jfrunyon

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by jfrunyon 5y ago
And yet it is extremely unlikely that it's linear or anywhere near it.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
The VT-220 appears from quick Googling to max out at 19200 baud, or < 2 full screen (80x24) "draws" per second. ;) (Although I assume nethack is more clever than just "re-send the whole screen for every change".)
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
TBH the drug dog searches at schools are more about getting dumb kids to go grab it to try and dump.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
The top played games have pretty much always been playable on mediocre hardware. Otherwise they wouldn't be top played.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
The downside is that the 11 million people in the state who don't live in NYC might be upset about paying for the transit of the 8.4 million who do.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
It returned to 24h service at 2am, and was out of service at 2am. Occam's razor: switch back to "open for business 24/7" didn't happen as planned. Besides, who actually gets around to overnight, manual maintenance a
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Okay, compiling is faster. But you compile once and run many times. What about running it?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Looks to me like, because many of the cones were on the left side of the line, it thought the left lane was closed.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Markdown is a lovely and amazing solution to text formatting. Formatting fixed below: > This is visible with block size 64 breaking at 3072 mark 3072*64=196K, and for block 32 at 6144: 6144*32=196K. You mean 192K.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
No, they mean 192KB. Because that's how they refer to it literally every other time. Oh, and because it's NOT 196 thousand. 3072*64 = 196608. Which rounds to... 197 thousand. (But is exactly 192KB - or 192KiB if you prefer tha
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
That's true, but largely irrelevant. > Yes, properly limiting permissions is difficult, and there can be bugs, but that's true regardless of what layer the security controls are applied at.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Okay, but you can already store web pages in URLs. `data:text/html,<h1>Hi%20there!</h1>` You can even base64 encode them, if you want to.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
It's a lot more likely that the commenter remembering something he read 28(!) years later didn't rephrase it properly.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> Start building with the Notion API BETA Okay, but what does it do and why do I want it? Why do sooooo many businesses insist on homepages that tell me literally nothing about the product they provide?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> In process sandboxing was definitely one of the worst ideas attempted in the early days of Java. None of my jobs in the last 10 years have ran with the security manager enabled, as it's just useless. I'm suspicious of any mod
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> This is visible with block size 64 breaking at 3072 mark 3072 64=196K, and for block 32 at 6144: 6144 32=196K. You mean 192K.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> This code is in a performance critical loop and it looks like a waste - we never run with the "debug" flag enabled[1]. 1. One historical solution to this specific 'if debug' problem is called "runtime nop'
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
static const char countrycodes[514]; return countrycodes[i * 2]; Err... each of the strings is 3 bytes long.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> if the borrower can prove undue hardship (probably hard to do, especially with income-based repayment) Yeah, it's pretty hard to do. You have to have an "adversarial proceeding" (i.e. a lawyer from the Department of Educ
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Many, many, MANY audio players have had exploitable buffer overflows.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I don't think you understand the difference between "likely" and "guaranteed". > There are cases in which non-natives might have better grasp of orthography compared to natives (which might be what GP is objectin
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I think you missed the word "attempt".
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
All the time. Yes. I've also had bad experiences with plenty of private companies.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Because native speakers are much more likely to use English every day and therefore much more likely to successfully remember how to spell "successfully"? I'm not sure why you think that part of the comment was controversial.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Bingo. Either more words, or fewer grid squares (f.e. instead of 3x3m grid, a 4x4m grid). I truly don't understand why they thought they needed 3m (10ft) of precision: my home has something like 10 What3Words addresses (80 if you count
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> Patents, by design, reward innovators and contribute to the public good by exchanging information for protection. Design and practice are two different things. Patents, in practice, are hopelessly broken when you can buy a fairly gener
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Except that "just don't upgrade" is a very bad idea.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Their search function should simply be using an oninput or onchange event on a particular element, not global input. That is a technical difference.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Most of the times I've gotten the credit bureau-style security questions (for example, trying to get my credit reports, or trying to open a bank account), - Every single one is answerable by reference to my Facebook page and a few old
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
The problem is that the credit bureaus can and regularly do make mistakes, or the creditors reporting data to them do, and when $shady_business says someone owes him thousands of dollars despite said debt not existing, or when someone steal

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