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by tengwar2 4y ago
We can get similar speed from a conventionally powered ship if we have to. There isn't much motive at the moment, so cruise ships do about 20-25 knots. If we revived the liner, we could go substantially faster. The record was set in 19
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by tengwar2 4y ago
To quantify that, I get about 2500 sheets on a bottle of black ink, which costs £9.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
I can't speak for this printer, but I have an HP Neverstop 1001NW which uses a similar tank-based system. The container of toner that came with it appeared to be entirely dumb.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
This is embarrassingly simple, but useful. manps() { if [ -z "$1" ]; then echo usage: $FUNCNAME topic echo This will open a PostScript formatted version of the man page for \'topic\'. else
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Unfortunately this continues the perception that UTC/GMT is a time zone. It isn't. A time zone is a geographical area where all the clocks show the same time, but the time that they show may vary - for instance, despite Microsoft&
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Tens of thousands isn't a large enough number to be reassuring. I use an Ecotank 4500, and because of the nature of my work buy paper five reams at a time. So far I have 13k sheets on the clock. If the printer fails at 20-30k, I'm
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by tengwar2 4y ago
I don't think that this is restricted to systems languages. Any language where you can do something like extend a linked list indefinitely seems to have the potential for "unsafe" problems such as memory exhaustion.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
I would love to believe this, but the price seems too low in comparison with simpler electric bicycles with 1kW motors. They will do about 35mph and say 60 miles. While the design of the Roam Air seems simple compared to most small motor
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Depends on the country. In the UK, the Amstrad 8256 and 8512 were very popular, and they were only launched in 1985. They were much cheaper than PCs of the time, and came with wordprocessor package and CP/M 3.0. We had about 25 of them
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Tolkien may have said that, but it is difficult to find much convincing similarity between his world and Christianity - even less so between the LotR trilogy specifically and Christianity. Most of the the Wikipedia article is a real reach.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
I think we have to look to Alan Kay for an original definition, since he invented the term, and according to him, inheritance is not a necessary part of object orientation. In Smalltalk (and various Lisps), inheritance is something that is
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by tengwar2 4y ago
I'm very much a beginner with Smalltalk but have used C since K&R. I'm having difficulty with the statement that Slang is a dialect of Smalltalk which "does not have blocks (except for a few control structures), message s
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by tengwar2 4y ago
That carries quite a few assumptions - for instance that it is a file that you are including. As the name implies, with OLE you are not including a file, but an object provided by another actively running program. Let's say you wanted
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by tengwar2 4y ago
I would be equally concerned about the stability of the file formats for the data stored inside the archives. Even plain ASCII text files have not been around very long - about 60 years since standardisation, but it took a while for the s
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by tengwar2 4y ago
The equivalent would be OLE, I think. Yes, Word can't trivially use the text output of a Python program, but then LaTeX can't trivially embed a chunk of an Excel document and have it updated automatically. Both systems make assump
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Unless you need to deal with companies that use certificates from countries that you do not trust, why not just delete/distrust them? The organisation behind Firefox is the Mozilla Corporation, which is owned by the Mozilla Foundation.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
In the UK, police sometimes recommend that licence holders request suppressors as another line item on their licences, on health and safety grounds.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Minor point: Windows ran on DOS up to Win98. If you shut down '95 or '98 you were actually at a DOS prompt, but with the screen set to black on black lettering. You could run the usual MS/DOS command to change the colours to
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by tengwar2 4y ago
It's advisable to remove rings if there is any way they could short across a car battery. The battery has very low internal resistance, so you can get a sizeable part of a kilo-amp flowing, which due to "P = I^2 R" can genera
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by tengwar2 4y ago
I may be very out of date, as my last assembly language programming was in 80386 days - but types are important in x86. You definitely need to know your words from your bytes, and your index from your offset.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
The tanks will probably not dry out. I bought my ET-4500 in 2017, and I'm only half way through the coloured ink from the original fill. They are still working fine.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
True of most inkjets, but tank-type inkjets have water-based ink which is supposed to be more resistant to drying. The tanks are also "dumb": no sensors to check the level, or check that you are using approved ink. How well does
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Works for me, and this is 12 minutes after your posting.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Repairing modern motorcycles isn't difficult. Even working on state of the art throttle-by-wire engines isn't difficult, other than it taking a bit more time to get all the fairings off. This is about what effect repairs will have
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by tengwar2 4y ago
They often do it. One that causes great annoyance to me is that when a calendar alarm goes off, you no longer have the ability to pause it to an arbitrary period before the event. Why it was removed, I have no idea. Yes, they kill entire ap
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by tengwar2 4y ago
I agree in respect of the SSD. RAM is a little different on M1 machines as there is supposed to be a substantial memory bandwidth improvement resulting from the tight integration with the SoC and processor.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Which items do you find that you trip over in practice?
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by tengwar2 4y ago
I've got to say that I am very doubtful of that. A key fob just generates one time passcodes, and offers the ability to set the seed to be used. I've implemented this sort of algorithm on SIMs (to be used for VPN authentication, n
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by tengwar2 4y ago
But humanist minuscule is not a cursive script: the letters are separate. Cursive does not mean just hand-written, but written in a style designed for haste achieved by not lifting the pen between letters.
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by tengwar2 4y ago
Back in the early 90's, the first computer that I owned was a Psion 3 PDA with 256kB of battery-backed RAM, which was shared automatically between "disk" and working memory. Applications were held in ROM. On one occasion I ne

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