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by danachow 5y ago
> Like I said, in American culture, the norm is that if you have the means to make yourself or your family happy, you should do it. That's kind of a bullshit cop-out. Way too vague and general to be a "norm". I make my fam
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by danachow 5y ago
I didn't read the referenced part of RTFA but I'm assuming it is something about swiss-cheese model of accidents. And the example you provided does seem to fit perfectly as the distraction of the filming of the flight crew and the
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by danachow 5y ago
> Instead create a GPU texture that’s backed by a fixed buffer in main memory. Decode into that buffer, unlock it, and draw using the texture. The GPU will do direct memory access over PCIe, avoiding the copy. With a dedicated GPU with i
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by danachow 5y ago
The GP stated that hls makes it harder to download and store videos which is mostly a dubious claim, but even if it were true, in most cases where it’s used this is (if only hypothetically) a benefit since major stream providers generally d
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by danachow 5y ago
Hundreds of Megabytes? That’s a big number to you? Did you step out of a time warp from 1990? Also you are surprisingly quite clueless about basic crypto if you think storage is the biggest issue with practically using one time pads (though
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by danachow 5y ago
Sure it is - food, clothing, architecture, design. What else am I missing? Moreover, when taking this into account how does it change the original post’s point?
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by danachow 5y ago
I think durable goods is a stretch for what is considered the export market of “culture”/creatives - talking appliances aside. Nobody was claiming that these places had no export economy.
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by danachow 5y ago
It was one of the biggest things that put EA on the map in the 90s, and for better or worse EA is one of the most important companies in the game industry. More specifically it was the lift off point for the entire EA Sports division which
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by danachow 5y ago
Electronic Arts.
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by danachow 5y ago
56kbps was the theoretical upper limit download speed (at the expense of upload speed since the maximum duplex bandwidth was 64kbps) for 56k modems. Even in very good conditions these connections rarely broke 50kbps.
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by danachow 5y ago
You are correct, the NT kernel did not allow direct IO access from user space - but there was a commonly used trick of using a small driver (the original one named giveio.sys) that manipulated the IOPL of the TSS through some undocumented k
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by danachow 5y ago
You are not remembering correctly. No flavor of Windows NT (this includes 2000 and XP) gave direct hardware access out of the box. There were a couple of undocumented but well known NT kernel functions to manipulate the task IO permission l
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by danachow 5y ago
> Either it applies to the OS level or it doesn't, micropayments in software are something completely orthogonal and irrelevant to what Spolsky and this thread was talking about one way or the other. You completely miss the point. C
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by danachow 5y ago
It goes back to 3.0 and quite notably did not convey advertising to spend money. It also wasn’t located blatantly in your face in a tiled menu. There’s a very different incentive.
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by danachow 5y ago
Sigh, no it doesn’t. The Spolsky argument was directed mainly about supposed feature creep within applications like Excel and Word. This could apply to the OS level - but it was never used to argue for the inclusion of micropayment shitware
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by danachow 5y ago
Why didn’t the gas stove work?? I mean I have a newer model with electronic ignition, but you can just use a lighter. I’ve never seen a gas stove that wouldn’t work without electricity - and it seems fool hardy to buy one. Gas hot water hea
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by danachow 5y ago
Google is wrong. In BBS terms it very much was modern. First it dates to 1992, so very late in the BBS era - just prior to the point where larger BBSes were starting to offer shell or SLIP/PPP access and inevitably becoming just ISPes.
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by danachow 5y ago
> There were even local toll calls, a number might be in your area code by far enough away you were charged to call. You wouldn't pay long distance rates but it wasn't free. And in the late 80s long distance rates meant somethi
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by danachow 5y ago
Wrong. Read the man page for openat - the main reason for its use is explained and it is not the one you mention, though it is given as a secondary reason. https://linux.die.net/man/2/openat
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by danachow 5y ago
> It'd be like bringing an F1 car to a dirt track and measuring performance against a rally car, and still losing to the F1. Huh?
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by danachow 5y ago
Very rarely in nyc is a horn a fuck you. Often it is a watch out - but probably most often an impassioned but vain plea.
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by danachow 5y ago
Yeah and what I’m saying is that any ARM ISA variations have little to do with anything. Kodi is a C++ application primarily and uses off the shelf compilers. The support issues have more to do with hardware and OS compatibility.
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by danachow 5y ago
Kodi targets low cost ARM SBCs as a first class citizen. ARM is (a family) of instruction sets - for something like a media player it is down near the least important aspect of providing support. Kodi targets a boat load of low cost embedde
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by danachow 5y ago
The world is now filled with not too old cell phones that are operable but will no longer function as 3g and below networks are decommissioned - it was similar when AMPS was decommissioned. The expectation that any old phone turning on modi
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by danachow 5y ago
It’s less than one watt of power - a tiny boost converter and a mosfet is all you need - no transformer or relay necessary - it takes less than a square inch of board space.
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by danachow 5y ago
People claiming that the voltage is an issue have little idea about modern power conversion. It’s doesn’t take much juice to drive the ringer - less than a watt. Any basic ATA will easily drive a ringer.. ever seen a MagicJack? - it’s a com
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by danachow 5y ago
Is there really a law that makes it illegal to display an antique phone that isn’t connected to a phone line? Is a box of old cell phones now to be considered a weapon of mass destruction?
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by danachow 5y ago
The very affordable grandstream ATAs will handle pulse without additional hardware. http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=203...
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by danachow 5y ago
> because the ringer requires a much higher voltage than can be generated by a small computer. I mean that’s not quite true. A magicjack which is basically an ATA is about the size of the Pi Zero and produces ring power. A REN is on the
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by danachow 5y ago
I think you’re totally missing the point of this post. But in many countries including the US, POTS twisted pair landlines are still readily available. And I am surprised that at least some parts of Europe don’t still offer it - isn’t ADSL

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