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901.
by jasomill 6y ago
Ten years and just north of 1,000 lines of self-written code; 1,500 if you count the ~300 lines of custom.el and ~200 for a hastily copy/pasted copy of find-dired hacked to do Spotlight searches. To be fair, I try to go through it
902.
by jasomill 6y ago
Income from sales and service of computer hardware and software with Apple-sized gross margins for (the same) decades.
903.
by jasomill 6y ago
I imagine this depends on the configuration of the TV, if only because — if your C9 is anything like my slightly older LG IPS HDR TV — backlight brightness, color calibration, and other settings that affect the brightness of full-scale SDR
904.
by jasomill 6y ago
And I use a 55" 4K TV as my "monitor", because sub-$1,000 >>30" monitors with internal 3D LUT-based color calibration aren't a thing. And, while I don't use the speakers, the TV's S/PDIF output
905.
by jasomill 6y ago
Likewise (s/Chromecast/Mac Pro/), but mine (LG) has no apparent means to disable Wi-Fi Direct, so it's still potentially vulnerable to local wireless exploits.
906.
by jasomill 6y ago
Why would you choose a system with a single Gen 2 PCIe lane xor bandwidth-constrained USB 3.0 as the only high-bandwidth I/O to build a storage server? I ask as an owner and regular user of several Pi models, including a 4. With that
907.
by jasomill 6y ago
IBM i tends to be picky about disks, as well. At least as of a couple years ago, the only way to use local disks with standard 512-byte or 4096-byte sector sizes was through VIOS or similar* storage virtualization mechanisms, so unless QEMU
908.
by jasomill 6y ago
Speaking of reading comprehension, perhaps a lawyer could chime in and help me out here: paragraph 14.1 of that agreement reads to me as "This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of a hypothetical State of California where, by assu
909.
by jasomill 6y ago
Atari 800, ca. 1982, was my first computer. But unless you need to run modern applications, why not run NEXTSTEP on the mini-Cube? The Previous NeXT emulator[1] should run at full speed on most modern x86 CPUs[2], so if you're not marr
910.
by jasomill 6y ago
IBM's z/OS UNIX System Services is very nearly this. Many UNIX systems have tons of utilities that more resemble BusyBox than GNU coreutils, and AFAIK no C compiler is anywhere near as compatible with GCC as clang (including, no
911.
by jasomill 6y ago
Have you tried installing a cron daemon in WSL using your distro's package manager and starting it with, e.g., wsl -u root /usr/sbin/service <daemon-name> start or, equivalently, wsl -u root /etc&#x
912.
by jasomill 6y ago
Official PDF transcript: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10271716...
913.
by jasomill 6y ago
Reminds me of the time I learned Jim Morrison's social security number from a framed form hanging on the wall next to my table at a Hard Rock Café, written in ballpoint pen, "redacted" with a magic marker that did nothing, ob
914.
by jasomill 6y ago
Or, equivalently, $utc = [DateTimeOffset]::FromUnixTimeSeconds(16e8).UtcDateTime Incidentally, PS> ($utc, (Get-Date -AsUtc '1/1/1970'), (Get-Date -AsUtc), (Get-Date)).Kind Utc Utc Utc Lo
915.
by jasomill 6y ago
Incidentally, if the $185,000 you're about to spend on a new gTLD registration is bringing you down, you could use the money to register icann.sucks instead: https://www.rebel.com/search/?exact=false&q=icann.
916.
by jasomill 6y ago
At the time handwriting was being taught in school, elbow problems (complications from hemophilia) made handwriting quite painful, so I was using a (silent, electronic) typewriter for in-class assignments. Needless to say, typing handwritin
917.
by jasomill 6y ago
As a masochist who prefers a variable-pitch default font in Emacs, (defun fixed-pitch-mode (&optional arg) (interactive (list (or current-prefix-arg 'toggle))) (buffer-face-mode-invoke 'fixed-pitch (or arg t) nil))
918.
by jasomill 6y ago
Rubbish. Speaking as someone with seventeen-odd years of professional C# experience and no professional Lisp experience, Emacs Lisp is both easier to learn than the Visual Studio SDK and, more importantly in the long run, far more likely to
919.
by jasomill 6y ago
For, um, future reference, here's a minimal[1] RGB TIFF version suitable for assembly with nasm -f bin : db 'II*',0 ; header dd ifd ; offset to IFD xres: dd 72,1 ;
920.
by jasomill 6y ago
As far as I know, all z/OS ancestors were capable of running on non-IBM systems, and so was z/OS itself until it stopped supporting the 31-bit ESA/390 architecture which was the last IBM mainframe architecture successfully cl
921.
by jasomill 6y ago
Usually, but not always. Moreover, other countries have laws analogous to provisions of the Espionage Act, and it's hardly impossible that some alleged act could be viewed as detrimental to the security of both the US and another c
922.
by jasomill 6y ago
Windows once used a similar fuzzing technique[1] to mitigate a video driver bug. [1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040211-00/?p=40...
923.
by jasomill 6y ago
Loaded from the boot sector of any floppy that happens to be present when the system is restarted, unless the boot order has been changed from factory defaults and the (possibly very old) coin cell powering NVRAM holds sufficient charge t
924.
by jasomill 6y ago
Ultrix? You ever use OS/278? It didn't even support disk volumes containing more than 2^20 (12-bit) words, which was a big deal with "large" (20 MB) disks. Source: one of my first few "home computers" was a DEC
925.
by jasomill 6y ago
IMO, applications that don't prompt for confirmation on potentially destructive Quit are broken. By this definition, all Mac Web browsers are broken, but you can fix the accidental Command-Q problem on an app-by-app basis by remapping
926.
by jasomill 6y ago
Hold down Option while clicking the window to exclude the drop shadow from the screenshot. As a vastly more general rule, hold down Option while clicking anything on a Mac to get the alternate/advanced form of the click action ( e.g.
927.
by jasomill 6y ago
And if quantity and type of receptacles are intended to be a form of overcurrent protection, wouldn't the UL refuse to certify a duplex 5-15R receptacle for use on a 15 A circuit? The fact that they do not leads (non-electrician) me to
928.
by jasomill 6y ago
While I like Tcl, which I have used to write substantial portions of a shipping product, the author does make a good point about the difficulty of creating a language that is simultaneously a good programming language and a good scripting l
929.
by jasomill 6y ago
I ran into a very annoying case of this in the wild: a USB hard drive "pre-formatted for Windows and Mac". Specifically, the entire disk was pre-formatted as both NTFS and HFS+. The trick: as shipped, LBA 0 contained an MBR pointi
930.
by jasomill 6y ago
Oh, and python -m http.server 12345 serves files in the current directory over HTTP on port 12345. I'll stop now, but I love how Python module developers add these "hidden" command-line features. P.S.: You can — and, a

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