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   by jdblair 3y ago

   So... Kit-Kats are impossible! Yet they exist, a miracle!
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   by jdblair 3y ago

   Funny seeing the "atomic" recipe for refried beans. I've recently learned to make my own refried beans from scratch, and it is a super easy recipe. My recipe is recursive, though! I use dried beans that I've already cook
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   Tempest: A Signal Problem – National Security Agency [pdf](nsa.gov)

   2 points by jdblair 3y ago|0 comments
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   by jdblair 3y ago

   This was how I learned to program, also, on my dad's HP-85. I would animate text on the screen by writing multiple print statements with the correct number of spaces. I drew pictures by drawing lines (HP basic has a DRAW command that d
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   by jdblair 3y ago

   Yeah, I admit that maybe this isn't "most places," since there are almost certainly more shops running various versions of Linux servers in production than there are embedded Linux development teams. (edited to fix typo)
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   by jdblair 3y ago

   The places that want to build from source are the creators of embedded devices that use curl. These devices include (but are not limited to) wifi access points, routers, home automation devices, data loggers, IP video cameras, smart TVs, se
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   by jdblair 3y ago

   This bug isn't just old, it was a bug that probably every Firefox user has experienced and learned to work around. Just because it was "low impact" didn't mean it wasn't personally experienced.
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   by jdblair 3y ago

   oops, this is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37836378 also, here's the original submission of the bugzilla ticket: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827995 I liked the Ars Technica
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   by jdblair 3y ago

   right? Linus's law updated: "given enough eyeballs, and unlimited time, all bugs are shallow"
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    A 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bug(arstechnica.com)

    125 points by jdblair 3y ago|30 comments
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    by jdblair 3y ago

    I knew my own gear and how the ports were oriented.
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    by jdblair 3y ago

    I used to "bedazzle" my USB cables. Bedazzling is when you decorate something with little plastic reflective jewel stickers. I always put the jewel in the same side (the "top") so I could feel which way the cable should
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    by jdblair 3y ago

    I use socat for serial-line things (like simulating a serial port for unit testing). I didn't occur to me that it can be a netcat replacement.
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    by jdblair 3y ago

    This was famously an issue with the original NeXT Cube: Recounted in an article in Fast Company: As Isaacson relates in Steve Jobs, most parts cast in molds have an angle that is slightly greater than 90 degrees, because the extra degre
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    by jdblair 3y ago

    and, the -u option lets you send and receive UDP!
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    by jdblair 3y ago

    Oops, so there is!
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    by jdblair 3y ago

    I’m surprised there is no mention of netcat (nc).
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    by jdblair 3y ago

    Send them this handbook from NIST! :) Section 2 covers all of the customary measurements, some with names hardly anyone knows (Apothecaries Units? Gunter's Chain Units?) https://www.nist.gov/system/files/docum
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    by jdblair 3y ago

    The American system is called "customary units." The pint, quart and gallon are all smaller than British imperial versions.
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    by jdblair 3y ago

    I can 2nd this as an American who now resides in Europe. My first laptop I brought with me, and was defaulted to en_US, but my replacement is en_GB (Apple doesn't have en_NL, for good reason). I don't find it "unusable",
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    by jdblair 3y ago

    I lived in West Oakland for 10 years. Not immediately adjacent to a freeway, but surrounded on 4 sides by a freeway within a half mile. All flat surfaces are eventually are covered in black grit unless it rains. I assume it was not just tir
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    by jdblair 3y ago

    There is a story (my Dad told me) that Rolls Royce took the part from General Motors and refined it by polishing surfaces and otherwise correcting what they thought were manufacturing defects. But after the refinement, the transmission no l
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    by jdblair 3y ago

    Here's an AP story about the 747 that flopped into a muddy field when a takeoff was aborted: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1988/07/25/491... Runway Accident in India NEW DELHI, India
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    by jdblair 3y ago

    its not mainstream
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    by jdblair 3y ago

    Isn't that the point of requiring it?
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    by jdblair 3y ago

    ...and my own age!
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    by jdblair 3y ago

    I pre-ordered the latest Framework 13 with a Ryzen 7840U, an exception that admittedly proves your point.
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    by jdblair 3y ago

    I seriously expected minis and mainframes to be "old computers," not PCs from the 90s!
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    by jdblair 3y ago

    Thom Yorke did this when I saw him live in Oakland. All tickets had to be picked up at the Will Call counter, showing an ID. Then you could only go into the venue to the ticket check from Will Call (there were temporary barriers guiding the
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    by jdblair 3y ago

    I’m half-way through the article and Sweet Jane is stuck in my head. I listened to “The Very Best of the Velvet Underground” so much on my Walkman in the late 80’s that I wore the tape out.