kevin_thibedeau

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by kevin_thibedeau 6d ago
ASCII is 7-bit and fully filled out. Every other extended character system prior to Unicode was sporadically supported. C has digraphs and trigraphs because even the ASCII punctuation wasn't guaranteed to be available on all keyboards.
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by kevin_thibedeau 7d ago
The C++ committee has a habit of thumbing its nose at standard practice. They intentionally broke bitwise operators on volatiles because they wanted to be impose their atomic religion everywhere. Then they had to walk that back after they b
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by kevin_thibedeau 8d ago
It's common enough that the Japanese government has been tracking down long dead "centenarians" to root it out. Also, according to Saul Newman [1], many of the centenarians claimed for Japan actually died 80+ years ago in the
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by kevin_thibedeau 9d ago
There is this Venn diagram[1]. Canada could shift into the Council of Europe like Georgia or join Schengen with an independent currency like the Swiss. The latter would be a nice arrangement for Canadian passport holders. [1] https:/&
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by kevin_thibedeau 10d ago
If anyone was tracking that time they'd realize running your own build servers is cheaper. But capex is kryptonite to MBAs so you get a shitty unreliable cloud service instead.
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by kevin_thibedeau 11d ago
They're going to be confronted with the ADA soon enough. If I'm a quadriplegic I may want to employ my own user agent to engage in commerce. Amazon doesn't have any standing to dictate how I access their services.
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by kevin_thibedeau 12d ago
16-bit x86 code dependent on interacting with real hardware under precise timing doesn't always work well in a VM.
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by kevin_thibedeau 12d ago
Ford has GPS with FM on the same cable. They have splitters for this arrangement. This is why they transitioned to stubby antennas for better GPS and good enough FM.
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by kevin_thibedeau 12d ago
My Ford has a dedicated fuse for accessory packages that include the modem. Mine doesn't have any other options that share that fuse so it is functionally the telemetry fuse.
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by kevin_thibedeau 12d ago
Disabling the antennas is the only way to be sure. There will typically be a coax connection that you can cap with a terminator. GPS can be merged with other radios you might not want to lose but suitable splitters are available.
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by kevin_thibedeau 16d ago
This is New Yorker style. Paint an elaborate scene and get to the point later on.
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by kevin_thibedeau 16d ago
Camera app does it.
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by kevin_thibedeau 16d ago
You can still get windows 3 directory picker dialogs in obscure places like the ODBC data source utility.
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by kevin_thibedeau 16d ago
I'd bet this bug also shows up in Vista file explorer with auto arrange disabled. Nobody will ever need more than 100 icons on their 800x600 workstation. Ship it.
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by kevin_thibedeau 16d ago
That isn't a web app.
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by kevin_thibedeau 16d ago
A well built native app can still serve as a vector for harvesting personal data in ways you cannot control. A web app is inherently superior because of its security envelope.
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by kevin_thibedeau 16d ago
The tags were needed for language indication to control CJK glyph variants. Flag emoji were grafted onto this scheme. The key is that tag sequences have to start with a valid introductory codepoint. Simple enough to strip out anything that
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by kevin_thibedeau 16d ago
I've always had fraudulent debit charges automatically reverted. Typically the bank's fraud detection disables the card and you clear up the matter on the phone. Or they call you to verify if a suspicious charge outside your profi
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by kevin_thibedeau 17d ago
Didn't save Elaine Herzberg.
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by kevin_thibedeau 17d ago
A lot of that is just damage from continuous use. Floppies used rarely tend to work well. I have 90s backup disks that were flawless reads in recent years. I just bought a 25 year old sewing machine with a floppy in it. Still worked fine. I
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by kevin_thibedeau 17d ago
You used to be able to buy silicone extension cords. Now it's all the new low temp plasticized PVC.
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by kevin_thibedeau 17d ago
> uploaded my drivers licence, a photo of my passport Sounds like its working as designed. This is why you never cross streams between work and personal life.
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by kevin_thibedeau 17d ago
The floppy interface for 5.25 is largely the same as 3.5. The data rates are the same. The only functional difference is fewer sectors per track because of the faster motor speed. That's all accounted for with a FDC interface controlle
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by kevin_thibedeau 17d ago
A fun one is the Anglican Ordinariates which are in full communion with Rome and permit existing clergy to remain married while serving as Catholic priests.
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by kevin_thibedeau 18d ago
They're clearly training on SEO sites that use these strategies to pad out with filler and create space for more ad impressions. They normalize this structure now and the ad copy will be inserted in the future so the frogs won't r
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by kevin_thibedeau 19d ago
The amazing thing is that people still cite the old stats they published as that remains the only significant body of insight into the dynamics of human behavior in this realm.
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by kevin_thibedeau 19d ago
Amazing how blinkered supposedly privacy conscious Europeans are when they willingly line up at the Facebook slaughterhouse.
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by kevin_thibedeau 19d ago
They'll start server side rendering sites onto a canvas. I suspect that's what Stadia will be reborn as.
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by kevin_thibedeau 19d ago
RCS allows higher resolution pictures than MMS.
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by kevin_thibedeau 19d ago
The hardware will definitely be a problem. Optical heads have elastomeric parts that are unlikely to last a century. They have precision plastic components that may become brittle. All of the knowhow and specialist tools to make and service

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