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by mjlee 3y ago
I don't believe it works as a deterrent - I doubt people who commit the most awful crimes are rationally weighing the pros and cons before acting.
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by mjlee 3y ago
To be fair, that's true today, but not in 2008 when this article was written. MP3 encoders have come a long way and bitrates are typically much higher.
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by mjlee 3y ago
> But what about when the codec is dealing not with a simple tone, but with music? One of the signals I put on Test CD 3 (track 25) simulates a musical signal by combining 43 discrete tones with frequencies spaced 500Hz apart. Yes, but w
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by mjlee 3y ago
What shell are you using here? In bash, I would run something like: for f in ./posts/*.md; do dst=site/${f%.md}.html cat head.html >$dst markdown $f >>$dst cat footer.html >>$
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Magic SysRq Key(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by mjlee 3y ago|0 comments
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by mjlee 3y ago
There are some we use in tech every day. The word log (as in logbook/log file) comes from a literal log that was thrown overboard to estimate the speed of the ship for navigation. After that, there's some fun slang that's nau
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by mjlee 4y ago
I think it's worth pointing out that this service was first released in 2012.
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We are building the universal software archive(softwareheritage.org)
1 points by mjlee 4y ago|0 comments
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by mjlee 4y ago
It's still possible, just the path is different to most. There are career/executive function/ADHD coaches who specialise in technology. Finding one is the hard part, but ask around for recommendations and look in to ADHD supp
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by mjlee 4y ago
My favourite aspect of this is that I have ctrl-c for SIGINT when I'm working in terminal and cmd-c for copy. No tracking which terminal emulator or IDE I'm in and which keyboard shortcuts to use for very common actions.
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by mjlee 4y ago
If you make it past the abstract, all this is reasoned through or referenced. I think it's quite normal for an abstract to lay out the basic premise of the paper without diving in to detail immediately.
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by mjlee 4y ago
These vessels still have people on board who want to watch YouTube. This will be amazing for retaining crew while sitting at anchor outside of Panama for day 27 of who knows how long. You can prepare for a 7 day cruise between ports when yo
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by mjlee 4y ago
I think the Dutch knew about this back in the late 18th Century - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema It's where the phrase "blow smoke up your arse" comes from.
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by mjlee 4y ago
John Siracusa, a fairly well known Apple pundit, wrote one of his semi-annual blog posts on this - https://hypercritical.co/2022/02/17/streaming-app-sentiments It's a follow up to an earlier article wher
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by mjlee 5y ago
> Here is some trivia: did you know that the mouse cursor is rendered by hardware? Ah! That perhaps explains why often the cursor moves around just fine when other elements of the stack have completely given up.
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by mjlee 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle_scraper a proud Dutch invention!
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by mjlee 5y ago
Have you heard of 4chan?
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by mjlee 5y ago
Release notes are here: https://go.dev/doc/go1.18
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Go 1.18(go.dev)
773 points by mjlee 5y ago|597 comments
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by mjlee 5y ago
I think Universal Control (in the current MacOS 12.3 Release Candidate, should be public next week) will do what you want.
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by mjlee 5y ago
https://www.greatcirclemap.com/?routes=LED-IAD - doesn't looks like it was because of the great circle route.
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Rossiya – Special Flight Squadron Flight RSD88 from St Petersburg to Washington(flightradar24.com)
98 points by mjlee 5y ago|75 comments
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by mjlee 5y ago
What's the efficiency of doing this over being able to change the laptop battery? I've done it a few times for my M1 Macbook Air and feel like it can't be much better than 50%-75% but it would be nice to know.
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by mjlee 5y ago
Perhaps this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29044637
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Your DNA Test Could Send a Relative to Jail(nytimes.com)
6 points by mjlee 5y ago|0 comments
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by mjlee 5y ago
> I don't remember when was the last time I dealt with non-Indian reps. Is it possible you normally deal with support within the same 8 hour window? I believe they have a global rota, I often end up talking to reps in Ireland.
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by mjlee 5y ago
It's not very obvious, but if you click the "5 hours ago" next to the username you get the option to favourite a comment.
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by mjlee 5y ago
Well, I just learned where the insult "cretin" (idiot, at least in British English) comes from!
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by mjlee 5y ago
I don't see it anymore, but people used to put a google search bar on their website that would use the sitesearch parameter to restrict results to their domain. It looks like there is a modern alernative - seems a little more complex t
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by mjlee 5y ago
This is reasonably well known, as are some of countermeasures in use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)

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