madog

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by madog 3mo ago
I was wondering what instruction set architecture the megadrive was using and came across this great article on the Motorolla 68000 and megadrive: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/mega-drive-genesis...
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by madog 8mo ago
https://archive.ph/rd87B
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The race to build the next generation of jet engines(ft.com)
3 points by madog 8mo ago|2 comments
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by madog 8mo ago
If you have wired I just found out you can get a $30 wireless dongle for this these days. Available for both CarPlay and Android Auto. Meant to work pretty flawlessly although mine is the mail so I haven't tested it out yet.
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by madog 9mo ago
It's not entirely, because Github simply does not support inter-version diffs when you have multiple commits. If you force push onto multiple commits there is no way to show a diff between version 2 and version 3 of those commits. How
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by madog 9mo ago
Something like Gerrit. Instead of carefully crafting a logical series of patches that are all well documented with commit messages, PRs are just garbage filled diff soup of "fix typo" commits. I hate it. It's hard to review a
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by madog 11mo ago
Migrating to Obsidian looks to be very easy now: https://help.obsidian.md/import/evernote When I converted many years ago it required 3rd party tools and was slightly more involved (but still totally worth it).
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by madog 11mo ago
Presumably they were using a decompiler e.g. IDA Pro to know what characters to change in the hex editor? I've done that before to find offsets in the binary to NOP out some function calls.
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by madog 1y ago
5% at 70 mph is 3.5 mph 10% at 30 mph is 3 mph I saw this with various European cars. My experience is that it seems to be a fixed percentage rather than a fixed amount i.e. the absolute difference increases with speed.
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by madog 1y ago
It's not a rumour. They usually read somewhere between 5-10% over actual speed. Use a more accurate GPS speedometer on your phone to check that.
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by madog 1y ago
For sure. $1000 Herman Miller Aeron has been worth every penny considering the time spent sat on it.
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by madog 1y ago
Just use gettimeofday/clock_gettime via vDSO. struct timespec ts; clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &ts); On arm64 it directly uses the cntvct_el0 register under the hood but with a standard/easy to use API instead of me
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by madog 1y ago
I agree. Seems like the first step should be understanding that you CAN have control over it, even if you don't currently; and that you have the agency and strength to do that without appeal to some higher power. The admitting you have
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by madog 1y ago
Not to mention Meta is ad tech so these will be full to the brim of tracking and adverts to recoup R+D costs. I'm yet to be convinced these are useful and not just another way to inject ads directly into eyeballs.
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BYD's 5-minute charge: is time running out for electric-vehicle rivals?(ft.com)
11 points by madog 1y ago|1 comments
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by madog 2y ago
This column had some good insight: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-09-12/banker...
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by madog 2y ago
Last time I tried to report a fake product to Amazon it's literally impossible. It simply isn't one of the pre-determined options available through customer service, either the self service chat or to the advisers. The closest thi
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by madog 2y ago
Actually with vaping it becomes pretty easy to quit. You just taper down the nicotine slowly until you're on nothing and eventually you just kind of stop because you don't feel the need to do it anymore.
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by madog 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loperamide#Off-label/unapprove... News to me as well
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by madog 3y ago
There is PhotoGIMP[1] that copies the hotkeys and tool layout. It doesn't replicate behaviour exactly obviously but it does make it actually usable for me as someone who used Photoshop a lot in the past, and was eternally confused by G
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by madog 3y ago
What country is that? That's a lot. At least in the UK if you don't watch regular TV you don't have to pay the licence fee (£159/year).
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by madog 3y ago
There are modern alternatives to many of the classic utils e.g. `fd` for find, with better CLI args and other improvements ripgrep for grep also comes to mind
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by madog 3y ago
Where's the list that show all car brands? Doesn't seem to be easily found on that page or any of the linked ones.
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by madog 3y ago
This is what I want from a new search engine: 1. Respect exact match searches - this used to work enclosing the search terms in "" quotes, but no longer works. If there are no exact match results, return nothing. 2. Allow blacklis
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by madog 3y ago
They also do not have an option to report an item they sent as counterfeit/fake which is amusing given how prevalent it is with their mixed bins between 3rd party items and legitimate goods. The closest related option is "not as d
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by madog 3y ago
Haha yes. I would spend months looking through that catalogue in the lead up to Christmas, comparing and cross checking items and descriptions and cost. I remember some items always felt out of reach like the Casio TV remote watch[1]. Someo
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by madog 3y ago
Nope. Tracepoint eBPF programs require root to load always. For eBPF you select a program type, and that limits what you can do (aka what helper functions are available to you) and what privileges are required.
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by madog 3y ago
What you can do is quite limited. You're restricted to some preset eBPF program types, and each program type has a restricted set of operations it can perform (eBPF helper methods). So arbitrary modifications, absolutely not without ad
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by madog 3y ago
I had an MLB.tv subscription for many years, paying like $140 a year. In the UK, so nothing was blacked out... great... except last year find out they sold post-season rights to BT Sport so nothing in the post-season was available live AT A
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by madog 3y ago
Wow. I had no idea, I've been taking that for years. It's in every single OTC cold and flu medication with painkillers. I found this to be a good read/overview: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post&#

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