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by jrabone 13y ago
You mean, apart from the bit at the end which says: The Home Office is reclassifying ketamine in the UK to be a class B drug, although it is already used in medicine for the treatment of back pain and as an anaesthetic.
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by jrabone 13y ago
And yet the Intel product pages say "Prevent attacks below the operating system Intel vPro technology protects against difficult-to-detect, penetrating rootkits and malware that threaten users working in cloud or virtual environments.
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by jrabone 13y ago
XP Embedded != XP Retail
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by jrabone 13y ago
Assuming the developers had half a clue, they don't. They run Windows XP Embedded which can be stripped back to just the kernel and a serial terminal if necessary. It's not like they take a retail XP CDROM and installed it (of cou
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by jrabone 13y ago
Hmm. I've used that feature about once in 20 years of coding professionally. My production systems don't generally log; they're busy serving (I once worked on a hard real-time embedded air traffic control system where product
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by jrabone 13y ago
Because God knows, Java needs another logging framework. Seriously does ANYONE get any additional value out of the morass of crappy logging systems out there over and above System.out.println? Log4J is PARTICULARLY brain-damaged, with its r
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by jrabone 13y ago
I was talking about a specific hardware player, but in general any additional signal processing has the potential to add artefacts. To hear these sorts of things, listen for reverb tails on drum hits, high frequency percussion like cymbal
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by jrabone 13y ago
That should be pretty easy to demonstrate by feeding the output back into a decent 16-bit soundcard - the noise floor should reveal any dithering going on (and if there's no dithering it will be painfully obvious that there's only
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by jrabone 13y ago
I find quality in-ear headphones extremely revealing of poor quality output. Shure e5c, to pick an older set that I own, are especially unforgiving of noisy output stages and cross-coupled interference. The additional acoustic isolation rea
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by jrabone 13y ago
usually when people do [1] or something like that it's to a link Offtopic, but footnotes predate the web by quite some time. If only we had a easy way of formatting super/subscript...
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by jrabone 13y ago
Well, in my case knowing that I went to college with Simon, Richard et al, and could most likely arrange a face to face meeting / key exchange at the next Debian barbecue (hi Steve!) ... Of course, there are still plenty of things to b
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by jrabone 13y ago
String[] names = { "UNUSED", "Monday", "Tuesday", ... } try { return names[i]; } catch(ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException uhoh) { return "???"; } It's so easy... Look, at least
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by jrabone 13y ago
Yes. It's hard to convince Americans just how absolutely revolting Hershey's is to the European palate.
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by jrabone 13y ago
Really want to start using KeePass on Android with an NFC token, but it looks like the YubiKey Neo might get a new version soon to support U2F. Anyone know if the U2F thing is worth waiting for? Don't want to spend $50 (probably £50) t
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by jrabone 13y ago
Then there's something wrong with either Firefox or your drivers; latest Chrome on a 4 year old machine (Windows 7 x64, Core i7, 12GB RAM) with a newer graphics card (GTX670) needs barely 10% CPU on a single core.
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by jrabone 13y ago
Rule 34; given enough Internet, "Paying to watch a pretty girl <verb>" is guaranteed to be a thing...
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by jrabone 13y ago
I'm sure zfs on Linux has a random sleep built in just to increase my anxiety levels...
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by jrabone 13y ago
Ads on desktop browsers are no longer the problem - between ABP and Ghostery one need never see another ad. The mobile device is the new battleground, but the prevalence of "dual-funded" apps (free, ad-supported and pay-for, ad-fr
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by jrabone 13y ago
Thanks to VMWare and some DOS network card drivers for the emulated hardware, I do! (only for curiosity's sake - I have virtual machines of every OS I owned.)
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by jrabone 13y ago
Worked well for me on same hardware / software - suggest your video drivers aren't, er, driving...
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by jrabone 13y ago
I'm sure TomTom would be happy to sell it to you - see http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/licensing/products/traffic/real-...
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by jrabone 13y ago
Despite being told for fucking YEARS to use dialog-box scale units (twips) instead of hard-coding things, pretty much everyone on Windows took the "pragmatic" approach. Can't blame Microsoft for not trying, but they gave up a
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by jrabone 13y ago
Wait, what? Windows has got full custom DPI control and has had for years. Under Windows 7 there's a dialog box to set it under the Appearance & Personalisation / Display control panel. You can toggle XP scale mode for compati
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by jrabone 13y ago
Where does JPA fit into Clean Architecture? Seems like annotation-based persistence straddles several boundaries, or else you code your entities multiple times as both "real" entities and DTOs.
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by jrabone 13y ago
Haha that's excellent. Reminds me of a normalisation rule I wrote as part of a larger system to convert "Joe Bloggs Md." into "Dr. Joe Blogs MD" (where MD is Medical Doctor). TIL that "Md." is a common abb
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by jrabone 13y ago
Previous discussion & article about why you just shouldn't bother with email regexes at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5763327
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by jrabone 13y ago
The Acorn System computers are rack mounted computers that pre-date the Acorn Atom - http://fjkraan.home.xs4all.nl/comp/atom/history/index.html
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by jrabone 13y ago
No, apart from the inherent bleaching properties of sodium hypochlorite, the pH of bleach is extremely high - even extremeophiles can't tolerate pH 13-14. Unfortunately neither can human skin, and diluting bleach is a trade off between
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by jrabone 13y ago
This sounds like an excellent material to make central lines out of, given the current rates (~5%) of infection by antibiotic resistant S. Aureus and friends.
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by jrabone 13y ago
And that's just as good an idea as executable data segments in a binary format (ie. not a very good idea). It's taken MS literally YEARS to get to half-decent default filesystem permissions in Windows 7 and this kind of thing just

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