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by mprovost 6y ago
Wow I didn't know they were still around. My first PC was a VTech XT clone!
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by mprovost 6y ago
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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by mprovost 6y ago
Just further up the coast is Marconi Beach in the Cape Cod National Seashore - same sharks.
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by mprovost 6y ago
Just across Buzzards Bay from Falmouth was the original Marconi transmitting station for transatlantic communication to a receiver in Norway. My great-grandfather helped build it in 1914! At the time it was the most powerful transmitter in
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by mprovost 6y ago
Lidar is a laser rangefinder.
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by mprovost 6y ago
Even within a company you may (should) have opportunities to change though. Going into management, or changing projects. Most careers aren't a straight line, there are forks in the road. Sometimes they're presented to you and othe
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by mprovost 6y ago
This [0] is another take on the same research that sums it up better: "If you’re genuinely unsure whether to quit your job or break up, then you probably should." I was quite influenced by this post when deciding to switch jobs -
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by mprovost 6y ago
ronn is a useful tool for writing manpages in Markdown and produces great output [0]. The original project is unmaintained but there's a current fork. [1] [0] http://rtomayko.github.io/ronn/ronn.1 [1] https:&#x2F
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by mprovost 6y ago
Thanks for that trip down memory lane! Glad to see he's still at it.
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by mprovost 6y ago
People here are constantly lamenting the lack of good multitouch on anything but a Macbook, especially in Linux. If Fingerworks had stayed as an independent company they could also sell their touchpads to Microsoft for the Surface. Of cours
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by mprovost 6y ago
London has its own tree, the London plane. It's a hybrid of the American sycamore and the Oriental plane that supposedly grew when they were planted next to each other in Vauxhall Gardens in the 17th century. https://en.wiki
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by mprovost 6y ago
The article did a good job articulating that the "end users" of an init system aren't sysadmins, they're distro maintainers. If most distros have switched then it must make things better for them.
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by mprovost 6y ago
Canada also uses (their own) dollars. (As do Australia and NZ among others.)
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by mprovost 6y ago
That's a good observation about landlords. Often if you find a local "ethnic" restaurant that's been there forever and is run by a family (typically Chinese/Indian/Thai/etc) they own the building or at lea
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by mprovost 6y ago
We've been ordering a delivery every Friday from a different local restaurant every week. It's something to look forward to, but we also want to support the local places that we used to be able to go to until we're through th
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by mprovost 6y ago
This sounds like the same feature that Intel's C compiler used to "cripple AMD" by switching to a slower code path when it detected that the program was running on a non-Intel CPU. https://www.agner.org/optimi
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by mprovost 7y ago
Can it though? How can a program manipulate the scrollback buffer of the terminal that it's running in? Other than by printing more output. But once it's updated the current line, it can't go back and add more lines - those l
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by mprovost 7y ago
Terminal emulators (xterm, iterm2 etc) are emulating something like a VT220 which were called "glass terminals" to differentiate them from earlier terminals which were keyboards attached to printers. So there's still this und
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by mprovost 7y ago
ET uses a layer above TCP to make connections persistent, while mosh uses UDP which is better for high-latency or flaky connections (like 4G or wifi). For the use case in the original post with a congested wifi network, mosh is probably goi
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by mprovost 7y ago
It's more effective to ask the (final) question in the first sentence. And if you want a clear answer, don't ask more than one question per email. People always read the first sentence but may not scan all the way down. After some
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by mprovost 7y ago
I remember for a while it seemed like every conference talk on Ruby (and/or Rails) involved someone dropping into Textmate and showing off something cool. I'm sure people weren't using it just to show off - but it was good ma
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by mprovost 7y ago
Cool it looks like they're using a plugin based on https://github.com/hbldh/hitherdither to do the dithering
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by mprovost 7y ago
Same here - does anyone know which tool produces output like this?
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Historical reasoning behind 88 colors in xterm(lists.gnu.org)
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by mprovost 7y ago
Doesn't mention Catmull specifically but here are the DOJ settlements: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-requires-s... https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-departme
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by mprovost 7y ago
At first glance I thought this was referring to a Bourne or Korn shell.
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by mprovost 7y ago
Did car companies have to support blacksmiths, especially the ones skilled at shoeing horses? Airlines aren’t forced to subsidise railways. Innovators aren’t obligated to support the industries that they supplant.
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by mprovost 7y ago
There were already netcat and similar tools that worked together with bash to provide this functionality.
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by mprovost 7y ago
Right, but what business does tar have compressing anything in the first place? It's a tape archiver. You can pipe its input/output to compress or gzip or bzip2. Early versions didn't have any ability to compress/decompr
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by mprovost 7y ago
The risk is that multiple bits in the same packet are flipped, which the CRC can’t detect. If the bit error rate of the medium is constant, then the larger the frame, the more likely that is to occur. Also as Ethernet speeds increase, the u

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