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by pwg 1y ago
> Probably the procedure had been followed since 1573, well before home printers, scanners, phone cameras, or get-your-own-rubber-stamp-for-a-few-bucks internet shops. This is almost always how these seemingly silly bureaucracy hoops bec
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by pwg 1y ago
Bloated software expands to consume CPU performance faster than CPU performance is increasing from hardware advancements currently. Gone are the days of a two year later CPU bringing 3x or 5x the performance to a new system.
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by pwg 1y ago
> is that here in Israel there are roads that are illegal to drive on either because they're access to PA territory or they're bus/taxi only. You can fix those aspects yourself in OpenStreetMap (OSM), with the result that
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by pwg 1y ago
> Apple's designers (and those of many other companies) come back to the idea of translucency giving order and imbuing personality. I cannot for the life of me understand where this idea comes from. When the company employs designer
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by pwg 1y ago
Also, for much of that 1966-1982 bear market, buying stocks was largely unavailable to all but the already very wealthy, because to do so one needed a "stock broker" (and paying the required yearly fee or percentage of total asset
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by pwg 1y ago
Hmm, a big commercial site who's purpose is to provide free eyeballs for the viewing of advertising considers a video about how to avoid providing free eyeballs for the viewing of advertising as "harmful". Of course that vide
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by pwg 1y ago
> Ie oversized mosquitoes (where swamps were not completely drained hundred years ago). The native mosquitoes of the DC area can grow to a body length of about 1 inch or a bit longer (~3cm). They were the ones that were nocturnal (or a
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by pwg 1y ago
This geofencing seems about as smart as the Indiana pi bill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
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by pwg 1y ago
> I assume this is still the case. It is, $job's outlook install still "top posts" by default, just like always.
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by pwg 1y ago
I especially like this one: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1998-08-24 It has hit home a time or two when the "managers" hire in a "consultant".
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by pwg 1y ago
urxvt
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by pwg 1y ago
> using some off the shelf system from one of the big vendors This also gives the bank 'cover' should an exploit be uncovered in "big vendors" system. They (the bank) are safe liability wise (or at least they think t
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by pwg 1y ago
Do you carry a smart phone? If yes, then this: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.blinkenlights.android.van... will play flac from your phones local storage (you have to transfer the files to the phone of course).
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by pwg 1y ago
> Can we just agree this is terrible UI It is, but they had some "checklist" that included "block paste" for reasons unknown, and so they blocked pasting. In firefox, if you change the about:config setting "dom.e
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by pwg 1y ago
> That's not how mouse input works though, right? No, mouse input data does not work that way. My reply was referring to @tehbeard's suggestion that the mouse could be modified to send absolute coordinates instead, and I was po
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by pwg 1y ago
What happens with that "absolute position relative to some arbitrary 0,0 picked by the mouse" when the user picks the mouse up off the table/pad/etc. and repositions it (i.e., they hit the edge of the pad and now "r
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by pwg 1y ago
Ken, there is a misspelling in footnote 8. This: "Two support" Was likely meant to be: "To support".
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by pwg 1y ago
Most likely what happened is some MBA ran a short A/B test of smaller vs. bigger video thumbnails, and the A/B results showed more "engagement" with the larger size thumbs, and so, of course, to meet his/her perform
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by pwg 1y ago
> “Chrome today represents 17 years of collaboration between the Chrome people” ... “Trying to disentangle that is unprecedented.” Hmm, sounds very suspiciously similar to MS's argument from twenty some years ago for why they coul
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by pwg 1y ago
From the addition: > (EXIF stripped via screenshotting) Just a note, it is not necessary to "screenshot" to remove EXIF data. There are numerous tools that allow editing/removal of EXIF data (e.g., exiv2: https:/&#x
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by pwg 1y ago
Think: "stalker".
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by pwg 1y ago
I suspect that those folks who answer survey questions of "would you pay more for made in the USA" with "yes" are thinking (if they are thinking at all) of paying $2 to $3 more on a $100 item, not paying $110 more on a $
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by pwg 2y ago
> much less because the OS in ROM would write itself into RAM on startup and take about 20KB away. RAM shadowing of the ROM did not exist in the Atari's (at least not in the original 400/800 models). The ROM's simply were
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by pwg 2y ago
The original Atari 400/800 included BASIC on a ROM cartridge. To use BASIC, you plugged the BASIC cartridge into the system and powered up. To boot something else (games...., from either cassette or disk) you first removed the cartridg
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by pwg 2y ago
On the Atari's you could also run 6502 binaries from inside Atari BASIC. The Atari ROM OS explicitly reserved page 6 of the memory map for "user use" and Atari Basic followed suit. There were (IIRC) also a tiny number of pa
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by pwg 2y ago
Sometimes. Circa 1982/1983 I picked up a trick for right justifying numbers (space padding them) when printing them with Atari BASIC from some program listing in some magazine article. I forget now which listing or which magazine (al
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by pwg 2y ago
The diagrams on the page are nothing more than the typical switch mode power supply [1] layout, the only difference being handling grid power levels and conversion back to AC at the output (most switch mode PSU's output DC). [1] https
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by pwg 2y ago
Any answer requires us to be mind readers, and we can't read their minds. The closest you might get to learning something about a possible 'end goal' is to read up on Project 2025 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by pwg 2y ago
The headline is obvious clickbait.
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by pwg 2y ago
While I agree with the sentiment, the hope would be their legal dept. being spooked just enough to rein in the advertising dept. just a bit. Lawyers, in general, do not tend to like risk.

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