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China's Xi'an lockdown hits some of the largest chipmakers(cnn.com)
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by pwg 5y ago
> My university now requires the use of a school-managed VPN on personal devices to access most student services outside campus. > They do not and have never offered school-supplied laptops like companies usually do for secure connect
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by pwg 5y ago
> Are there regular flash chips here, or something more exotic? Something more exotic. It, at a minimum, has to be radiation hardened, which means it is not a regular consumer or enterprise SSD. Also, wikipedia says development began in
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by pwg 5y ago
> You can't drive the ringer unfortunately because it requires a much higher voltage to drive it, something like 48 volts I seem to recall. You can, provided you also add a boost converter [1] to generate the ring voltage from the i
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by pwg 5y ago
You simply don't participate.
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by pwg 5y ago
This effect has been mentioned many times on HN. Some comments attribute it to Google intentionally slowing Firefox to make Chrome seem faster. Some comments attribute it to Google utilizing API's in Chrome that they have specificall
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by pwg 5y ago
Seek the advice of a lawyer.
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by pwg 5y ago
One aspect to keep in mind. In those "earliest days" the target that was being cloned was the IBM PC, which Wikipedia [1] quotes as having an introductory price of $4,455 in 2020 dollars. Wikipedia also quotes a price range of $4
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by pwg 5y ago
Reading with javascript off (UBlock Origion in default deny all JS) resulted in zero ad, and the ability to read the full article without interruption.
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by pwg 5y ago
The problem is the title is not what controls which situations this law will cover. The breadth with which a court of law is willing to interpret "impaired" (unless the statute itself narrowly defines "impaired" somewhe
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by pwg 5y ago
Possibly the difference between "I (metaphorical "I") don't think I will encounter it." vs. "Oh ...., I have contracted a case of it from somewhere."? Many often change their attitude when things go from &
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by pwg 5y ago
Microcoding is when the internal control structure of the processor operates in much the same way as the outer machine language program is processed. The microcode is a sequence of instructions stored in a memory (usually ROM, but can be E
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by pwg 5y ago
2019 - a set of building exit doors with panic bars for egress gets locked closed at work presumably because those using them were letting in too much cold outside air in the depth of winter. Reported the "locked" status to the lo
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by pwg 5y ago
Or, given that he was going for a hike, he might have powered down the phone to conserve battery power. And if so, he did not "ignore" the calls, but rather he never received them in the first place.
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by pwg 5y ago
> How do you generate enough electricity at said remote FOB to create a useful amount of fuel? You might not need to go that far to make the overall system economical. Imagine an aircraft carrier retrofitted with this system to generate
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by pwg 5y ago
Users who accumulate sufficient karma gain the ability to "flag" a post. When a sufficient number of different users with "flag" power click "flag" on a post, then it becomes [flagged]. More description here:
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by pwg 5y ago
Seconded. Touch typing is a skill that can only be aquired by, well, touch typing. If you practice, you'll get there, but you do have to practice, and you do have to let yourself forgive the mistakes (just go back and fix them, then
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by pwg 5y ago
> I've ruled out hosting them locally in my home lab. Then you've also ruled out "cost-efficiently host[ing]" them as well. The most cost efficient method is using the internet connection you already have and are alre
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by pwg 5y ago
For many of these posts, if you search for the URL on https://archive.is/ you will often find an archive copy is already available. And if so, the archive copy is most often the full article from behind the paywall.
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by pwg 5y ago
That really depends upon what the "chips" the carmakers are using do. If they are using highly integrated micro-controllers similar to these (this is but one example of this family) https://ww1.microchip.com/downlo
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by pwg 5y ago
Except that in some cases, the automakers are not using a CPU with external interface hardware, they are using microcontrollers similar to the PIC series, example here: https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/Device
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by pwg 5y ago
> “Apparently he must have been under the influence because in the background of his picture he posted, he left his large bag of meth and syringe on the coffee table. Unlikely. Peruse ebay or craigslist enough and you'll find all m
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by pwg 5y ago
In my case, it was seeing the photos of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9's [1] impact with Jupiter on the web very soon after the impact date (latency was but a few days if memory serves, date was July 1994). [1] https://en.wikipedia.
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by pwg 5y ago
> We should be able to express "untrusted input" This is not even a new idea. Perl has had 'Taint' mode for a very long time, and the mode does exactly this, labels externally supplied data as "tainted" unt
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by pwg 5y ago
Then simply search for it on https://archive.is/ and find an archived copy here: https://archive.is/dz2Lf
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by pwg 5y ago
Tk ( https://www.tcl.tk/about/ )
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by pwg 5y ago
> Who do you use to host your email? No one. I host my email myself.
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by pwg 5y ago
Take a look at: https://pi-hole.net/
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by pwg 5y ago
I read @horsawlarway's comment as "reusable for the original use" as in how the US used to have glass soda (soft drink) bottles that were collected at stores, returned to the bottler, who would wash them out, refill them with
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by pwg 5y ago
Does the e-paper display you use have to "flash to black" on just about every change like so many of the Kindle whites do?

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