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by leoc 5y ago
> I _am_ worried about cheap USB-PD devices that forgoe this negotiation as it is complex and expensive to implement. Yes. Moving critical safety limits into software ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 Let&#
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by leoc 5y ago
And in fact it seems that one attempted fix to the corrosion problem, epoxy-coated rebar, has already proven much worse than uncoated rebar at dealing with rust in production: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVDy84rR5Z8 (Th
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by leoc 5y ago
I pay for YT Premium, and it really is a lot nicer than ad-supported YT (without an adblocker). In-video sponsorship messages can still be annoying, yes, but at lesat they're fairly skippable. And despite all Google's other misdee
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by leoc 5y ago
That is not obviously so. Spellings and proposed origins are fairly all over the place.
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by leoc 5y ago
No, he's a some ...
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by leoc 5y ago
"ponder (and put up with!) what has been said or done, even if it is unwelcome" would be a more correct definition. It's basically equivalent to the Americanism "chew on that". It can be pretty neutral or quite host
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by leoc 5y ago
Alan Perlis' old motivational-poster slogan "Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it." has a fair bit going for it.
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by leoc 5y ago
Is the simulator here a VM-based network simulator comparable to GNS3 https://www.gns3.com/ , or something quite different? Amusingly, the other SimuLand is also about fighting viruses: http://simuland.exeter.a
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by leoc 5y ago
Much worse than using high-falutin' vocabulary (I might sometimes take advantage of 'utilise' myself) is using high-falutin' grammatical constructions AND USING THEM WRONGLY. Which takes us back nicely to the OP: > &q
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by leoc 5y ago
I'm sorry to hear about your accident! The Matias Half Keyboard https://matias.ca/halfkeyboard/ provides a one-handed keyboard that works very similarly to a conventional two-handed keyboard. It's a system th
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by leoc 5y ago
The Dutch Velotype https://www.velotype.com/en/homepage-eng/ / Veyboard http://www.veyboard.nl/en_main.html design seems to be a slightly more general-purpose version of the same chording ide
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by leoc 5y ago
Yes, but before that excerpt Orwell pointed out that the financial margins involved in eating healthily on the minimum income were much narrower than the "why don't they just" contingent knew or admitted. That doesn't ca
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by leoc 5y ago
Well, if most accounts are correct, being "American poor" means you may have to endure, or at least seriously worry about, things like frequently missing meals, going without important and relatively basic healthcare, being forced
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by leoc 5y ago
It seems that much of Chapter 6 of Wigan Pier is still pretty relevant: http://www.george-orwell.org/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier/5.html
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by leoc 5y ago
Seeing this near the top of HN is a bit like seeing a "Why Does Italian Have All These Screwy Verb Endings?" post near the top of a web forum for professional students of linguistics ...
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by leoc 5y ago
I mean, on Unix it's ncurses, right? If no-one's ever added key-event support to ncurses then that's a(n additional) sign that it likely isn't possible and that TUIs just have to make do without the capability.
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by leoc 5y ago
The original ttys were literally Teletypes https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/picture.html designed to send text directly to another Teletype over a phone line. As such they sent and received sequences of
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by leoc 5y ago
Jobs wanted a lower price for the original Mac but lost to others who wanted to take profits. After his departure he complained about the high Mac prices and their effect on Mac market share. Conversely there’s a reason that Gassée the fath
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by leoc 5y ago
IIRC one of the big factors in semiconductor RAM pricing, historically, is the periodic antitrust actions.
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by leoc 5y ago
The iPhone entries in the table could give a misleading impression of the timing. UMTS 3G phones had long been commonplace by the time the iPhone 1 was announced.
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by leoc 5y ago
The demise of TenFourFox is relevant: http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-end-of-tenfourfox... .
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It could at least have been a book report on Crypto https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/332850/crypto-by-st... , which is perhaps even better and a lot less well-known.
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by leoc 5y ago
Some of the assertively self-valorising SV VC types should respond by funding a lengthy feature article about the food-truck workers and cleaning staff working in and around the NYT building. It can be the second-time-farce recurrence of th
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by leoc 5y ago
inb4 the Australians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulmont_Magnum ;)
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by leoc 5y ago
rnicoll is livestreaming Dogecoin development on Twitch these days, you know: https://www.twitch.tv/rnicoll
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by leoc 5y ago
The extra bite from HP sauce makes it preferable to normal tomato ketchup here: the real sophisticate’s choice. ;)
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There's little in the Snopes article which opposes the microwave theory, as opposed to the sound theory. It quotes two US experts in favour of the idea, and the strongest evidence it gives against microwaves is a dismissive reaction fr
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by leoc 5y ago
Is your claim that the US EE professor and the US professor of neurosurgery quoted in the Snopes article are lying for their government, or that they are grossly incompetent?
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by leoc 5y ago
The whole story of Polymeropoulos' visit to Russia is pretty odd even aside from his strange symptoms and the apparent attack. https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-micro... It sounds more than a
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