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by jasomill 2y ago
I once had a Kinko's employee, in consultation with the manager on duty, refuse to slice the binding off a textbook because "copyright". They were, however, willing to three-hole punch the resulting pages if I removed the bin
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by jasomill 2y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/arts/video-games-graphics...
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by jasomill 2y ago
Workarounds exist, but official support for disabling telemetry[1] and "consumer experiences"[2] requires Windows Enterprise or Education. [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management&#
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by jasomill 2y ago
Fascinating article. See also https://web.archive.org/web/20120314023131if_/http://www.alc... for an early technical article describing the implementation details of the familiar DTMF "touch tone&qu
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by jasomill 2y ago
More generally, see also the Laplace-Beltrami and Laplace-de Rham operators, both defined on (pseudo-)Riemannian manifolds not necessarily embedded in ℝ³. Even more generally, see the huge body of beautiful mathematics that has arisen from
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by jasomill 2y ago
To be a bit more specific, Mac OS X Rhapsody DR2 (1998) was the last x86 Mac OS build to ship until the x86 Developer Transition Kit shipped with Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.1 in 2005, and Rhapsody DR1 was the first, and only other, pre-Tiger x86 M
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This gets even more confusing when you consider that IBM released a number of mainframes smaller than many of their midrange systems, including both System/370 and System/390 systems implemented as PC expansion cards (ISA, MCA, an
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by jasomill 2y ago
It still works, but the elevated context maintains a separate list of drive letter mappings, so you need to issue the SUBST command again while elevated. The same applies to network drive letter mappings. Under the hood, both are implemente
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As is the Fulton Recovery System used to airlift enemy soldiers (and friendly animals) in Metal Gear Solid V: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery...
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You can also look at 8086 segment/offset addressing as an attempt to avoid wasting 12 bits when using pairs of 16 bit registers to represent a 20 bit address, by allowing implicitly-sized <=64k byte segments to align on arbitrary
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by jasomill 2y ago
A 1-form is a section[1] of the cotangent bundle[2] of a manifold. In other words, a rank 1 covariant tensor field. At any given point p on an n -dimensional manifold, a 1-form defines an n -dimensional cotangent vector (in the language
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by jasomill 2y ago
Not really difficult to reinstall every major Intel Mac OS release, at least, as they're all downloadable from Apple in one way or another: 1. You can reinstall "the version of macOS that came with your Mac or the closest version
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by jasomill 2y ago
The most reliable way is to compare your ISP-assigned address to the response from any one of a number of services that return the caller's IP address (e.g., https://checkip.amazonaws.com/ ).
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by jasomill 2y ago
This would massively complicate kernel path resolution on many systems. Taking Linux as an example, even in the simplest cases, ~user expansion as typically implemented — via the getpwnam(3) libc function, which in itself implies a rather
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by jasomill 2y ago
I have the same habit. The lack of tilde expansion after the equals sign has helped a bit in breaking this habit, however. Interestingly, bash does do tilde expansion, but not tab completion, after the first equal sign, and after every co
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by jasomill 2y ago
While I agree that phones make poor computers, smartphone + Bluetooth keyboard + "found" external display (e.g., hotel room TV) + remote connection to a desktop PC is an excellent alternative to vacationing with a laptop "jus
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by jasomill 2y ago
Saving money, for one. Incoming payphone calls are free.
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by jasomill 2y ago
As an example: with ripgrep searching the entire (500 GB) C: drive for a fixed string, Task Manager reports: CPU: 61% 2.49 GHz Memory: 10.3/48.0 (21%) Disk 0 (C:): SSD 100% In use (Compressed): 10.1 GB (0 MB) Available: 37
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by jasomill 2y ago
Specifically, it's a rendition of the daemon from the cover of the 4.2BSD UNIX System Manager's Manual [1]. “Cover design by John Lassetter [sic] , Lucasfilm, Ltd.”[2] [1] https://archive.org/details/smm-4.2
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by jasomill 2y ago
If there was a BSoD involved, it was probably one of the NT-based Windows Embedded versions (NT 4.0 Embedded, XP Embedded, …). WinPE is the Windows Preinstallation Environment, used as the basis for Windows installation and recovery, and av
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by jasomill 2y ago
I've tried using a 43" UHD TV as a monitor, since they're as cheap as $149.99 USD brand new, but it had noticeable delay even at 4k@60Hz, and just didn't feel right. This is typically due to default settings on TVs ena
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by jasomill 2y ago
Out of curiosity, I just checked, and while the CS6 installer is 32-bit, Photoshop CS6, at least, is 64-bit. The .app icon shows the "circle slash" overlay, however, and attempting to launch it from the Finder (Sequoia 15.1 runnin
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by jasomill 2y ago
To cite a particularly silly example: while the Halo Master Chief Collection can be purchased from both Steam and the first-party Microsoft store, the modding tools are only available through Steam, and the Halo 2 and 3 tools require a lice
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On a related note, the original Macintosh shipped with a physically inaccessible reset button, and the manual cautioned against installing the (bundled) switch that enabled access because "using it the wrong way could cause you to lose
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by jasomill 2y ago
IIRC it even reboots on its own after a power outage. While macOS presents a "Start up automatically after a power failure" option, and it works, the reality is…complicated. Intel Macs require a model-specific hardware register
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by jasomill 2y ago
UNIX, designed and developed on the PDP-11, had similar per-process instruction/data space limitations until V6 and V7 were ported to 32-bit minis ca. 1977 and 1979, and was further constrained by the PDP-11's limited physical add
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by jasomill 2y ago
Magic Trackpad 2 and (Mac) Magic Keyboards appear as USB HID devices when connected to a computer via Lightning-to-USB (-A or -C) cable. One annoyance is that macOS automatically Bluetooth pairs with these devices when connected via USB, ov
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by jasomill 2y ago
Pursuant to sub-paragraph (b) of article 3 of Annex II to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty[1], a permit to "kill, injure, capture, handle or molest" penguins may be issued "to provide specimens
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Three random Explorer examples: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230911-00/?p=10... https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230324-00/?p=10... https://devblog
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Incidentally, Skies of Arcadia Legends on Dolphin is fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwH1xJhcXG0dBlmWL_DTu...

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