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by effdee 2y ago
> This old device should support pulse tone dialing, but it did not work with mine. Might be the custom firmware, might be AVM dropping support in later versions, I'm not sure. The timings of the phone's rotaty dial might be of
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by effdee 2y ago
This pairs quite well with &tbs=li:1 ("Verbatim" search).
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by effdee 2y ago
https://archive.is/hmvEh
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Looking into an apparently scammy looking zsh plugin manager called “zi”(recurse.social)
180 points by effdee 2y ago|40 comments
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by effdee 3y ago
Someone should probably mention the US National Helium Reserve[0]. Voilà. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve
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by effdee 3y ago
> What is the "Archive" icon even supposed to depict? It looks like a labelled archive box to me. < https://www.google.com/search?q=archive+box&tbm=isch >
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by effdee 3y ago
This post (in french) has some more details: https://www.mail-archive.com/frnog@frnog.org/msg72320.html
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by effdee 4y ago
Can't wait for the speedruns.
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by effdee 4y ago
I've been using FreeBSD as a desktop for almost 20 years. Currently running, uhm, CURRENT on an older Thinkpad. Using FreeBSD as a desktop won't be fun unless one enjoys a raw and rather spartanic UNIX experience, I guess.
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by effdee 4y ago
On a technical side: I came to the conclusion that displaying tabs horizontally is, well, stupid. Displaying them vertically is better. Tree Style Tabs for Firefox allows this. It also has hierarchies and folding. Hierarchies allows me to g
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by effdee 5y ago
Lego is pretty high on my list: it's all about composition with reuseable components that have just the right size. Also, the basic interface is stable since 1958.
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by effdee 5y ago
Pressing ga in command mode in Vim displays the ASCII / Unicode value of the character under the cursor.
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by effdee 5y ago
Minutes ago I was wondering about https://play.golang.org/p/9C0puRUstrP (via https://github.com/golang/go/issues/23440 ). Thank you for explaining what's going on there! :) And btw,
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by effdee 11y ago
They did the same in NY City and Washington DC [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_112
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by effdee 12y ago
Note that nobody seems to know the "correct" spelling of Giovanni Paolo Panini's last name. Edit: Looks like he's spelled Panini. "Arisi showed that the spelling Pannini was a corrupted inscription identifying the a
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by effdee 12y ago
I think I've heard this before... "I believe the computer is the most significant tool invented, as it is unique in mechanizing part of the process of learning and understanding, or at least giving us that potential. All other too
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by effdee 12y ago
> 1. Firmware must be properly audited. > 2. Firmware updates must be signed. > 3. We need a mechanism for verifying the integrity of installed firmware. I wonder how many bricked devices (or devices malfunctioning in a creative wa
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by effdee 12y ago
Type-punning via unions is allowed in both C99 [0] and C11. [0] see "ISO/IEC 9899:1999 Technical Corrigendum 3", http://www.open-std.org/Jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1235.pdf
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by effdee 12y ago
🖖
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by effdee 12y ago
Sweet memories... sigh :) There was also a program called ScreenJaeger [1] to grab images from memory. [1] ftp://ftp.de.netbsd.org/aminet/gfx/misc/ScreenJaeger.readme
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by effdee 12y ago
Someone should mention the Marshmallow Experiment [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen...
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by effdee 12y ago
If you like this kind of "architecture" you should definitely visit Rocroi if you ever happen to be in (the north of) France: https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=49.925021,4.520338&spn... edit: Palmanova
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The Convergence of Modern C++ on the Lisp Programming Style(chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com)
97 points by effdee 12y ago|75 comments
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by effdee 13y ago
I think this a bad advice. Trying to ignore Soros is a bit like trying to ignore an earthquake.
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by effdee 13y ago
Gustave Le Bon would certainly agree to this observation since it is the essence of his 1896 book "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind". Staying with physics analogies, this book is like a photon. It is illuminating. Proper abs
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by effdee 13y ago
Maybe the Chinese just wanted to find out whom exactly to thank for getting a bit more than they ordered from Boeing [1]? [1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...
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by effdee 13y ago
"The only useful banking innovation was the invention of the ATM." -- Paul Volcker
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by effdee 13y ago
Australia is out of question. The plane would have been detected by the JORN [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JORN
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by effdee 13y ago
There have also been rumors about Amdocs [1] being kind of the Israeli counterpart. They do billing for telcos (i.e. determine who talked to whom for how long). The list of their customers is quite impressive. [1] http://en.wikip
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by effdee 13y ago
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=467321 Search for "My name is Jesse" and read on...

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