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by ndiddy 2y ago
Was disappointed that he only brought a modified oil filled watch to 5km underwater. Would have been interesting if he’d have strapped a stock watch next to it so we could see when it would break.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Here's the OPM guidance memo to department heads about this program: https://chcoc.gov/sites/default/files/OPM%20Guidance%20Memo%... Key quote: "Employees who accept deferred resignation should prom
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by ndiddy 2y ago
https://www.opm.gov/fork Here's the actual letter. It's not a buyout, it's basically "you can continue teleworking as long as you agree to resign on September 30th, otherwise you have to attend work in p
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The numbers presented in the article (~1 additional frame of latency on Wayland) are from someone using GNOME with the Mutter compositor. This means that neither the X11 or Wayland session has screen tearing. I imagine the X11 input latency
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The article you're commenting on is about someone running X11 and Wayland on the same computer with the same mouse and experiencing higher input latency on Wayland. I don't think differences between serial and USB mice are relevan
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Guidance on Presidential Memorandum Return to In-Person Work [pdf](chcoc.gov)
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by ndiddy 2y ago
If anyone's interested, here's a pretty good overview of Infocom's internal development tooling (how they got from the ZIL source code to a compiled story file). https://github.com/ZoBoRf/ZILCH-How-to Ad
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The problem was that Kodak essentially was a film chemical production company pretending to be an imaging company. The switch to digital meant they could no longer get the fat recurring profits from selling film that they were used to. Ko
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by ndiddy 2y ago
It doesn't seem like Cloudflare has any problems with online gambling, especially since the first email the author got from Cloudflare came from someone in their "Gaming & iGaming" division. There's people in this th
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by ndiddy 2y ago
> I don't think they care much about few "Pro" upgrades here and there. The real money, and their focus as a company, is in enterprise contracts. Cloudflare's enterprise customer acquisition strategy seems to be offer
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The author of this project blogged about his experience making it the whole time. It’s a pretty entertaining read: http://reassembler.blogspot.com/search/label/cannonball
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by ndiddy 2y ago
There's a really good overview of the MacBASIC drama with Microsoft here: https://www.filfre.net/2018/07/doing-windows-part-6-look-and... . I'd recommend the whole "Doing Windows" series on tha
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The article says "The conventional explanation for what’s freezing young adults in place is that they can’t afford to grow up, given rising inflation and ballooning housing costs. Yet this doesn’t quite explain what’s going on." I
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by ndiddy 2y ago
How similar was the hiring process you experienced to this summary? https://old.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/15kj845/can...
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The Soarer's converter has a 1000Hz polling rate, the same as most modern high-end gaming keyboards. I imagine any additional delay you would feel over using the keyboard on a 5150 is more likely caused by the added latency inherent to
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by ndiddy 2y ago
You can use a 5150 keyboard on a modern computer fairly easily, all you need is a relatively inexpensive adapter like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/385607912016 . Overall I think the 5150 keyboard feels a lot better t
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by ndiddy 2y ago
You're right that it's an additional system prior to the DMCA process. I was interpreting his/her "declare you are willing to solve it in court" as applying to the DMCA takedown process, as that's what filing a
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Your idea for a "single button to immediately restore the video" system would violate the takedown process outlined in the DMCA. The way it works is that after someone sends a takedown request, the content can't be restored u
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Youtube already has that system. I had to go through the process due to a similar situation with someone falsely content ID'ing my video. In that case it was someone uploading music they didn't own to some online music distributio
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The article and French report point to the fire being caused by an oxygen leak from a faulty cockpit oxygen mask system. There were many problems reported with the system on that plane, such as the oxygen air level decreasing every flight a
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Very impressed with your persistence, dealing with a poorly documented Unix clone where all the tooling is broken in various ways seems aggravating.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Palm didn't have anything to do with Palm OS 6, they spun off Palm OS development to a company called PalmSource (later ACCESS). Palm OS 6 was finished around 2004, but never shipped on a device because the performance was horrible com
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The whole project is a fork of KDE 3, including the documentation. The FAQ is based on the KDE 3 FAQ ( https://web.archive.org/web/20080212212628/http://docs.kde.o... ), which is why you see the wording yo
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by ndiddy 2y ago
I believe that the original reason why they didn't just say "you're not allowed to provide this program as a service" is that MongoDB were trying to get SSPL approved by the OSI. The OSI didn't approve it because as
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Nice, I only focused on the Scientific Atlanta version in the article because the game image CD that got uploaded was for that version of the service. From looking at the data on the dev tooling CD, it looks like the General Instrument game
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by ndiddy 2y ago
IMO the main reason why dedicated audio cards aren't a thing anymore is that Microsoft killed hardware accelerated audio as part of their driver API changes in Vista. The result is that games today have worse spatial audio than games t
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by ndiddy 2y ago
You got me interested in how the signal was transmitted, so I looked a bit more into it (see https://segaretro.org/File:SegaChannel_Applications_Scientif... ). It turns out that the 8Mbps number I eyeballed from looking at
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Using satellites to transmit the game data wasn't TOO exotic, I imagine they did it because all the cable headends were already set up to receive national channels carried over satellite. Having centralized control of the game server a
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by ndiddy 2y ago
You wouldn't have been able to capture the signal with a VCR as it wouldn't have made it to your TV. You would have had to somehow record the modulated cable signal before it went into your cable box.
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Reverse engineering the Sega Channel game image file format(infochunk.com)
245 points by ndiddy 2y ago|47 comments

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