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by pwg 2y ago
> but it would have made extending the address space further much simpler. Given published information [1] that the 8086 was designed in a weekend as a panic stop-gap to provide some form of "more advanced CPU" to keep Intel in
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by pwg 2y ago
Intel also released both the 8086 and 8088 as 40pin DIP's. Squeezing four more address pins in would have meant multiplexing four more of the pins on the chip, and if you exclude power/ground pins there are only 13 pins that are n
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by pwg 2y ago
While "portable MP3 player" implies "not a cell phone", have you considered use of an old cell phone and an open source music player (i.e. one example here: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.bl
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by pwg 2y ago
> I am starting to wonder if the management wants to ensure people in general do not make that connection ( and just want to have, ideally, serfs barely making ends meet ). One big reason is they are very worried about their stock grants
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by pwg 2y ago
> have even received phone calls on my personal cell phone For this, if you are in the US, first, if you have not already done so, add your personal cell phone # to the do not call list. Then, for any of these calls, first collect the bu
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by pwg 2y ago
> For example, a blind person can't see when an animation has finished. They expect that menu to be available once they've triggered it. However, seeing people see the dropdown appearing and then go to use it once it's rea
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by pwg 2y ago
> But if you're a tech journalist you're supposed to know this! Agreed, but the sad fact is, every "journalist" makes very obvious mistakes in every article they write. It is just that we (the readers) don't not
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by pwg 2y ago
> If that energy isn't carbon-neutral, you're just spinning your wheels. True, but the "long term" angle here would be to supply that energy from, say, excess solar generation during midday after the overnight storag
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by pwg 2y ago
> I’m interested in two things. One is why people make this choice when it is so often a mistake. One possibility: If one 'runs' the numbers, then the "break even" point [1] turns out to be around 82 years old. Unle
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by pwg 2y ago
No, chr$() was intended for use to create strings containing characters that could not be typed on the keyboard.
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by pwg 2y ago
Nothing at all to do with string theory (Hamiltonian reference string). One /could/ potentially consider ASCII code points ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii ) as a form of typed godel numbers, but it is ver
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by pwg 2y ago
"CHR" is an abbreviation for "character". Its purpose was to convert ASCII code point values (integers) into the character that the code point value represented. The primary use was for creating characters that you coul
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by pwg 2y ago
> the Q&A was never good security in theory The 'security questions' were never about 'security' (at least not directly). As you say, they simply created a "backdoor". They were always about: "auto
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by pwg 2y ago
Because their "security checklist" had an item inserted 18.5 years ago that says: "must have security questions" and so to pass their security audit (i.e., check the boxes on the checklist) they have to request security
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by pwg 2y ago
> Who thought this would be useful in any way to bring this utterly irritating abomination into desktop space? This is what happens when you have corporate funded browsers that employ UI designers. In order for those UI designers to m
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by pwg 2y ago
Smells somewhat like the old adage of: "if the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems start to look like nails".
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by pwg 2y ago
> It seems it has ~~degenerated~~ evolved to a niche file sharing platform for obscure contents? While it has done so in a "total bytes transferred daily" metric manner, there are still active groups. comp.misc has a reasonable
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by pwg 2y ago
Guesses below: 1) by being "base32hex" the "hex" part resulted in inclusion of 0, 1, and 8. 2) whomever originally defined it simply did the most straightforward extension of appending "GHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV" withou
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by pwg 2y ago
The PDF specification is size agnostic. A given, created, PDF, is fixed to whatever size it was created to represent. Acrobat claims to be able to "reflow" some PDF's, but whatever it is doing is more black magic voodoo than
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by pwg 2y ago
RELEASE_NOTES [1] contains no mention of systemd (or at least does not contain that string). README.TXT [2] also does not contain the string "systemd" ANNOUNCE.15.0 [3] also does not contain the string "systemd" If such
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by pwg 2y ago
TFA has no indication of the odds of winning the sweepstakes. If it is like most sweepstakes, the odds that any given user will win will be so tiny as to not really make it worth the effort of using edge or bing.
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by pwg 2y ago
There's nothing named "systemd" in the FILE_LIST [1] for Slack64-current (which is what eventually becomes "the next release" at the appropriate time. So it would seem the GP has been taken in by some rumor somewher
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by pwg 2y ago
> Why is this still a thing? Because the profit is significantly higher than the cost to create/run one.
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by pwg 2y ago
> but at the very least there should be some form of punishment for bogus DMCA claims As numerous other comments accurately point out, this was never a DMCA claim. However, for actual bogus DMCA claims, there is a "form of punishmen
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by pwg 2y ago
From TFA: > At the very least, the video demonstrates that Apple could provide expandable SSDs if they wanted to, and I’m sure Apple could make a pretty penny selling their own proprietary SSDs. While true, there is significantly more pr
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by pwg 2y ago
The ultimate answer is "it depends". And upon what it depends is the particular IR wavelength the camera emits to "illuminate" a scene in IR for night photography. My cell phone's back camera will show IR light fro
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by pwg 2y ago
> Yes, I asked the caller to give me a bank number to call back Don't do this either. If the caller was a scammer, they can give you a number that would call them back, and now they have you "hooked" because you think you
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by pwg 2y ago
A prime example of thee "Gell-Mann Amnesia" effect: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
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by pwg 2y ago
> There's ways around that through 1031 exchange Only if the properties are both used for "trade, business or investment" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Code_section_... ). Since your
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by pwg 2y ago
> Can you sell your house back and forth to your spouse every year to multiply the exemption? If you try you'll likely find yourself being charged with tax evasion once the IRS recognizes what you are doing.

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