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by foresto 4mo ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to recall, but regarding Qt licensing, perhaps you'll find this interesting: https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation/
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by foresto 4mo ago
> It doesnt let you have unused variables Ugh. This is something I hate about Go. I would be happy to have unused variables generate warnings, but as errors, they turn the toolchain into an adversary. It's common for me to temporari
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by foresto 4mo ago
The first time I saw something like this was in a music-focused virtual world from the 2000s. Strangers would strike up conversations with each other, dance (in some cases to well-known artists), wander around to see what others were doing,
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by foresto 4mo ago
This title evokes memories of The Twilight Zone's To Serve Man episode.
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by foresto 5mo ago
> If the email matches their GitHub account, GitHub links the commit to their profile and grants them contributor status. When the article mentioned email matching, I was concerned that it would break down when a contributor's email
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by foresto 5mo ago
This could be read as reductive, presumptuous, ignorant, and insulting. At the same time, it's often technically true, but for a good reason that you neglected to mention: Those old tools tend to be very capable email clients, not web
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by foresto 5mo ago
In case anyone else likes to know the panel manufacturer before buying a display, it looks like this one is made by Samsung. https://www.displayspecifications.com/en/model/f86e3770 https://www.displaysp
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by foresto 5mo ago
> I helped them make the wrong choice, Mercurial. 20 years ago, Mercurial was not the wrong choice. - Its internal design was very similar to Git's. - Its cross-platform support was superior to Git's. (Git didn't get good
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by foresto 5mo ago
Of course, it would also create a demand for open-source game server libraries, which would surely appear after a while and make the whole process much easier. So while I believe you about all those difficulties existing today, it's pl
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by foresto 5mo ago
Thanks. Outside of LLM circles, DS4 is usually a video game controller.
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by foresto 5mo ago
> Government leaders will never give up their pipeline of knowing everything about everyone. Then let us hire different leaders into government. Public servants, not overlords.
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by foresto 5mo ago
> for (third-party) sale Many of us find it unethical to give money to scalpers. > a handful of .net domains that are under $100 And this is why.
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by foresto 5mo ago
Good luck in your gamble.
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by foresto 5mo ago
That was clearly not true for domains directly under .us when I last read their rules, roughly a year ago. I suppose it might be true for .city.state.us subdomains, but those fail my first criterion (they're not short), and are thems
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by foresto 5mo ago
Having a domain under the .us TLD once seemed appealing to me for practical reasons: It's short, consistently inexpensive, and hasn't already sold the vast majority of its useful namespace to squatters. Unfortunately, it forbids W
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by foresto 5mo ago
This one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEX_(protocol) https://www.cable-tester.com/dex-connector-pin-out/ https://www.storedex.com/abcs-of-dex
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by foresto 5mo ago
I'm aware of serial breaks, but this is the first I've heard of them being interpreted as SysRq by Linux. That could be handy. Thanks for the tip. I assume the possibility of spurious Rx state is why FTDI chose to wire Rx to the t
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by foresto 5mo ago
Well, not every vendor does it differently, because there are far more vendors than possible wiring permutations on a 3-contact connector... but I understand what you mean. The same issue applies to PCB header pins. And the same goes for 25
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by foresto 5mo ago
What byte sequence on a Tx/Rx/Gnd serial line can trigger Sysrq key sequences?
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by foresto 5mo ago
My scenario is connecting terminal emulators to getty or u-boot, which I think is a common one. A blip of line noise when plugging in would be barely considered an annoyance, easily cleared by pressing Backspace. But yes, if someone happens
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by foresto 5mo ago
They're not random connections; they're predictable. I'm not worried about Tx briefly touching Rx or ground in these devices.
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by foresto 5mo ago
FTDI (the company practically synonymous with TTL serial adapters) uses 3.5mm tip-ring-sleeve connectors for this. In other words, a common headphone jack. I added one to my single-board computer enclosure, following FTDI's wiring. Now
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by foresto 5mo ago
A stdlib doesn't have to provide everything under the sun in order to be helpful here. Languages with rich standard libraries provide enough common components that it's feasible to build things using only a small handful of extern
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by foresto 5mo ago
> That's not a special, It is a special when the usual price is $2 each. > Why not? Because I'm not interested.
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by foresto 5mo ago
> The computers are not dumb. Nobody has suggested that they malfunction. I thought this was obvious, but to spell it out: I was suggesting that they might not necessarily be programmed to apply a different price depending on quantity. A
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by foresto 5mo ago
> the 8 oz will be on sale but only if you buy at least 2 or 3, its incredibly frustrating. Have you tested this by buying just one, and checking the price on the receipt? I ask because someone once told me this was illegal in the US; th
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by foresto 5mo ago
Thanks for confirming!
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by foresto 5mo ago
I'm pretty sure that conversion was done by the C library, just as stated in the article. Not by DOS. ASCII 0x0A '\n' is always one byte*, and C library implementations for DOS would insert an ASCII 0x0D '\r' byte b
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by foresto 5mo ago
Are the developers allowed to sell those keys for less than the Steam price?
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by foresto 5mo ago
> It only works with Steam, it can't work on a desktop OS without it, despite standard layout. This review says otherwise: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/the-new-steam-controll... > Using The Ste

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