tengwar2

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by tengwar2 2y ago
"Everyone" does not know that. Avoiding plain text passwords is the commonest method used on the Internet, but if you get in to mobile telecoms, you find shared secrets stored in hardware-secure write-only enclaves in clear text.
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by tengwar2 2y ago
To the extent that Roman numbers have a direction, it is the same as for Arabic numbers. The current year is MMXXIIII (or MMXXIV in the more familiar notation generally taught in modern schools). You can't write this as IIIIXXMM. There
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by tengwar2 2y ago
I really hope not. I found that intensely annoying on Windows.
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by tengwar2 2y ago
My experience is that that has limited validity. I wear varifocals, but for the past few years have had some single focus lenses set a bit further out than reading lenses. The motivation is to be able to see the top of a large screen, which
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by tengwar2 2y ago
But if you actually do know what you are doing, you know to set the cell type appropriately.
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by tengwar2 2y ago
One reason I already use them as hearing aids is because I use Airpods for phone calls, and it's a lot easier to leave them in than change to my hearing aids. So the question of what they look like doesn't arise.
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by tengwar2 2y ago
It does seem to depend on the hearing aids as to whether people can see them. I have NHS hearing aids - made by GN Resound, I think. I really like them, but as they use sound tubes rather than wires to a speaker in the ear canal (the oddly
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by tengwar2 2y ago
Is there a way of setting an audiogram? That's basically a frequency response curve for your hearing, so it's the basic requirement for acting as a hearing aid. This is a setting which iPhones have for Airpods (as far as I know,
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by tengwar2 2y ago
One method is using directional information. My low-end aids have two microphones each, and can share audio information from one aid to the other. I believe there are also some other methods, but I don't know how those work
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by tengwar2 2y ago
And how's that going for you at the moment? You have a supreme court which has just decided that the president is effectively outside the reach of the law. This was in response to a case where the outgoing president attempted to overth
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by tengwar2 2y ago
You might know it as "Nature abhors a vacuum". Originally it was a statement of Cartesian physics: the idea was that "action at a distance" was impossible, and since distant objects did clearly interact (through gravity
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by tengwar2 2y ago
Get a sampler pack of blades and see what suits your face best. No point in paying a premium for Feathers if they don't work for you. For me, Feather and Derby work well, while makes like Astra scrape a bit.
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by tengwar2 2y ago
Got one, but I find Merkur handles (a more established make) to be better. That's not to say that Merkur will be better than Henson for everyone, but it's not reasonable to say that Henson is best in class.
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by tengwar2 2y ago
Indeed. I used this algorithm on OS/2 1.0 as part of a GUI (OS/2 did not have a GUI until 1.1). That was on an 80386. MASM came with a nice ring-bound A6 book which summarised the instruction set, including timings. I seem to reme
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by tengwar2 2y ago
I know Notes can store in IMAP, but is there a way of associating it with an email? I can't see anything.
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by tengwar2 2y ago
No, in that sense the UK does not have an American-style constitution - no more, no less. It is not accidental that Parliament can reverse any decision taken by an earlier Parliament: in fact it is one of the most important parts of the con
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by tengwar2 2y ago
Sometimes passwords are stored in plain text to improve security. An example is K in mobile telephony, a number shared between the home network and the USIM. This is used for mutual authentication and establishing a cryptographic session ke
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by tengwar2 2y ago
I inherited a control program from Risø National Laboratories. It had roughly 600 globals of the form A9$, three local variables, and one comment - "Midlertidig". However on a more practical note, the "Java" used on Smar
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by tengwar2 2y ago
Settings - I preferred the rectilinear layout, but I don't see why making it linear makes it atrocious. If you don't want SIP, it will take you a few minutes to reboot and switch it off permanently (or perhaps until the next OS up
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by tengwar2 2y ago
Which settings? I am a long term MacOS (and Linux) user and have not noticed such problems.
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by tengwar2 2y ago
What are you doing with Markdown? My own requirements for a format are: * 30 year viability. * simple but explicit formatting: I need to specify font size, underline, and red text. * clarity in writing is almost as important as clarity in r
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by tengwar2 2y ago
Most people don't seem to realise that you can put line breaks and leading spaces for indentation into formulae. Also while by default the edit line at the top of the window only shows one line, you can drag the divider down to show mu
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by tengwar2 2y ago
Personally I found 80286 and 80386 much easier than Z80.
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by tengwar2 2y ago
They overlap in meaning to the extent that I would use either interpretation for either word. For instance in England there are chalk figures called miz-mazes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizmaze ) which are non-branc
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by tengwar2 2y ago
Yes, people dual boot. Particularly people who are contemplating a move from Windows. I'd hate to see Linux take the "my way or the highway" attitude of Windows.
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by tengwar2 2y ago
It varies a lot. Later European archaeology is generally quite well-founded as it ties in to a historical record. While I don't have any familiarity with the Colosseum, I have heard that there are records of payments to sailors for man
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by tengwar2 2y ago
I've seen an estimate that it was only about 1920 that Western medical intervention had a positive effect on average. In other words, you would generally end up worse off by visiting the doctor before then. And yet medical treatment cl
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by tengwar2 2y ago
This is why I use RTF. It is considerably more flexible than Markdown (which can't do basic stuff like making text red), but not a proprietary format. The application I use (DEVONthink) supports a number of formats including Markdown,
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by tengwar2 2y ago
The G4 did indeed support Open Firmware: I had an MDD.
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by tengwar2 2y ago
It would depend on the generation of CP/M. CP/M 1.0 and 1.1 had Gary Kildall dealing with it when he came off duty from a nuclear submarine. CBASIC (from Compiler Systems aka Gordon Eubanks) dated from the same period and was also

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