racingmars

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by racingmars 1mo ago
Yes, electrostatic speakers are a good example. Also a lot of PC motherboards I've had over the years have had the little piezoelectric speaker. And while still magnetic, there are planar magnetic speakers which are much more like elec
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by racingmars 1mo ago
> The practical benefit of FIPS 140 is less that your crypto is better and more that your systems will fail to establish connections with anything not using FIPS mode, thus reducing your threat exposure. No, I don't think so. If I&#
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by racingmars 3mo ago
But MEPs can't even introduce legislation, they have to get all of Parliament to ask the European Commission to initiate legislation, and the Commissioners are pretty far removed from direct election. Nobody elected by the citizens can
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by racingmars 6mo ago
From the news release "What does this mean?" section: "This update to the Covered List does not prohibit the import, sale, or use of any existing device models the FCC previously authorized." So no, this does not pull al
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by racingmars 6mo ago
Is there really any correlation between tax revenue and spending at the federal level anymore? It seems the U.S. government is willing to spend at huge deficit levels. If everyone stopped paying federal taxes I suspect nothing would change.
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by racingmars 6mo ago
Ha,you beat me to it! That book was my first thought when I saw this post. I have a copy sitting here on my bookshelf. Just to expand on how bonkers this book is... they assume that everyone has easy access to a Forth implementation. So the
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by racingmars 7mo ago
> very common OS feature since 90s And if you want to go farther back, even if it wasn't called "mmap" or a specific function you had to invoke -- there were operating systems that used a "single-level store" (no
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by racingmars 11mo ago
From everything I've read about aphantasia, I'm certain it described me -- I have absolutely no ability to consciously "visualize" things in my head (I was also surprised to learn that some/most people sometimes exp
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by racingmars 1y ago
> What is the point of setting up your own email server if all of your sent messages go to spam for the majority of gmail/o365 users? I set up a new mailserver a few years ago and have had no delivery problems whatsoever. All messag
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by racingmars 1y ago
I don't remember ever seeing that in The Economist. I think you're thinking of New Yorker magazine, perhaps?
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by racingmars 1y ago
Now all we need is for Apache Guacamole to add support into its RDP client for whatever old version of RDP NT 4 Terminal Server uses. Access all those old NT 4 applications through my web browser!
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by racingmars 1y ago
That was it, yes! Thank you!
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by racingmars 1y ago
I'm looking forward to see how this develops. There was a program a long time ago, classic Mac OS days, and I don't remember the name of it but I think it was "<something> Consistency". I loved it because tasks in
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by racingmars 1y ago
Hercules is _not_ used by IBM's own developers. Being found with Hercules on your computer at IBM gets you in trouble. I know people who work on mainframe-related stuff inside IBM and they steer well clear of Hercules. And I've he
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by racingmars 1y ago
Coconut trees are in the palm tree family. All coconut trees are palm trees, but not all palm trees grow coconuts.
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by racingmars 1y ago
> This naively (or maliciously perhaps) maintains that the "purpose" of the certificate is to identify an entity. [...] identity is not the primary purpose certificates serve in the real world. Identity is the only purpose th
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by racingmars 2y ago
I think multibrot here refers to setting the exponent (under "Render Settings") to a value higher than 2.
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by racingmars 2y ago
> Value Database > Smalltalk and another esoteric programming environment I used for a while called Frontier had an idea of a persistent data store environment. Basically, you could set global.x = 1, shut your program down, and start
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by racingmars 2y ago
> I would like to note that Linux is the only kernel which will allow you to do this! I'm pretty sure that MVS syscalls (that is, the numbers you use with the SVC opcode) have remained backward-compatible at least as far back as MVS
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by racingmars 2y ago
The Mythical Man-Month, by Fred Brooks. Chapter 16 is named "No Silver Bullet—Essence and Accident in Software Engineering." I'll type out the beginning of the abstract at the beginning of the chapter here: "All software
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by racingmars 2y ago
"Documents must be utf-8 and should have a byte order mark." No. If you're using UTF-8 (which is a good choice), the use of a BOM should be discouraged. Given that the format specification says documents MUST be UTF-8, there
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by racingmars 2y ago
> Do they still use 0-terminated strings/char* as the main string type? Of course, it's still C. > Is the usage of single linked lists still prevalent as the main container type? As far as I can remember, the C standard libr
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by racingmars 2y ago
The article addresses this: what happened with .su is part of what caused ICANN/IANA to update their policies to not have defunct country codes stick around.
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by racingmars 2y ago
It doesn't matter who "owns" it (the country probably outsourced management of it to another entity, I assume); the domain exists because it exists as an ISO country code. When the country is no longer a country, and the IO c
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by racingmars 2y ago
"Microsoft Notepad." "BMP image format." Seemed like the definition of "programming language" was quite odd (given the title of the submission to HN is "Where are programming languages created?"), but
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by racingmars 2y ago
Yes, Biblioteca Joanina in Portugal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Joanina
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by racingmars 2y ago
Wow, this is one of the worst articles I've ever seen. Aside from the obviously false information about Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 mentioned in other comments, the article just drops in this statement at the end: "This is also pre
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by racingmars 2y ago
In series they don't add up... doing a quick example, I find that in the worst case (e.g. each resistor out by 5% in the same direction): 22 - 5% = 20.9 47 - 5% = 44.65 Actual resistance in series: 65.55 Nominal resistance in series: 6
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by racingmars 2y ago
I run a multi-user Linux server. It's IBM POWER9 hardware and several of my friends in the open-source community who care about testing on something other than x86, or who are interested in different architectures or playing with its u
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by racingmars 2y ago
It's a play on the old Uncle Sam "I want YOU" recruiting posters.

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