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by opless 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_cassette_tape Sorry, but I guess you had to be there to have that knowledge?
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by opless 3y ago
And exactly none of them were used on contemporary machines that PKZIP ran on.
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by opless 3y ago
Apart from 100% of windows installers, and curl | bash installers ? ;-)
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by opless 3y ago
Tar IS seekable, as it was designed especially for tapes. The modern usage of it adds compression, which you have to undo first before doing your archive operations ;) Zip was > tar (and cpio) in that regard because you didn't have
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by opless 3y ago
Cassettes were mostly used on 8 bit machines ;) Tape drives were relatively expensive to floppy disks.
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by opless 3y ago
As I mentioned, dialup for many was a luxury.
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by opless 3y ago
The articles main point seems to be complaining about ambiguity. > Scan from the back, find the end-of-central-directory-record and then use it to read through the central directory, only looking at things the central directory reference
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by opless 3y ago
Bluesky doesn't even allow you to read posts until you log in, but it does leak enough in the meta tags when it's posted to, say, discord.
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by opless 3y ago
No worries. Meeting culture is still... Awful... video or not :)
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by opless 3y ago
I do consultancy too, and I rarely turn my video on. I certainly appreciate that some folk are prone to want video on though. I'm blessed to not have clients like that!
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by opless 3y ago
The solution is to not stream video. Most zoom calls can easily be an email ;)
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by opless 3y ago
Thankfully you don't have any idea of my (current) location. I could be anywhere in the world. Even nextdoor to you ;) You and GP still would be deluded however.
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by opless 3y ago
I said Blockchain, not Bitcoin. Bitcoins "value" it that it's a pyramid scheme along time, early "investors" profit when they get out. Market cap means nothing when you run out of difficulty ;) Anyhow I'll leav
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by opless 3y ago
Blockchain is a solution looking for a problem. DNS isn't it. Sorry
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by opless 3y ago
I came to post the same thing.
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by opless 3y ago
That's pretty the much the same as the green party in the UK 1. No one wants a nuclear reactor in their back yard 2. Making a safe nuclear reactor takes skilled engineers 3. The only country with those skills in europe are in france (
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by opless 3y ago
It is amazing how doctors continue to get away with gaslighting their patients because they refuse to believe them/look at family history, even to the point of not even attempting to rule those things out.
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by opless 3y ago
Covid hasn't gone away though. Returning to an office is my idea of hell though. Getting I'll because some random employee won't take the time off or WFH because they have a cold/flu/covid is plenty enough reason to
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by opless 3y ago
Sadly not much in the simtel archive. Does anyone have a better link?
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by opless 3y ago
Yes http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/blog.html https://human-competitive.org/ There’s also a low volume GP mailing list
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by opless 3y ago
Added his name to the repo description, thanks for the suggestion!
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by opless 3y ago
Nice find! I wonder when it was put up, it took me a while to track the original down License-wise on the site it says: > You can use it for anything you want Which implies “public domain”, and … https://github.com/opless
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by opless 3y ago
https://github.com/opless/small-prolog-walnut-creek-original Is a copy of the PD prolog used in the PNP system in NT More details (and probably where the original article was sourced from) http://www.drdobbs
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by opless 3y ago
Board support packages very rarely get updated and usually target a very specific kernel version. You move off that kernel version, no BSP, no boot. sad times. This is one reason why you don't get android phones supported past the andr
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by opless 3y ago
Perhaps, but once it's set for a client it seems to persist.
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by opless 3y ago
You can unpin the value add stuff from the sidebar in Plex.
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by opless 3y ago
It's indeed a good job, that the default compiler is clang then ;-)
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by opless 3y ago
And very tacky. Literally. Tacky. Like 20 year old rubberised plastic going rotten. I felt compelled to buy a passport cover so I wasn't grossed out by the cover.
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by opless 3y ago
Astronomers...
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by opless 4y ago
C++11, and greater.

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