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They obviously did not mean not literal USB, just a standardized connector across DRAM versions/speeds.

Only if your personal projects make you money. I have a million hobby projects but none generate income.

Having fd 4 mean something specific is no weirder than having fds 0,1, and 2 mean something specific, which is probably never going to change. At some point you just gotta embrace …

I agree. I think the current way is very nice to use (in c). I think the best way would be to have something similar to vfork() but not bound by posix rules. Then make the normal p…

That’s only fairly recently at my Costco. For years and years it was only American Express and debit.

No one is saying to pretend you memorized everything. They’re saying they’d rather have an “I don’t know” than a half-assed ai response (or stack overflow cut and paste). Or, if yo…

From his 2006 speech/routine at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, speaking to then president George Bush: > Now, I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 3…

On the plus side, it's a chemical that was discovered more than a century ago so scientists have accumulated a lot of knowledge about it. So far no studies were able to link it to …

> What a disaster and complete failure on the local government in the way they handled this situation. Can you expand on that? It seems like there wasn't a lot they could do once t…

I understand what you’re saying but in this case notice they don’t even mention terminal or command lines. You have to already understand enough context to know what they mean and …

In addition to possible ignition through the sparks, it's apparently stored under high pressure, so you can't make a hole without completely compromising the structural integrity w…

is not bad for that. Not precise, but in the ballpark.

That’s also not great if you’re trying to make a 10 gigabyte file. In that case, use bs=1M and count=SizeInMB.

I discovered long ago that psytrance/goa was perfect for me. It works almost as well as caffeine and I can work for hours and hours as long as it’s blaring.

> But from a UX standpoint its a nonstarter Disagree. The UX would be pretty similar. Click a mailto link which opens the email client with to, subject and body precomposed. Click …

> how do you "be careful" with spoofed email? You actually verify DKIM and SPF—you know, that “dmarc stuff”. That’s enough to tell you the mail is not spoofed.

Isn’t that just the way old school Perl/ruby/php web apps from 20 years ago did things but with a fancy name?

My cats actually love their cat tree. I’ve had to replace it because they clawed through the scratching post legs ( all the way through the cardboard underneath the sisal rope). Kn…

Yes, but if the server you’re logging into only accepts keys then leaking its password isn’t nearly as bad. Though I guess if your local ssh client is compromised then your local p…

Similarly, one of your nephews has a friend with parents that don’t lock their liquor cabinet, which means despite all the laws not allowing sales of alcohol to minors, they still …

Correct. Just ask the Silk Road guy…

Sometimes when you’re close to something it’s very hard to describe it because you’ve been looking at it from all angles for so long that when someone else approaches it from a dif…

Interesting, that kind of reminds me of Things In Rings [1]. I haven’t played it yet but it looks pretty good. [1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/408547/things-in-rings

Oh yeah, Unreal was so nice looking. For me, though, that moment was in the Quake prerelease demo (“q1test”). It was clearly polygonal and you could look up and down with the mouse…

Worse is that the notification for this “error” telling me I couldn’t back up without OneDrive was behind the little dot in the restart/logout menu in the start menu, which (until …