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by jasomill 9mo ago
Drug laws are the confluence of many factors. Moral Majority types want everything they disapprove of banned. People whose lives are harmed by drug abuse want "something" to be done. Politicians want issues that arouse considerabl
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See also the preface[1] to Hofstadter's translation[2] of Eugene Onegin . [1] https://jasomill.at/HofstadterOneginPreface.pdf [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-465-0209.
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What do Entra role permissions have to do with Microsoft's ability to turn over data in its possession to law enforcement in response to a court order?
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by jasomill 9mo ago
Does using the "manage-bde -protectors -add" command to add a device key encrypted by a local recovery key, followed by the "manage-bde -protectors -delete" command to delete the device key encrypted by the uploaded key
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by jasomill 9mo ago
“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner
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by jasomill 9mo ago
It is used quite a bit. As just one of innumerable examples, it's the basis for Adobe's DNG raw photo format and many proprietary raw formats used by camera manufacturers (Nikon NEF, Canon CRW and CR2, etc.). Speaking as an outsid
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Something must be done. This is something. Therefore we must do this.
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I run most of my personal network infra (routers, DNS servers, etc.) on FreeBSD because I have been running it on FreeBSD since the late 90's, and have never had any reason to change it. In all that time, I've never felt like I su
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Grandmaster: Ubuntu, Fedora
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While I don't know how more or less efficient it is, WolframAlpha works well for these sorts of approximations, and shows its work more clearly than the AI chatbots I've used.
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Don't forget packs of cigarettes as a more convenient unit for measuring volumes significantly smaller than Olympic-sized pools. There is, of course, no more need to standardize on a specific brand or style of cigarette than on a speci
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Why stop there when we could just as easily redefine it to be 1 (new base unit of length)/second or 1 meter/(new base unit of time)?
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Per Wikipedia, the discrepancy is approximately 74 km, so digging a ditch with an average depth of approximately 74/2π ≅ 12 km around the circumference of the Earth would theoretically fix the problem. Feasibility and geological implic
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Sure, but $200 on eBay will get you something along the lines of a Dell Latitude, with decent build quality, cost-optimized more than a flagship workstation-class laptop, but certainly not designed to squeeze out the last penny at the expen
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You can get a 5-year-old laptop with a perfectly working screen for free if you're on good terms with the owner of a company who has a stack of them sitting in a storage closet waiting for disposal. :) Which is basically just cutting o
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The main things I use Pis for are 1. Testing images to be deployed on customer Pis. 2. Testing software on ARM64 Linux. Pis are still cheaper than used Apple Silicon Macs, and require less fiddling to run Linux. I currently have a free Orac
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by jasomill 10mo ago
You're not wrong about Explorer, but the parent is also partially right. While you can move, resize, minimize, maximize, and switch between windows without Explorer running, other window management features are limited or nonfunctional
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Server 2025, then? Though admittedly $1,176/16 cores is a bit steep for a desktop OS, and don't forget the CALs if you plan to use file sharing or Remote Desktop (or third party alternatives like Steam Remote Play).
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by jasomill 10mo ago
There are several solutions, and while most are limited to volume licensing, which, depending on your definition, may exclude "regular users", at least one is not: 1. Supply the code given by the "slmgr /dti" comman
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Personalization options like wallpaper and color settings are disabled until activation, though I'm sure there are workarounds.
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The official solution[1] is to slipstream network drivers onto the Windows image before installation. The official solution for non-technical users is to buy a PC with Windows preinstalled. [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en
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The only integrations that matter to me are Messages and notifications for phone calls, neither of which are even available on Windows AFAIK, and could just as usefully be implemented as a Web app as a native Windows app if Apple chose to d
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I was under the impression that the systemd device naming schemes were created specifically to solve the problem you describe[1]. Are there cases where the old scheme worked well that none of the systemd schemes properly address? Is the sch
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In the US at least, there are needs-based high-risk insurance programs run by states that do just that. Even so, while it's not a good argument against layoffs, the fact that it's even considered as such is in itself a reasonable
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Interesting. I've been using Unix systems for 30 years and never noticed this. On my Fedora system, /usr/bin/cd is just a shell script that invokes the shell builtin: #!/usr/bin/sh builtin cd "$
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Is this a TCP API proposal or a protocol proposal? Because TCP, by design, is a stream-oriented protocol, and the only out-of-band signal I'm aware of that's intended to be exposed to applications is the urgent flag/pointer,
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While it's true that this the kind of "source available" license the article is talking about, other examples exist. For instance, the source code to Epic's Unreal Engine[1] is hosted in a private GitHub repo, accessible
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by jasomill 11mo ago
No, but now that you mention it, I'm curious about the five posts to the official US Federal Bureau of Prisons Instagram[1], which, unlike their Facebook and Twitter accounts, is private. (No relation, just the first thing that came to
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Just because the Steam Machine isn't powerful enough to support high framerates in modern AAA games doesn't mean it can't do so with older or less graphically-intensive games. VRR and HDR are presumably the biggest issues, be
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by jasomill 11mo ago
Here's a stupid question: per the site, "any entity wishing to make an active and material contribution to the development of future HDMI Specifications" can join the HDMI Forum for $15,000 p.a., and the Board of Directors is

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