tengwar2

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by tengwar2 2y ago
Do you have any OpenBoot/OpenFirmware machines like the Sun4 or early SPARCstations? I was wondering what they were like as pure Forth machines.
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by tengwar2 2y ago
I've got FTTP in the UK (from Andrew's and Arnold). There's a provided bridge which takes the fibre connection and relays PPPoE to my own router. I believe that's a common way to do it.
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by tengwar2 2y ago
Phonetics can be counterproductive to comprehension, or converting meaning to text. Take an example much closer to English: Scottish Gaelic, which is written with the Latin alphabet. It's considerably older than English, has more disti
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by tengwar2 2y ago
"unlink" has a specific meaning, and it doesn't refer to the way a file is assembled out of scattered blocks. Sorry if this is already familiar to you, but from what you say it may not be. On Unix/Linux filesystems, a li
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by tengwar2 2y ago
It would be grammatically correct, with different semantics.
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by tengwar2 3y ago
It's not difficult to write a memory allocator, but there are some assumptions there which don't always hold true. For instance SmartCards (e.g. SIMs) use a language alleged to be Java, but without a garbage collector and with onl
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by tengwar2 3y ago
I've just bought a couple of USB-C right angle adapters, in the hope of jogging the cable at the back of a keyboard up 1cm. Tilting keyboards backwards for ergonomic reasons has long gone out of fashion, so the cables get in the way.
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by tengwar2 3y ago
If you haven't heard people complaining about Google Analytics, you haven't been listening. Personally, I block access to it except from one "dirty" browser for pages that won't run without access.
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by tengwar2 3y ago
Nobody? There are countries other than the USA. I've never heard of signing away rights in respect of blood as a condition of getting a licence. Is this a real thing in the USA?
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by tengwar2 3y ago
I'm not clear what you mean by "better pressurised"? If you mean the cabin altitude, one of the advantages of Concorde was that the cabin had a lower cabin altitude than other airliners, then or now. Concorde cruising superso
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by tengwar2 3y ago
I went to the Shen web page, and immediately got "Learn Shen in 15 minutes". Seems obvious to me.
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by tengwar2 3y ago
If you were doing a hobbyist project, sure. With something like this which has safety implications, there would be a lot of recertification required, not only of your software but also of the new hardware that it will require. This is not t
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by tengwar2 3y ago
AA and 18650 are just form factors. You can get rechargeable AA.
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by tengwar2 3y ago
It's an effective way, but generally a very bad one. I used to work in telecoms, and some idiot took down a tunnel between the UK and Germany carrying 1kB/s of RADIUS traffic because someone (the idiot) owned the link it ran on
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by tengwar2 3y ago
Also with no hub, there is nowhere for a chap to hang his acetylene light.
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by tengwar2 3y ago
Which sounds like more of a disadvantage if you are running a firewall.
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by tengwar2 3y ago
Colloidal silver is not a homeopathic medicine. It was briefly in vogue in the days before sulphanilamide and antibiotics, and some wound dressings contain silver. It works by giving bacteria heavy metal poisoning. Some people make the stuf
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by tengwar2 3y ago
Agreed. An example of 2 is colchicine, thought to be the oldest drug still in use. It's an ancient Greek flower remedy, and the standard treatment for gout flares. It has long been known to be very effective, and also toxic. It was onl
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by tengwar2 3y ago
I heard that there either was also a string co-processor, or that it was planned. Unfortunately I can't find anything about it.
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by tengwar2 3y ago
I'm seeing 3G being turned off, not 2G. How common is 2G going, globally?
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by tengwar2 3y ago
Blockchains can be public or private (i.e. restricted access). In this case, the latter would be appropriate. There are also ways of signing records to establish that a known company produced them. The idea behind using blockchain for track
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by tengwar2 3y ago
Back in the late 70's, we had some economic problems in the UK, which inter alia led to power cuts. When our house was converted from town gas to natural gas, my father was careful to retain and convert a gas light in the kitchen, whic
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by tengwar2 3y ago
Private healthcare is available in the UK (or in this case in Canada). It appears that she is being actively prevented from using it.
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by tengwar2 3y ago
According to the article, this is not simply a matter of cost, but of actively preventing her travelling to Canada for an experimental treatment. There is still probably a cost element involved in preparing her for travel, but no open-ended
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by tengwar2 3y ago
This is my experience with the Glove80 and the Maltron. I don't have any reason to use the function keys, but I found the number keys needed an awkward prod. Consciously keeping my palm on the rests mitigated the problem to some degree
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by tengwar2 3y ago
Acting on the numbers you get is not intrinsically a problem: it's what the action is. Looking at how fast stories, function points or whatever get closed is important for planning what you can get done in a given time, and that can be
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by tengwar2 3y ago
I hadn't realised that there was a problem with Windows. MacOS has a different problem with a colon in a file name. For two of the three most popular operating systems to have this problem does show a distinct lack of thought.
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by tengwar2 3y ago
I've never heard of it, and I doubt most users have.
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by tengwar2 3y ago
> Regular turbine spotters judged that the best sound balance was usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles away from the wind farm, whilst the engineers themselves operated their turbines by remote c
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by tengwar2 3y ago
As a PM, I find it best to put together a straw man project plan before I talk with people, then revise it progressively as I talk with people. Not always, but it's often a good idea, particularly if the project crosses multiple depart

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