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by somat 3mo ago
And yet here we all are.
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by somat 3mo ago
I was trying to figure out it's contemporaries, the i386 was still a few months away, you could get a sun-2, which had a sweet 4 MB of ram, but wikipedia sez that would cost you a eye watering 29 thousand dollars, in 1985, for the low
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by somat 3mo ago
How does it compare on IO? The normal blurbs rarely give a hard number but the AGC as a flight computer has to interface with quite a few devices. I found one thing that said it had 20 16-bit IO channels which would be well over 300 io pins
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by somat 3mo ago
Isn't it worth exactly what you can sell it for. a few ways to do this. slow and awkward, best market match: The auction. sell to highest bidder. faster and more customer friendly but poor market match until a lot of units sold: The st
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by somat 3mo ago
yes echo, total brain fart there. corrected.
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by somat 3mo ago
I have used echo as a sort of poor mans equivalent for a safe check of a pipeline, removing the echo when I felt the rest of the pipeline was working correctly. shell stuff | xargs -n 1 -I % echo real command and % args I have also b
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by somat 3mo ago
Xargs is fine, but openbsd has a -J option and every time I read the man page to figure out how to use it I read the -I and -J options and my brain glazes over. https://man.openbsd.org/xargs Other brain glazing obsd wierdne
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by somat 3mo ago
It smells like a variant of inner platform effect. Where in order to save you from programming the the config is super flexible, What is missed is that you are still programming only now you have to do it in some weird context. At least in
129.
by somat 3mo ago
The steam link actual. While the hardware is no longer being sold the software sort of lives on. In an android app among other things. Tangentially it almost feels like steam could make a stadia like thing work. They have most of the moving
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by somat 3mo ago
The impressive part is how big modding is in minecraft despite Mojang never providing a mod interface, I don't know it may be different now but the general route for a long time was decompile the java byte code make your mod and recomp
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by somat 3mo ago
Consoles hate having a jit vm so java is a non-starter for them. The real reason is you want to run your game on the latest greatest WiiStation(tm). if it is written in C/C++ you sit down with a copy of their development library and ch
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by somat 3mo ago
As a tangent, the single greatest thing about my Lenovo laptop that I was not looking for when I bought it was that it has three physical buttons for the touchpad(or that pointer thing if you use it). I love X11 style middle click paste. So
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by somat 3mo ago
Yeah PC is sort of the "forever" console, I mean it's not strictly, there is always the upgrade grind, but new hardware tends to run old software fine(ish) and many(most if you play a lot of the smaller indie stuff) new games
134.
by somat 3mo ago
Modern Lego set design is this super refined art where the final product looks amazing. It also sort of sucks, ninety percent of the pieces are 1x1 greebles with very few common structural elements, Distinctly different and I feel inferior
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by somat 3mo ago
It's a narrow connector and sideways force acts like a knife on the shell. blowing out the sides. and then the connector is unreliable. It is better than microusb but worse than usb-a. So it depends on how you baby it, but a few good a
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by somat 3mo ago
I saw it in the theaters and very nearly cheered when I saw someone actually using a command line and nmap in a hollywood film. I have a hard time watching almost any "hacking" scene. I know I should just suspend my disbelief and
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by somat 3mo ago
So... Realistically fsn makes for a killer visual for audiences, "this computer is SOOO advanced it has a 3d interface" and here is someone doing something technical with it. But if we take it at face value, immersed in the cinema
138.
by somat 3mo ago
How is that better or worse than the "I trust everyone my authority trusts" mechanism the authority system uses?
139.
by somat 3mo ago
A stupid/naive question. Why does this affect SpaceX? They have their money(The IPO) Any third party trading value does not change that. Sure there may be individuals, officers of SpaceX who hold these instruments who will be negativel
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by somat 3mo ago
True, braided has absolutely nothing to do with the specs of the cable, but braided "feels" higher quality, so I suspect quite a few manufacturers think they can skimp on the cable quality because of that.
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by somat 3mo ago
It is a weird argument because X11 is also just a protocol. Sure at this point there is only really one server left in the wild(xorg). But historically there have been more. And on that topic a question I have, seeing as wayland is "ju
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by somat 3mo ago
Is the author confusing MRI with a CAT scan? or is there a health risk associated with high flux magnetic fields that I am unfamiliar with. update: The article is second order analysis. need to read it's linked article to understand it
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by somat 3mo ago
The hard part(especially for large vehicles) is to survive that era past when it is valued as a working vehicle and before it is valued as a historical vehicle, At that point is is just junk. Large expensive junk. I was recently reading abo
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by somat 3mo ago
The way microsoft just shipped openssh is one of the saner things they have done. I am still vaguely shocked they managed to resist the temptation to MSify it.
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by somat 3mo ago
If I remember correctly mysql also started with a berkeleydb(dbm) storage layer. before myisam then later innodb. I used to sort of dismiss berkeleydb(why so simple?), but a disk backed b-tree indexed key value store is not trivial to get
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by somat 3mo ago
Weeks are largely biblical(with pagan day names, that's fun), but they got it from wanting a quarter month sized unit of time. Not deliberately with design, but I suspect that is how it fell out to satisfy their religious requirements.
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by somat 3mo ago
"But let’s look at what happens if an attacker discovers a blind SQL injection vulnerability anywhere else in the application. The attacker doesn’t need to read the database or invert any hashes. An attacker can simply register a legit
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by somat 3mo ago
I sort of wish we had went with base 12 instead of base 10 for our counting system. Based on the number of base 12 systems it was a near thing. Don't get me wrong using base 12 units in a base 10 number world is several sorts of cursed
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by somat 3mo ago
Weeks are quarter months. Or are supposed to be. Months have been screwed up for a long time now. I can imagine in prehistorical times keeping track of midrange time by the phase of the moon, if months were kept synced to the moon we would
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by somat 3mo ago
I use NSD myself, but the man page sez an auth-zone directive could act like a self contained authoritive zone served from a file. the other way it can be used to to speed up the cache for the actual authoritive data. https://ma

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