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by crb3 12y ago
In WordStar it's a little more nuanced than that. First, it's properly ^K X, as the ^K prefix subcommands block/file actions, as written by Rob Barnaby into all the WordStar versions starting with CP/M. Second, ^KX as &#
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by crb3 12y ago
Any word on whether / how well that Windows-only IDE performs on WINE in Linux? (Hint to Cypress: that Windows-only thing is a dealbreaker for enough of us that you really should address it.)
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by crb3 13y ago
./configure; make; make believe --john 3:16
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by crb3 13y ago
> King's foes were not ONLY the US intelligence service. ftfy
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by crb3 13y ago
Is this new? It's the pennies algorithm: to roll a d6, flip five pennies, count heads and add 1. I was doing this back in the '90's in Turbo C and (with a zener noise source) 8051 assembly.
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by crb3 13y ago
How conductive? Relatively high-resistance can be worked around for CMOS logic- and MCU-based circuits (mainly high RC constants), but analog that has to be built with high-decade resistances is likely to be noise-prone and flaky, and forge
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by crb3 13y ago
Sounds to me like it's time to hit the Wayback Machine for prior-existence references and instances of your code, just in case.
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by crb3 13y ago
Sounds like the Stasi are sure they've bought themselves a judge.
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by crb3 13y ago
A lot of the old wall warts are "Type 2", which means transformer, rectifier, reservoir capacitor -- no regulation there at all. With light or no load, the output voltage can soar (such as, 18v DC no-load from a nominal 12v DC @
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by crb3 13y ago
In the same spirit, I'd like to suggest that anyone trying this use some sort of jig to hold the disc against the belt rather then try to hold it in place against lateral force with your bare fingers. Source: long-ago experience. Ouch.
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by crb3 13y ago
A belt sander with rough grit should take care of that without damage to device or surroundings. Sand from the top -- that's where the data is, or used to be. For paranoid satisfaction, sand it all the way through.
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by crb3 13y ago
Raspberry Pi, Arduino and their board-level Maker-centric ilk. It's a viable flea-market ecosystem now that everybody already has at least a computer of some sort, so the learning machine doesn't have to be that do-all hub-of-ac
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by crb3 13y ago
Is this leading towards an upwards adjustment of the legal age of majority? I think Tolkien had it right with the hobbits' "tweenies", but the last thing we need to do is set it as law. It takes awhile, once you're final
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by crb3 13y ago
How do we know that that's true? If you were under a gag order, you'd have to say that, right?
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by crb3 13y ago
So "think of the children" trumps "think of the Secret Police"?
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by crb3 13y ago
Climate-change deniers are silly. Our governments have created and sustained a climate of terror for over a decade!
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by crb3 13y ago
(ref photo 1 caption:) FYI, a nibbler would do the board-trimming job better and put less fiberglas in your air.
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by crb3 13y ago
> There's no profit to be made from genocide. There is from imprisonment.
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by crb3 13y ago
Well, I was hoping for a cake that was ohm-made...
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by crb3 13y ago
A coupla years ago I told 'em they could use one candle if they striped it blue, red, black, gold. They didn't get it.
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by crb3 13y ago
No, what I (currently 64) have noticed is a swift reduction in unbroken-focus time. Unlike in my 20's and 30's, I have personal responsibilities, now, y'see. We're not designed to preemptively multitask; I just crash my
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by crb3 14y ago
One obervation: if you're really that adamant about Real Names, you're going to be regarded as just another privacy reaper. I suggest you implement some form of locally-registered aliases if your concern is accountability, because there are
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by crb3 14y ago
So you prefer Slashdot?
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by crb3 14y ago
'Demystifying ourselves' meaning presenting our processes in a comprehensible manner so as to educate the audience? I don't think that'll work, because there are an awful lot of them who have active disinterest in that learning process, a
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by crb3 14y ago
Sounds like a plug for sugared chewing gum.
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by crb3 14y ago
We use an answering machine to screen calls. I put SIT tones (the tones usually followed by a network message such as "we're sorry but the call cannot be completed as dialed" -- google SIT.WAV) at the beginning of our outgoing message. We d
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by crb3 14y ago
Firefox 3.5.6 on Mepis Linux 8.0 here; NoScript permissions open to github and tumbler otherwise I wouldn't see code onscreen fwiw, tnx for feedback
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by crb3 14y ago
Apparently not; sorry.
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by crb3 14y ago
The blog's github interface is annoying: in order to save-to-disk more than just the opening paragraphs in Firefox, I had to bring up Web Developer's View Generated Source function and save the result of that. Not cool for anybody who prefe
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by crb3 15y ago
One important part missing: none of the posted entries are page-savable from a browser. Maybe your corner of the culture doesn't save pages to disk for ready reference, maybe this is a 'get off my lawn' issue, but.. Maybe a 'printable' link

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