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When I installed windows 95 soon after release, I had to figure out how to dial boot it with my SLS or Slackware installation which was installed from floppies.
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If you are implying that I think furries are “sick shit” you are confused. I just don’t care, much like most people do not care about my hypothetical obsession with cheesy pasta. To be clear, in my example the posts that I’d prefer not to s
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An algorithm that I can tune by having private +1, -1, and "hell no" buttons would be helpful. If I follow too many people and/or hashtags, I will end up with so many posts/toots that I spend a bunch of time reading thro
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2017. Full text at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Farrah-Powell/publicati...
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My point was that a pixelfed instance wouldn’t necessarily need to reduce the size or quality of images if those that were uploading them were bearing the cost of storage and data transfers. I said raw because I am far from enough of a phot
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Presumably a pixelfed server could be configured to support full resolution raw images for their local users. The federated feed could push out the lower resolution images that are fine for viewing on phones. This would be a way for an Acti
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I’m trying to make sense of what this. It seems the answer may be on the project’s GitHub page reference in the rear, but that just 404’s. https://chatternet.github.io/
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MIT https://github.com/chatternet/chatternet-client-http/blob/ma...
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BCD could be one of many problems, but ASCII strings would me more common in systems I dealt with. There were a lot of assumptions about two digit years that maybe made sense sometime in the 70s for code that you didn’t think would survive
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One idea is for public libraries to host instances. Public employees responsible for the administration are already bound by privacy laws that would make them more trustworthy than some rando that starts an instance. If done on a branch by
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Each server has a local timeline. Some are visible to non-subscribers, some are not. I’m on fosstodon which has this as the local timeline. https://fosstodon.org/web/public/local On many servers I can do the obvio
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Back in the day I wrote this about how it improved Solaris kernel zone suspend: https://web.archive.org/web/20160313033123/https://blogs.ora...
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pigz only parallelizes compression. Decompressing with pigz is single threaded, except perhaps a separate thread is used for crc calculation. A decade ago I implemented parallel decompresssion for pigz. This is used in Solaris kernel zone s
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My mom who is not British and has spent almost no time outside of the Great Plains uses this term. I think the “lous” come from louse, the singular form of lice. A great abundance of not a great thing.
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In recent years by law the brokerage company tracks the lots you buy and when you sell you can select which to sell. The gains are reported accordingly on the forms the brokerage company sends at the end of the year. Things get more complic
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The Humpback and the Killer(radiolab.org)
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In [1] we learned that orcas have some interesting social habits. In this podcast (transcript available) we learn that humpback whales have an axe to grind with orcas. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32596182
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Looks great at first glance. Thank you! Could someone at Apple buy this from the OP and replace the garbage calculator that comes with iOS?
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Apparently they do this so that people aren't surprised at the magnitude of the bill. Last September I got a covid test at the same place as I had symptoms and was just about to travel. They didn't provide an estimate at that tim
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I live in a US city with a metropolitan population of about 600,000. The largest provider in town is a university hospital with a sprawling set of clinics that employs 1850 physicians and 21,000 staff. I have pay for insurance that provides
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PCIe Gen 5 drives look poised for wide availability next year and NVIDIA has been demoing CX7 [1] which is also PCIe Gen 5. Intel already has some Gen 5 chips and AMD looks like they will follow soon [2]. Surely there will be other bumps, b
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A Micron 9300 Pro is getting rather long in the tooth. They are using PCIe gen 4 drives that are twice as fast as the Micron 9300. My own testing on single socket systems that look rather similar to the ones they are using suggests it is m
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It looks like you can punch in an audiogram. Now I just need to shell out more money for compatible earbuds. I don’t think that will act as a hearing aid yet, so it would leave me switching between AirPods and my hearing aid. The first hear
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It’s only an impressively affordable price after you compare to what they cost almost anywhere else. The cheapest hearing aid from the audiologist affiliated with my ENT was about $3500 for a far inferior device. Other audiologists charge f
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I feel like a broken record mentioning that Costco sells high quality hearing aids for $700 each. Exams, fittings, adjustments, cleaning, and many repairs are free so long as you have a Costco membership. No membership is required for the e
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I would love to be able to punch my audiogram into my phone to get AirPods or similar to do the right amount of amplification. I can hear almost nothing at many frequencies without amplification in my right ear but have normal hearing in my
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If you think that every email has to be a formal masterpiece that will be graded you are over thinking it. That type of work generally belongs in a document in G-Suite, confluence, git, etc. Notifications that it exists or needs review ma
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What’s not immediately obvious from this is that it was not uncommon for an installation to require about 30 floppies. Floppies of course are not 100% reliable and in my experience there’s a pretty good chance that at least one of the flopp
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That’s what Spectrum has done with my cable modem. It used to be 200/20 now it’s advertised as 300 with no upload speed advertised. Ookla tells me it is now 320+/10, but sometimes only 9 up. Uploads are reminiscent of my DSL line
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Each of these installations could be paired with charging infrastructure appropriate for the location. Around office buildings where the typical stay is several hours, charges could exist in many or most stalls to charge cars through the wo

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