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Another example: the notion of an n -dimensional geometric structure with intrinsic, variable curvature that serves as a mathematical foundation for the theory of general relativity originated with Riemann[1]. [1] https://www.ma
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In addition to disks, IBM direct-access storage options available in the middle sixties included a variety of magnetic drum devices and the short-lived, tape-based Data Cell Drive[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I
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by jasomill 3y ago
Buy a $140/$200 retail Windows 11 Home/Pro license with a credit card and make $7/$10 monthly payments. At around 20% APR, you'll end up with a perpetual license paid off in about two years that'll likely be useful
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The $432/user/year Microsoft 365 E3 subscription[1] covers Windows Enterprise LTSC, has no minimum order quantity, and can be purchased online directly from Microsoft without a volume licensing agreement (by clicking "Try fre
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Seek time wouldn't necessarily be a deal killer, as you could store chunks of movies as files in a structure similar (or identical) to LTFS[1] and have average seek times from tape load less than a minute and local seeks (forward/
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My solution to heavy-ass books was to re-bind individual chapters in 50¢ report covers after paying a copy shop about $2/book to cut out and three-hole punch the pages, and only carry the chapters I was actively using, which easily fit
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That's not Python; it's just a hard link to a generic shim for every program in /usr/bin that ships with the developer tools, $ find /usr/bin -inum $(stat -f %i /usr/bin/python3) | wc -l
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by jasomill 3y ago
Cocaine, like methamphetamine, is a Schedule II controlled substance under US law, so has accepted medical uses. As with meth, typical medical applications of cocaine don't involve smoking it (source: Wikipedia). Legitimate US supplier
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by jasomill 3y ago
Two offline alternatives come immediately to mind. 1. Reconfigure pam_yubico to use local challenge-response auth instead of YubiCloud. The ykpamcfg(1) man page[1] explains how to do so. 2. Use pam_u2f to enable FIDO2/U2F auth. See, e.
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If your goal is to batch convert a wide variety of lossily-compressed source material at a significantly lower bitrate without obvious loss of fidelity, MP3 is not great. That appears to be the author's specific complaint against
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As a concrete example of what you're describing, here's an example of a code used with Linotype typesetting machines: https://archive.org/details/LinotypeHandbookForTeletypesette... This code contains two shi
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by jasomill 3y ago
Yup. Circa 1997, I switched from AfterStep to (then-new) Enlightenment briefly before settling on WindowMaker as a good balance between bling and performance. My PC at the time was a hand-me-down white box AMD 386 (40 MHz) running FreeBSD 2
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by jasomill 3y ago
He also wrote a column for PC/Computing magazine in the early '90s.
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Almost. I give you… https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/gsa-regions/region-5-great-lake... which, while not visible in the photo, sacrifices the courtyard from the Boston design in favor of more, windowless floor space.
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by jasomill 3y ago
No, but you can use ffmpeg to create a GIF from ASCII art embedded in a Hacker News comment: $ ffmpeg -v quiet -codecs | egrep -i 'gif|ascii' D.V.L. ansi ASCII/ANSI art DEV..S gif Co
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It can't create partition tables or filesystems, so no, but ffmpeg -f data -i /dev/zero -map 0:0 -c copy -f data - > /dev/sda is roughly equivalent to to dd status=progress if=/dev/zero of=&#
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That doesn't work[1], but ffmpeg -v quiet -f data -i file.txt -map 0:0 -c copy -f data - does. [1] “Encoder 'text' specified, but only '-codec copy' supported for data streams”
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I especially like the seamless transitions between different orchestrations of the score when moving between certain areas, and the chiptune transition when entering the hacking minigame, e.g., from https://archive.org/detai
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For anyone interested, the full output of the floppy's "Print Full Press Kit" command (35 printed pages) is https://jasomill.at/sneakers.txt
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In my experience in one of the few blue enclaves in an overwhelmingly red US state[1], selectively enforced laws are frequently used by local law enforcement as an instrument of discrimination against "undesirables". As a straight
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The figurative IP rights infringement sense of the word "piracy" is over 250 years old. Source: OED [1], 2. fig. The appropriation and reproduction of an invention or work of another for one's own profit, without authority;
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“Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the nonexistence of God. “The argum
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Also smaller than half the binaries in /usr/bin on my x86_64 Fedora 39 system[1] and less than half the size of every binary executable in /bin and /usr/bin on my x86_64 Mac[2] in spite of the fact that all the Li
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Until someone figures out how to supply bus power over optical fiber, I don't see it as a viable alternative for typical consumer peripheral I/O applications, no matter how inexpensive and robust the cables are.
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While not exactly "introductory" in terms of mathematical prerequisites, Spivak's Mechanics I [1] is an interesting take on the subject, with extensive historical references if you're in to that sort of thing. [1] http
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As someone who only learned multivariable calculus successfully via independent study of exterior differential forms as a result of off-handed comments from the differential geometry professor who taught my first-year calc course, I wholehe
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Microsoft's Universal CRT, present by default in Windows 10, and installable on Windows 7 SP1 and later. Linking to UCRT using an entirely FOSS toolchain is, alas, nontrivial, but supported by mingw compilers (gcc and clang; no idea ab
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Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leo...
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To Samsung's credit, they tend to fix firmware problems eventually. As such, by avoiding recently-released drives, I've had nothing but positive experiences with my fifteen or so Samsung drives, including several models that origi
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Pedantically, the PC DOS 3 1/2" HD format is 1440 * 1024 bytes[1], so either 1.47456 MB (SI) or 1.40625 MiB (IEC), though "1.44 MB" was the official IBM designation for the format. [1] 2 sides / disk * 18 tracks &#x

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