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by alt219 12d ago
Deal for he, not for thee.
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by alt219 1mo ago
Naturally! Being able to use your tools how you want/what works best for you is fundamental in my opinion.
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by alt219 1mo ago
C-p and C-n (aka Ctrl-P and Ctrl-N) are the Emacs-style keybindings for previous (line) and next (line), very commonly encountered on the command line and in terminal applications. For example, most shells can use this in addition to up-arr
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by alt219 2mo ago
The Son of Altman decided that the most efficient way to get rid of all the bugs was to get rid of all the tokens, which is technically and extractively correct. — Gilfoyle
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by alt219 2mo ago
From what I understand about this story, the homeowner had the presence of mind to immediately attempt to preserve the meteorite, which is what made subsequent analysis possible. Presumably other fragments landing outdoors with no one aroun
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by alt219 3mo ago
Not to take anything away from Maridona's overall excellence, but his goal was 100% illegal, just none of the referees saw his handball. Underarm bowling was still allowed when this incident occurred and was therefore legal, just consi
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by alt219 3mo ago
As an American it has taken me nearly half a century of occasionally watching cricket to barely comprehend what that sentence means. I love it.
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by alt219 3mo ago
> As an aside, the most powerful F1 engine ever put on the track was made by modifying the little 4-banger m10 found in the BMW 2002. Fun fact. Supposedly BMW lacked a dyno that went high enough so it's an educated guess what the ac
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by alt219 4mo ago
More money & power than sense. Hubris, greed, malice, psychopathy. One, some or all of these combined in various proportions.
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by alt219 4mo ago
I'm not a graphic arts expert, but the lettering and charts in this presentation appear to be done by hand. And since this was an internal IBM presentation for salesmen and engineers, the priority likely wouldn't've been on u
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by alt219 4mo ago
Some anecdata: in the area I'm from in the northeastern US which has a large number of manufacturing/tool & die companies of all sizes, and with a large Polish diaspora, 80% of the most skilled machinists are Polish (or 2nd or
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by alt219 5mo ago
Why not just `scp ~/.tmux.conf remotehost:`?
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by alt219 6mo ago
1.1.1.1 has 4 1’s, as in 4/1, as in April 1 (or so I assume).
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by alt219 6mo ago
PuTTY is absolutely available for Linux. On Debian-based distros it’s just a `sudo apt install putty` away. But why?
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by alt219 1y ago
Two things come to mind: 1) if any arcing occurs, a metal enclosure will shunt to ground and (hopefully) trip a breaker; 2) in the event of an overload, plastic melts which might result in a fire.
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by alt219 1y ago
Sadly, I have a family member who is susceptible to these types of scams. They’ve been duped too many times to count. They’re overly eager to believe they’re exceptional and that good fortune is due them. No amount of explaining has had any
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by alt219 1y ago
Except for when the placement of the icon strip with the trashcan symbol changes to the bottom of the context menu because of the location of the context menu on the screen. Bonkers. No idea why the UI committee would’ve okayed that one.
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by alt219 2y ago
> Imagine having to raise your arm to swipe, pinch and tap across an ultra-wide screen several times per minute. Touch works best on small surfaces, even if it looks impressive on a bigger screen. I regularly find myself wishing pinch zo
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by alt219 2y ago
According to the article, they were arms dealers.
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by alt219 5y ago
Minor pedantic point—kelvin is the unit of measure of the Kelvin scale. There is no degree K, just K.
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by alt219 5y ago
The protocol is called SpaceWire[0][1]. Not sure about the details of where sensors are located. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceWire [1]: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/200300252
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by alt219 5y ago
Some history of The Milk: https://alum.mit.edu/slice/investigating-milk-mits-historic-...
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by alt219 6y ago
I actually owned that book circa 1996 and used Kermit in a production system transferring files via dialup between a manufacturing facility in Mexico and their US-based headquarters. It was incredibly fragile. No idea now why Kermit was cho
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by alt219 6y ago
The professor was bluffing [0]. Apparently it was deemed a random theft [1]. [0]: https://www.engadget.com/2005-04-25-laptop-thief-not-scared-... [1]: https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases&#
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by alt219 6y ago
Pardon my pedantry, but that’s coincidence, not irony.
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by alt219 6y ago
The Clean Water Act[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Water_Act
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by alt219 6y ago
This idea is expressed by the Brian Eno quote: “Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all o
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by alt219 6y ago
Around 1996-97, there was a Linux-based firewall/router that booted from a single 1.44MB diskette. iirc, it needed a very small amount of RAM too, something like only 8MB. The diskette could be used with write-protect enabled to preven
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by alt219 6y ago
Not op but I have several Synology NASen using Btrfs volumes with no issues that I can recall in the past six years. I’ve replaced all of the drives twice to increase available storage and that’s it. The two I have at home are both set to a
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by alt219 6y ago
Fantastic, thank you for #1. Earlier today I was bemoaning the lack of wiki-like linking in Notes. Glad to learn there’s at least this workaround.

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