gpvos

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1. 271.▲
   by gpvos 8mo ago

   NUL was often sent as padding to slow (printing) terminals. Although that was just before my time.
2. 272.▲
   by gpvos 8mo ago

   Maybe 32 was a bit much, but even fitting a useful set of control characters into, say, 16, would be tricky for me. For example, ^S and ^Q are still useful when text is scrolling by too fast.
3. 273.▲
   by gpvos 8mo ago

   Back in early times, I used to type ctrl-M in some situations because it could be easier to reach than the return key, depending on what I was typing.
4. 274.▲
   by gpvos 8mo ago

   Its inscrutable undo and redo behaviour is probably the main reason why I never really tried to get further into Emacs. And that's when I had just access to original vi, not vim.
5. 275.▲
   by gpvos 8mo ago

   My bank's app uses Google Pay to pay at POS terminals, so Google can at least block that.
6. 276.▲
   by gpvos 8mo ago

   Very privacy sensitive? In Germany, maybe. Elsewhere in Europe, not so much. See the regular attempts to push through something like chat control.
7. 277.▲
   by gpvos 8mo ago

   PTT = push to talk (at least that seems the most probable match on Wikipedia)
8. 278.▲
   by gpvos 8mo ago

   I think a black bar is in order.
9. 279.▲
   by gpvos 8mo ago

   For the average non-schooled singer there is a lot of new information here. I have sung most of my life, in choirs, in church, and otherwise (not much in the shower though), and don't explicitly know most of these things. I have heard
10. 280.▲
    by gpvos 8mo ago

    Thank you; this explains why working with AI doesn't interest me.
11. 281.▲
    by gpvos 9mo ago

    https://archive.is/lTghJ
12. 282.▲
    by gpvos 9mo ago

    Ooh, it's indeed fascinating how quickly you can end up with a focus on a singular subject.
13. 283.▲
    by gpvos 9mo ago

    I am actually abhorred by the word "individual" as part of IC (which I luckily hadn't encountered before, so I had to look it up). It appears very pejorative to me, as if all cooperation goes via the management instead of d
14. 284.▲
    by gpvos 9mo ago

    Just have the possibility for pay increase without taking on management responsibilities.
15. 285.▲
    by gpvos 9mo ago

    IC = individual contributor. Wikipedia translating management speak: > Individual contributor, a business role for an employee without management responsibilities
16. 286.▲
    by gpvos 9mo ago

    https://archive.is/foO7l
17. 287.▲
    by gpvos 9mo ago

    Schiphol had this for a while (several years I think, I don't fly often), but they reversed it a couple of years ago because European regulators didn't agree for some reason, and now liquids are forbidden again (discussed elsewher
18. 288.▲
    by gpvos 9mo ago

    At the other end of the spectrum, the two countries with the strongest form of proportional representation, also have problems: politics in The Netherlands is nearly paralyzed, it becomes harder every election to form a coalition. And Israe
19. 289.▲
    by gpvos 9mo ago

    I'm mostly, and pleasantly, surprised that Firefox's hyphenation algorithm handles this reasonably.
20. 290.▲
    by gpvos 9mo ago

    Indeed. Favorited it. My Prolog is too rusty to understand it all, but even just skimming the metainterpretation article was enlightening.
21. 291.▲
    by gpvos 9mo ago

    > Like good code, a good team is built on small, sane details. Words to live by.
22. 292.▲
    by gpvos 10mo ago

    Where did perching_aix say that?
23. 293.▲
    by gpvos 10mo ago

    Do you have sources for that? As far as I know VLC has actually always been famous for supporting basically every format.
24. 294.▲
    China is running out of critical battery material(electrek.co)

    7 points by gpvos 10mo ago|0 comments
25. 295.▲
    by gpvos 10mo ago

    TBAA = type-based alias analysis
26. 296.▲
    by gpvos 10mo ago

    Or we could, you know, restructure our economy so that we don't have huge semi-monopolies anymore. I know, not going to happen, but one can dream.
27. 297.▲
    by gpvos 10mo ago

    Nope. When on Windows I tend to use one of the US International or the Pseudo VT320 layout from https://keyboards.jargon-file.org/ .
28. 298.▲
    by gpvos 10mo ago

    We didn't have the right, obviously, but it has happened and we need to deal with the current situation. And the Netherlands has offered them sovereignty multiple times in the last fifty years, they can leave anytime they want. But now
29. 299.▲
    by gpvos 10mo ago

    Trump doesn't understand the word "allied".
30. 300.▲
    by gpvos 10mo ago

    Additionally, replying to "in the field" in GP: this is about the article title. You first have to know which field the article is in, which simply is not clear if you are an HN reader that happens to not be in that field.