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by DHowett 25d ago
Only one third of the options at each stage are watermarked, so 3/10 seems well within random chance.
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by DHowett 2mo ago
Based on the product spec sheet[1] it appears that the Framework Desktop motherboard is mini-ITX, and that the chassis is[2] as well. It’s fully possible that I’ve missed something, but it doesn’t appear to be proprietary to me. [1]: htt
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by DHowett 5mo ago
Oh wow, thank you!
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by DHowett 5mo ago
Excellent article. If I could offer one correction, it would be that SBU (as specified by the USB 3.0 Promoter Group[1]) means "Sideband Use" rather than "Secondary Bus". On some devices, it is used to carry UART; on oth
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by DHowett 5mo ago
There was a project a while back that attempted to do this, named “Dotsies”. https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/dotsies.htm (original site https://www.dotsies.org , which has a casual introduction text that
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by DHowett 5mo ago
Three lines of text in 12-point font in the corner which can be covered by a window is hardly “the entire screen.”
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by DHowett 7mo ago
!! Thank you!
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by DHowett 7mo ago
.git-blame-ignore-revs, while great, unfortunately belongs in the “Other Conventions” section. If you configure your git client to use it, git blame will fail in any repository in which one is not present.
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by DHowett 9mo ago
It appears to be in the fourth paragraph. https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/medical-device-recalls-a... > As of November 14, 2025, Abbott has reported 736 serious injuries, and seven deaths associated with this is
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by DHowett 9mo ago
I had always wondered if that happened because of a proliferation in folks named EionMusk.
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by DHowett 9mo ago
tar.exe, however, beats both of those in terms of archive format support and speed.
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by DHowett 11mo ago
It comes with Windows, and has since 2022! Alas, if you mean Windows 10 then you can use some DISM magic to add it to an install image.
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ByteDance Proposes "Parker" for Linux: Multiple Kernels Running Simultaneously(phoronix.com)
27 points by DHowett 1y ago|5 comments
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by DHowett 1y ago
The author of the post indicated that they are releasing an update to an existing game, which we can presume has the same executable filename.
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Phison Pre-Release Firmware Linked to SSD Failures, Not Microsoft Patch(guru3d.com)
5 points by DHowett 1y ago|1 comments
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by DHowett 1y ago
I’ve noticed most of the replies to your comment address the first half, and none (as of right now) address the second: > So the question that comes to my mind is whether this is yet further new and different Raspberry Pi 5 hardware that
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by DHowett 1y ago
If you can turn the port off and then back on remotely, perhaps you can skip the unplugging part completely? I know that some managed PoE switches even offer a button to power cycle a port.
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You Don't Own the Word "Freedom"(fireborn.mataroa.blog)
34 points by DHowett 1y ago|25 comments
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by DHowett 1y ago
Have you come by your certainty that they have not asked because you were a contributor?
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by DHowett 2y ago
The advice in the 2014 talk applies to exporting specific types of errors as part of a package’s public API surface. The article, on the other hand, advocates for local variables storing errors not to have distinct names.
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Smarter IRQ suspension in the networking stack(lwn.net)
2 points by DHowett 2y ago|0 comments
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by DHowett 2y ago
systemd services are named "foo.service", and you do not need to specify the ".service" in almost any case.
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by DHowett 2y ago
> > advance > you can just manually make any letterform 2x width, Yes. Any glyph may be wider than its advance. The advance, however, must remain the same across all glyphs. If it does not, the font is not monospaced. The passage y
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by DHowett 2y ago
Bryan Lunduke has an article about this myth, actually! https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4037306/myth-windows-3-1-was... It’s backed up by another Old New Thing article at https://devblogs.microsoft.com&
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by DHowett 2y ago
Is it? It seems as though the maintainer moved it into an external plugin because they were told, loud and long, that “shoving AI [there] [was] totally the wrong idea.” It’s certainly an example of how public backlash can change the discour
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by DHowett 2y ago
> So it's a bit like "why don't people wear a welding mask while cooking?" Your kitchen does not have staff telling you to make sure you are wearing a welding mask. It may also lack appropriate indicator lamps that te
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by DHowett 2y ago
> Bounds checking and assertions shouldn’t change the type layout. Any bounds checks and assertions that rely on storing additional data such as valid iterator ranges or mutation counters would need to change the type layout, wouldn&#x27
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by DHowett 3y ago
bsdtar can do this! It supports reading an mtree file (a text description of a filesystem or of the contents of an archive) as an input and producing ZIP as an output! Given an mtree file foo.mtree: #mtree baz/bar type=file c
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by DHowett 3y ago
As the maintainer for Windows in-box bsdtar/libarchive, I'd love to learn more! How are the tarballs you get out of it invalid? Do you have a sample file I could take a look at? FWIW, since it is bsdtar it supports a few additio
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by DHowett 3y ago
As of firmware version 0.97.1 (current at the time of this comment,) no such feature exists.

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