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by pwg 7mo ago
Yes. States are allowed to ignore "summer time" and remain on "standard time" all year round. Arizona is the usual example cited, they do not change the clocks, and remain on standard time year round. The special auth.
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by pwg 7mo ago
> Oh well, I am in the minority it seems. Given it one winter season across the solstice and I'd bet a lot of your fellow residents will come around to your viewpoint.
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by pwg 8mo ago
It is all supported by OSM, but /someone/ has to add it to OSM for it to be present. Whether it is present in any given area depends upon whether someone bothered to add it to OSM.
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by pwg 8mo ago
> I wonder, how difficult is it to make minor edits to the map data? The map data is OpenStreetMap, so you can make edits via the standard OSM methods: Web: https://ideditor.com/ Local: https://josm.openstreet
125.
by pwg 8mo ago
Any chance the profile you were using had the "snap to nearest road" option turned on? If that option was on for the profile then that would be why it jumped to the nearest road.
126.
by pwg 8mo ago
There is also Open Tax Solver: https://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/
127.
by pwg 8mo ago
Cory Doctorow: Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing Jan 10, 2012 https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html The article does reflect the issue at the time (the media mafia's boogeym
128.
by pwg 8mo ago
yt-dlp actually downloads from more sites than just Youtube. Whether a given podcast is on a site it will download from is a different question.
129.
by pwg 8mo ago
No, this is the enshitification phase as laid out by Cory Docktrow: https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/28/enshittification/ They are now in the phase of making everything worse in a vain attempt to increase
130.
by pwg 8mo ago
> So personally I've found what i consider to be a safe alternative. A bit more effort, but downloading the podcast and listening to it via a basic audio player app that does not further enshitify itself daily is even safer.
131.
by pwg 8mo ago
Good lord no, I would never work for that massively evil corporation. I do, however, work for one that is deathly allergic to HTTP redirects and that changes the user visible URL's each time they change/move/update servers (o
132.
by pwg 8mo ago
> Why? Please elaborate. Tk's GUI object model is sitting at a reasonable maxima between trivial to make use of vs. triggering the events necessary to make the GUI active. Small example. You want a button on your GUI that triggers
133.
by pwg 8mo ago
Thanks, I must have missed that older post somehow.
134.
by pwg 8mo ago
> when that page disappears after an acquisition or rebrand. Sadly, it does not even have to be an acquisition or rebrand. For most companies, a simple "website redo", even if the brand remains unchanged, will change up all th
135.
by pwg 8mo ago
If you are willing to sacrifice some storage space on the disk, then dvdisaster ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvdisaster ) can add extra ECC data to the disk that will allow recovery even if some percentage of the disk
136.
by pwg 8mo ago
> not sure if original is paywalled or not It is the NYT, of course it is paywalled.
137.
by pwg 8mo ago
Ken, Way back (circa 1988ish timeframe) I remember a digital logic professor giving a little aside on the 8087 and remarking at the time that it (the 8087) used some three value logic circuits (or maybe four value logic). That instead of i
138.
by pwg 8mo ago
Interesting, that's not my experience at all. So they are doing something different for you and/or your IP address vs. mine.
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Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip(righto.com)
72 points by pwg 8mo ago|16 comments
140.
by pwg 8mo ago
> But no, in my experience yt-dlp no longer just works unless you make your identity legible You need to upgrade your yt-dlp then. The newest versions still work without any session cookies or other such nonsense.
141.
by pwg 8mo ago
> Why would I want to mess with using a web browser for video in my living room No need for all that. Just use yt-dlp ( https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp ) to download them as video files, and then just play the video
142.
by pwg 8mo ago
IIRC, this was because there was significant uncertainty about whether the network exec's would cancel the show after season 4, so JMS reworked things so that 4 wouldn't end on an open-ended cliffhanger if that were to have happen
143.
by pwg 8mo ago
Or the staggering number (likely a very large overlap with your group) who appear to see their tax refund as "free money back from the government" instead of what it really is: "you are simply getting back money you loaned to
144.
by pwg 8mo ago
You passed '-f root' to login (a single long string). telnetd is likely passing '-f' 'root' to login (two arguments instead of one, whether this is because it creates two, or it uses the shell (which then repa
145.
by pwg 8mo ago
What was old is "reinvented" again: Delay-line memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory
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by pwg 8mo ago
$0.77 US single piece cost on Digikey: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/microchip-technol... And, at least with Digikey, you can feel like you actually get the real part vs. some low end clone knock
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by pwg 8mo ago
> Nevertheless, an optimum seems to have been reached around 20 years ago, and since then more often than not I see only worse interfaces that make harder A consequence of having "UI designers" paid on salary instead of individ
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by pwg 8mo ago
Appending is much better than prefixing, but having "." in the path, anywhere, can still open you up to running mistyped commands (arguably a much less common possibility, but still a possibility). I.e., you have "." as
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by pwg 8mo ago
> I take about 60 sec per crimp, and I don't have the exact tools in this guide What tool(s) do you have? > Buy better crimp tools This is most likely your better path forward (as even if you go with pre-crimped, unless you can g
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by pwg 8mo ago
The issue is that the "over 70s" group, while on the whole averages out to moderate safety, includes a number of individuals that are very dangerous drivers (to themselves, and to others). If one looks at the overall statistics,

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