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by jasomill 4y ago
If that's the direction you want to go, retired Xeon-based workstations (HP Z, Dell Precision, etc.) also sell for less than new high-end desktop CPUs, have well-engineered, if proprietary, case designs, and still allow you to bring yo
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by jasomill 4y ago
Supreme Primes are modern, $20,000+ PL mount cine lenses, so probably not popular even among trust fund hipsters for shooting stills. To be fair, if I had the funds, I'd certainly consider it, though I consider myself slightly mental i
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by jasomill 4y ago
You can avoid the giant command line by providing a configuration file exported from a “known good” install: From the installer GUI on a machine with the correct set of components installed, click the “More ▼” button, then choose “Export Co
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by jasomill 4y ago
Something that covers calculus of variations, Euler-Legrange equation, etc. I first covered this in Classical Mechanics but don't remember the textbook. The Feynman Lectures of Physics [2] probably covers it, but I don't know for
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by jasomill 4y ago
As a more direct analogue of your VMS example, Windows provides system-level support for handling exceptions without unwinding the stack. Here's an example of page fault handling, using Microsoft C/C++ compiler extensions to acces
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by jasomill 4y ago
The Common Lisp condition system[1] supports this. [1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node312.html
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by jasomill 4y ago
On a related note, in college ca. 1999, when I took a history and philosophy of science course on nuclear weapons, the instructor, a retired Los Alamos physicist, assigned an excerpt from The Sum of All Fears as required reading. He claim
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by jasomill 4y ago
Windows Enterprise is a superset of consumer Windows, so, given the existence of the former, the marginal development cost of consumer Windows is limited to the comparatively modest set of Windows features that few enterprise users care abo
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by jasomill 4y ago
1. Calls/FaceTime/SMS/iMessage (banners and sounds, Mac and iPhone). 2. Calendar reminders (banners only, Mac and iPhone). 3. A bespoke "hello world" iOS app I threw together and installed to enable ad hoc notificat
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by jasomill 4y ago
You can use hdparm(8)'s --dco-setmax option to reduce the visible size of most SATA drives. This is not particularly useful for single drives — leaving unpartitioned space works just as well, assuming an OS that never writes to it — b
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by jasomill 4y ago
In the grand scheme of Microsoft licensing, IIS w/External Connector licensing, while not "cheap", is surprisingly reasonable (IIRC, less than $200/month per physical server, including software assurance, licensing for t
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by jasomill 4y ago
IIRC — I worked in a computer lab full of PS/2 Model 25 at the time — MCGA was just CGA with a couple VGA modes (640x480x2 and 320x200x256) bolted on. In particular, it was not compatible with EGA.
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by jasomill 4y ago
Technically, the original Macintosh filesystem supported folders as "an illusion maintained by the system software"[1] in spite of its flat directory structure. [1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive&
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by jasomill 4y ago
You can make this arbitrarily difficult by moving more and more core functionality into the backend, to the point where the front end is little more than a bundle of cached assets for what's otherwise an online game. At which point, an
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by jasomill 4y ago
Customers buying expensive cars are typically less price-sensitive than customers buying less expensive cars; high-end hotels charge for Wi-Fi service that's free at lower-end hotels in the same chain for the same reason.
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by jasomill 4y ago
Pedantically, the Holy See[1] is the Pope's jurisdiction, which includes his universal ecclesiastical jurisdiction in addition to territorial control of a sovereign state. This state[2], per the treaty establishing it[3], is properly
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by jasomill 4y ago
Of the ~20 assorted Deskstar and related Ultrastar drives of that vintage I've had in regular use over the past decade, exactly one has failed...because I dropped it. HGST SAS SSDs (the ones that pair Intel NAND and Hitachi SAS control
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by jasomill 4y ago
Interesting. Mac OS Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari all display マリウス.com.
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by jasomill 4y ago
OCR built in to Mac OS Preview.app: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is committed to leading the response to cybersecurity incidents and vulnerabilities to safeguard the nation's critical assets. Section 6 of
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by jasomill 4y ago
And here are the actual substitution[1] rules: https://jasomill.at/scunthorpe-sans_dlig.fea Source: Window → Panel → Features in FontLab. Alternatively, fontforge -lang=ff -c 'Open($1) ; GenerateFeatureFile($2)&#x2
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by jasomill 4y ago
For posterity, here's a link to a version of that page with the original comments section intact: https://web.archive.org/web/20160410051513/https://blogs.msd...
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by jasomill 4y ago
I sort of do the opposite; my main Windows dev box is a dual-socket HP Z820 ESXi host with multiple GPUs, a large SAS SSD RAID 10 array, and an additional SSD and pair of large SATA hard drives for ESXi scratch/swap and local backups,
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by jasomill 4y ago
Word for DOS (and Xenix!) predates Mac Word, and even the Macintosh itself, but Word for Mac predates Word for Windows by several years. The DOS predecessor to Excel was Multiplan, which again predates the Mac, but Excel 1.0 was indeed a Ma
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by jasomill 4y ago
Totally awesome, but only mostly useless. The week I got mine, I used it to find my car in a large parking lot. Then I put it in a box and never looked at it again.
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by jasomill 4y ago
Sure, as long as everything is configured correctly and you trust the network stack on the host connected to the trunk port. I use a similar configuration on my three ESXi hosts, with a pair of Ethernet ports on each host LACP bonded to a t
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by jasomill 4y ago
Sure, or just affix a short length of wire with a bit of gaffer tape and peel it off when done reprogramming.
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by jasomill 4y ago
If you're not concerned about the risk of prosecution under the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA, you should be able to emulate HDCP 2.2 by connecting the computer to an HDCP 2.2-to-1.4 converter[1], connecting the converter
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by jasomill 4y ago
When reading Feynman, don't miss the fact that the original audio recordings are now freely available [1], which, even speaking as someone with a strong preference for reading vs. listening or watching instructive material, shouldn&#x2
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by jasomill 4y ago
Agree, but this isn't all bad: their broken Web platform gave me free online access for years , because I noticed the "temporary instant access" link from the original subscription confirmation email was both reusable, and h
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by jasomill 4y ago
My post office box has its own ZIP+4.

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