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by jasomill 5mo ago
People have this image of farmers as ignorant bumpkins, when owners of even small family farms are some of the most intelligent, objective, and economically-motivated businesspeople I've known. The first IBM PC I ever used was in the h
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by jasomill 5mo ago
Violation of these rights may be criminal without meeting the strict legal definition of theft. This can even extend to stealing physical property. Depending on local laws, stealing a car may not actually be theft if the defendent can prove
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by jasomill 5mo ago
Likewise. And after reading the Wikipedia article on Drebbel, how have I never heard of this guy? I'm particularly curious how the Royal Navy failed to realize the value of the submarine. Reading over the article on the history of the
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by jasomill 5mo ago
For a recursive acronym, I prefer LiNT, officially LiNT is NT, and unofficially, either Linux in NT or Linux is Not There, with the official and second unofficial definitions reflecting the WSL 1 architecture where WSL, like Win32, is a sub
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by jasomill 5mo ago
In the present context, I'm reminded of IBM's "OS/2 for Windows", which, while actually a reduced-price version of OS/2 2.1 that used a customer's existing copy of Windows 3.1 to avoid the cost of licensin
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by jasomill 5mo ago
This is correct. It's also worth pointing out that the 3270 defaults to overwrite rather than insert mode, and has an "Erase EOF" key that deletes all text from the cursor position to end-of-field.
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by jasomill 5mo ago
My favorite feature of 3270/5250-style keyboard layouts is the separate carriage return and Enter keys, allowing for multiline text entry without special handling to avoid conflicts with the command to signify that input is complete. W
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by jasomill 5mo ago
Should have gone to First CityWide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXDxNCzUspM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KodqIPMbyUg
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by jasomill 5mo ago
Unfortunately, these efforts will continue so long as the idea that "if I'm not doing anything wrong, I have nothing to hide" remains commonplace. The optimist in me hopes that attempts to censor popular and relatively harmle
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by jasomill 5mo ago
Maybe? But there's also a decent chance a game won't run at all, and when performance is actually a problem, an even better chance that Windows-specific performance optimization tips will be more readily available than Linux-speci
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by jasomill 5mo ago
The fact that the double-click shortcut opens the Wallet app in a functionally limited but visually identical mode is terrible UI design.
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by jasomill 5mo ago
Requiring additional ID for low-value credit card transactions is not necessarily good security from a customer standpoint, as it increases exposure to identity theft by store employees to reduce the relatively minor risk of small, easily r
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by jasomill 6mo ago
Sounds like a scenario where something other than fines should be applied. Revoke plates fleetwide, tow any delivery trucks caught on the street with a mandatory 72 hour minimum impound time, with no access to the contents of the vehicle.
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by jasomill 6mo ago
Or delivery drivers should ride bikes. And larger deliveries should be scheduled around low traffic times, or else the city should reserve parking for delivery trucks.
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by jasomill 6mo ago
One thing I don't understand is how you're supposed use a database with no access control in production in the first place. Do customer-facing applications run using keys with the same ability to delete databases?
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by jasomill 6mo ago
Mostly to run it in environments where WSL2 is not an option, typically because I cannot or do not want to enable the necessary hypervisor support.
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by jasomill 6mo ago
More likely it’s that 48 kHz is a more sensible default, since the majority of non-music digital audio is sampled at 48 kHz, almost anyone who cares about potential audio artifacts introduced by resampling is going to be using an external D
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by jasomill 6mo ago
There is no silver hammer? Maxwell will be devastated.
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by jasomill 6mo ago
And in Win32, the term "ANSI" is used variously to refer to the current default non-UTF-16 character encoding, any non-UTF-16 character encoding, any non-MS-DOS, non-UTF-16 character encoding, and probably other things I've f
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by jasomill 6mo ago
All character setes do not encode subsets of Unicode. Two well-known counterexamples that come immediately to mind: 1. Mac OS Roman includes a non-Unicode Apple logo. 2. The Atari ST character set includes two non-Unicode characters that
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by jasomill 6mo ago
Tell that to programmers writing code to extract data from PCL print streams by stripping escape sequences and processing the result as "plain text" (in multiple incompatible extended ASCII encodings specified by the stripped esca
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by jasomill 6mo ago
While I generally agree, there are still corner cases: As I mentioned above, a Thunderbolt port can end up with less dedicated bandwidth than a 10 Gbps USB port due to PCIe lane configuration. Thunderbolt 3 only provides 22 Gbps PCIe bandwi
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by jasomill 6mo ago
I have an Intel NUC where 10 Gbps devices can run faster when plugged into the 3.1 Gen 2 ports than the Thunderbolt 3 ports under NVMe load, due to the former having dedicated PCIe lanes and the latter sharing the PCH lanes with the M.2 slo
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by jasomill 6mo ago
I remember reading the PowerPC System Software volume of Inside Macintosh [1] at the time, and what I found impressive wasn't that 68k applications ran under emulation on PowerPC, but that much of the Toolbox and System Software wer
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by jasomill 6mo ago
So fix a system's known bugs by creating an entirely new system with a fresh set of unknown bugs?
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by jasomill 6mo ago
My favorite firmware update story is a time when I had to reflash firmware on an old IBM Fibre Channel/SCSI gateway because it had become corrupted and wouldn't boot. Fortunately the first stage bootloader (which may have been in
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by jasomill 6mo ago
Funny you mention that, because my first thought when reading that he submitted a report to the vendor was that they'd "fix" the problem by requiring firmware uploads to be signed (in which case it's "secure" b
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by jasomill 6mo ago
From the article, it sounds like he used Claude Code as an alternative to Wireshark and Google to decode USB HID traffic and find protocol documentation, respectively. I suppose this could save a bit of time if you don't already have W
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by jasomill 6mo ago
The two are not mutually exclusive. On many occasions I've used C# to define domain-specific environments in which snippets of code, typically expressions, are compiled and evaluated at runtime, "extending the language" by ev
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by jasomill 6mo ago
And I don't recall any practical way to recover from a crashed NT 3.x GUI subsystem. It would presumably still function as a server, and be gracefully shut down remotely, but in the absence of anything like Remote Desktop or EMS[1], yo

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