find enough porn on the internet? :-)
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by cnvogel 11y ago
There's no special "low level feature" when your keyboard hangs off a serial bus (as did pm keyboards from the start. XT, AT, PS/2, USB...) As far as I know also C-A-Del was just the default in the original bios keyboard
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by cnvogel 11y ago
> What's the point of equality then if we're still so different? Because we should be able to happily enjoy our differences in one area (gender), and still not be judged in our ability to perform something completely unrelated
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by cnvogel 11y ago
[Link to the ActiveState Example] http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/3.3/pywin32/html/co...
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by cnvogel 11y ago
> users accessing the file and locking it I'd say that having such a file on a network location accessible by your users is a pretty bad idea. As always, a proper develop/test/release process should be in place, otherwise
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by cnvogel 11y ago
I think Joel Spolsky (?) is often quoted by saying that the easiest way to parse ms office file formats is to just install it on a server and use the documented API to Word, Excel,... I used this approach regularly about 4 years ago in my p
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by cnvogel 11y ago
I think that's pretty sound advice, and different from "drcross" I don't think you'd have told Mark Zuckerbert that his company is not facebook ;-). On a more serious note: I'd say that from within a startup it
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by cnvogel 11y ago
For completeness: https://tfl.gov.uk/fares-and-payments/contactless/other-meth... ---- QUOTE ---- Always use the same device If you use Apple Pay on more than one device, for instance when the same payment card is
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by cnvogel 11y ago
> It may be the reason, but that reason is > still incredibly stupid. Sometimes there are stupid reasons, but sometimes even reasons which are incredibly stupid from a technical standpoint make sense in a broader context. For a short-
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by cnvogel 11y ago
I've seen those "abs(fp_number)<some_tiny_value" in front of divisions, because people fear that the division will "blow up" in some way if a zero or sufficiently small number is passed to it. if (abs(q) &g
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by cnvogel 11y ago
> And in both, it is for what amounts to the same > mathematical issues: to avoid discontinuities, in > either the function or its derivatives, that give > rise to undesirable artifacts. My guess is that wi
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by cnvogel 11y ago
I really don't get his points. > Even if the google servers dont provide time that > is correct, its good enough to run testcases again. > Products however of course shouldnt use it. So, it seems that he wants
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by cnvogel 11y ago
Part of if might be a constant offset/day. 26 seconds over 43 years (1972-2015) is 0.60 seconds/year. If this matches the average offset from 1820...1972 (which would add up to about 92 seconds), it means that our average is wrong

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