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by jasomill 3y ago
LTO5 drives are readily available on eBay; units designed for tape libraries frequently sell for $100 or less and are easy to convert for external use. Specifically, I've converted library drives from IBM and Quantum libraries, both wi
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by jasomill 3y ago
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/fwupd LVFS[1] firmware updates are also available through GUI applications (GNOME Software and KDE Discover) provided by desktop environments. [1] https://fwupd.org
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by jasomill 3y ago
Full text New York Times articles are available through subscription services other than nytimes.com. As an example, my local library offers full-text NYT articles through both nytimes.com and ProQuest. Notably, ProQuest's terms only
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by jasomill 3y ago
Darrick Wong works for Oracle, so probably not.
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by jasomill 3y ago
The $24,693,084 figure accurately represents the original IRS filing[1], which is all ProPublica claims to be doing. [1] https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/201864550_201812_990E...
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by jasomill 3y ago
Podman installs a systemd generator that automatically transforms the name .container files shown in the article into ordinary systemd user service units[1][2][3], so loginctl enable-linger USER (run once, as root) should cause US
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by jasomill 3y ago
As for extending the rationals by 0⁻¹ and giving up properties, a ·0 = 0 can still hold for all a ≠ 0⁻¹. To get an idea of what operations do and don't make sense when extending the rationals in the way you propose, define ∞ as our
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by jasomill 3y ago
Does anyone know (or can refer to) a reasonable definition of +,-,*,/,% (in their usual meanings) on rational numbers such that A op B always evaluates to a rational? Given the usual definition of multiplication (and division as its
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by jasomill 3y ago
Excel is at least capable of basic floating-point arithmetic. From the paper: As mentioned in Section 3, we round all real numbers to their nearest integer values, based on the assumption that GPT-4 might have difficulty handling real numb
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by jasomill 3y ago
Would you prefer it if the 15 had two ports instead? Yes, because then I could plug in a charging cable and Apple's diminutive 3.5 mm headphone adapter (for old car stereo) at the same time.
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by jasomill 3y ago
To render pages on a throwaway computer and send only bitmaps, connect to the throwaway computer via VNC and run an ordinary browser. As for improving on tab isolation over what existing browser sandboxes already offer, lightweight virtuali
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by jasomill 3y ago
Definitely — the Python Package Index started off as the Python Cheese Shop: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/05/08/01/0150222/pythons-che... https://web.archive.org/web/20051027
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by jasomill 3y ago
For a bit more background, the general adjudication guidelines established by the DNI are both unclassified and surprisingly succinct: https://www.dni.gov/files/NCSC/documents/Regulations/SEAD-4-... In t
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by jasomill 3y ago
While the modern Internet has certainly changed how documentation is published, your suggested three-part breakdown seems as relevant today as it did when documentation was mostly delivered in print. It's also worth pointing out that b
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by jasomill 3y ago
Me too. If I had to keep a window open in — say — Photoshop open all the time just so I didn't have to wait ten seconds every time I open something with it, it'd drive me crazy. Visual Studio on Windows does drive me crazy for e
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by jasomill 3y ago
Speaking as an American ex-Diet Coke addict who now mostly drinks water, I've found the off-the-shelf sweet drinks I do occasionally consume — fruit juices and ginger ale, mostly — taste better mixed roughly 4:1 with water, because les
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by jasomill 3y ago
Is there any indication that the processes this post is concerned about actually do anything when Siri is disabled in the usual way? I have no wireless interfaces enabled on my Mac, yet several Wi-Fi services are running. My Mac doesn'
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by jasomill 3y ago
Depends on the format, but 10 or 12 bits per color primary is typical; moreover, HDR video standards typically use limited-range YCbCr encodings instead of full-range RGB, so certain low and high values are defined as "blacker than bla
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by jasomill 3y ago
How silly the name sounds depends on whether it brings to mind a style of jazz or a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles henchman.
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by jasomill 3y ago
Debian distributes firmware stored in volatile RAM because it is either required to use the hardware, or, as is the case for CPU microcode updates, highly recommended for most users. As far as I know, Debian does not distribute proprietary
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by jasomill 3y ago
Speaking of E&S vector displays: as a young volunteer at our local children's museum[1] in the early '90s, I spent many pleasant hours screwing around with a first-generation Digistar planetarium system, which was essentially
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by jasomill 3y ago
Used books were a thing even way back when; as a child in the mid-'80s, I bought (with my parents' money) a complete Encyclopædia Britannica set at the opening "friends and family" night of our local public library syste
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by jasomill 3y ago
Version 1, actually[1]: The PS.temp file is a special file created by the Adobe Photoshop program to implement the program's virtual memory scheme. Virtual memory allows you to work on images of nearly any size, by using a hard disk i
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by jasomill 3y ago
At that density, cooling seems like it'd be an issue. Incidentally, (3.5") 100 TB SSDs exist, though they're not cheap, https://nimbusdata.com/products/exadrive/pricing/ (presumably "Speci
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by jasomill 3y ago
In terms of hardware, RDX cartridges are just bog-standard SATA hard drives in proprietary enclosures, so no more or less reliable than SATA hard drives in equivalently rugged USB enclosures. I'd actually argue that RDX carts are a bit
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by jasomill 3y ago
Incidentally, while /private/tmp is a cesspool of random detritus created by whatever process chose to abandon it there, identical daily clean-up behavior (implemented by /etc/periodic/daily/110.clean-tmps )
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by jasomill 3y ago
Not only is it still possible, there's even a supported first-party tool to do so, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-desktop-optimiza... This only works for local accounts, though similarly trivial techn
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by jasomill 3y ago
On a related note, I own a few older tape drives[1], have access to many more[2], and would be happy to volunteer my time and equipment to small-scale hobbyist / retrocomputing projects such as this — tape format conversions were a con
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by jasomill 3y ago
Yet, despite ARCserve showing a popup which says "Restoration Successful", it restores up to the first 32KB of every file on the tape, but NO MORE." From 10,000 feet, this sounds suspiciously like ARCserve is reading a singl
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by jasomill 3y ago
I actually like WiX[1] — it has a bit of a learning curve, but, so long as I'm building on Windows and don't stray far from the default UI flows, I haven't found an easier tool for creating Windows installers as part of a pro

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