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by neckro23 10y ago
Thousands is correct. A magnetic hard disk has a bandwidth of well over 1 Gbps. Long-term stability (and this would only be any good for long-term storage, at that rate!) is a pretty tall order. Even current storage methods can't rea
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by neckro23 10y ago
Counter-Strike has very little actual randomness. Bullet recoil follows a fixed pattern which only appears random. (See http://twowordbird.com/articles/csgo-recoil-mechanics/ for example.) Expert players can (an
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by neckro23 10y ago
I found out about the CNC thing recently while trying to get a hobbyist CNC machine set up. My immediate reaction was "Parallel ports? What is this, 1985?" Turns out, there isn't really any getting around it. It's pa
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by neckro23 10y ago
var drawing = document.createElement('canvas'); document.body.appendChild(drawing); var ctx = drawing.getContext('2d'); ctx.beginPath(); ctx.moveTo(0, 0); ctx.lineTo(100, 100); ctx.stroke()
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by neckro23 10y ago
> * async stuff silently swallows exceptions unless I put try{} catch(err) { console.trace(err) } everywhere There's no need for that: process.on('unhandledRejection', err => console.trace(err))
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by neckro23 10y ago
tmux complements mosh, it doesn't quite replace it. For me, the whole point is that you don't have to "resume a session", it just happens. On my laptop I have a mosh session open to my remote shell basically all the t
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by neckro23 11y ago
The Ansel Adams examples are interesting because AA very deliberately manipulated the relative intensity of tones in his photographs. In fact, I'm not sure how applicable the current training method (desaturate a color photo, colorize
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by neckro23 11y ago
Edibles tend to be popular with inexperienced users who don't want to smoke, it's impossible to know exactly what dose you're eating, and you won't feel the effect until it's too late. Ergo, it's very easy to
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by neckro23 11y ago
How many people are qualified to "verify there's no backdoor to your CPU"? Certainly not your average user. If you can't trust your CPU, what can you trust? Allowing Secure Boot to be bypassed is a backdoor in itself
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by neckro23 11y ago
They very much are synced up, since the PPU needs to generate the video signal directly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Processing_Unit I'm not familiar with the NES in particular, but typically the softwar
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by neckro23 11y ago
Cookies injecting data into the global namespace? Hmm, sounds familiar... http://php.net/manual/en/security.globals.php
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by neckro23 11y ago
I did this for Windows recently (upgrading from old 128GB SSD to shiny new 512GB SSD). Process was: 1) Boot into Parted Magic 2) Copy disk using Clonezilla 3) Expand NTFS partition with gparted 4) There was no step 4. The whole process was
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by neckro23 11y ago
The IRC thing is such a nice enhancement that I wrote a relay bot for it (kind of a meta-bot): https://github.com/neckro/OCTOTROG I'm part of a small sub-community of players, and we use it to filter the announcem
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by neckro23 11y ago
I've been bitten by this problem too. What's extra obnoxious about it is that the client used to work just fine -- but a couple years ago it started randomly hogging an entire CPU core for seemingly no reason at all. I still use
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by neckro23 11y ago
The dumb-trick way to solve this is to use Robocopy with /PURGE to merge an empty directory with a parent of your non-deletable files. Somehow it manages to helpfully delete all the "extra" files.
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by neckro23 11y ago
You're not sure what the most popular open-source OS has to do with your comment about open source OSes?
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by neckro23 11y ago
An LCD has to buffer the entire frame, then process it, then display it, and there's also a small delay for the crystals to transition to the new frame. Meanwhile, a CRT shows the frame as it's still being transmitted, while the s
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by neckro23 11y ago
One thing I really liked about TI BASIC as a kid was that it gave you direct access to a graphics API. You could even mess with the font bitmaps from BASIC. On almost every other home computer of that era (e.g. C64) you had to use arcane
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by neckro23 11y ago
DCI 4K (4096x2160, very similar to consumer 4K) has been the standard resolution for digital intermediaries in the film industry for a couple decades now. Due to the popularity of digital compositing and color grading, that's going to
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by neckro23 11y ago
A 1TB spinning-rust disk is quickly becoming a niche product. Looking quickly on Amazon, a 1TB drive is ~$50 while you can get a 5TB for ~$150. The price has plummeted, just not at that capacity.
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by neckro23 11y ago
I've been pondering this distinction lately. We recognize that doxxing, etc. are Definitely Bad Things but that's exactly what journalists have always done. It's a matter of degree and intent, of course, but there's an
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by neckro23 11y ago
iOS 9 auto-brightness mode goes a lot dimmer than its predecessors.
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by neckro23 11y ago
By the way, there's a way to create /usr/local without rebooting four times like suggested in the doc: - Boot into Recovery (hold cmd+R during boot) - Open Disk Utility - Unlock your system drive (assuming it's encrypted
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by neckro23 11y ago
Here's what burned me: El Capitan will let you remove /usr/local, but you can't re-create it (without the recovery console) due to SIP.
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by neckro23 11y ago
As far as I can remember, using MOD music was pretty rare for MS-DOS-era PC games. The only exceptions I can think of were either Epic MegaGames titles (Unreal, Jazz Jackrabbit, Epic Pinball) or games that originated in the demoscene (Zone
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by neckro23 11y ago
Haldeman later wrote a "proper" sequel to TFW, Forever Free , but it's not nearly as good as Forever Peace .
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by neckro23 11y ago
Sneakers is not only the best hacker movie (not that there are a lot to choose from), but its themes are eerily prescient -- secrecy, encryption, mass surveillance, control over information. I haven't revisited it since Snowden happene
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by neckro23 11y ago
I do the same thing. The rationale I use personally is that the master password might be stored in a retrievable format on my phone, but the phone itself is encrypted (iOS 8). And the convenience factor is strong enough (it's really
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by neckro23 11y ago
I wrote a little thing that helps you make your commits 𝔢𝔵𝔱𝔯𝔞 𝔞𝔴𝔢𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢: http://antglove.com/erger/
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by neckro23 11y ago
It's not mentioned by name in the article, but the "proper" way to do it is with a Fisher-Yates shuffle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle Depending on the array implentation, ad

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