brontitall

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by brontitall 1mo ago
There seems to be a link to an English translation in footnote 1 of this article
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by brontitall 3mo ago
I think the point here is that the Disk II controller did _not_ have a microprocessor or microcontroller. Rather, it was driven by software that ran on the system CPU, requiring minimal additional hardware
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by brontitall 3mo ago
Page 12 (PDF p36) seems almost written for the people who did the Tahoe menus
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by brontitall 3mo ago
zsh wants to write a history file so you can recall previous commands. You can disable it or set to to write somewhere else
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by brontitall 4mo ago
Like a time capsule. Last modified date at the bottom of the page says 2007. Also: > Saffron has been licensed to Adobe and is shipping in all Flash-based products, including Adobe Flash CS3. The Adobe Flash Player is the world's mo
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by brontitall 4mo ago
The form of wording goes back at least to 2014 in The Onion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_...
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by brontitall 7mo ago
FL20 is 2000ft. Did you mean FL200?
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by brontitall 9mo ago
Complete (4.5h) interview and transcript are linked from https://amturing.acm.org/interviews/thompson_4588371.cfm
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by brontitall 10mo ago
In the default config, tmux panes _do_ have a highlighted border. It takes a bit to get used to how it’s done when there’s only 2 panes though (half the border is highlighted for each pane)
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by brontitall 10mo ago
It reminds me a little of a thing used in clustering of DECs (later HPs) Tru64 Unix. The clusters had a shared OS image - that is a single, shared root filesystem for all members. To allow node-specific config files, there was a type of sym
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by brontitall 10mo ago
This almost IS the tar format. It’s just a 512 byte header with metadata per file then the file data. Repeat for each file. The cpio format is similar but the header is shorter. Details of the contents of the headers vary, hence the differe
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by brontitall 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoda_conditions
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by brontitall 1y ago
Interesting! I hadn’t seen that Mad TV ad before. It’s quite reminiscent of this one from The Late Show on Australian TV in 1992. I can totally see people having a similar idea from the same blade escalation process. https://www.
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by brontitall 1y ago
There is the option of PIN to drive. Evaluate your threat model and decide if you want to enable it.
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by brontitall 1y ago
Except in rapid speech, and particularly at the end of sentences, I can definitely hear “should of” being used by some people in local Australian English.
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by brontitall 1y ago
On mobile so I’m not sure which case OSC52 applies to, but I use mosh+tmux 8-10 hours a day. Both bracketed paste and tmux selection setting local clipboard work fine
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by brontitall 1y ago
I think there’s a bug in Figure 3. The unsigned m will always be >= 0 so the while loop will not terminate.
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by brontitall 1y ago
It it common to use a $ for yen, which is what I see, rather than ¥?
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by brontitall 1y ago
What is up with those prices? They are ridiculous!
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by brontitall 1y ago
I assume you’re aware that Admiral Cloudberg writes for Mentour Pilot on YouTube. Also, pretty low volume but also low sensationalism the Australian regulator, ATSB, posts report summaries on YouTube. E.g. https://youtu.be/d
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by brontitall 1y ago
I thought WASM allowed capability based permissions for the code running inside, or has that fallen by the wayside, which was my sad expectation?
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by brontitall 1y ago
Only in the dial string to ATD, surely?
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by brontitall 1y ago
I can see bathtubs being used in places like real estate sites.
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by brontitall 1y ago
Huh, TIL. I guess they might have used TIES https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Independent_Escape_Sequen...
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by brontitall 1y ago
Only if their modem didn’t implement the Hayes command set properly or you could otherwise control the per-character timing of the OS sending. It required a pause (1sec by default), “+++” with no pauses, another pause, _then_ the ATH comman
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by brontitall 1y ago
Perhaps a hard link would help to prevent the deletion?
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by brontitall 1y ago
Does anyone know why it’s “code page 437”? Like why 437? Was there 437 code pages before it? Does the 437 bit pattern map to something in the hardware? Was it a character rom part number?
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by brontitall 1y ago
The author has acknowledged their error in the article you’re referring to in a later post https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/RustSor...
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by brontitall 1y ago
This was posted a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43381088
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by brontitall 2y ago
I’ve found goreleaser very helpful in the past. I notice it now claims support for non-go languages now https://goreleaser.com/

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