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by eichin 2y ago
It's a good exercise to open one of these files in hexdump or something to get a feel for what's really going on inside... but yeah, GNU tar has -P / --absolute-names to just create them with leading slashes.
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by eichin 2y ago
Yeah, for something where the performance is actually a selling point, you should probably feel obliged to include a clock or some other reference in the image. (I'm not claiming anything about this particular video - just that you rea
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by eichin 2y ago
Wow. (Without the piano line it's clearly a lot harder to get in the pauses to breathe, even the comically large one that's in the original performance.) Back in the 80's, the MIT freshman chemistry class had A Thing where i
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by eichin 2y ago
Two other data points: I had the note 9, and the button wasn't customizable (you could disable the app and tweak some other things to keep the button from doing anything, but you couldn't remap it, that was new in the note 10.)
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by eichin 2y ago
With MA ez-pass, the enabling legislation specifically forbade the use of it for speed patrolling. (This may have been limited to i-90 which was the only thing that used it at the time.)
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by eichin 2y ago
Unfortunately, noone has simulations that do soft contact well enough for this to be any good at all (which is why you see plenty of academic papers about it, but very little in terms of actual products doing it.)
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by eichin 2y ago
The problem is that while the post looks structurally like an appeal to authority, the first two appear to be advanced qualifications in areas completely unrelated to the question and the third is at best vaguely related. (It threw me on
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by eichin 2y ago
besides, chatgpt can only do that because of tips like this...
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by eichin 2y ago
The problem is the lack of a "backyard" ICBM program to piggyback off of... the R-7 that the sputnik launcher was based on "was designed with excess thrust since they were unsure how heavy the hydrogen bomb payload would be&q
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by eichin 2y ago
Oh, even simpler: cheap sous-vide circulator and rubbermaid "tank" for the outer water bath, tall glass pitcher for the actual coffee, cotton "tea sock" to hold (and filter) the ground coffee in the pitcher. Most of the
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by eichin 2y ago
If you're looking to build a bootable kiosk sort of thing, the old-school way was just a service file that ran xinit -- chromium --kiosk http://localhost/whatever . (no idea how to express that in wayland.) It's
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by eichin 2y ago
The paper lists many things they tested for, but the fascinating one is that the coffee oils and water get emulsified which isn't going to happen with any level of stirring below "purée" :-)
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by eichin 2y ago
The article includes a link to the paper, which has simulation models of the acoustics, showing pressure levels and areas where cavitation can occur. (I didn't see anything about heating from dissipating the acoustic energy, though?)
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by eichin 2y ago
Ooh an excuse to upgrade some homelab equipment :-) (My preferred "weird" coffee is sous-vide: 125g/liter, 2h @ 150f - so you don't leave as much flavor "on the table", but by not getting near boiling you leave
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by eichin 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40261408 (different article, same subject, 18h ago and has some interesting stories.)
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by eichin 2y ago
Yeah, but your private copy would be more like "The internet: The Good Parts" (assuming you had a way to not store what you immediately dismissed as garbage; maybe only include pages with a dwell time of 15-30s or more.) That&#x2
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by eichin 2y ago
tracking for-the-benefit-of users, which only has to be done by the users because no services can be trusted :-)
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by eichin 2y ago
A couple of boring (LVM+encrypt) installs on 5+ year old thinkpads were uneventful as well. "Experimental" ZFS+encryption failed entirely (on the same machines) but it did say experimental right there on the page...
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by eichin 2y ago
That's ahistorical. FFS is the berkeley Fast File System, from BSD 4.2, in 1983.
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by eichin 2y ago
Not setuid generically, but `sudo` itself has a bunch of pam support/dependency.
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by eichin 2y ago
Slice, no. But look up "wood carving disc" or "wood shaping disc" for some angle-grinder related crimes against woodworking - lots of power, but you'd better know exactly what you're trying to accomplish. (Be
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by eichin 3y ago
There were definitely pascal compilers though (you could boot p-system on the trs-80 model I even, though you needed at least 32k of RAM.)
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by eichin 3y ago
Or to hit more closely, in 1983 or so there was Grammatik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatik , a grammar-checking tool for CP/M (on Z80 so it had a little more power than the 6502) written entirely in Forth
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by eichin 3y ago
Err, what does termux have to do with Samsung? (Samsung did beta a "Linux on DeX" briefly, but it vanished years ago...)
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by eichin 3y ago
Right, but you can successfully course correct if you have a reproducible measurement, instead of one that varies by 20% each time you make it (source: Cooks Illustrated magazine on angel food cake, did experiments on how much variation cup
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by eichin 3y ago
No we don't? It was closer and thus over-covered it (and is spiraling out - solar eclipses will no longer happen in 600 million years or so.)
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by eichin 3y ago
active (PDF) documents seem to have become a thing on eReaders, especially pen-based ones; mostly they leverage clever linking and bookmarking, and not much more, though.
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by eichin 3y ago
Heh, yeah, "being able to predict the present" is an important benchmarking technique
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by eichin 3y ago
That doesn't need wireless USB, we already have CVE-2023-45866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38661182 for "bluetooth stack more than 6 months old"
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by eichin 3y ago
contemporary with TunePrint https://www.mattababy.org/~belmonte/Tuneprint/ and at least one other. (Somehow TunePrint managed to get a record label to fill a fileserver with audio files and ship it back across cou

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