soneil

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by soneil 17d ago
ahh - I see where my dots weren't connecting, then. I pictured having a current driver on each plane, so the data bits coming in would be enable bits for the current drivers. Which obviously means 18xQty current drivers. I think you&#
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by soneil 17d ago
Can I confess I've never quite wrapped my head around the application of the 'inhibit' line in this? If a write cycle is just a read cycle with a) a reversed polarity and b) you don't care about the contents of the sense
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by soneil 25d ago
It’s probably worth noting it’s (2002) too. The internet was a different audience.
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by soneil 26d ago
Was C really later? I thought UNIX had been ported before it made it to Berkeley.
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by soneil 1mo ago
yeah, software travelled exactly the same way as rumours that such and such had a rib removed - remarkably effectively. Also the same way we got viruses, long before anyone I knew had the Internet.
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by soneil 1mo ago
Sligo's not _that_ bad.
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by soneil 1mo ago
Yeah it's pretty much a John Smith, which I assume was half the point, and is now most the problem.
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by soneil 1mo ago
I tried similar. Each command looped 5 times, ignore the best and worst times, and average the mean three. journalctl >/tmp/all.log 0m59.763s journalctl | grep -c sshd 0m57.767s (otherwise >all is the only examp
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by soneil 2mo ago
I have a couple of devices that are 12V over usb-c. The devices themselves are fine, but the wallwarts the mffr provided are just that - 12v over usb-c. No PD. If a device is expecting 5V, there's a healthy chance it'll .. stop
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by soneil 2mo ago
I'm curious if there's a reason this six-cell mechanism has become the defacto? It seems this should just be a single input field styled appropriately, but it feels like there must be an underlying reason I'm missing.
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by soneil 3mo ago
This feels like a good place to reel out my favourite anecdote; community college IT (or for the natives; BTEC), 1998; our programming tutor told us to "ignore the internet" because it's a fad. Almost 30 years, and every so o
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by soneil 3mo ago
SNDMSG-over-ftp pre-dates UUCP by 5 years, so I think that one's pretty clear-cut. (Not that I'm claiming anything's original here, ftp & smtp are both in the nwg/ietf family tree, which makes it easy to draw paralle
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by soneil 3mo ago
It used to be even more literally so - network mail started off as using FTP to SNDMSG onto a remote system instead of your own. In RFC475, FTP has MAIL and MLFL (mailfile) commands to support this. I think it's neat that you can stil
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by soneil 4mo ago
I think what really stands out about this, is that having it installed as a pre-made brick is very cost-effective. But this cost-effective route isn't readily available to most people, as most people don't build homes. Developers
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by soneil 4mo ago
It may amuse you to know they're both essentially the same thing. GBP is formally Pound Sterling, formerly 1 pound (tower pound / 20 troy ounces) of Sterling Silver. Which is why £ is a stylised L.
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by soneil 5mo ago
2100 entries over 40 years is pretty much a show a week. Talk about artefacts of a life well lived.
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by soneil 5mo ago
Sigur Ros have a surprising number of shows on their ftp, which is delightfully retro.
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by soneil 5mo ago
I think it's interesting that traditionally Ireland used a different calendar for seasons - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_calendar So Winter is Nov, Dec, Jan - and Spring is Feb, March, April. Which honestl
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by soneil 6mo ago
The last one is so close to the point. Iran had Internet blackouts earlier this year, Russia has been experimenting with the same - options like shortwave are just as relevant as ever.
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by soneil 6mo ago
I think "odious" really undersells it. A free press is an important part of a functioning democracy. What's the use in being able to vote against people doing wrong, if no-one's allowed to tell you about the wrong?
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by soneil 7mo ago
> Now that you can't beat people to death with IBM hardware, what do you use instead? I believe IBM hardware is still applicable for this, the Thinkpad just isn't IBM hardware anymore.
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by soneil 7mo ago
I have to admit - I still grind my teeth every time I see "dns propagation" used without a direct follow-up that it's a myth, you're looking at cascading cache expiry. Propagation might be a useful way to visualise it, b
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by soneil 7mo ago
Compelled speech is protected, fingerprints aren't. Imagine it's 1926 and none of this tech is an issue yet. The police can fingerprint and photograph you at intake, they can't compel speech or violate the 5th. That's e
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by soneil 7mo ago
later, like 1956? The world's first commercial HDD was 5,000,000 characters.
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by soneil 8mo ago
> with the context mostly being HDD manufacturers who want to inflate their drive sizes This is a myth. The first IBM harddrive was 5,000,000 characters in 1956 - before bytes were even common usage. Drives have always been base10, it&
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by soneil 8mo ago
It goes back way further than that. The first IBM harddrive was the IBM 350 for the IBM 305 RAMDAC. It was 5 million characters. Not bytes, bytes weren't "a thing" yet. 5,000,000 characters. The very first harddrive was ba
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by soneil 8mo ago
They almost always mean power of 10, unless you're discussing RAM, RAM addressing, or RAM pages. (or flash, which has inherited most of the same for most of the same reasons)
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by soneil 8mo ago
This is the bit (sic) that drives me nuts. RAM had binary sizing for perfectly practical reasons. Nothing else did (until SSDs inherited RAM's architecture). We apply it to all the wrong things mostly because the first home computers
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by soneil 8mo ago
Pretty much anywhere you have networked storage? Gigabit is about on-par with pre-sata ATA133.
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by soneil 9mo ago
This was one of the "lessons learnt" from the XZ incident. One of the (many) steps they took to avoid scrutiny was modifications that existed in the real tarball but not the repo.

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