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Software aspects of strategic defense systems (1985)(dl.acm.org)
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by jasomill 3y ago
The inability to tune a fish was first documented in the original 4.2BSD man page for tunefs(8), https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.2BSD/usr/man/ma... and is still present in most BSD-derived t
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The best bit: any sentence consisting solely of the word "buffalo" repeated any number of times is grammatically correct
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by jasomill 3y ago
Kernel debugging over serial should be possible in vSphere, but Ethernet is easier to set up: 1. Make sure at least one virtual NIC on the target VM (with IP connectivity to the debug host machine/VM) is on Microsoft's NIC whiteli
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by jasomill 3y ago
Definitely my favorite programmable HP calculator — fully loaded with development tools, it's essentially a quirky handheld Lisp machine. While the 15C is my "daily driver", my dream HP calculator is a 50G with an OLED displa
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by jasomill 3y ago
My two 20+ year old 15Cs still work great, so I'll pass for the moment, but it's encouraging to read that the new licensee has fixed all known bugs from the last re-release[1] and produced an updated manual[2] that documents both
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by jasomill 3y ago
Spinning up only upon request is common behavior for SCSI drives. Per the Ultrastar DC HC550 manual I have handy, After power on, the drive enters the Active Wait state. The Drive will not spin up its spindle motor after power on until it
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by jasomill 3y ago
Older Windows games also run well on Wine[1] and (of course) Proton. [1] https://jasomill.at/Fallout2.mp4 N.B.: AFAIK, running 16-/32-bit Windows software under open-source Wine on Mac OS, as seen here, is no longer po
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by jasomill 3y ago
As the owner of an obscure floppy disk subsystem that requires an 8-bit ISA card and was originally spec'ed to run on XT-class hardware, this is tempting. In particular, 640 kB really is enough, as the bundled software runs in real mod
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by jasomill 3y ago
(As is the expectation of a uniform distribution in the first place. From the PDF for the uniform distribution (1/( b - a ) for x ∈ [ a , b ], zero elsewhere) and the definition of EV as the integral of the product of the identity
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by jasomill 3y ago
As a quick sanity check, Mathematica 13.2.1 Kernel for Linux ARM (64-bit) Copyright 1988-2023 Wolfram Research, Inc. In[1]:= DI = Distributed; In[2]:= EV = Expectation; In[3]:= SS = Subscript; In[4]:= UD = UniformDistribut
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Even worse, authorized HP retailers sell nearly expired cartridges. Happened to my mother who bought an HP-branded cartridge from ("shipped and sold by") Amazon, then got a warning message when she installed it a couple months lat
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by jasomill 3y ago
If you like those, see also, off the top of my head and in no particular order: system_profiler, ioreg[1], networksetup, afconvert, sips, osascript, lsregister[2], apfs.util[3], and, from Xcode, GetFileInfo and SetFile. All have man pages e
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by jasomill 3y ago
My nerd snipe for the morning: "A High-Level Language Benchmark", p. 180, comparison of the results on p.194 with a few random compilers on the system I'm using today. All results from my 2013 Mac Pro (12 core), compiled with
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by jasomill 3y ago
Newer? My .at (est. 1988) email address is still occasionally rejected for its "invalid" TLD.
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by jasomill 3y ago
Even little details like putting "MUST" in all caps are presumably important -- like it wasn't following those rules enough, until they were extra-emphasized. Or perhaps the chatbot was trained on many documents in RFC styl
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by jasomill 3y ago
Speaking of Nikon, the Nikon F2, a fantastic , fully mechanical[1] SLR, is widely available on the used market for <$500 and compatible with nearly every full-frame Nikon SLR lens ever made with an aperture ring[2]. My current personal
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by jasomill 3y ago
Honestly, I think the default fonts (monospaced and proportional) on all major platforms are pretty good these days, though IBM Plex Mono and Sans have really grown on me, to the point where I use them as my default terminal (Mono) and text
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by jasomill 3y ago
FWIW, all IBM Plex fonts offer plain, dotted, and slashed zeroes via OpenType stylistic alternatives (dotted is default for Mono, plain for others).
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I don't care what they do the menus and toolbars one way or the other, so long as they're still able to be customized and hidden, and so long as fonts remain universally customizable and resizable. Increased granularity for font s
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by jasomill 3y ago
Not just the elderly, and this would very much help with online scams, as well. Case in point: my mother, who I would not consider elderly, and who's skeptical enough to pretty much assume everything is a scam, yet wasted a fair bit
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by jasomill 3y ago
Worse: buying a ticket generally decreases your expected net lottery winnings, as the expected value of a lottery ticket is almost always lower than its purchase price. The only likely exceptions I'm aware of that don't require
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by jasomill 3y ago
Trouble is you can't use /dev/null as a filesystem, even for testing. On a related note, though, I've considered the idea of creating a "minimally POSIX-compliant" filesystem that randomly reorders and delays I
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by jasomill 3y ago
N.B.: in V7 (and 32V), inodes are locked identically for both writes and reads[1], if((ip->i_mode&(IFCHR&IFBLK)) == 0) plock(ip); if(mode == FREAD) readi(ip); else writei(ip); if((ip->i_mode
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by jasomill 3y ago
And pedals! I've half-seriously considered experimenting with an expression pedal as a vertical scroll controller for desktop applications, using a second pedal to switch between relative (pedal position relative to center → scroll vel
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by jasomill 3y ago
A few data random data points: PS/2 Model 80 release MSRPs were $6,995, $8,295, and $10,995, depending on the configuration, without monitor, OS, FPU, or support for display resolutions beyond standard VGA[1]. The top model included a
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by jasomill 3y ago
Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcRRaXV-fg as well as the brief time I used "jasomilldotat@jasomill.at" as my own email address.
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https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/0... The Commission filed an administrative complaint against Intel Corp., the world’s leading computer chip maker, charging that the company had il
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You should probably include Intel in that list, given that they acquired DEC's chip fabs in 1997[1], the lion's share of Alpha IP in 2001[2], and hundreds of Alpha engineers over the next few years[3]. [1] https://www.w
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"I'll be staying at four hotels."

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