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by ndiddy 1mo ago
I looked it up, his monitor does do it automatically after it's been powered off for a few minutes. He's getting the nag message because the monitor has been on and displaying a picture for over 8 hours.
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by ndiddy 1mo ago
> My ASUS ROG Swift PG42UQ monitor was actually where I started, because I got annoyed at the pop-up overlay that comes up every once in a while that tells me to run “pixel cleaning”. I have never intentionally run pixel cleaning on this
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by ndiddy 1mo ago
"Controlled digital lending" is not a generic term for "lending digital items". It specifically refers to the practice of a library digitizing physical materials in its collection, then lending them digitally based on a
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by ndiddy 1mo ago
That's why they got sued, but the suit is mainly over whether controlled digital lending is legal at all rather than their "emergency library". Archive.org lost the case on summary judgment, meaning that they could not come u
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by ndiddy 1mo ago
At one point Google Books was supposed to act as a clearinghouse for scans of out-of-print books. You could have purchased a scan of any book on the site for a reasonable price, and libraries could subscribe to a service where the full text
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by ndiddy 1mo ago
I mean the image on the box was of a knockoff Godzilla figure ( https://www.ebay.com/itm/277052192573 ) and the "monster" scenario in the game involved him attacking Tokyo, so I think it's pretty clearly m
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by ndiddy 1mo ago
> In one of the first articles that I saw about this topic they were describing a scenario where a botany manuscript from the 19th century that only had three remaining copies was being digitized and then pulped. That was something that
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by ndiddy 1mo ago
I work with accelerometer chips, a lot of them have features specifically for pedometers. Keeping the accelerometer on will draw a few uA, then you can have the accelerometer keep track of the step count internally and have the main process
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by ndiddy 1mo ago
It reminds me of an analogy I read a while ago in an article critiquing keyword based online advertising (can't find the article unfortunately). A restaurant wants to drum up new business, so the owner tasks three employees with handin
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by ndiddy 1mo ago
Yeah you can get <$1 STM32 dev boards and <$4 ST-Link dongles off Aliexpress. At my last job, we kept a big bag of the ST-Link dongles in the office, then whenever someone needed to debug something they could just keep the dongle atta
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by ndiddy 1mo ago
You're agreeing with the conclusion the original article makes: > None of this is to say that RISC-V is doomed. As I said, I fully expect it to take over the space currently occupied by 8051 as a typical cheap embedded core instanti
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by ndiddy 1mo ago
I think he's kind of speaking past the original author. The original piece is basically about how the author doesn't think that RISC-V will take off outside embedded, because of some design decisions that lead to poor performance
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by ndiddy 1mo ago
If it's so safe to resupply by sea, why do you think they're out of toilet paper and toothpaste and having to ration their food?
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by ndiddy 1mo ago
This is one of the problems with starting a war with the assumption that you’ll achieve an overwhelming victory in a matter of weeks. At this point the only practical options for resupplying the Lincoln are to supply it by sea (involves tyi
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by ndiddy 1mo ago
> It's not clear if the channel has backups of its data, but based on its determination, we suspect not. This is strange, though, especially for a major organization, as one can easily purchase a six-bay NAS on [Amazon] and populate
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by ndiddy 1mo ago
From the article it seems like Iron Mountain was doing the actual storage, and OSS was just acting as a middleman and taking some money off the top.
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by ndiddy 1mo ago
His program is a CLI only text editor. The people who both would specifically seek out a CLI text editor, and have needs that aren't being met by the numerous other CLI text editors available on Linux, are a much more technical userbas
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by ndiddy 2mo ago
Well it's obviously a better experience for someone who's not the page author if the browser tries to render an invalid page rather than throwing up its hands and showing an error. That way you can at least try to read the page ra
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by ndiddy 2mo ago
The problem the article is talking about is that publishers will no longer fund "AA" games with $2-15 million budgets. The game market has bifurcated into low end indie titles (< $1 million budget) and AAA games with budgets in
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by ndiddy 2mo ago
To compare the US and UK: In the US, the life expectancy is 76.5 years for males and 81.4 years for females. Annual healthcare spending is $14,885 per capita. In the UK, the life expectancy is 79.1 years for males and 83.0 years for females
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by ndiddy 2mo ago
Nice, thanks for confirming that. In practice, can you type on the keyboard without bottoming out the keys, or is it more like a laptop keyboard?
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by ndiddy 2mo ago
In a 2024 speech, Luckey said "Societies have always needed a warrior class that is enthused and excited about enacting violence on others in pursuit of good aims. You need people like me who are sick in that way and who don't los
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Caring for Rubber in Vintage Devices, the Curators' Way(30pin.com)
17 points by ndiddy 2mo ago|2 comments
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by ndiddy 2mo ago
Great article! I remember reading about the Toledo family's computer systems ( http://www.biyubi.com/ ) years ago, but never saw any specifics so they were always shrouded in mystery to me. It's interesting readin
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by ndiddy 2mo ago
The thing I find most attractive about mechanical keyboards is that they send a keypress when a key is only partially pressed down. When combined with the tactile bump and audible click created by actuating the key, this means that typing o
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by ndiddy 2mo ago
> Creating “autonomous weapon systems that can kill people without human involvement” is not the whole point of Anduril. That is against SROE which are controlled by the DoW and it’d be a monumental ethical dilemma if this were to be cha
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by ndiddy 2mo ago
The whole point of Anduril is to create autonomous weapon systems that can kill people autonomously without human involvement. When you look at interviews and speeches that Palmer Luckey has given, they are always deeply unsettling. In a 20
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by ndiddy 2mo ago
> We should have plenty of precision missiles left today because they should have been used only to clear the way for runs with "dumb" bombs. That's what the US tried to do. The problem is that they were unable to degrade
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by ndiddy 2mo ago
Even if the magical Itanium compiler did exist, Itanium would have still lost to AMD64. As soon as you introduce anything that doesn't behave in a statically predictable manner (multitasking, or virtualization, or even an application t
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by ndiddy 2mo ago
Here's a good anecdote about that: https://web.archive.org/web/20130806213426/http://blogs.msdn... > I remember wandering over to the Windows group over in Building 3 to talk to Aaron Reynolds ab

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