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by dmm 12y ago
I work all day on a 30Hz 4k tv. It works for viewing lots of text buffers.
902.
by dmm 12y ago
Is it for security reasons? I know that OpenBSD uses PIEs so that the runtime can randomized address space locations.
903.
by dmm 12y ago
Google directly funds the Mozilla foundation with about 300 million USD per year. If Google wanted to see firefox fall they have a very direct way of achieving it.
904.
by dmm 12y ago
He's describing a powerpc mac that literally cannot run anything newer than 10.4
905.
by dmm 12y ago
As of at least summer 2013 Sprint no longer offers public ips with new phones. It's all carrier-grade NAT. T-Mobile is the same but they provide ipv6, though with just a single ipv6 address which doesn't make any sense. I'm n
906.
by dmm 12y ago
One of the definitions of stay is to stop something. So "I can't stay sleep." means "I can't stop sleep". Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet: V, iii: "..But he which bore my letter, Friar John, Was stay'd
907.
by dmm 12y ago
systemd offers great features but they all come as a part of the same giant ball of mud. Look at what happened to udev. In 2012 the udev codebase was added to the systemd source tree. At the time it was promised that using udev separately w
908.
by dmm 12y ago
Sorry for disappearing for a couple days. I'm well aware of Stallman's subtle and well developed stance with respect to human freedom and software, art, and documentation and I think it's perfectly consistent and reasonable.
909.
by dmm 12y ago
Thalidomide was very effective in treating morning sickness, it "just" wasn't safe. Why does the danger of thalidomide justify giving the FDA extensive powers to regulate the effectiveness of treatments?
910.
by dmm 12y ago
The Debian project believes things like art and sound files and documentation are software. The FSF does not.
911.
by dmm 12y ago
It was used as a form of misdirection, a way to change the subject when someone brought up stalin's genocide.
912.
by dmm 12y ago
Keep in mind that cash has costs too. It has to be counted and secured. You have to hire a security company to pick up deposits and most banks charge for cash deposits over a certain amount.
913.
by dmm 12y ago
Criticism of the US for segregation was a common tactic used in Soviet propaganda.
914.
by dmm 12y ago
Get a ham radio license and you'll have access to lots of spectrum and the ability to use higher power levels, for non-commercial use.
915.
by dmm 12y ago
HN automatically strips certain words from titles. Sometimes it messes up the titles a bit. The word here was probably "Top".
916.
by dmm 12y ago
If they include work derivative of a GPLed work they don't have to change the license. The license just has to be compatible and redistribution has to conform to the requirements of the GPL. This distinction is important because someon
917.
by dmm 12y ago
They charge for things that impose costs on them: hosting revocation info and higher levels of identity verification.
918.
by dmm 12y ago
There is a reasonable debate surrounding whether an execution is more expensive than simply incarcerating for life, mostly because of the numerous appeals involved with a death sentence. I have no opinion regarding capital punishment.
919.
by dmm 12y ago
I think I get what you're saying. The continent of Africa contains more human (genetic) diversity than the rest of the world combined, yet almost everyone from it would be classified as "Black".
920.
by dmm 12y ago
Labels and comments go a long way to making an assembly project readable. I don't know how an automatic tool could interpret the human intention behind a label.
921.
by dmm 12y ago
Not truly zilog z80. The GB processor lack the IX/IY registers and associated addressing modes of the z80 and it added a few instructions. It's closer to the i8080. The GB did use the z80 assembler syntax (thankfully!).
922.
by dmm 12y ago
That sounds like what Nvidia's G-Sync does. A in-monitor computer buffers frames and displays them at a rate specified by the computer. http://www.anandtech.com/show/7436/nvidias-gsync-attempting-...
923.
by dmm 12y ago
If you flash the 39" with the 50" firmware you get true 120Hz at 1080p. It also changes the scaling to a simple 1 pixel to 4. Anybody considering the Seiki should know that it uses an unusual pixel format, BGR. So to get subpixel
924.
by dmm 12y ago
> No, they do have an obligation to protect the public in general. I see your point but I think it's a pretty arbitrary one. Have a police force every been held legally accountable for failing to protect the public? The case law tha
925.
by dmm 12y ago
I completely agree. It is every individual's responsibility to protect themselves. The police have no obligation to protect the public.
926.
by dmm 12y ago
Actually there are many cases where the police completely ignore calls for help and courts have found that police have absolutely no responsibility to protect individuals. The police do however love opportunities to justify large expenditur
927.
by dmm 12y ago
Here's a good example: http://slashdot.org/story/06/11/09/1534204/slashdot-posting-... Slashdot got over 16,777,216 comments overflowing a MySQL mediumint they were using for an index.
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by dmm 12y ago
emacs also has a hex editor built in called hexl mode. To use it just use C-x C-f to open a file and then use M-x hexl-mode. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ed...
929.
by dmm 12y ago
What kind of bugs appear with bigger default page sizes?
930.
by dmm 13y ago
That's what I thought but then the article says this: """ The Y has been stable for the past 25 million years, scientists say. And a major reason is that many of its remaining genes are crucial to the survival of all hum

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