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by controversial97 4y ago
https://archive.ph/tmM8A
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by controversial97 4y ago
https://archive.ph/qZle6
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by controversial97 4y ago
Declining human population is a good thing.
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by controversial97 4y ago
Six years after the 100MB zip drive became available was too little too late. The year 2000 was also the point where USB had become established as the most convenient way to connect removable storage to a PC.
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by controversial97 4y ago
As I understand it, flutter is a toolkit for making smartphone apps that does a huge amount of work to make it possible to develop one pile of source code and have the app run the same on both iphone and android. I'm told that flutter
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by controversial97 4y ago
https://archive.ph/MQiaq As a more accurate title I suggest, "Fear made John McAfee rich, impetuous behaviour and paranoia caused by use of illegal drugs ruined him."
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by controversial97 4y ago
Also, office buildings that are more than a few floors tall usually have sprinkler systems. Dividing an open plan office into lots of rooms is an expensive nightmare of adding and moving air conditioning ducts and outlets, fire detection se
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by controversial97 4y ago
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/deployment/dep73069dd5... "Automated Device Enrolment lets organisations configure and manage devices from the moment the devices are removed from the box."
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by controversial97 4y ago
In lots of places in the USA zoning laws prohibit agriculture in urban areas where an office building is likely to be located. Growing plants in an office building may not be permitted.
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by controversial97 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law
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by controversial97 4y ago
Ugh, this reminds me of the years 2002 to 2008 when some people would install codec packs downloaded from dubious websites on their windows machines. I'm sure there was lots of malware. From about 2008 the advice became "VLC playe
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by controversial97 4y ago
I think you are asking "How can I set up a cryptocurrency exchange?" It depends on what legal jurisdiction you want to operate in. You will need expensive lawyers to explain the local laws. It takes great effort to not get defraud
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by controversial97 4y ago
https://archive.ph/OnfxZ This article has some interesting details about regulation.
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by controversial97 4y ago
Consult an employment lawyer.
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by controversial97 4y ago
https://archive.ph/qPlJs "Masayoshi Son lamented that his entrepreneurial knack would be wasted as SoftBank shifted to a full defensive mode to cut losses" That is an astounding claim from a person who has lost $1
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by controversial97 4y ago
If you don't create a Microsoft account then there is a potential pitfall: These days when you buy a new laptop from one of the big manufacturers it is fairly common for it to have the harddrive encrypted with bitlocker. If you don&#x2
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by controversial97 4y ago
This reminds me of Chris Tarnovski criticizing some microcontroller designs because the buses run all over the die, rather than being gated by a central multiplexor, and that much capacitance and logic inputs to drive being limiting the max
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by controversial97 4y ago
ICANN charges a $25000 per year maintenance fee for Top Level Domains so a few unpopular TLD's have gone out of business and ceased existing over the years. Anyone can apply to own a TLD, the application fee is about $180,000, but you
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by controversial97 4y ago
What is a "DeFi aggregation platform" ?
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by controversial97 4y ago
Is there an output from the instruction decoder that indicates an instruction is doing io? or maybe one for read and one for write?
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by controversial97 4y ago
As I understand it, the 8086 has a separate address space for io. As in, memory address $3f8 is just a RAM location and not the same thing as the base register of the COM1 serial port. This is unlike 1980's home computers that use a 65
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by controversial97 4y ago
This reminds me of the Chipknip card system in the Netherlands that was launched in the year 1995 and shut down in 2015. Chipknip allowed offline transfers, money could be moved from one card to another without contacting a payment processo
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by controversial97 4y ago
So, as I understand it, the background to this: Redhat earns billions by selling downloads and support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Centos was a highly compatible equivalent of RHEL, available without any hassle. Redhat then decided that Ce
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by controversial97 4y ago
Yet another article based on the Chinese academic paper from a couple of months ago. The "on borrowed time" claim is very very far from reality.
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by controversial97 4y ago
A common one is an event organiser using Paypal and having the account frozen.
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by controversial97 4y ago
I read this website. It does not define goals for the project in any meaningful or assessable way. There is nothing resembling useful software or source code. There is a pile of buzzwords and platitudes. "Token holdings", "ar
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by controversial97 4y ago
Mostly emulations Manic Miner for the ZX spectrum, released 39 years ago Keys: Q W and space http://torinak.com/qaop#!manicminer Chuckie egg, Keys: space to jump AZ up/down ,. left right https://bbcmicro.co.
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by controversial97 4y ago
I think you are talking about typing with all your fingers. In my opinion, all that matters is that you look at the screen while typing, not at the keyboard.
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by controversial97 4y ago
Minix, if you want to compile text-mode programs as if you were batch processing the month-end invoices on a minicomputer in the year 1983. OpenVMS, if you want to resurrect some actual software that was used to do scientific calculations o
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by controversial97 4y ago
This needs a proper description of what it does. With golang 1.19, for me it builds an executable which gives "error 117" and exits.

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