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by jasomill 2y ago
Compliance with various POSIX standards remains useful and relevant, though the only list of actually certified products I can find[1] includes only RTOSes. Even without certification, POSIX remains a useful baseline for implementing and co
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by jasomill 3y ago
The ST was at least a cost-effective way to emulate a PC very slowly. Not so much for SoftPC for VMS, which cost as much as an entry-level ST for the software alone: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/catal
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by jasomill 3y ago
Working Google Scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=7%2C39&q=tra... Direct arXiv PDF link to first result: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.3586
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by jasomill 3y ago
Borland C++, Microsoft C/C++, and GCC (DJGPP[1]) could all target 32-bit extended DOS, but Watcom was the first[2] to bundle a royalty-free DOS extender[3]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39038095 [2] https:
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by jasomill 3y ago
It appears to be missing the code for DOSSHELL — the only references I see to SHELLB or SHELLC are in the SELECT (installer) source code.
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by jasomill 3y ago
Are you referring to svchost.exe, the performance hack that allows multiple Microsoft-supplied services to share a single process, or the Service Control Manager[1], the Windows component responsible for starting and stopping Windows servic
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by jasomill 3y ago
VMS is a good example of a system that uses very un-UNIX-like file naming conventions, with ::, :, [], ., and ; used as separators for different path components: https://wiki.vmssoftware.com/File_specification
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by jasomill 3y ago
This is fine for parsing command line arguments in your own programs, but unhelpful when attempting to provide a mechanism to reliably pass a user-supplied argument list to an arbitrary external program that is free to interpret the string
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by jasomill 3y ago
The two dimensional case is my favorite: let I be the identity matrix and J the "imaginary unit matrix" 0 -1 1 0, then JJ = -I = exp(Jπ) and exp(Jθ) = cos(θ) -sin(θ) sin(θ) cos(θ).
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by jasomill 3y ago
IANAL, but Oracle's lawyers are, and they see no problem distributing GPL 2-licensed Windows drivers for VirtualBox[1], in both source and binary form, so, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, neither do I. I suspect Windows dri
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by jasomill 3y ago
Nvidia ships proprietary drivers for FreeBSD (x64): https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/ FreeBSD ships firmware blobs both in tree, e.g., https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src&#x2F
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by jasomill 3y ago
I assume the two-level design was the only way to speed up the context menu without breaking compatibility with some existing shell extensions. Specifically, the older design allows shell extensions to register callbacks that must run — in
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by jasomill 3y ago
Speaking as an inexperienced, infrequent jq user, using ChatGPT to create a jq version of my above PowerShell example took more time than writing a jq version by hand with the help of jq documentation (and to have any confidence that the re
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by jasomill 3y ago
I've been using sed, awk, and friends for I find myself reaching for 30+ years, refer to jq documentation 90% of the time I use it (vs. <<10% when using traditional UNIX tools), and still appreciate JSON output as an option. Inci
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by jasomill 3y ago
The dials on all the "medium-end" digital cameras I've owned always worked reliably despite many years of regular use, as do mouse scroll wheels, so I gather you're correct about cheap components. Come to think of it, t
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by jasomill 3y ago
For me, the biggest stumbling block in understanding the usual ε / δ limit definition in high school was teachers reading | x - a | as "the absolute value of x minus a " rather than "the distance between x and
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by jasomill 3y ago
Correct: none of DVD-Video's supported resolutions[1] have square pixels at either of its two supported aspect ratios (16:9 and 4:3). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Video#Video_data
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by jasomill 3y ago
Presumably this won't happen if you're logging in using a local[1] Active Directory domain account, where Microsoft account login makes no sense, so setting up and logging in through a local AD domain is one potential workaround.
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by jasomill 3y ago
And I'd prefer a system with an AST as the canonical representation, allowing each programmer to set their own display formatting options entirely independently of the underlying codebase. Realistically, either of these options would o
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by jasomill 3y ago
Do these databases see through number portability, or are they just verifying that the area code + prefix is assigned to a traditional telco? Because you can port a landline to Google Voice for $20, and, in my experience, random Internet &q
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by jasomill 3y ago
DKMS: uninstall Nvidia driver using distro package manager BAR: enable resizable BAR in motherboard CMOS setup IOMMU: Add "amd_iommu=off" or "intel_iommu=off" to kernel command line for AMD or Intel CPU, respectively (or
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by jasomill 3y ago
Windows 8.1 and 10 were free upgrades from 8 with identical system requirements and similar performance on supported hardware. Windows Vista was a paid upgrade from XP with increased system requirements and poor performance on low-end suppo
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by jasomill 3y ago
Opus doesn't support 44.1 kHz because compatibility and effort/benefit ratio: https://github.com/xiph/opus/issues/43 The browser audio limitation is presumably a workaround to some bug or performanc
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by jasomill 3y ago
For the reason given by Doctorow in the linked article: If you put a CC license on your work, its explicit message is, “I want you to re-use this.” Not “I am a pedantic asshole with a fetish for well-formed attribution strings.” The point
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by jasomill 3y ago
No — the kernel buffers non-O_DIRECT writes to block devices to ensure correctness. Larger writes will be more efficient, however, if only due to reduced system call overhead. While not necessary when writing an image with the correct block
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by jasomill 3y ago
On Mac and Windows, the free version of Resolve supports H.264 and H.265 (using OS-supplied codecs IIRC). Linux H.264 and H.265 support is Studio-only[1] (presumably because royalties). If you don't care about any other Studio features
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by jasomill 3y ago
Silent grand pianos exist, though the ones I'm aware of also include the acoustic bits as an option, e.g., https://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical_instruments/pianos/s... https://www.boesendor
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by jasomill 3y ago
Use speech synthesis rather than sampled audio — Speak & Spell did comprehensible speech with a few kilobytes of ROM in 1978. With the benefit of a modern microcontroller, I imagine you could do natural-ish speech with only moderately l
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by jasomill 3y ago
While no broken out per plug, APC UPS network management cards provide total power output data (current, voltage, frequency, power) via SNMP, which you can log using a wide variety of tools. And even without external tools, historical power
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by jasomill 3y ago
Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro, and DaVinci Resolve Studio, but, unlike JetBrains, neither Apple nor Blackmagic rely on software sales for most of their revenue. Also, I can think of a few utility programs like Alfred[1] and BetterTouchTool[2] th

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