whoopdedo

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   by whoopdedo 13y ago

   > You could also imagine a page type that would only be readable to certain code segments (would take CPU support to do it.) Isn't this what TPM is supposed to provide? It received an unfavorable reputation because of its associatio
2. 1082.▲
   by whoopdedo 13y ago

   Whenever I start reading an internet article in depth, I get a nagging feeling that I'm putting more effort into reading the article than was put into writing it.
3. 1083.▲
   by whoopdedo 13y ago

   What the article revealed to me is that there is no guarantee a contiguous block of allocated virtual memory will be backed by contiguous physical memory. In hindsight, that should be obvious. But what does this mean for locality? Will I be
4. 1084.▲
   by whoopdedo 13y ago

   I never noticed before that the Sad Mac's frown is asymmetrical. That certainly lends to its unpleasantness.
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   by whoopdedo 13y ago

   If you want an exact representation, C99 has the %a format specifier for base-16 floating point. It seems that Python 3 doesn't support it but Lua 5.2 does. Lua 5.2.2 Copyright (C) 1994-2013 Lua.org, PUC-Rio > print(strin
6. 1086.▲
   by whoopdedo 13y ago

   And to this day we're still barred from creating files or directories named CON, PRN, NUL ... Damn you, IBM
7. 1087.▲
   by whoopdedo 13y ago

   I've become a advocate for the idea that the only values which should evaluate in boolean context are actual booleans. If you need to test for the number zero or a null value, you explicitly write 'value == 0' or 'value
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   by whoopdedo 13y ago

   The lawyers had no problem making lots of many with first-to-invent since a patent dispute was a long arduous process of attempting to document the timeline of an invention that frequently ended with a judge having to decide a case where bo
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   by whoopdedo 13y ago

   But not if you go to https://duckduckgo.com/putty
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    by whoopdedo 13y ago

    I don't see unmanaged files on a removable SD card as a problem. That's the point, the SD card is for data that can be removed and handled outside the Android operating system. I want apps to be able to write things to my SD card
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    by whoopdedo 13y ago

    "Restricting writes in this way ensures the system can clean up files when applications are uninstalled." Isn't this backward? Controlling clutter is more important on the internal storage that can't be replaced. If some
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    by whoopdedo 13y ago

    The DAC may sample at that resolution, but it's another matter if the driver will pass an ultrasonic frequency. Looking at a few datasheets from various manufacturers, I don't see any mention of bandpass filters. So either they do
13. 1093.▲
    by whoopdedo 13y ago

    But presumably not in Iceweasel.
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    by whoopdedo 13y ago

    You've always had to pay tax on online orders, assuming your state has a sales tax. But no one ever bothered to file the voluntary form, costing the states lots of money that they should have by law. So states such as Virginia have cut
15. 1095.▲
    by whoopdedo 13y ago

    All it needs to do is move the flag you click on to the first free square starting at the upper-left. The cheat helped me see this in action, but I've forgotten how to activate it now. I'll have to look that up again to see if it&
16. 1096.▲
    by whoopdedo 13y ago

    In the distortion samples, the uri for orig.png redirects to a non-existent server.
17. 1097.▲
    by whoopdedo 13y ago

    I'm using a greasemonkey script. https://www.reddit.com/r/gfycat/comments/1s0fip/extension_fo...