MrDOS

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by MrDOS 6d ago
I had one of those to charge a bicycle headlight. I gave it away with the bicycle, but in the span of time I had it, one visiting guest borrowed it to recharge a portable generic USB battery pack. So there you go, two product categories kno
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by MrDOS 7d ago
Well, you can do 3.5 Mbps ADSL over wet string[0], which is about 5 channels of uncompressed 16-bit PCM at 44.1 KHz. [0]: https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet...
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by MrDOS 7d ago
“Terrible inefficient workflows”, like having to prompt Claude to change one or two words in a file rather than just manually editing it, because it gets confused when the file changes out from under it and will later overwrite the changes?
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by MrDOS 8d ago
Are very many of them time travellers?
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by MrDOS 11d ago
Technically, “unified memory” is where both the GPU and CPU have access to the RAM over the same bus, which is different from the older, reviled “shared memory”, where the RAM was always at least one bus hop away from the GPU. But yes, ther
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by MrDOS 12d ago
And “donated money” here means “his donations amounted to 72% of the party's entire 2025 revenue”[0]. [0]: https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropa...
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by MrDOS 13d ago
For those who haven't made the connection, Cockos, the company who make REAPER, is run by Justin Frankel, previously the founder of Nullsoft, the company who made Winamp. REAPER very much carries the Winamp torch of robust, resource-ef
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by MrDOS 13d ago
My understanding is that the Qt 6 build system is vastly easier to work with. Also, Audacity is not the first major FOSS project to successfully migrate from wxWidgets to Qt: Dolphin, the GameCube/Wii emulator, made a similar migration
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by MrDOS 16d ago
> plain old epubs Kobo devices ship two different rendering engines: the obsolete, appallingly bad Adobe Reader Mobile SDK (RMSDK), and their own, bespoke, WebKit-based renderer. By default, files with an .epub extension are rendered wit
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by MrDOS 16d ago
As a broke teenager, I came to have a G400 much later on in its lifecycle (c. 2007-2008). It did indeed have amazing analogue output quality (kids these days think VGA is inherently blurry, but it can be pretty much indistinguishable from
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by MrDOS 20d ago
> 8 character alpha Good thing “xn--zp9h” fits, then.
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by MrDOS 28d ago
> the battery drained too fast I think this problem was unique to the 12 mini. I remember hearing a lot of people complain about it at the time, and I haven't experienced anything like it with my 13 mini (which I upgraded to from a
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by MrDOS 28d ago
Thank you, that forum post carries all the explanation I was looking for.
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by MrDOS 28d ago
Handy for those four people left who want to author DVDs, but this is extremely light on details. How does it compare to the venerable HCenc[0]? Why does the VideoLAN x262 project page[1], the source for which hasn't moved since 2015,
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by MrDOS 1mo ago
Historically, in a world of analogue phone lines, spoofed phone numbers were a legitimate feature: if my business has more than one phone line, each of those lines is going to have its own distinct number; but I'm going to want outgoin
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by MrDOS 1mo ago
Ah, interesting. Searching the dataset for my local area, this seems to include some restaurants, but omits hotels entirely. That's skewing the numbers downward tremendously.
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by MrDOS 2mo ago
> the messages are confusing > while being frankly obnoxious Try reading some time. It's pretty great. > the Ctrl+C handling is just utterly broken That's your terminal, not parallel. > and all of the delays Your termi
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by MrDOS 2mo ago
I think the parent was referring to using awk/sed to do the equivalent of: find ... | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 ... I.e., a blind replacement without the tool having any particular semantic understanding of w
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by MrDOS 2mo ago
Two years ago, we sent CDs as our wedding invitations. We also received a lot of feedback to the effect that lots of our guests had difficulty finding a way to play the discs (including at least one person who was incredulous that the CD wa
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by MrDOS 2mo ago
Yeah, the default [homes] share is really not necessary on a home network where you really just want a common share. On my home storage server, I just have a “files” user, and a corresponding, anonymously readable/writable share: [
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by MrDOS 2mo ago
Some other things I find useful on NASes: Install avahi-daemon. Samba will automatically register with it to advertise SMB/CIFS to macOS and Linux clients over DNS-SD. Install wsdd2 so that your server will be auto-discovered by Explor
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by MrDOS 3mo ago
Every distro does this. That's what a distro is .
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by MrDOS 3mo ago
As I'm sure you know but some others might not, the random brands with unpronounceable names (as opposed to no specific names at all) are also a problem that Amazon has created: https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/amazons
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by MrDOS 3mo ago
Oh, interesting – I'd missed that Apple had shipped any laptops with Core Solo/Core Duo processors, or any with dGPUs. Fascinating.
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by MrDOS 3mo ago
The CPUs were powerful enough, sure. The GPUs (Intel GMA950) absolutely weren't. Even on Windows with better drivers, Half-Life 2 is a slideshow on that class of hardware.
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by MrDOS 3mo ago
In 2004, sure, but Valve didn't (publicly) ship Mac OS X software before 2010.
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by MrDOS 3mo ago
Only the very first few models of Intel Macs had strictly 32-bit processors (the 2006 iMac and Mac minis with Core Solo/Core Duo processors), and none of them were realistically capable of playing Half-Life 2. Apple is guilty of many s
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by MrDOS 3mo ago
The photo of his monitor shows the kernel exec'ing his binary after 0.92 seconds.
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by MrDOS 3mo ago
> The AI Agent is powered by the company’s proprietary AI model, Apex When will I be able to talk to Salesforce Apex from Salesforce Apex?
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by MrDOS 3mo ago
> There is a funny email that had been released after before Jobs's passing where a user complained of a spotty signal, and his advice was basically to not hold the phone in that direction (or with his hand over the top part where t

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