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811.
by pwg 4y ago
Wikipedia dates the mho to 1883 and Lord Kelvin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mho#Mho
812.
by pwg 4y ago
Sounds similar to the IRIX "fsn" view of the filesystem that was featured in the "This is a Unix system" scene in the movie Jurassic Park. https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9745/is-the-
813.
by pwg 4y ago
Both. Medical (i.e., Mom's doctor) to discuss her mental state. Attorney - likely in concert with doctor - to possibly see about obtaining power of attorney for degraded mental state.
814.
by pwg 4y ago
You need to seek advice from medical professionals and attorneys, not HN.
815.
by pwg 4y ago
There are discussions among the banks that own Zelle to correct this issue: JPMorgan, Other Banks in Talks to Reimburse Scammed Zelle Customers WSJ link: https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/jpmorgan-other-banks-in-tal
816.
by pwg 4y ago
> How do I convert this into logic? By looking for the pattern in your statements above. There is a pattern there, compare each line to the one above and below, and think about what those numbers mean if plotted onto a 2D grid. Once yo
817.
by pwg 4y ago
The "plain html" variant of their search page does not give me any such popup: https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/
818.
My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop(arstechnica.com)
241 points by pwg 4y ago|95 comments
819.
by pwg 4y ago
> I'm currently using Libreoffice 7.4.3 and It's really buggy and keeps crashing when I scroll Have you checked to see if this bug has been reported -- and if not have you reported it to the Libreoffice developers? They can&#x2
820.
by pwg 4y ago
If you can find a copy, "Computer Organization" by V. Carl Hamacher, Zvonko G. Vranesic and Safwat G. Zaky, published by Mcgraw-Hill has, at least in my copy of the 2nd edition, a nice chapter on microcode control units. If you ca
821.
by pwg 4y ago
It goes further back than that. Quoting from Ken's article: "In 1951, Maurice Wilkes came up with the idea of microcode: instead of building the control circuitry from complex logic gates, the control logic could be replaced with
822.
by pwg 4y ago
The one issue here is that in many industries, the use of "vacation days" is, per the labor contract, required to be scheduled in advance. Often quite some time in advance. Which makes use of "vacation days" for unexpe
823.
by pwg 4y ago
> by essentially subtracting 64 (which is almost but not quite equivalent to masking out a bit) Subtracting 64 is exactly the same as "masking out a bit". The difference between the control characters and their upper case equi
824.
by pwg 4y ago
> Decades ago, the Home/End/PgUp etc keys might not work on all terminals. Decades ago, on real serial terminals, the terminal keyboard likely did not even have Home/End/PgUp/PgDn keys [1]. That is the reason for
825.
by pwg 4y ago
Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode#History ) dates it back to 1951 and Maurice Wilkes.
826.
by pwg 4y ago
Unsure what you consider as "good color support" but you might want to look at the original (xterm) or at rxvt.
827.
by pwg 4y ago
You've changed your requirements here vs. your initial post: Note from your original post: "It doesn't need to save,".
828.
by pwg 4y ago
> I can type xyz.com and write a few words without context switching. But you have context switched there -- you had to open either a new tab or new window, and type "xyz.com" (or hit a bookmark) or replace your current page.
829.
by pwg 4y ago
What is the intended purpose that is not supported by a local text editor (i.e., notepad if on windows)?
830.
by pwg 4y ago
Or install Ublock Origin in Firefox blocking the javascript and read the entire article without a captcha getting in the way.
831.
by pwg 4y ago
> directly to your customer's smartphones on an app. If this company requires an app for me to receive invoices and make payments, then this is a company I will no longer do business with. > I just wanted to know if there's
832.
by pwg 4y ago
> The pinout is wrong, is it not? Not if both connectors are drawn looking top-down. Note the ribbing and clip on the female connector, the bottom of the female connector is at the bottom of the drawing. You'd mate these by lifting
833.
by pwg 4y ago
To get the mouse to move the cursor beyond line endings you also have to give the -floatmouse CLI option to joe. It also seems that you do need to enter lines before the cursor will position below the end of the file (which for an empty fil
834.
by pwg 4y ago
No, I don't, but 'mouse' support must also be supported by the terminal emulator you use. The joe manpage only mentions xterm, so try running it in an xterm to see if mouse support works.
835.
by pwg 4y ago
The 'joe' editor in 'picture draw' mode does exactly what you describe. https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/
836.
by pwg 4y ago
Most likely fear that every repaired product equals one lost future sale.
837.
by pwg 4y ago
Yes, terribly ugly ligature. You can turn it off by using dev tools to remove the '"dlig" 1' entry in the "font-feature-settings:" CSS attached to the body element.
838.
by pwg 4y ago
> Surely it can't be that expensive to create a simple car simulator with steering wheel, gears and pedals. It is not, they had those 40 years ago when I took my drivers ed. The one difference is those were driven from a film inste
839.
by pwg 4y ago
While those actions are indicative of a possible sting, they are also equally indicative of a scam artist. "She" might have been some guy (male) in a boiler room somewhere just trying to scam people out of their money. The avoid
840.
by pwg 4y ago
PDF was defined way back before Unicode was ever a thing. It is natively an 8-bit character-set format for text handling. The way it gets around this limit of only 256 characters available is because it also allows defining custom byte to

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