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by korethr 9y ago
I read the wikipedia article on the SNES CD-ROM System, and one thing I'm not sure of is whether any new capabilies are brought to the platform besides the expanded capacity of CDs vs the cartridges, or the ability to play CD audio. Th
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by korethr 10y ago
At least a few of those sound like the could be fun band names.
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by korethr 10y ago
That thing looks like it began it's life as a power supply.
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by korethr 10y ago
I remember those 'Plug and Play' ISA cards. The PnP bit never worked, I eventually hard set the IRQ, IO port and DMA channel directly to get sound working, and that was that. At least, until the Windows95 install was messed up eno
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by korethr 10y ago
This article is bringing back memories. Not just of fiddling with CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT, but fiddling with the sound card too, as was mentioned in passing. As mentioned in the article, I did indeed feel a sense of triumph when I final
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by korethr 10y ago
Unless you are using an ad-blocker to block the rather commonplace facebook widget, and their other tracking mechanisms, they may well have more of your browsing history than you realize. Hell, I do use ad-blockers and block assets coming
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by korethr 10y ago
At least some people used NetZero not because they were willing to tolerate ads, but because it was some way, any way, of getting a net connection. Hell, I tried find way to keep that annoying ad setup from even loading. I thought I was ver
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by korethr 10y ago
My initial thought is that signing up abuse@(domain) would be a clever irony. My next thought is that abusing the abuse inbox is probably a dick move to the sysadmin who's job it is to keep things working.
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by korethr 10y ago
I don't think those who presently are contracted for the cable laying work will have their work taken away from them. If anything, I think this is likely to guarantee work for some time. Say a road construction company wins the bid and
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by korethr 10y ago
And step #4 is to throw up your hands and shout "Fuck it!" the Nth time you lost everything because you can't find your master copy of your password manager, your back up has drifted out of sync, and you just accidentally spi
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by korethr 10y ago
A small nit-pick: >The highest possible level of sound produced by audio equipment is 0 dBFS. ...is only applicable to audio equipment operating solely on digital signals. Humans don't hear digital signals, we hear pressure changes,
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by korethr 10y ago
I'm curious if these would work well in uninterruptible power supplies (whether under your desk or in the electrical room in your datacenter). As I understand, the potential explosive danger of Li-ion batteries makes them unfeasible fo
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Where Games Go to Sleep: The Game Preservation Crisis (2011)(gamasutra.com)
92 points by korethr 10y ago|59 comments
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by korethr 10y ago
The Supreme court decided that the Fed could regular intrastate commerce in Wickard v. Filburn, and that ruling has also been used since to go after marijuana that stayed intrastate. [1] I think it's a bullshit interpretation of the t
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by korethr 10y ago
This is not terribly surprising. For good or for ill, recreational marijuana use never ceased to be illegal under federal law. And despite the various states passing laws legalizing it, there was that pesky little Supremacy Clause in the US
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by korethr 10y ago
So, since Git uses SHA-1, does this mean we're going to see a new major version number of Git that uses SHA-2 or SHA-3 in a few years? I don't expect one overnight. For one, as noted, this is a collision attack, one which took a l
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by korethr 10y ago
Unless I'm grossly misunderstanding the article, that's pretty much what we already have here. This situation came about because that central entity decided it didn't want to hear about the sheer mass of trades happening with
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by korethr 10y ago
It's easy to say that now. When the pressure's actually on and a person now has things at stake, priorities can change, and yielding starts to look like the eminently sensible thing to do. I suspect your tune may change when you f
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Frog Tips(frog.tips)
1 points by korethr 10y ago|0 comments
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by korethr 10y ago
This reminds me of some of the articles I've read about various hacks pulled on classic video game consoles to get acceptable performance out of the limited hardware. PICO-8 has crossed my radar and piqued my interest before. I think I
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by korethr 10y ago
Presently coming from Python to C, I'm trying to figure this out myself. One issue that occurs to me is that someone coming from a higher level language like Python or Ruby might have to re-calibrate what they consider 'small&#x27
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by korethr 10y ago
I'm waiting for when an earnest "Rust Considered Harmful", or perhaps a "Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Rust" shows up.
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by korethr 10y ago
Wouldn't such a policy disincentivize transactions, at least to a degree? I thought the whole reason for the federal reserve bank's monkeying with interest rates was to keep money in motion and being used, instead of just sitting
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by korethr 10y ago
My 2003 VW Golf has a gas gauge that shows percentages - the individual markings represent 12.5%, not individual remaining gallons (it's a 14.5 gallon tank, not an 8 gallon one) My mother's 2009 Jetta has similar. Whether or not t
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by korethr 10y ago
I seem to recall Bruce Schneier advocating the same strategy: > I write my passwords down. There’s this rampant myth that you shouldn’t write your passwords down. My advice is exactly the opposite. We already know how to secure small
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by korethr 10y ago
Presently, none, but I have had a few ideas I've been wanting to get started on when I have more time for a hardware side project. The first one to come to mind is an LED lighting setup that shift's it's color temperature acc
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by korethr 10y ago
Interesting. The Uplink inspiration is a plus in my book. However, this manages to hard-lock Firefox so thoroughly that I can't even switch out of X11 to another VT to try to kill firefox, leaving the only option to reboot. I'll f
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by korethr 10y ago
I think this is a false choice. If CDNs were simply caching the content in various geographic regions to keep the data closer to the users, and thus loading quickly, then that'd be fine. But in my observation, that's not what they
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by korethr 10y ago
To me, the dispute is coming from what appears to be Zaretskii wanting nothing less than step 3. I can sympathize; I don't think I would want to receive a big pile of C were I a maintainer. It seems to me that temporary hacks tend to
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by korethr 10y ago
I consider myself a competent cook, though an untrained one that's learned through trial and error (and a lot of error at that!). But when I see professional cooks doing things like this, it's humbling. And it seems like it freque

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