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daneel_w

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Intermittent reader; account created as I felt I had to speak up on something.

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www.reuters.com 16d ago

NATO to Replace Boeing Awacs with Saab GlobalEye

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www.opentools.studio 3mo ago

Openprinter

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pr0gramm.com 4mo ago

Nord-Lock Bolt Washers

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www.youtube.com 11mo ago

"Change your profile picture to a Clippy" [video]

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en.wikipedia.org 2y ago

Californium

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Kyiv KarDachi – an electronics market in Kyiv, Ukraine [video]

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Electrolytic capacitors: overview, teardown and experiments [video]

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

LRADs and sound cannons are not safe (2020) [video]

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chat.openai.com 3y ago

Yazi Excuse Game as Imagined by ChatGPT

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Arithmetic, Population and Energy [video]

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mastodon.laurenweinstein.org 3y ago

Once upon a time long ago, I was sitting alone in the UCLA ARPANET site #1

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

A Swiss 1970s analog tank simulator

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

The Leatherman

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Is the price tag on premium domain names reliable?

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www.riotgames.com 4y ago

Terms of Service: Monitoring and Anti-Cheat

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

(YouTube) What Happened to the Antarctic Snow Cruiser?

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

AstriCon 2021 talks, from the virtual conference 3-4 Nov

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www.homecomputer.de 4y ago

HCM – Home Computer Museum

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hackaday.com 5y ago

Exploring The Abandoned Birthplace Of The 6502 And Commodore 64

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forums.macrumors.com 5y ago

Apple's Security Update 2020-005 for Mojave appears to cripple installations

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forums.macrumors.com 6y ago

Login password screwed up after macOS Security Update 2020-002

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I don't understand the article. It tries to shroud a plain tape recorder in mystery, but the whole thing is just eye-rollingly underwhelming because tape recorders/decks are still easy to find, and so many of them have common line level inputs that are ready to go without any fiddling; just connect your analog output and press record.

HMD Touch 4G 2 days ago

But not everyone are thoughtless and uncritically think "biggerer number is betterer". I think a strong selling point of these phones is that they come with very little of the clutter and weight that Android has. A less complex relation to one's phone gives some peace of mind.

HMD Touch 4G 3 days ago

I assure you it can do regular calls and texting on the public telephony grid.

To me the entire 68K family were always 32-bit CPUs because of the 32-bit data registers. You work with it and write assembly for it in a transparent "32-bit way" like any other 32-bit CPU, with no additional care or work necessary for the programmer in regards to the 68000's external data bus being only 16 bits wide and behind the scenes doing 32-bit transfers in two steps.

Also worth nothing that it's just the early 68Ks that came with a narrow external data bus. The 68020 and onward, which were also used in the Amigas, have a 32 bits wide data bus.

It's precisely what you're doing. You just insist that Western events in the last century are more important, more "valid", and must take precedence.

"A billion people in Asia use, live with and benefit from this symbol on a daily basis, since millennia."

- "OK but what about the atrocities in WW2?"

Yeah that sounds like a really sound rationale. It's only far more than a billion people to whom the symbol has a powerful and positive meaning. Let's completely ignore that and say that the 80 year old Western perspective is a lot more important.

Article makes no mention of what 900+ million Hindus may feel about the whole thing. It's possible the author doesn't even know what the swastika is, or that he is willfully ignorant because "Indians and Asians live somewhere else".

Developers who can't stop themselves from using embellished and "posturing" phrasing for simple things are a pet peeve of mine. I feel like this "knack" of Claude in a way scratches these special people behind the ears in just the right way.

OpenBSD's FFS can be told to be fully synchronous, making it about as robust as can be for not being journaled. If you lose power it will lose the specific data currently being written to disk. It won't lose other data, because it doesn't keep a bunch of it sitting around in a RAM cache while lying to the writing process about the I/O op already being completed. A journaled file system, too, will lose in-flight data that has yet to land on disk if the power is cut.

I've had my share of sudden power cuts hit OpenBSD during the 20+ years I've been using it, and I have yet to ever see its file system actually go corrupt.

A sincere question: what important data does your router frequently and busily need to persist? If you don't have a UPS for it, perhaps it isn't too important after all. Maybe we have different perspectives of what a router is and should be. I manage a router (with OpenBSD) and it can drop off the power grid at any moment without losing anything of importance. If your router is in fact a multi-functional server I can understand the notion. Consider making all of the file systems fully synchronous. It has worked great for me for two decades.

Interesting article until you reach the gooey, messy bottom where the author takes a sudden personal turn and decides to pick apart the "spineless" creator of the programming language - who is the article's actual subject - by wielding their own ideologically and morally superior perspectives as truths. Smug, ironic, personal and somewhat unpleasant.

I had never heard about the language until today. In my observation, Rust is C's main competitor.

Yes and no. It is the standard for audio in film, which explains the author's focus. But is the audio CD bigger and more "standarder" than DVD and Blu-Ray? I think they're equals, and I personally think this encoder only makes sense for video content. Given all the caveats the author mentions (in particular about the sample rate) I would steer clear from using it when ripping CDs.

The "really bad one" is a policy calling for what in the Swedish debate is now termed "re-migration" of families who sustain themselves and their children, in their entirety, solely on crime and fraudulent extractions from the welfare system, while actively rejecting integration, education and employment. The misrepresentation is that the policy is strictly about non-white residents, all of them, on the sole merit of race and ethnicity.

And you know very well that he said all of this in the context of families who for years have refused to integrate in favor of sustaining themselves and their children exclusively on crime and systemic welfare fraud. Their party manifesto clearly elaborates on this topic. You are just highlighting an isolated part of his spoken paragraph while sweeping all the rest in under the carpet hoping that unfamiliar readers will take your word for it. Frantically spamming the thread with "It's ethnic cleansing!!" and "They want to deport every non-white person from Sweden!!" doesn't change the facts.

I'm a non-white non-native who came to Sweden with my family just over 35 years ago. Go ahead and ask me if I or my family fear their policies, and I'll tell you why we don't. Or, just relativize and say something like "well that's not the same thing" and I'll tell you the real reason why my family and I aren't the same thing as the demographic your comments relate to.