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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
I had the exact same issue from a Thinkpad docking station. A later firmware update for the dock seemed to fix this. Was it ever frustrating though trying to figure out why my network would randomly decide to just crap out.
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
I have a couple of these. It’s exactly what you would expect: Realtek RTL8153.
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
I once spent a whole bunch of time trying to debug and iterate on an issue in a dependency library my application was using. No matter what I tried it just didn’t seem to help with the issue - even though I was certain of the fix. I was goi
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
Or the many ways to have “featuring” — “feat.”, “w/“, “ft.”, “(feat.)”, “[feat.]”, etc. MusicBrainz does a laudable job trying to standardize all this crap and as someone who is really particular about how their music metadata looks it
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
The neat thing about Ford solenoids of that era were that they were very conveniently located near the top of the firewall and can be easily triggered manually if needed with a big screwdriver across the leads. (And hope you don’t get elect
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I’ve been a long time user of Unifi kit but the utter stagnation of the entire product line has really made me want to start looking for other options. For instance, I keep hoping for an updated USG3 given the
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
Home Server was an excellent product - probably one of the best Windows backup solutions I’ve ever used. I could build a low-spec PC with a cheap case, slap a bunch of drives in a JBOD configuration, install the backup agent on all my machi
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
I couldn't agree with many of the things stated in this article more. I really disliked Windows 8. Windows 10 was what made me move to a Mac for my next personal computer acquisition (I'm still stuck with Windows at work), but a
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
Fully agree with everything in this article. This is definitely a code smell to me to see unitless sizes and intervals specified. I know that whenever I’m doing a code review and I see some property or variable name like “timeout” or “size”
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
The article mentioned flying under Russia would be a longer distance but could be faster with favorable wind conditions. I’m guessing they are leaning toward more predictable conditions with their chosen route.
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
Something that Web 3 supplants? I still have yet to read a coherent explanation of what Web 3 is .
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
To me it seems like it’s pretty much peak mid-1990s tech advertising. Pick up any issue of WIRED from this time period and it’s filled with advertisements with similar kinds of aggressively strange imagery. Things like this were definitely
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
I’ve been using async/await in .NET since it was an extension versus built in feature. It’s so much better than the old way of doing asynchronous programming using delegates and callbacks. But, it’s not perfect - it works great, until
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
I totally agree. The protocols feature of Swift is really cool and it’s great how simple it bridges default implementations and extension methods. C# 8.0 adds default interfaces which are like protocols but they don’t work with older .NET F
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
Came here to say the same. I was willing to overlook the vectorization creating a very unexpected aesthetic. But the missing pattern brushes were a bridge too far! The real version of MacPaint can be found here: https://archive.o
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
That was a great read. Thanks for posting. I’ve been dabbling in reverse engineering embedded devices in my spare time. I find these kind of detailed reports on how someone solved a reverse engineering challenge to be fascinating.
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
I primarily use Visual Studio and VSCode for development professionally. I have been playing around with Xcode a lot for some personal projects on my Mac. In many ways it’s pretty good, but there’s some omissions and other behaviors that I
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
If anything things like refactor suggestions and the like can make bad coders better by telling them things to fix before they even save their changes. It’s like a “code review in a can”. I try to encourage the people I work with to use the
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
> Eventually, the interactive design stuff found its way into development with C++ and the Microsoft Foundation Classes, and there, I truly believe, code generation was used to hide a lot of really hairy MFC support that nobody wanted to
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
I would guess either better margins or better low power performance for better battery longevity in the nRF 52.
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
Also relevant: https://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-picture...
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
The only time I was ever able to connect with anything close to a 56k connection was when my phone lines were upgraded to support ISDN and I’d have to make an old-school modem to modem call.
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
An nRF52 dev kit is like $30. It’s probably not worth the time and aggravation to try to repurpose one of these COVID tests unless you’re really determined. Nordic is one of the better vendors - their tools and docs aren’t too bad.
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
Or if they are already using Nordic chips, slightly more expensive nRF52832 can also do NFC.
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
I really don’t like ligatures but I also don’t like it when my IDE auto-completing quotes/braces/brackets/etc. I try to turn all that kind of stuff off. Basically, I find it very distracting when typing something and then see
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
Not sure where these accusations are coming coming from but no joke or disingenuousness was intended here. You replied to my comment originally and I answered your question with more details. I’ve said before that Swift is a relatively new
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
If you want something in kit form, I’m a big fan of this: https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/652 It’s a beautiful representation of a 555 timer in discrete component form - and functional too. The 555 timer
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
Details: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals... There were plenty of alternative ways to accomplish my scenario but they ended up being pretty clunky and overly expressive for wh
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
I think the primary difference is while C# evolves, old language features don’t just get removed. Old code samples will still work even if they aren’t “modern” or optimal solutions anymore. For contrast, Swift will drop support for features
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by logbiscuitswave 5y ago
This isn’t exactly what I was looking for - basically I wanted an HGrid with a bunch of items that would automatically wrap rather than overflow. (In the WPF world that I’m more accustomed to this would be called a “WrapPanel”). I eventuall

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