aldrich

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by aldrich 3mo ago
Read on to the last paragraph, I think what they meant to hint at is this: > And about those WWII bombing raids? Midway through our work, we noticed a demolition team carefully dismantling a live 500-pound Allied bomb just 350 feet from
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by aldrich 4mo ago
You're probably right that it's forgotten and all, but.. > We can safely assume that the final decompiled code is way more readable/usable than the original. Have you looked at any rediscovered repositories lately? It&#x27
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by aldrich 4mo ago
Norway and Switzerland are both Schengen area countries though and have been for decades, which is why there would be much less friction in getting in as a migrant, or no friction at all as a traveler.
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by aldrich 4mo ago
One factor in this may also have been the way the privatization of East Germany was handled. Its often overlooked, but the vehicle for it was called Treuhand[1]. Regardless of whether it was necessary or not or right or wrong, it did basica
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by aldrich 4mo ago
> Not once has a European ever given the US credit for the Marshall Plan. How can you honestly say that though. A blatant overgeneralization of a large group of people, but this has been a recurring theme on HN lately. So I would agree t
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by aldrich 4mo ago
I'm sure that person must've been a pretty bad one. But to tie Dutch colonialism, apartheid and WW2 war criminals (centuries later by the way) together this way to excuse these discriminatory remarks is pretty daft. Needless to sa
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by aldrich 10mo ago
Are you sure this is right, and if so would you mind sharing a source for this? According to the Nexperia 2024 annual report [1], they had just committed to _invest_ in the Hamburg site for their WBG/SiC/GaN production lines. Clos
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by aldrich 1y ago
Very cool work.. and frustating running into walls imposed by manufacturers, I imagine! I've also been working on GPU-based audio plugins for a long time and have done some public material on the subject. Just my two cents: have you co
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by aldrich 1y ago
Very anecdotal and stereotypical, of course. Doesn't quite paint the whole picture, though I agree there's usually a sentiment of risk aversion in the _conservative_ part of any population, perhaps more so in countries where emplo
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by aldrich 3y ago
I don't believe its accurate to say that most EU states have no separation between executive and legislative branches. The split is around 50%-50% with a majority of states actually having a bicameral system where these branches are se
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by aldrich 4y ago
History is funny because at that time in the 90s there was a company called Bitboys Oy. That company was founded by some Finnish demoscene members and was developing a series of graphics cards, Pyramid3D and Glaze3D, with a programmable pip
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by aldrich 4y ago
I'm curious to know why they have chosen to use FreeBSD as a base as opposed to Darwin/XNU on which macOS itself is based. Nothing against FreeBSD (happy user here) so there's probably some good reasoning behind this.
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by aldrich 4y ago
Haha, the good old DL360. That fan noise was loud. Let alone the spinning, whining 15k SCSI disks..
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by aldrich 4y ago
Or maybe three times sync;sync;sync just to make sure :)
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by aldrich 4y ago
Yeah, though I would say human readable bytecode, and it is interesting to see that in the actual context. For anyone who's interested, there's a git repository containing a historical reconstruction of the original BSDs. I believ
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by aldrich 4y ago
Compaq were already using Torx for their products in the 80s and 90s, including some Torx variation screw with a slot cut across. I don't know whether this was for some simple form of tamper resistance (I do not believe they actually u
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by aldrich 4y ago
Thanks, this gave me quite a laugh :) I almost fell in the same trap as some in here due to some sudden login anxiety. If only that could've been an alternate ending as well.
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by aldrich 4y ago
Agree with this, I happened to get to experience this today again as well. The transitions really seem to take their time. Combined with the number of "pages" you need to get through as well, makes it an experience that feels a bi
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by aldrich 4y ago
Good point. I'm wondering whether they intend on placing the battery in the keyboard compartment, and perhaps carry the power wires next to the hinges. Can't really tell from the CAD renders, but I can imagine there may be some sp