ralferoo

22 ms·

301.
by ralferoo 8mo ago
I once worked at a place where the receptionist held the door open for a thief who made off with about 10 PCs, taken from random work desks near the entrance. She thought that because he was wearing a suit and a badge from his "company
302.
by ralferoo 8mo ago
Correction: for the BBC News website . You most definitely do for the BBC News TV channel.
303.
by ralferoo 8mo ago
Google didn't drag anyone anywhere without LE though. Sure, they supported the nascent HTTPS very early on, but most of the web thought that certificates were "too expensive for the likes of us", and so only really banks and
304.
by ralferoo 8mo ago
Haha, my first gut reaction to reading your second paragraph was "No, it'd be better to compare it to compositions written for harpsichord and played on piano". I guess history has shown that most composers (and listeners) pr
305.
by ralferoo 8mo ago
https://archive.is/E0kQ8
306.
by ralferoo 8mo ago
If I'm working late and the "compensation" is free pizza, then I better be getting a whole pizza to myself.
307.
by ralferoo 8mo ago
It's not quite true to same NOPs were required. It was fairly common to just reorder instructions so that the branch instruction was just moved one forward so that the following instruction would execute before the branch target. This
308.
by ralferoo 8mo ago
I propose naming the code that ensures this 8ms has elapsed "the yawn". But to be fair, it doesn't seem that onerous an issue - the biggest problem would have been if this was completely undocumented. One obvious workaround i
309.
by ralferoo 8mo ago
Sadly, it doesn't handle dropping columns well in sqlite. Actually, it was news to me that DROP COLUMN has been added into sqlite somewhat recently, but certainly the version you'll get on most devices doesn't include it. But
310.
by ralferoo 8mo ago
Agreed. I thought it was weird on the ct ligature on something like the second sub heading and the next one had a st ligature. I stopped reading the article and was just scanning for st ligatures in the text itself (there are none) and then
311.
by ralferoo 8mo ago
Hehe, just reading that. > The poster described how she was able to retrieve her car after service just by giving the attendant her last name. Now any normal car owner would be happy about how easy it was to get her car back, but someon
312.
by ralferoo 9mo ago
They should call their stupid SI power-of-10 units kisibyte instead.
313.
by ralferoo 9mo ago
There's a good reason that gigabit ethernet is 1000MBit/s and that's because it was defined in decimal from the start. We had 1MBit/s, then 10MBit/s, then 100MBit/s then 1000MBit/s and now 10Gbit/s. I
314.
by ralferoo 9mo ago
That latter part is only true since marketing people decided they knew better about computer related things than computer people. It's also stupid because it's rare than anyone outside of programming even needs to care exactly how
315.
by ralferoo 9mo ago
The issue isn't really whether a Sikh might be carrying a knife (as Sikhs generally advocate non-violence and pacifism), but if an exemption is afforded to give Sikhs the right to carry weapons on a plane, whether a terrorist might the
316.
by ralferoo 9mo ago
> Sent a completely calm, even sympathetic report to the powers that be, got put on the DNF list for my troubles. What were you hoping to achieve by sending that report? Most people would have just thought "wow, lucky I wasn'
317.
by ralferoo 9mo ago
No, I'll blame systemd. I've been using Debian for 25 years and we've only had systemd forced on us in the last maybe 5. OK, yeah, you're right. I'll blame Debian for forcing systemd on us, which is exactly the prob
318.
by ralferoo 9mo ago
The first time I went to China and spoke basically no Mandarin (just "want", "don't want", "this one", "that one", "how much money", "thank you") I took a cheap calculator whe
319.
by ralferoo 9mo ago
I'm not sure I understand the problem you're having. Obviously, if you have translucent, then you need to be doing those objects last, but if you're using the half line method, then two triangles that share an edge will follo
320.
by ralferoo 9mo ago
The first link I posted, specifically lines 200-204 ( https://github.com/ralferoo/spugl/blob/master/pixelshaders/t... ) isn't quite what I remembered as this seems the be doing a texture correc
321.
by ralferoo 9mo ago
Forgot to add, that when you're calculating these fixed values for each triangle, you can also get the hidden surface removal for free. If you have a constant CW or CCW orientation, the sign of the base value for C tells you whether th
322.
by ralferoo 9mo ago
It's fairly easy to get triangle rasterisation performant if you think about the problem hard enough. Here's an implementation I wrote for the PS3 SPU many moons ago: https://github.com/ralferoo/spugl/blo
323.
by ralferoo 9mo ago
> Wrong. By default, the journals aren’t even saved to disk. And if you do configure them to be saved to disk, they are limited by default to 10% of the file system size, and at the most 4GiB. I mean this probably depends on your distro.
324.
by ralferoo 9mo ago
Haha, I talked about my bullet journal approach, but there is one time I always use cal... When I've resigned from a job, I'll always the output from cal, format it to full page in word in Courier, and grey out all the non-working
325.
by ralferoo 9mo ago
I've been a fan of Bullet Journals for a few years. I've never bought any of the official books, just use a 192 page 38 line ruled A4 soft-cover book. For a long time, I just had some "future log" pages (actually I tend
326.
by ralferoo 9mo ago
For me, I guess several reasons: * Log files aren't where I expect them. I can't just tail the right log file, I have to figure out a load of options to journalctl instead. Its defaults are annoyingly bad and I usually end up havi
327.
by ralferoo 9mo ago
git blame is more useful than the file timestamp in any case.
328.
by ralferoo 9mo ago
I watched this video a few days ago after it was randomly recommended by YouTube. Definitely found it very interesting and he has a load of other videos about learning Old English, so I'll be checking out more of them soon.
329.
by ralferoo 9mo ago
It's maybe best not to give too much context to this, except just to warn you to turn down the volume and not watch if you might suffer from epilepsy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJT8vfraCmk When this was first pre
330.
by ralferoo 9mo ago
PIDs haven't been limited to 16-bits for a long time. I guess the default integer in these things is 32-bit signed. But, yeah, this could be solved if uint promoted to larger for the comparison.

More ›