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by pwg 4y ago
> the FBI took more of a meme-account approach. ... it didn’t even bother to link out the FCC, where the information came from. Sadly, this is one that almost all "news" orgs. are guilty of. Almost every single one of them f
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by pwg 4y ago
> Why Does a Plastic-Wrapped Turkey Sandwich Cost $15 at the Airport? Despite the "port authority" rules on 'street pricing', the real reason is lack of competition. A single vendor receives the food contract for the
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by pwg 4y ago
Kind of looks like an attempt at simulating the "modem dropped because someone picked up an extension phone while modem was connected" result. There was often a burst of random characters like that when the link went down due to
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by pwg 4y ago
>The machine would need to have a timer mechanism that is turned by an electric clock motor, Pure mechanical timer based washing machines have been driven by electric clock motors (line powered) for at least 50 years (as that is as far b
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by pwg 4y ago
> It should be fine with the car not "on" No. Not if the meter is in "Ammeter" mode (or is purely an ammeter only). An ammeter presents a very low resistance to the circuit you are attaching it to, low enough that f
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by pwg 4y ago
> I would like to avoid bugging users with cookie banners and consent forms Then don't set any tracking cookies, and don't collect any personal data, and you'll be GDPR compliant.
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by pwg 4y ago
> Unless running IT for your HOA is your lifelong ambition, you might consider deferring control of this system to the gentleman who wants electronic voting and let him spend the time and effort implementing the nonsense he advocates. I
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by pwg 4y ago
> But there are number of association members who want to and keep bringing it up. This group is probably the "technically proficient" and are not considering, or are unaware, of how 'befuddling' the electronic voting
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by pwg 4y ago
> about half of the members are 60 years old with little (and lessening as they get older) tech facility. That right there will create significant 'befuddlement' for any attempt at 'electronic voting'. > Can “ensur
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by pwg 4y ago
If you read through the PDF Ken links to in another note here, you find this quote starting the "Objectives and Constraints of the 8086" section: "The processor was to be assembly-language-level-compatible with the 8080 so th
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by pwg 4y ago
The 20 bits of address was likely a direct result of Intel's decision to package the 8086 in a 40-pin package. They already multiplex the 16-bit data bus on top of 16 of the 20 pins of the address bus. But with only 40 pins, that 20-b
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by pwg 4y ago
Indeed, that was a typo. Fixed now. Thanks.
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by pwg 4y ago
Microcode (the concept) is very much older than the 1970's. Per Wikipedia ([1]) the earliest system with something like 'microcode' dates back to 1947. What is 'special' for the 8086 is that this was a low cost mic
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by pwg 4y ago
Ken, one tiny update. You have "a 4-megabyte (20-bit) address space" near the top of your post. 2^20 is a 1 Megabyte (in base-2 'megabytes') not a 4 megabytes address space.
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by pwg 4y ago
> I'm more curious on how do Intel CPUs compare to space heaters? (I mean in comparison to the regular electric resistance heaters.) The 'heat' produced by a CPU in operation is resistive heating. The heat results from
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by pwg 4y ago
No.
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by pwg 4y ago
> but that’s problematic when the next owner tries to screw in a standard bulb - what happens when it sees 48V DC? If by "standard" you mean a incandescent tungsten filament bulb, nothing at all. For a true LED driver power sup
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by pwg 4y ago
Again: NO No tracking, no telemetry, no nothing. It is unfortunate, but that is the only good answer.
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by pwg 4y ago
> Should open source projects track you? Simple answer: NO
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by pwg 4y ago
With uBlock Origin blocking by default all the javascript, I read the artcile and never once saw a cookie consent pane.
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by pwg 4y ago
about:blank
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by pwg 4y ago
Agree to all. I wasn't commenting on the global impact. From "the cable companies" viewpoint, they are not paying for that energy (each subscriber is paying individually). And they cared more about reducing their "hel
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by pwg 4y ago
> This feature was disabled to address issues that our customers had with keeping their TV and TV Box power synchronized. You'd likely be surprised if you were a fly on the wall at their customer service center listening in on calls
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by pwg 4y ago
No cookie popup, but I also have my uBlock configured to default deny all javascript, which also results in blocking the cookie popup. Turning on JS for only "nike.com" and "nikecdn.com" to make most of the images appear
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by pwg 4y ago
> I've slowly but surely started to dread these damn blatant popups - from cookies and product updates to free offers. Install uBlock Origin and turn it on. Almost all of the pop-ups will disappear.
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by pwg 4y ago
Which should make the "solution" obvious to the regulators. To license them as a "passenger car", they have to also meet passenger car safety, emissions, and fuel economy standards. If they don't meet those standar
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by pwg 4y ago
https://www.ledger-cli.org/ Of course no bank provides 'downloads' in this format so you have to 'roll your own' converters from what they do provide.
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by pwg 4y ago
Future news headline, one year from now: "Between Windows and Chrome usage, a system with 192GB of RAM has only 4G left free for other tasks"
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by pwg 4y ago
> It’s getting clear in cities like Ithaca that landlords pass high property taxes onto tenants quite directly. Most landlords are interested in making a profit from renting. Therefore the rent the landlord demands will be set to a mont
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by pwg 4y ago
Because most businesses/governments are solidly stuck in the "sheet of paper" paradigm, and PDF provides a way to "make electronic" all those sheets of paper. And once the old paper based process has been "made

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