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by spc476 1y ago
Let me guess ... they're holding it wrong, and the model they're using is older than 20 minutes.
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by spc476 1y ago
By using the web? https://bible.conman.org/kj/Matthew.25:40
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by spc476 1y ago
If you read the entire article, they do that at the end of the article.
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by spc476 1y ago
Only if your phone supports it. Not all do.
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by spc476 1y ago
Set a default ringtone to silence. Give each contact on my phone a custom non-silent ringtone. If a non-contact calls and it's important enough, they'll leave a voice message. The first year or so some spammers would leave a me
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by spc476 1y ago
I used CYMRU < https://www.team-cymru.com/ip-asn-mapping > to do the mapping for the post.
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by spc476 1y ago
A decade ago a friend of mine rented a private rail car (for cost---he knows the owner) for a family trip/birthday present, and I got to ride on it for a few hours as it was being positioned ( https://boston.conman.org/2
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by spc476 1y ago
I did this at a previous job for running a complicated regression test (that couldn't be fully automated for reasons). I initially did this for myself as the regression test wasn't run that often. I also made sure that anyone ne
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by spc476 1y ago
The author very much did allow others to give input. The original protocol had single digit status codes, I was arguing for three digit codes, he compromised with two digit codes. It was my idea to include the full URL for requests, and
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by spc476 1y ago
You could store the address of the offending instruction/code sequence that generated the NaN (think software-only implementation).
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by spc476 1y ago
So maybe you can answer the following question I have: what is a "protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor," and when was the last time you needed one?" At least with C, I understand the feature set an
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by spc476 1y ago
IEEE does define x/0 to be infinity and -x/0 as -infinity. But what about 0/0? Or sqrt(-1)?
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by spc476 1y ago
It only briefly goes into what it does, this article goes into how it's done for a particular implementation.
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by spc476 1y ago
Learning the accordion didn't hurt Weird Al's career, nor did using the flute hurt Ian Anderson (lead vocalist and flutist of Jethro Tull).
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by spc476 1y ago
But then the interviewer will be launched into the Pit of Eternal Peril.
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by spc476 1y ago
Wait! I thought President Trump was getting ride of the Department of Education. How is there still an Education Secretary?
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by spc476 2y ago
The Motorola 68000, introduced in 1979, had 24 address lines. The Intel 80286, introduced in 1982, also had 24 address lines.
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by spc476 2y ago
Here's a recent attempt to load code via video recordings of a TV show from the 80s. It wasn't an easy task. From the Youtube channel Retro Recipies: Decoding A Program Sent From The Past: https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by spc476 2y ago
For adapting code to different versions of libraries for one thing: #if defined(__SunOS) presult = getprotobyname_r(proto,&result,tmp,sizeof(tmp)); if (presult == NULL) return luaL_error(L,"protocol:
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by spc476 2y ago
Sure. Here's viola, a web browser from the early 90s, with a replacement makefile (GNU make) that's a bit more sane: CC = gcc -std=c99 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic CFLAGS = -g LDFLAGS = -g LDLIBS = -L/usr
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by spc476 2y ago
There is Mathematics for the Million by Lancelot Hogben, which not only covers math, but the history of math and why it was developed over the centuries. It starts with numbers, then geometry, arithmetic, trig, algebra, logarithms and ca
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by spc476 2y ago
Unless "platform engineers" includes "deveopers", they're not the only ones who can diagnose an issue. Once at my previous job (providing a name based on a phone number to the Oligarchic Cell Phone companies), our
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by spc476 2y ago
If I didn't want to have opinions, I would join a cult.
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by spc476 2y ago
At $PREVIOUS_JOB, the team I was on worked the best when we had no manager. Or rather, we had a director (who should not have been managing us directly) meet with us once a week to tell us "here's what we're headed ... good?
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by spc476 2y ago
The non-blog parts of my site [1] are in XML and I use xsltproc to generate HTML. It's technically a static-site generator. It works, but my God, is XSLT a verbose (functional) language. [1] https://www.conman.org/
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by spc476 2y ago
I started writing my blogging engine [1] in late 1999, and spent almost the next two years trying to get it perfect, while at the same time using it for blogging (locally at first). I finally got fed up with trying to perfect the software
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by spc476 2y ago
And it's only the first minute or so of the album was used in the movie. In context the entire track (all 25m30s of it) is not scary at all. Clever use of editing.
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by spc476 2y ago
I have a copy of the second edition from 1990, still in good condition (and a finer print job than later editions [1]). [1] https://boston.conman.org/2002/07/23.1
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by spc476 2y ago
I've found books that had ads inserted into them [1]. It seemed to be a thing from maybe the 1960/1970s. The ad page was a different type of paper, and no text from the book was on it (that is---the ad wasn't on one side
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by spc476 2y ago
In a given rule: foo.o : foo.c $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $< The "$@" is the output (or target, think of @ as a bullseye on a target), and the "$<" is the input (think redirection). The only other

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