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by somat 4mo ago
Give it a try, take Motorola to small claims court. don't be greedy but see if you can get them to spend a couple thousand in lawyer expenses for a couple hundred of claim.
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by somat 4mo ago
If only the app could be stored on the router. Unfortunately the only tech stack that can do this is the web, (serial/remote shell comes close). In fact I regard this as the major failure of the app method of program deliverance. Why d
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by somat 4mo ago
https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#35
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by somat 4mo ago
An interesting lesser known role of GPS is that it is part of the US nuclear monitoring network and it's L3 signal is part of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjLnIb41DuQ I Found The US Nuclear Detection System In
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by somat 4mo ago
Meh, a metric ton is 0.9 of a US ton, well within the error bars for this sort of thing.
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by somat 4mo ago
I missed the basic era by a little but I always wonder why the BASIC roms never became the shell of the disk operating system when disks entered the pictured. Think analogous to the unix shell which is both the interactive command line and
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by somat 5mo ago
It is because light(colors) is a fundamentally exponential process and floats are also a fundamentally exponential process and as such the two are a good match for one another.
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by somat 5mo ago
I agree, however the fundamental problem here is that transparent systems are on the far side of the axis from user focused systems, think about it, the whole point of building a user interface is to hide and remove choice from the user, to
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by somat 5mo ago
It is still frequency, where it would have negative values. but I doubt any color handling algorithms deal with it as a frequency. Rightfully so, the physical wetware for decoding images is very different than that for decoding audio. Well.
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by somat 5mo ago
That difference can be pretty small when most of the web is also consumed by low effort automatically generated slop. You can't escape it. I know there is a good web out there, but the search engines refuse to give it to me. Probably t
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by somat 5mo ago
My understanding is that much of the point of openrsync is to create a second implementation of a protocol so the standards bodies don't balk at including it in their standards. Or to put it more concretely, people working on the rpki
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by somat 5mo ago
Do your part, link to a website you enjoy. In some ways the last bastion of the real web are the web comics. Small personal projects where they link to like minded other projects.
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by somat 5mo ago
I was replaying SC2K(dos) recently and it is much harder than I expected. Usually these city games are fairly easy chill affairs. On a 1900 hard(max bond) start the only way I found to succeed(marked when I payed off all bonds) was to pause
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by somat 5mo ago
In a democracy they do, or at least that is the theory.
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by somat 5mo ago
It is not just to fit the screen, it also fits our line orientated version control better. I don't know if this is suitable for large works(books), but for technical documentation I have my plain text source with one line per sentence,
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by somat 5mo ago
There are superglue(CA) accelerators sold, is that just a big scam? Because as far as I can tell a spray bottle with water works just as well.
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by somat 5mo ago
if we are doing a survey, there is spleen which was adopted as the default console font for openbsd. https://www.cambus.net/spleen-monospaced-bitmap-fonts/
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by somat 5mo ago
I was poking around the small town of Sinclair in Wyoming. This is basically the company town for the large refinery there and in the park there are two old cannons with the sign stating that they were originally bought by the company to be
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by somat 5mo ago
Maps should be a first class type in every language. I have this thing I want to do in C. Now my C is very weak so my plan was to do a prototype in python, keeping in mind the C ecosystem then sit down with my old copy of "The C Progra
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by somat 5mo ago
Not obvious to me. A filesystem is a database, it is a type of key value storage. there is a hierarchical lookup key that points you to an unstructured block of data. Many databases(berkleydb, postgresql, sqlite) are then built on this unst
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by somat 5mo ago
As a specific example. If I ask the true/false question "Have you stopped murdering people?" an entirely valid response is "that question is wrong" It is reasonable to map the world in binary logic. but the map logi
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by somat 5mo ago
It does not have to be bad, it depends on who they lost it to. Nvidea probably wins, the data center construction companies, electric companies etc. The tricky thing about an economy is that big picture "losing" means money is not
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by somat 5mo ago
It's the parable about how in a gold rush you want to be the guy selling shovels.
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by somat 5mo ago
Also YAML fixed this in (checks spec) 2009 with the 1.2 version. If projects want to keep using old spec that's not yamls fault. I have doubts about the over all utility of yaml. I am not sure how readable it is over well formed json.
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by somat 5mo ago
I sometimes dream of actual concurrent wego chess. It ends up a bit involved without a computer, each side has to commit to a move in secret(write it down on a pad) then comes the tricky part, a solid set of rules for situations that don&#x
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by somat 5mo ago
So make a new account every once in a while if you are that paranoid. The whole value proposition of kagi is that it moves you from being the product(eyeballs for ads) to the customer of a product(search results) This flips the incentive of
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by somat 5mo ago
And then there is X11, whatever program you want can be set to the root window. Anyhow, on topic, that windows 98 active desktop was the most unstable part of an already shaky OS. First thing to turn off when installing a new system. I mean
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by somat 5mo ago
The rot goes deeper, it is not just the ads. There is a some sort of search engine incentive where recent content is favored over good content so all web sites just dump what feels like generated garbage all the time. It has gotten to the p
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by somat 5mo ago
"Introduced a mechanism to manage CPU cores with different speeds in the scheduler. The sysctl(8) variable "hw.blockcpu" takes a sequence of 4 letters: S (for SMT), P (regular performance CPU), E (efficient CPU, generally 80%
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by somat 5mo ago
Surprised exim was dropped from ports. It is not like it was ever in base. I guess the maintainer did not want to anymore.

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