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Neat idea, but my takeaway is I had no idea that DNS also runs on UDP/53.. I always thought it was TCP only! #TIL The author cites it as performance reasons, but at this scale, eve…

Using a hotplate is like driving with one eye closed. Sure you’ll get there, but your accuracy will suffer! Though I’ve had many a SOICs magically realign on the hot plate — they w…

The 1x1.gif was the most versatile and common image on all my websites. Perfect alignment of text and images every time!

I've always wanted to build an "I told you so" webapp. Something that would store phrases associated with people with an incremental counter. Obviously the list of phrases, people,…

I am not an expert, but I think it depends on your MCU. (Some may have better implementation of a soft-pull-up than others.) I've only implemented i2c on esp32-s2, and left the pul…

You randomly try changing every IRQ jumper?

A random thought from the same era popped in my head a few days ago: > What was the difference between extended memory and expanded memory? 10yo me never did figure out why Kings Q…

I am absolutely loving the author's explanation on WHY each component was selected, placed, and caveats. The interactive schematics and gerbers are subtle but very effective. Overa…

Unless you're manually injecting 0x08 into a database record, isn't it your keyboard that interprets your backspace into the UI layer. There's no way to type a backspace without li…

Coincidentally, I was just looking at backups from my BBS from the same era. I wish I had a way to retrieve the data, assuming it's even still good. I remember using a parallel por…

Wow, this utility is insane. Looks like some raw data the OP can use is available here: ioreg -l -r -n AppleSmartBattery

Docker container.

20 years ago this was my go-to language. Its CLI was very easy to develop your own system to combine grep, sed, awk, uniq, etc into awesome one liners, and for producing more compl…

I loved playing The Witness with my daughter. "Where are the bad guys?" "No one is here, honey. Just us." Reminds me I should revisit Myst and Riven.

Often I use cal to find the previous or next month. I never understood why two parameters it assumes `cal mm yyyy` but when one parameter is provided assumes `cal yyyy` instead of …

There are full updates and partial updates. The former involves refreshing the whole display multiple times to remove ghosting, and a complete redraw. The latter is a targeted chan…

I've been on a Jazz kick for the past few months -- cocktail jazz, cooking jazz, lounge jazz playlists on spotify -- but it's starting to lose its effect coding. Animals as Leaders…

Canadian here, and I do this too. Part of the reason is that it's like passively introducing the person, or reminding the listener of the person's name, without the listener needin…

Now I'm curious. What is the overall population of HN?

The CBC has never done this before: posted a complete article in an indigenous language on the main English site. An awesome read that brings home the point of the people trying to…