thequux

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by thequux 1mo ago
Itanium has well over a kilobyte of general-purpose registers. That's lovely for single-process performance, but it absolutely slaughtered context switch time given the available memory bandwidth at the time. On top of that, it was fie
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by thequux 2mo ago
Don't underestimate the importance of a pen, ink, and paper you like. I found my pen a decade ago: Lamy Studio, in British Racing Green, with a medium nib. I found my ink not long after, from J Herbin's collection. It wasn't
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by thequux 3mo ago
I can't judge the veracity of the history of hash functions, but the moment it starts talking about cryptography it goes completely off the rails: it seems to indicate that finite field exponentiation o'r high degree polynomials a
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by thequux 4mo ago
It's been a long time since I've touched any of this, so the details have slipped my mind. However, the general idea was that there were two different exit calls in DOS: terminate and terminate and stay resident. The difference be
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by thequux 4mo ago
How do you feel about ADD 5 TO X GIVING X? I kid, of course, but "X is x + 5" brings Prolog to mind with all the unification and bidirectionality that implies.
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by thequux 5mo ago
> So I think the following is IMO by far the biggest problem, no matter one's personal opinion: > > "Rakoff entered a permanent worldwide injunction covering ten Anna’s Archive domains: annas-archive.org, .li, .se, .in, .
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by thequux 6mo ago
NixOS using https://github.com/thequux/nix-zone-firewall/ worked well for me for many years. I only stopped using it because my poor embedded Linux machine started having issues and it made more sense to go with a
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by thequux 8mo ago
$227k just to apply, and another few hundred thousand in legal, compliance, and contracting to reach delegation. Source: I'm on the board of dotMeow and wrote the financial plan
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by thequux 9mo ago
Hi! I'm one of the founders of dotMeow, and it's been a long road to get to the point that we're willing to stake our reputations on a crowdfunding campaign. From applying to the applicant support program (we believe we were
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by thequux 9mo ago
Do catgirls count? We've got one or two on staff. We'd have a cat, too, if it weren't for the fact that I'm allergic.
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by thequux 9mo ago
The sad thing is, this is one of the rhetorical flourishes that gets drilled into you in debate and comms education. ChatGPT picked it up because it's extremely common.
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by thequux 9mo ago
A few people have called us on this, but it's simply not true. The copy was all written by hand; the only machine assistance here is XCompose (you, too, can type an em-dash!). It turns out that when everybody involved is some level of
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by thequux 10mo ago
As much as I dislike mandatory certification, I can understand the need for it in wireless battery powered devices: a malfunctioning decide can talk the battery life if everything within range, and most consumers aren't equipped to rea
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by thequux 11mo ago
Ehh, not really. OSI layer 5 was responsible for managing multiple non-overlapping sessions within a single transport stream, and routing those sessions to specific applications. This is precisely what HTTP/1.1 did (though the accept,
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by thequux 11mo ago
In that case, you don't want cloud; you want an MSP, whose core competence is running those IT services. They, in turn, have the skills to colo a rack at a DC or to manage rented servers, amortized across a number of clients. In practi
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by thequux 11mo ago
I recall reading somewhere that the entire point of solitaire (at least the original implementation that came with windows 3) was to teach users how to click and drag, so I'm not surprised that it was good for teaching your colleague h
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by thequux 11mo ago
OSI's session layer did very little more than TCP/UDP port numbers; in the OSI model you would open a connection to a machine, then use that connection to open a session to a particular application. X.400 was a nice idea, but the
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by thequux 1y ago
Alas, the market can remain irrational longer than I can remain solvent.
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by thequux 1y ago
Years ago, I had a CD marked "Windows 2000 for Alpha RC1", which suggests that it was cancelled quite late in the release cycle.
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by thequux 1y ago
I think that this can change the semantics though; with the preceding check you can miss the shared variable being decremented from another thread. In some cases, such as if the shared value is monotonic, this is done, but not in the gene
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by thequux 1y ago
If you actually read ITU T-REC X.200, which specifies the OSI model, you'll find that it doesn't match the modern internet at all. E.g., we don't have an OSI-style transport protocol at all (connections themselves aren't
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by thequux 1y ago
There was an ISA I saw a while back that featured an "enhanced multiply and accumulate signed" instruction, which of course got the mnemonic "EMACS"
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by thequux 1y ago
I second your recommendation for trying fountain pens. I suffer from some form of arthritis, and fountain pens let me write again. There are a variety of cheap ones available; I'm fond of the Platinum Preppy. They're cheap as chip
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by thequux 1y ago
Many barcode scanners these days can scan QR codes. I have a NetumScan NSL5 that I got for €30 or so that can handle QR, DataMatrix, and even Aztec codes.
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by thequux 1y ago
What this misses is that, in a properly-functioning organization, a team that reliably delivers gets a bigger pie to divvy up. If your organization isn't like this, then perhaps you should consider finding a new one.
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by thequux 1y ago
Set the AllowedIPs wireguard setting (and/or the route, if you can set that separately) to one larger than your home network (i.e., if your home network is 192.168.1.0/24, use 192.168.0.0/23). Then, block wireguard packets fr
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by thequux 1y ago
I know that Len Sassaman had r@ai for quite some time, so your friend didn't have the absolute shortest address. Still a cool one though
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by thequux 1y ago
The US does identity verification by asking for a driver's license (which has no chip or biometric data) and possibly a series of questions about your past drawn from public data. All of these credentials are laughably easy to spoof. C
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by thequux 1y ago
The USB HID protocol is designed to support basically any device that regularly reports a set of values; those values can represent which keys are pressed, how a mouse has moved, how a joystick is positioned, etc. Now, different devices hav
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by thequux 1y ago
Calendar apps expose all of the weird edge cases in dates and times. For a specific instance of a specific event that never needs to move, TAI will work. However, suppose that you schedule a meeting for 28 March at 13:00. You then move th

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