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by dcminter 2y ago
Re your last note (which is hilarious) I was hugely amused to discover that many Americans reading in Potter about Filch "punting" the kids across the temporary swamp assumed he was kicking them over rather than using a flat botto
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by dcminter 2y ago
I use Google's Authenticator for this - you should be fine with that. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credenti...
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by dcminter 2y ago
I have a 7490 that I adore - upgraded ram to 64G and it runs very nicely. The speaker volume being a bit low is the only negative I'd mention.
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Meta Deleting Noyb Posts
4 points by dcminter 2y ago|0 comments
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Rust needs a web framework(ntietz.com)
252 points by dcminter 2y ago|382 comments
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by dcminter 2y ago
Typos/omissions fixed and a few more pics/notes added.
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by dcminter 2y ago
Thanks for the performance tips, but oddly (?) it's quite bearable as-is. While it does take about 20 seconds to get from just-logged-in to clean start Firefox, it's completely fine once it's running. I guess 12G is still a r
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by dcminter 2y ago
Bench machine makes sense. I have a very locked down MacBook for work and I don't much like macOS - a little Linux machine for my personal stuff that takes up almost no space on office days seems very appealing. I'll see how that
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by dcminter 2y ago
Not exactly, but they had Kip Thorne as their science advisor and Wheeler was his Phd supervisor!
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by dcminter 2y ago
> For example, they know if the submission was from party A, it must be type X. Ha! As far as I remember it was almost exactly this when we interrogated them (but it's been a while).
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by dcminter 2y ago
Nice, I'll link that later as well - the gsettings trick would have been great the first time I installed (trying to rotate the screen via tab and arrow keys was painful!) I saw Jeff Geerling had a neat RISC-V machine with exactly the
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by dcminter 2y ago
A few typos and omissions that I'll correct later: I ended up running it with a 512G micro SD card (not an SSD as I mis-state once) It has a micro-HDMI port and runs fine in dual screen mode. One of the pics is with the heatsink (not j
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Palmtop 2024(paperstack.com)
16 points by dcminter 2y ago|8 comments
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by dcminter 2y ago
I recall a spec doc from a domain expert that said something like: "The transaction consists of a credit stub and a debit stub. If the debit stub is missing and is of type X then we do A and if it is of type Y then we do B." How t
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by dcminter 2y ago
If posts make HN a less interesting place to converse I don't see why humans should get a pass & I don't see anything in the guidelines to support that view either.
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by dcminter 2y ago
A human aggressively taking a particular line and a bot doing so may be equivalent; do we need to differentiate there?
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by dcminter 2y ago
I thought this was mildly interesting; I'd never heard of them but they popped up in a Facebook post about a retired PDP-11 system from a theatre and the term caught my eye! Presumably the "strong smell" was chlorine!?
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Salt Water Dimmers(en.wikipedia.org)
85 points by dcminter 2y ago|67 comments
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by dcminter 2y ago
I'm fascinated by the early PDP-11 range - and if I saw one readily available, reasonably priced, and close at hand (shipping is not trivial for those machines) then I don't know if I'm actually competent enough to handle a m
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by dcminter 2y ago
Firstly - is it really true that this is the main focus? I see a bunch of interest in the beige box era PCs as well. Assuming it's true, though, then I would imagine there are several contributing factors: The 80s is when computing arr
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by dcminter 2y ago
It may be a handy mnemonic, but it's not the etymology (you may know this, but I can't resist the pedantic opportunity!) It comes from Swift's satire about egg eaters. The end in question was the small or large end of the egg
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by dcminter 2y ago
Why are you confident that such a need exists? I've seen no sign of it.
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by dcminter 2y ago
This lost me at "goes against modern design principles" without citing what principle(s) the author had in mind that would proscribe it.
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Unix history and the `dc` calculator(howdytx.technology)
71 points by dcminter 2y ago|57 comments
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by dcminter 2y ago
I like how it's expressed in Dirk Gently - "Schrödinger's Cat isn't a real experiment. It's just an illustration for arguing about the idea [...] Schrödinger put forward this idea to illustrate what he thought
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The Annotated Alice(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by dcminter 2y ago|0 comments
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by dcminter 2y ago
At last I understand how Google's messaging product strategy went so far off the rails...
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by dcminter 2y ago
Hitting things ;) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peening I dimly recall making an ashtray (hmmm, not sure that would fly these days) in high school metalwork class by beating out a piece of copper sheet with the peen
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Pedants (1999)(douglasadams.com)
7 points by dcminter 2y ago|0 comments
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by dcminter 2y ago
A while ago I needed some info about a document for tax reasons. When I called in to the UK tax office line a robot voice required me to name the department that I wanted to talk to. I didn't know which this was and it wasn't on t

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