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by indrora 3y ago
If you look at the Nintendo Gigaleaks, you'll discover that most of Nintendo hardware had one single CVS (later SVN) repository that held everything . Same with BroadOn, even up into 2010, when the cvs backup was taken. It's fair
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There's... actually very little that stops you from sending mail from a non-local postal code. I've occasionally sent packages postmarked as being from one zipcode from another; as long as it's in the same region, much of t
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by indrora 3y ago
If you ever find yourself interested in living in a NetBSD system, check out the SDF: sdf.org the SuperDimensionalFortress has been around since the 80s and is now one of the largest installations of NetBSD in the US/world. Membership
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Nobody was watching. Plain and simple. If you have commit access to it, and nobody is there to see, nothing stops you.
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Google will straight up take down your videos if you mention suicide or death now. Two creators I follow had to re-upload censored versions of their videos after the youtube audio filter decided that "dead" was too spicy.
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Most zip implementations allow this.
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Depending on implementation, zip supports Zstd compressed archives with dictionaries. You could maintain a shared dictionary among all the archives. If you have a way to post process the archives, you may be able to abuse multipart zip file
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My suggestion? If you’re not sure, grab a very basic template from either Hugo, MkDocs, or GitHub pages. They’re all pretty well tested and hard to break.
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> Most Windows laptops have abysmal batteries, to the point that you can barely call them laptops. The plateau of 6 hours is less Microsoft's fault here and more a combination of stinginess by OEMs and their willingness to reduce co
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Emulator developers should incorporate in the Netherlands, it seems.
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> I'm just wondering, why hasn't a SBC-based alternative popped up yet? I actually did that as a part of Google Summer of Code: https://github.com/LibraryBox-Dev/alexandria The goal was to make LibraryBox,
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Former AWS here. My literal job for the last part of my time at AWS was "help triage bugs in the AWS SDK." This is by far the best repro I've ever seen for such an in-depth event. Most of the tickets you get in open ticket tr
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You can actually blame DVI for this one. DVI connectors offered analog VGA for years. This meant that graphics card vendors could put one port on their card that did both, huzzah, and a passive adapter got you VGA out of DVI. DVI is ahead o
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Acknowledging these documents can taint your mind for life if you're not careful. In the emulator scene, there is a set of documents that describe, at deep and intimate levels, the inner workings of the N64, released by a disgruntled S
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Then run them with only some variant of ChromeOS or similar on it. Root FS is immutable, all content goes over a wireguard secured network connection. No network? No files. "What do you mean you can't get in? It says here you&#x27
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Not OP, but the less I encounter of Lous "I should be allowed to beat my kids" Rossmann, the better I've become. Rossmann is the RMS of the right to repair movement. A lot of ideas that align with the overall goal but a terri
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Pornhub has a team dedicated to mobile and consoles. I worked in IT throughout high school and college. Trust me: Old married dudes it's a coin flip on if you're gonna get Pornhub or one of its neighbors that MindGeek owns in thei
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Slow, painful death from radiation exposure. There's some well-documented cases of people getting Real Fucked Up from irradiation systems that weren't maintained. Plainly difficult has two good examples of these that were badly ma
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Gluing lua onto things is about as easy as it gets: * Define your functions * Define your lua binding * load lua code * run it. * Profit. Only takes ~10 minutes to do: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5127294
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It's for having in your dev environment and/or sometimes as a toggle for "Special Requests" -- if your session is authenticated and you're marked as blessed, you get extra information about what the application is d
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The developer of mGBA wrote about it: https://endrift.com/2021/12/13/analogue-pocket-hate-story/ Some relevant excerpts: > The next conversation unfortunately only brought more red flags. The first hi
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I miss Gerry Weinberg. Used to get lunch with him regularly He credits a man named Sherbie for the three rules. That man was my grandfather. The best advice Gerry gave me was when I was in a tough spot in college. “Expectations are fickle t
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Just a reminder that Analogue have made very little on their promises to those they stole time from. Analogue isn't even the only ones to do an FPGA rebuild of a console; there's a near-perfect GB/GBC clone (with quirks toggl
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A tale I use in interviews is "The Homesick Laptop's Replacement Desktop That Ate Hard Drives in Summer". long story short, Dell ship-of-theseus'd an entire machine looking for an issue that only happened on cloudy-hot d
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Rextron (the OEM behind Level1Techs' kVMs) has a version with EDID emulation, but it only supports usb1.1, not 3.0 or above. I sent a casual question to their contact to see what getting a branded one looks like and the Level1Techs one
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Mission criticality, insane parallelism, and a few others. With modern mainframes, you can configure two processors (or more!) to run in perfect lockstep. If one of them disagrees, the system can immediately see why and how. Run three proce
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Fail to see how this is any different than Dhall ( https://dhall-lang.org/ ) other than it produces plists too.
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> implying it wasn't defunct from the start
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I'm curious how competitors in the "tiny FPGA" market are going to affect things. I'd love to see this rebuilt not on a Xilinx but something like the Gowin GW1N FPGAs: https://www.gowinsemi.com/en/pr
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Aside: The reason that escalators cannot be stairs in much of the US, despite looking like stairs, is actually a human ergonomics and code violation problem: inconsistent rise/run and pitch in stairs causes people to trip, then cascade

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