ernst_mulder

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by ernst_mulder 1y ago
Beware if you want to copy files with extended attributes, ACLs or resource forks to another Mac. The short syntax used to be "rsync -Eva" Since openrsync this is now "rsync -va ---extended-attributes" I will need to go
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by ernst_mulder 2y ago
Same kind of problem with an old HP LaserJet 1300 we still use. It began by it occasionally picking up multiple sheets of paper and jamming. It gradually got worse until the printer wasn't usable anymore. The issue turned out to be the
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by ernst_mulder 2y ago
As a maintainer of a calculator collection website which is guaranteed AI-free I asked ChatGPT to draw me a logo for a guaranteed AI-free website, then realising I could not use that logo on an AI-free website :-)
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by ernst_mulder 2y ago
Thank you very much for this detailed article. I never realised this is how floating point division can be implemented. Actually funny how I didn't realise that multiple integer division steps are required to implement floating point d
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by ernst_mulder 3y ago
Many thanks OP for the couple of commands I did not yet know. Especially `pbcopy` and `pbpaste`, those are going to be very useful. Here are a couple of commands I use quite a lot. lsof -p <PID> Lists the open files of the process wit
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by ernst_mulder 4y ago
Some time ago I dreamt that I was in an alien space ship for some reason. Still carrying my phone and laptop bag. They were a friendly lot and asked whether or not I would like to charge my laptop. Do you have 220V sockets I asked. They did
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by ernst_mulder 4y ago
Film director Wim Wenders's "Until the end of the world" from 1991 shows a very interesting future with "video fax" and "video phones". And instead of CD's it shows credit-card-form audio storage. The
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by ernst_mulder 5y ago
Before I read that it is actually orbiting our star I briefly thought "maybe they had an accident with a nuclear waste dump on the far side of their planet"
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by ernst_mulder 5y ago
Same here. Turns out to be a staggering number of files actually, much larger than the number of flies.