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by whoopdedo 2y ago
The old "Foxhole radio" trick of using a rusty razor blade as a diode comes to mind. Some metal oxide coatings are semiconducting and under the right conditions will form a Schottky barrier.
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
There was an asterisk next to the story.
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
>We eat her models Oh, the keming. But I agree. Seeing that privatization of government agencies is part of the platform, this sounds like "I'm not endorsing, but..."
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
The other outcome of the increased population ratio is that it becomes very cheap to buy a law. If you can convince one representative to vote your way you've captured the votes of 770 thousand people. That's a juicy conversion ra
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
If you want to lock customers into a contract then call it a contract. Every subscription plan very ominously states "this is not a contract" so the company has no obligation to provide the promised level of service and can change
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
> Makes you think will what you build keep the same interface or at least backwards compatibility 50 years from now? SMTP comes to mind.
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
The irony being you can get around the block by pretending to be a bot. https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52531
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
Use https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/commit/6d3b177714eb0c... The commits after that were to remove GPL code before the license change.
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
Even the temporary file is optional. Ffmpeg supports a number of network protocols. For instance, you could read from one port and write to another with ffmpeg -f webm -i tcp://[::]:55601?listen -c copy -f webm tcp:/&#x
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
HP cartridges attach the thermal print head to the ink tanks. The calibration is likely for controlling those heads. Each one has tiny heating elements that need to vaporize the ink at a precise temperature. Thermal heads eventually need to
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
>subscribe ... and then immediately delete their accounts Sounds like credit card fraud to me. Bots using stolen cards to scrape OF content. Also easily verifies that the number works before attempting a pricier purchase.
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
They weren't free. They were subsidized and consequently what used to be a $20 converter jumped to $35 overnight because that was how much retailers knew they could milk out of the rebate.
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
I had to be sure there wasn't a Mandella effect. The logo plate had "//e" reflecting the legacy of the Apple ///. (Also seen on the //c). Then the later Platinum version went to "IIe&qu
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
> I'm going to break with my usual habit of ][ and use "Apple II" for the rest of the post. It very slightly bothered me that "][plus" was typeset before this, but it was "IIe" and not "/&#x2F
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
The resource type 'SERD' is a driver for the SCC IO processor. https://archive.org/details/SWIMDesignDocs/IOP%20serial%20dr...
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
> People are spending more time with streaming than broadcast or cable television This isn't about the television sets. It's about watching programming from streaming services. If you log on to Hulu, Roku, Youtube, even AppleTV
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
But what about when the organization's purpose is to assist a private beneficiary, namely the for-profit arm of the corporation? If the non-profit only does work for one client, is it really a separate entity?
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
The number of times I've seen someone market a product called "The Matrix" since 1999 would tell me trademarks like this aren't a big deal.
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
Not if the server refuses a connection on port 80. addendum: How quickly can a server write a 403 response and close the connection and can it be done before the client is able to write the entire HTTP request? My guess is not fast enough.
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
Making walking illegal is how you create the car-first culture that we now know the downsides of.
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
I take issue with this experiment's use of the term "shadowbanning". The simulation they describe tested the effects of showing a tweet to others based on the viewers' preferences. > the network might choose to show t
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
One of the side-effects of text scaling is content will be pushed further down the page. So if you place promoted content on top as most do, the normal content will fall below the fold. That "small" ad then becomes the only thing
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
I miss the way the original Opera handled scaling which was to resize the entire draw surface after rendering. So everything, including pictures, kept the same relative sizes and there was no reflow or jumping around. That meant you had to
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
Not addressed by the article is SMTP. Is there still a need for store-and-forward in the modern internet? I think that a lot of the current headaches with mail management are because receivers bear the cost. It made sense at a time when ava
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
> the 'room over room' technology which was groundbreaking at the time. Bungie's Marathon from 1994 could also do this and demonstrated it in the deathmatch map 5-D Space[1]. It was really only Doom that bugged out on over
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
GCC putting a pointer at the top of the structure seems reminiscent of the way Pascal stored strings. A PString is the address of a character buffer like C, but the length of the string is stored at a negative offset. I may be remembering w
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
The feature flag is put there by upstream. If they don't want to support non-network installs then why do they even have that lever? That said it probably makes more sense for Debian to package a `keepassxc-nonet` alongside the default
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
> these days some of the best astronomy is performed by telescopes in space, so astronomy overall benefits by having easier access to space. Public access satellites. The FCC requires broadcast licensees to demonstrate that they're
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
I've also talked to a person who was in the Pentagon when some disks went "missing" from a room because it had poor locks on it. He had tried to tell someone that they were the wrong locks for the security level of the room b
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
SDI was never meant to be deployed. It was a ruse to make the USSR overspend on weapons development. The research was real, and some new tech came from it. As well as lots of federal money paid to private contractors. But actually creating

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