steve_taylor

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by steve_taylor 17d ago
It's technically possible to achieve a 100 CRI score with a broad enough range of frequency spikes rather than the continuous range of frequencies you get from incandescent bulbs. So even the best LED bulb isn't going to match inc
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by steve_taylor 17d ago
I'm trying to get my hands on some decently high wattage (100W ideally) incandescent bulbs because it's really been bugging me lately that while I can still focus just fine, I have trouble making out details and some colours in ar
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by steve_taylor 24d ago
I tried to access this at work but was blocked by FortiGate.
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by steve_taylor 29d ago
Sounds like a cheap way to get my hands on some floppies.
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by steve_taylor 29d ago
Devices get slower over time due to their operating systems becoming increasingly complex as they're updated. This increased complexity is due to the OS developers taking advantage of the newer models' improved hardware. This leav
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by steve_taylor 1mo ago
Finger was only part of the social network. The multi-user aspect of Unix itself combined with standard tools such as who, finger, write, mesg, talk, mail, biff, etc. combined to form a fairly complete text-based social network.
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by steve_taylor 1mo ago
> Not quite. The rightmost one initially has 6 closed cards and 1 revealed card which can be a king, so you can put 12 more cards on top of it, for a total of 6+13 = 19 cards. So I'd make 7 arrays for 20 cards each, just to be safe.
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by steve_taylor 1mo ago
So we're going to ask them to not advance their operating systems and apps to take advantage of newer hardware?
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by steve_taylor 1mo ago
How does this compare to diskDedupe, which has been around longer and is much cheaper?
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by steve_taylor 1mo ago
Parents can stop giving kids smartphones.
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by steve_taylor 1mo ago
I've been running Claude Code with --dangerously-skip-permissions in a Docker container for the last month or so, allowing me to get up and stretch my legs while it does its thing. I definitely wouldn't want to run it unsandboxed.
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by steve_taylor 1mo ago
I'd start by identifying all the known boundaries: 52 cards, so each card can be represented by a byte. Cards are arranged into 4 stacks of up to 13 cards each, 7 columns of up to 13 cards each, and a pile of up to 24 remaining cards.
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by steve_taylor 1mo ago
You can't polish a Hurd.
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by steve_taylor 1mo ago
It'll take more than a mouse jiggler to fool this new bossware.
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by steve_taylor 2mo ago
It reminds me of tax law in many countries. You can follow the letter of the law, but if the vibes are off, you can still be found to be in breach of a vague catch-all provision (e.g. economic substance doctorine in the US, GAAR in Canada&#
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by steve_taylor 2mo ago
You're absolutely right. Your belt-and-braces are earning their keep.
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by steve_taylor 3mo ago
The only time I use Reddit is when I land there via a Google search. Posts get flagged as mature at the drop of a hat, so my go-to has always been to replace www with old. Now that it's gone, I'll just skip Reddit links.
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by steve_taylor 3mo ago
It was closed-book. Take-home, closed-book seems like an oxymoron anyway. A lot of the cheating students would have concluded that other students are going to cheat and get a much better result, so they might as well do the same. The fault
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by steve_taylor 3mo ago
> including the half ass Australian solution. It was designed to be half-arsed so Digital ID can come along and save the day. Australia's Digital ID opens up to the private sector on 30 November.
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by steve_taylor 3mo ago
The defining aspect of Bedrock is C++, not DirectX. Bedrock runs on numerous platforms where DirectX isn't available. Minecraft isn't exactly be the type of game to showcase a 3D API's supremacy.
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by steve_taylor 3mo ago
The Australian one will label them as Unverified. Personally, I'd prefer them to be blocked. If it's important and legitimate, they'll register.
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by steve_taylor 3mo ago
As an Australian, I'm happy to hear this, but also annoyed that a lot of legitimate SMS from companies don't use branded sender ID. I'm not sure why, but my guess is that SMS gateways charge more for it and businesses don&#x2
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by steve_taylor 4mo ago
AI has a way of exposing people. In this example, students who are there to get a degree from a prestigious institution, rather than to learn, are prone to take perceived shortcuts and proceed to come unstuck when their AI isn't there
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by steve_taylor 4mo ago
> But there's one performance-related area where the Framework pulls ahead—a little—and that's sustained performance. When running a heavy workload like HPL (a FP64 HPC task, that taxes the CPU and RAM constantly for many minut
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by steve_taylor 4mo ago
I was all in on Svelte and SvelteKit until I started encountering CSS weirdness caused by a bug that the Svelte developers said is "by design", namely that components' CSS isn't removed from the document after the last i
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by steve_taylor 4mo ago
I love how I can see the HTML being streamed onto the page in real time, like the good old days of dialup when images gradually rendered from top-to-bottom.
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by steve_taylor 4mo ago
It's for Google.
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by steve_taylor 4mo ago
Perhaps, but I think that by the time we're that far advanced, strokes will be entirely preventable.
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by steve_taylor 4mo ago
There's nothing stopping you from setting up your free (as in freedom) slice of cyberspace for you and your friends, for now. Looking at all the new and proposed laws coming through, I don't think we'll have those basic freed
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by steve_taylor 5mo ago
Taking a brief look at wizball.asm, it actually used 200 Hz interrupts on both PAL and NTSC. The timings are shown from line 39.

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