zaxomi

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by zaxomi 1y ago
There are better separators included in ASCII, but not used as often: 28 File Separator, 29 Group Separator, 30 Record Separator and 31 Unit Separator.
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by zaxomi 2y ago
>> It’s a shame they were deprecated without a modern replacement. Isn't iframe the replacement? iframe is not deprecated.
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by zaxomi 2y ago
I'm planning to do something similar, but using addressable RGB LEDs (like WS2811, also known as neopixel). They are simple to work with. Each LED has 4 connections: GND, +5V, DATA IN and DATA OUT. Each LED grabs the first 24 bits of t
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by zaxomi 2y ago
There are few well-documented standards. There are ready-made solutions that have worked for decades. What do you think AI would add?
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by zaxomi 2y ago
I sometimes use them for machine to machine transfer. The biggest problem is that regular editors don't handle it in a sensible way.
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by zaxomi 2y ago
I wish my annoying neighbor would get this, because then I can post the code online and have the whole world knocking on his door at all hours of the day.
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by zaxomi 2y ago
The phantom power at 48 volts used with XLR connectors only have a current at about 10 milliampere. Enough to supply power to a little microphone. The connector is bulky and of metal, and designed to be used inside. It's also expensive
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by zaxomi 2y ago
Depending on the country you live in, the laws might allow you to do work on equipment that is below 50 volts, but require you to be a certified electrician for anything above that.
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by zaxomi 2y ago
> appending things to arrays etc can't be done elegantly Are you referring to the possibility to point to the end of the array? If so, a single minus sign might solve it: "/path/to/the/array/-" RFC
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by zaxomi 2y ago
All vehicles that can be steered have that possibility, even cars: If there is a steering wheel, it is possible to deliberately crash the vehicle. If it is possible to shut down engines, it can also be used for malicious purposes. In other
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by zaxomi 2y ago
A quick search shows it in the documentation for version 8.4, released July 1, 2009. Maybe 15 years is "somewhat recent feature". :)
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by zaxomi 2y ago
Sure, we should create a new standard… https://xkcd.com/927/
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by zaxomi 2y ago
Remember that ASCII is short for "American Standard Code for Information Interchange". base64 was proposed in 1987 to work with ASCII, EBCDIC, and other character encodings.
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by zaxomi 2y ago
And before radio, between 1880-1927, time was pumped throughout Paris in the form of compressed air using a network of pneumatic tubes.
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by zaxomi 2y ago
No need to change the system clock for a millisecond. The operating system has an API for changing allt the timestamps of a file.
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by zaxomi 2y ago
I can't register an account at discord, negate I'm behind CGNAT and someone else in the region was banned by discord.
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by zaxomi 2y ago
Cool. 1 hour later. Spam-scraper updated to support this.
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by zaxomi 2y ago
Still doesn't support internationalized domain names.
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by zaxomi 2y ago
Remember to first punycode the domain part of an email address before trying to validate it, or it will not work with internationalized domain names.
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by zaxomi 3y ago
Every change breaks someone's workflow: https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by zaxomi 3y ago
The first floppy from 1967 only had one side. Adding one signal to select side was an easy solution to increase the capacity without to much modification of the controller. Adding the capability to read from both heads at the same time woul
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by zaxomi 3y ago
I think his only regret is that he got caught.
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by zaxomi 3y ago
Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM) limits is 1,000 knots (510 m/s) and/or at an altitude higher than 18,000 m (59,000 feet). Commercial airliners usually have a service ceiling at about 40000 feet and
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by zaxomi 3y ago
Don't they also have BRA - BRanch Always, PHX PHY PLX PLY - PusH or PulL X or Y register, STZ - STore Zero, TRB - Test and Reset Bits, TSB - Test and Set Bits?
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by zaxomi 3y ago
There is more than one WordPress theme that shows the time of day,month and day of month, but not the year.
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by zaxomi 3y ago
Wow, EU Parliament did the right thing this time. When I heard an interview with a Swedish EU politician, I thought it was a lost cause. She was completely blinded by the possibilities and saw no downside whatsoever.
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by zaxomi 3y ago
No matter what language they choose, someone will complain and ask "why X, why not Y or Z?"
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by zaxomi 3y ago
It's getting the favicon, and while doing so gives information about the client in the user-agent and the IP-address. How is this different from any other request to a website?
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by zaxomi 3y ago
Some of the things I use in vim: * Mark a position in the file, so I easily can jump back. * Quick recording of a macro that to do the same type of edit multiple times (very handy when refactoring) * regular expression search and replace, v
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by zaxomi 3y ago
When they sent out the directive to remove "Don't Be Evil" someone was too lazy and just removed "Don't", so ever since then it's been "Be Evil". That explains a lot, doesn't it?

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