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by hakfoo 2y ago
While you can theoretically talk to 65,536 ports, a lot of old hardware only wired up the lowest 10 or so bits of the address space. So the parallel port at 0x378 might also be accessible at 0x1378, 2378... F378.
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Two reasons: The specific US version was an attempt to bootstrap acceptance of the $1 coin-- if you could get a box of 500 shipped to your door, you'd spend them and eventually they'd displace $1 notes. When they went straight ba
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Ads can be a matter of quality and relevance, just like search. I'm happy to read ads relevant to my interests in an appropriate context. Unfortunately, this is a clear clash of "line goes up" versus "corporate integrit
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I'd wonder if they'd be better off hiding the 300-search option from the pricing page, in that it immediately sends people to thinking about "can I deal with search as a metered resource?" Arguably it derails the conv
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Nobody seems to be addressing the themability of the window borders/titlebar itself anymore. It's weird, because that was a big part of the Cambrian explosion of X11 window managers back in the day-- so many options and so much c
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The argument is graceful degradation. Even when there's no connection, no electricity, you get some modest layer of security out of "it's hard to manufacture a convincing fake passport if you don't have large-scale res
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Ditto. I bought a new low-end Thinkpad this year (L13 Gen3) and I probably paid $700 for a $500 laptop because I wanted the Trackpoint. If they want to cede this market, I'll probably have to wait until Framework offers a Trackpoint k
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Many of them are listed as, say "PMG VF25", meaning they've been through a third party grading program and are in a specific, easily identifiable type of holder. I'd expect if you tried to take such notes to a high-end d
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by hakfoo 2y ago
In the stock market, though, saying "I know $FOOBAR is going to overperform on earnings" could trigger other people to pump the price and INCREASE your payout. Conversely, if you know Santa's Little Helper is going to win the
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The drawbacks for SDKs I see: * Needs to break the SDK containment. If you want to add some "off the menu" feature, you might be able to extend the SDK itself, butsuddenly you're running a fork that can't be maintained
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by hakfoo 2y ago
:%s/of the population/of the assets/ If we've seen nothing else in history, it's how effectively a tiny crust of the population can keep the Orphan Crushing Machine running as long as it doesn't affect them dir
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The risk with X86S was that people didn't really know what the corner cases were. I'd assume if you start with a fairly vanilla system, all modern x86-64 code, then yeah it's going to work fine. But I could imagine some of th
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I wonder if we're going to eventually lose institutional memory of the efficiency of broadcast systems. Today, the obvious answer for traffic data is to make it an on-demand "pull" service. So a million users means a million
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I threw OpenBSD on my old laptop this year and it was workable except for DRM video and the fact that my bank evidently used user-agent sniffing to decide it didn't like Firefox on OpenBSD (but Firefox on Linux or Chromium on OpenBSD w
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The US is rich for many reasons that have little to do with being well governed. * The country was launched on most of a century of essentially "free" land grabs-- limited pushback from native civilizations. buying cheap from dist
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Well, the monitor itself says it's being fed 120Hz in its status popup, I don't think X11 is smart enough to lie in that way.
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Indeed. I kept hearing "Wayland solves problems with two monitors at different refresh rates" But when I set up mismatching monitors, X11 didn't skip a beat (1440p native/120Hz, 1440p (being fed to a 4k native monitor)
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I was looking at the KV4P project, and that feels like the future to me. You're already carrying a device with a big touchscreen and a big enough CPU to run a very flexible and customizable UI. Let the software people handle this, a
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by hakfoo 2y ago
It's interesting that there's no "trap instruction/sequence" feature built into the CPU architecture. That would presumably be valuable for auditing and debugging, or to create a custom instruction by trapping an o
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by hakfoo 2y ago
And then it all goes down when Elon has a hissy fit. Amateur radio is by its nature more decentralized. Even if you're using a higher frwquency and dependent on repeaters, they tend to be ran by individuals and independent groups, so
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I'd say to do the exact opposite. As a developer, you have a duty to play rules lawyer with compatibility-- who is going to be better equipped than you to deal with the bug reports? Build the weirdest thing that meets the nominal spec
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by hakfoo 2y ago
There was one in the local mall briefly. While it was filled with quarters, when the coins dropped it released aluminium tokens from another source that were exchanged at the rate of 5 paper prize tickets.
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I was surprised that Trackpoint-style devices still remain a niche product since it explicitly solves the "I need to move the cursor but don't want to reach for the mouse" problem. I'm aware of about four models of stand
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by hakfoo 2y ago
To be blunt, "the richest man in the world" is equally as dangerous as a "competitive state actor". He has direct motive to influence the operations of the American state, the resources to amplify his messages, and has c
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I keep a 1000KRW note (~70 cents US) in my wallet, and wonder how they'd react to whipping it out for just this situation.
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by hakfoo 2y ago
To me, the story was never about even about the hypothetical "they could pull some strings and somehow get every 17-year-old in the US swearing fealty to Chairman Xi." If nothing else, do you really want to focus your political i
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by hakfoo 2y ago
For some reason, a lot of credit card processing APIs are still oriented around physical card machines, so they have a lot of fields devoted to self-declaration of the available features. Some of the APIs allow the machine to say "I ca
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I always figured the most valuable asset was the easements and conduit. If they don't want to cram fibre into it, give it to someone who will.
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I could see a case for "we'll sell a few narrow SKUs of non-ME products for an audience that demands it" -- assuming there are some people who will vote with their pockets for it. It's probably up there with some of the
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The NEC V20/30 series were significant advances over their Intel equivalent (basically all the 186 features plus more in an 8086/8 compatible package). C&T had some super-386 chips that apparently barely made it to market (386

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