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by yuubi 3y ago
now do that without dragging all the data through your workstation.
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by yuubi 4y ago
as someone who doesn't use heroku, so disregard my opinion: i'd probably prefer feces-by-email to surprise database deletion
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by yuubi 4y ago
the inch changed in 1959 from exactly 1/39.37 m to exactly 2.54 cm; the survey foot is for compatibility with large-scale measurements based on old inches.
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by yuubi 4y ago
the story seems to be set in a world that uses gas to weld steel as part of a production process, making a blue flame. are there any torches that can weld steel and make a blue flame? does anyone use manual gas welding in automotive product
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by yuubi 4y ago
part of the deal with cable tv a few decades ago was that the cable channels didn't have ads because you paid for them directly every month. (local stations obviously had their usual ads).
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by yuubi 4y ago
sunos4 disk devices were named like xy0a or xd2h or sd1b. the first 2 letters were the controller (xy/xd were different types of xylogics smd controllers, sd scsi), the number was the unit number, and the letter was the partition, with
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by yuubi 4y ago
if a pin expects rs232, and you give it 120v ac, or saline,
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by yuubi 4y ago
for instance, the shoe-mount roulette predictor of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eudaemonic_Pie
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by yuubi 4y ago
i recently got an electronic product that said 中國 instead of 中国 on the label (traditional vs simplified characters). i wonder if this was meant as a subtle indication that it was from traditional-character land.
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by yuubi 4y ago
the search is to generate a valid signing key pair, where "valid" means the last 28 bits are as specified. once a poster generates such a key, they can use it for as long as it's valid.
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by yuubi 4y ago
erlang/otp gen_fsm maybe? you define a function with a clause per state (and some other args including the incoming message), and each clause returns a tuple with the new state and some other stuff. the loop is part of the framework, a
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by yuubi 4y ago
Standard C provides only a few ways to obtain valid pointers. implementations can define behaviors in cases that the standard leaves undefined, such as allowing more cases of casts of integers to pointers than the standard defines (common i
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by yuubi 4y ago
however, the safe logoff button avoids emergency warp. in exchange for sitting in space without maneuvering or activating modules for 30 seconds, you disappear immediately when the time runs out. at least this was the mechanic a couple of y
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by yuubi 4y ago
the action held up; the court upheld it.
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by yuubi 4y ago
Dolby digital could be used without replacing much existing equipment: the sound head looked like it bolted right onto the 1940s-vintage projector in the one installation I've seen. would look like it belonged if the projector wasn&#x2
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by yuubi 5y ago
the 6502 has a single 16-bit address space with some parts (zero page, stack) addressable by means other than full 16-bit addresses. the 8051 has 16-bit read-only code space, 16-bit read/write external memory space, and 8-bit internal
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by yuubi 5y ago
GPL 2 says "machine-readable", which I read as meaning on a tape or ftp site or something in a useful form, not handwritten on paper or similarly useless form. Also, I doubt obfuscated code would comply with the "preferred fo
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by yuubi 5y ago
POP3 defines separate retrieve and delete requests. Some servers lose messages when you retrieve them, but I've only seen that misbehavior on major ISPs.
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by yuubi 5y ago
I don't think I've ever seen any of the stickers from the telegram company actually used in a chat. I've seen lots of stickers that people have had drawn, though, sometimes even used by the people who commissioned them.
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by yuubi 5y ago
The ldd program that lists the shared libraries used by an executable at least used to exec with an empty argv, which the dynamic linker detected and listed libraries instead of linking and running. I learned that when I screwed up an inetd
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by yuubi 5y ago
Letter shapes usually have curves a bit more complicated (in the sense of "how many parameters do I have to write down to reproduce it?") than this typeface. It feels like it's made of straight segments and ellipses, and all
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by yuubi 5y ago
License classes. C (at least in my area) authorizes <26001 lb, B more, and A anything legal to put on a highway. I assume M1 is a motorcycle license or endorsement.
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by yuubi 5y ago
Jet and diesel are both kerosenes (particular range of problem distillate) with different additives, as is the stuff that goes in kerosene heaters.
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by yuubi 5y ago
Is this the FLCCC that pushes ivermectin (a fine worm killer, but no panacea) for covid?
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by yuubi 5y ago
IOCCC 1984, mullender.c ?
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by yuubi 5y ago
> can read the binary encodings almost like it is text. I'm curious what encoding rules that applies to: BER/DER I could easily believe, aligned PER a bit less so, and unaligned PER with lots of extensions and optional parts wo
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by yuubi 5y ago
Interesting that you don't see the low-effort sales template message as the initial message that set the tone, but the reply to it.
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by yuubi 5y ago
And time and again the smallpox vaccine also failed to protect. > Historically, the vaccine has been effective in preventing smallpox infection in 95% of those vaccinated. — https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/vaccine-basi
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by yuubi 5y ago
The FBI seemed to consider the right wingers to be the good guys; the common adversary was the anti-fascists.
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by yuubi 5y ago
MS definitely did require a few years ago. https://readwrite.com/2012/01/13/microsoft-says-no-to-disabl... . Has this changed?

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