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by daneel_w 3y ago
My opinion from having written so much in all kinds of BASICs back then is that it is convenience more than unlocking doors. Learning, for example, the two memory addresses to POKE to on the C-64 to move the cursor to a fixed position is a
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by daneel_w 3y ago
C-64 BASIC V2 has all of the same important fundamentals that other BASICs of that era had. What mainly set it aside was the lack of dedicated graphical functions. What was available on the other home computers was on one hand too slow (or
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Somewhat related trivia: Sid Meier's Pirates! for the Commodore 64 is written mostly in BASIC, coupled with assembly for parts requiring snappier performance (for example the full-screen scrolling while sailing).
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by daneel_w 3y ago
I did the same for a while when I was young, and it definitely reduced the build-up of odour after exercise and sports. The flip side was that I lost a lot of "wicking" ability and consequently had ridiculously large wet spots und
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by daneel_w 3y ago
It's remarkable how I manage to get none of that on my body besides on the head and under my arms, and practically none on my clothes. My sweaty t-shirts build up smell only under the arms.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Anecdotally, sweat starts to smell after it has soaked for a bit in bodily hair. The sweat on my forehead, back and chest never smells of anything, but the sweat on my scalp and in my armpits does. My theory is that the smell develops from
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by daneel_w 3y ago
A little bit, because I'm the only engineer in my position.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
As someone else suggested, I've been thinking about uninstalling Slack during holidays. But in lieu of another employee to share my responsibilities with, any potential problem grows the longer it takes before I'm aware of it.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Something in-between. I'm the only engineer in my position. The fear is an unnoticed fire. A lot of things are monitored but a few things still require someone to take a quick glance at them at least once a day.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
And for a short spell I don't have to feel strangely guilty over not checking up on work during my vacation. Sigh...
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by daneel_w 3y ago
This is why I'm emphasizing MOS 6502. I'm well-familiar with the most popular alternative, WDC's 65C02, where all of the undocumented opcodes execute as NOP with no changes to internal registers/flags or to memory, but
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Undocumented is a better term for the MOS 6502 in my opinion, because these opcodes aren't invalid, they can't be trapped and they don't throw an exception.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
The latter. The instructions aren't disabled in the MOS 6502, but their function is unplanned and hence undocumented which is a better term.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
The stable ones are thoroughly used in C-64 software these days. A more detailed matrix with extra information can be found here: http://www.oxyron.de/html/opcodes02.html
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Remember that the first disk device in the hardware tree (sd0 or wd0) might not be the disk you're actually booting from. Take a peek in your dmesg output first before installing new bootblocks to be sure you'll be getting the new
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by daneel_w 3y ago
I've been using 7.0.x for over half a year, currently on 7.0.8, on a Windows host. Most of my guests were installed during 6.x and have continued to run fine on 7.0.x, and new guests made in 7.0.x run and behave normally. No problems o
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by daneel_w 3y ago
>"Really no idea why it insists on splitting it into 5 partitions when just a seperate /usr/local mounted with the wxallowed flag is mostly fine." Because OpenBSD recommends having nosuid on everything that isn&#x27
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by daneel_w 3y ago
For me it was the other way around. In 2000/2001 I had zero experience with anything *nix apart from a couple of failures to get anything Linux to run, but on the first try with OpenBSD I managed to get it up and running in no time. I&
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Electrolytic capacitors: overview, teardown and experiments [video](youtube.com)
78 points by daneel_w 3y ago|14 comments
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by daneel_w 3y ago
First off, if you download content from an inofficial source you are not exercising your right to make private copies. See my previous response in this thread. What you ask for is right at the start of the document in the second link.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
>"as Debian have proven themselves (per the article) entirely amenable to retaining the ability to run without systemd" There's obviously more to this (and to Devuan) than just uninstalling systemd and installing sysvini
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Devuan ( https://www.devuan.org/ ) is a fork of Debian with the specific aim of removing systemd, as an alternative.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
The distinction is that of the piece being a "publically published work", which in Swedish law means the source as provided in official capacity - e.g. a CD/DVD/BluRay original, a radio/TV broadcast, or the author&#
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by daneel_w 3y ago
You are plain wrong about Swedish law. I cannot state it any clearer: copying for private use is entirely legal for us , for both audio and video content, whether copied from broadcast, Internet or physical medium.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
> "In Switzerland though copying for personal use is legal - not so in Scandinavian countries" In Sweden it's legal. "Copying for private use" is excempt, and "private use" of such copy includes in th
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Same in Sweden. Nobody really feels guilty over doing it, and nobody judges others for doing it, because the laws permitting private copying blur the lines so to speak. But that said, by my feeling most Swedes would agree that running an ac
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by daneel_w 3y ago
The fee also covers making (private use) copies of content you don't own. It's the reason the fees were instated in the 80s - when people began recording songs on the radio instead of buying the artists' tapes at the record
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by daneel_w 3y ago
> "Has an individual in Sweden ever been taken to court over sharing movies with others online? How did that go?" Yes, a handful of times. It almost always ends bad for the pirate, because sharing like that is not private co
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by daneel_w 3y ago
No idea, I've never seen any actual accounting from Copyswede (nor the record companies) of how they split the 150+ million SEK collected annually. But Swedish artists, by their own accounts, aren't getting anything.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
The law states that it's for "lost sales" originating from e.g. recording songs aired on radio instead of buying the tape/CD. "Piracy for private use".

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