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by mark-r 2y ago
I ended up doing this for an entire week, once. I was hired and presented with a system that didn't work. I knew nothing whatsoever about their proprietary system and wasn't even given access to their codebase. I wondered why th
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by mark-r 2y ago
Sorry, my bad.
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by mark-r 2y ago
> There's no obvious way to create a lower-case filename on CP/M That's because the FAT file system used by CP/M didn't allow lower case letters, at all. In this case "no obvious way" == "impossib
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by mark-r 2y ago
As I understand it, the company merely needs to be consistent. Either they pay everybody for their accrued time, or they pay nobody.
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by mark-r 2y ago
Nebraska goes a step further. Lots of companies have a "use it or lose it" policy for vacation time, so they won't have a ton of liability on the books. Nebraska courts have declared that vacation time is compensation that
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by mark-r 2y ago
Absolutely, tooltips were the best. But how do you do tooltips on a touch interface?
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by mark-r 2y ago
My experience is that undo/redo isn't something you tack on at the end of the project, it has to be baked into the infrastructure. Every action you take has to be delegated to an object that has all the information it needs to bo
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by mark-r 2y ago
It amazes me that something as simple and obvious as cut and paste had to be invented. Even more amazing that we can actually point to the person that did it.
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by mark-r 2y ago
The horse may quit not because of lack of will, but simply because it is physically unable to go on. The body just stops working properly after a certain point.
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by mark-r 2y ago
Interesting fact: humans are well built for shedding excess heat, which is a limiting factor in long races. It is possible under the right weather conditions for a man to outrun a horse.
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by mark-r 2y ago
My favorite result from that search: https://comicsanscriminal.com/
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by mark-r 2y ago
The whole point of this technology is that you don't need picking-and-placing anymore, it's all built on the same wafer.
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by mark-r 2y ago
Every single white LED bulb you buy for your light fixtures is a mix of blue LED and yellow phosphor, so in practice it's no problem at all. Although I do concede that the yellow is probably not monochromatic.
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by mark-r 2y ago
Any desaturated colors I saw were also very bright, so I blame it on overexposure of the camera. Probably looked totally different in person. Unsaturated colors aren't a problem, you just need to mix a bit of the opposite color. Unsa
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by mark-r 2y ago
"Fair" has nothing to do with it, the adjustment factor will be whatever the marketing folks think they can get away with.
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by mark-r 2y ago
I hate to think of the damage large amounts of IR or especially UV would do to the eye.
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by mark-r 2y ago
You don't need all the colors. As every household white LED bulb proves, you can get it with just a combination of blue and yellow.
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by mark-r 2y ago
The subpixels don't need bonding wires, they have dedicated connections just like any transistor on a regular IC.
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by mark-r 2y ago
The key to this is using the same process to get all the colors. For separate R,G,B pixels you need 3 different processes and can't build them on the same chip, you need to assemble them - that's what allows the vast improvement
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by mark-r 2y ago
Yes, I tried Wine. Dismal failure right off the bat.
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by mark-r 2y ago
I was forced to switch this last year. I decided to upgrade my 10 year old motherboard, and Windows refused to boot with the new one despite nothing else changing. I absolutely refuse to pay good money to "upgrade" to a worse ve
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by mark-r 2y ago
Thanks. Would have been easier to grasp though if you'd phrased it like > 1,4,4 : Jan, Feb, Mar.
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by mark-r 2y ago
I don't quite understand. Your magic month numbers are 3 digits, but you only use one digit in your example. And how does substituting 2012 work, when 2012 was a leap year but 1900 wasn't?
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by mark-r 2y ago
That's interesting, I always assumed the brakes would be MORE reliable because there's essentially no wear on the brake pads.
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by mark-r 2y ago
Bilinear isn't 1/x, it's 1-x.
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by mark-r 2y ago
Early adopters of Unicode used the first available encoding, UCS-2. UTF-16 is an extension of that to handle the increased range of code points that came later.
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by mark-r 2y ago
It's a mistake to call it x86 bit numbering, it's way older than that.
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by mark-r 2y ago
Thanks for giving me an example of an architecture where the bits are labelled backwards, I'd never encountered that before. I've always appreciated that the bit number represents 2 to the power of that number.
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by mark-r 2y ago
I think the headers are pure ASCII, which as noted is a subset of almost all encodings.
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by mark-r 2y ago
Unfortunately Windows code page 1252 has no invalid bytes, so it will always succeed. You'd better try that one last.

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