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by jasomill 7mo ago
But wait, there's more! As of the fourth Beta, DECnet support has been re-enabled. To make LAT or CTERM connections you must have a licensed copy of Pathworks32 installed. SSH is now supported on 32bit ARM devices (Windows RT) for t
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IBM z/Architecture, i (OS/400), and AIX aren't primarily used for "hobby stuff".
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Not at all. Most programs only use one or a few hash functions, so grouping each family into a separate crate reduces compliation time for the majority of users. Could also help when auditing the removal of vulnerable hash functions. As for
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While I have no personal experience with the 3B2 series, its documentation[1] clearly illustrates the GP's complaint: starting from the most significant binary digit, bit numbers decrease while byte addresses increase. As for networkin
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While I have a strong personal preference for little endian, one thing I've always appreciated about IBM System/360 and its successors is that it at least has consistent notational conventions: most significant byte first, most si
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You say this like a system of international law has ever existed that effectively restrains the most powerful nations in the world, democracies or otherwise.
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The Fulton recovery system[1] using a self-inflating balloon was used in production. Though if Iranian air defenses are capable of shooting down an F-15, mounting a rescue operation with a C-130 may not be the brightest idea. Anyone know th
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by jasomill 7mo ago
I've used Alfred[1] for many years on macOS, and more recently the PowerToys Command Palette[2] on Windows. Both are easily extensible, so you could certainly wire either up to the local (or hosted) LLM of your choice. Side note: I jus
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If every device is directly connected to every other one of n devices with Thunderbolt cables, each with its own dedicated set of PCIe lanes, you'd be limited to 1/ n of the theoretical maximum bandwidth between any two devices
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And while the US is a member of the UN and therefore subject to the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (not the ICC), as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, it also has the power to unilaterally veto any enforceme
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Depends on whether there's room in the budget to integrate something like a full-fat Raspberry Pi board, at which point, your light switches and thermostats can be full-fledged Kubernetes nodes if you like. Never underestimate software
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Not exactly, though many apps violate Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for macOS menu bar extras[1]: Let people — not your app — decide whether to put your menu bar extra in the menu bar. Typically, people add a menu bar extra to th
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by jasomill 7mo ago
You're not wrong, but largely as a result of dubious architectural decisions made in the name of backwards compatibility and minimal hardware requirements, Microsoft sold 40 million copies of Windows 95 in its first year, compared to 3
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As I understand it, ish implements x86 instructions and Linux syscalls as functions and translates running programs into arrays of calls to these functions, so all the machine code that will ever run is included in the app bundle, which at
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The third-party aspect is irrelevant, but while high downtime on any product looks bad for the company and the division, I consider GitHub Copilot an entirely separate product from GitHub, and GitHub Copilot downtime doesn't interfere
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Does Microsoft get kickbacks from code signing certificate vendors? Because AFAIK SmartScreen only applies to software downloaded outside the Microsoft Store. Come to think of it, I suppose it does incentivize distribution through the Store
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On a similar if sillier note note, Korg made a Hatsune Miku guitar effect[1] that was programmable through audio sent from an iPhone app through the guitar pickup. Annoyingly, the free app isn't available on the US App Store, so open s
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Likewise on desktop.
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Given the rest of the paragraph, I believe the parent is trying to say that merely improving developer skills is not valuable to the company, not that improving developer skills cannot provide value in terms of improved work product, mora
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As a rule, I commit the input to the code generation tool, i.e., what the GPL refers to as "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it", generate as part of the build process, and, where possible, try to avoid
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Never fried one in bacon grease, but they are good with bacon and cheese. I have had more than one restaurant point out that their bacon wasn't vegetarian when ordering, though.
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Don't be silly. I use good ol' C-x M-c M-butterfly. https://xkcd.com/378/
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Round-trip coach on Amtrak from Indianapolis to Las Vegas* in my early 20s is definitely a fun thing I'll never do again. One of the friends I was with threw in the towel and bought a plane ticket home, though to be fair she was travel
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Assuming by 2K you mean 2560x1440, I also prefer non-integer HiDPI 2560x1440 mode over both native and HiDPI 1080p modes on my large (55”) 4K display, and the non-integer scaling is only rarely a problem.
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$500 million in clean-up costs resulting from using the wrong kitty litter. Amazing. Sounds like the cleanup costs were largely related to the fact that the reaction caused an airtight drum to explode and spew radioactive waste throughout t
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My local carwash's top-end wash is called the "Ultimate 360°", despite the fact that it obviously cleans the entire surface area of the car, and I'm simultaneously annoyed by the name and reminded of the System/4 Pi
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I do when I'm using a keyboard that has one, for numeric input, but I don't do this often enough to prefer it to the smaller form factor of a tenkeyless keyboard. My usual layout, left to right, is Magic Trackpad, tenkeyless keybo
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RTFM and being able to quickly reduce problems to the simplest possible test case are my superpowers. To be fair, LLMs can be quite useful for quickly finding the correct place in TFM to look when you don't necessarily have a function
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by jasomill 7mo ago
Amen to this. I still haven't figured out how to remove Microsoft Store apps from the Start menu in recent non-LTSC versions of Windows 11, even on Enterprise with the Enterprise-only "disable consumer experiences" Group Poli
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I can see exactly one, and it's niche: the ability to safely leave tiny USB-A peripherals like flash drives, wireless dongles, and SFF YubiKeys connected while not in use (not that I'm recommending a YubiKey be left connected to a

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