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I didn't, so I looked it up. Interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33524683

Fortunately the house is in a state that makes it fairly easy to get a CCW permit, and I'm always carrying when I'm around that house.

The WSJ editorial was in response to the flood of mainstream coverage about the administration's announcement yesterday. I knew it was an editorial when I linked it and it should b…

"at no cost to you" other than the devaluation of your money via rampant inflation caused by irresponsible multi-trillion dollar spending bills.

True, but suddenly, after this new questionable paper appears, the current US administration is now considering a ban on gas stoves in all new construction. https://www.wsj.com/art…

X was developed on VAX, 68k, and later SPARC and then x86. VAX and x86 are little-endian, while 68k and SPARC are big-endian. Portability across these platforms was important and t…

Mine is in the smaller of my (two) garages.

I had to click and read the article to see whether CGI in this context was "Computer Generated Imagery" or "Common Gateway Interface". I've always been a fan of simple CGI interfac…

I agree it was a good story, but I became skeptical when I could not find the music (or any reference to it, or the composers) on-line. It should have somehow been tagged as fictio…

Nothing is 100% secure, but I have opted for a high-quality gun/fire safe that's bolted to the foundation of my home (in a gated community), and protected by multiple monitored ala…

Not to be confused with the "brown note": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note

Thanks. If run as an unprivileged user, the dd command will not consume ALL of the disk space (so privileged processes will not be disrupted). It will consume up to the free space …

I use this all the time. It's a big time saver on multi-core machines (which is pretty much every desktop made in the past 20 years). It's available in all the repos, but not inclu…

I cannot find any reference to this online, but your post reminded me of a similar message to the Russians from the same era. The roof of the Northrop plant in Hawthorne, CA (now S…

I did some development on uVAX in 1989. Wrote a DECWindows app that did monitor & control of a distributed realtime system. DECWindows was slow, so it would get updated every 250ms…

Seems like they are taking the right approach. Instead of trying to regulate OSS, they're funding CISA to help make it more secure.

Governments can easily correlate GV numbers to mobile devices. I personally no longer trust Signal. Moxie's departure stinks like a canary.

I have an issue with this one: Assume x has type int . Is the expression x Defined for all values of x Defines for some values of x Defined for no values of x (chose second answer)…

Managing decline is not a plan for survival. No matter what you think of Trump, this was one of his primary policy issues, and is the basis for the "Make America Great Again" sloga…

Another example of "we don't know that it's okay, so you can't have it." This flawed logic has been used in various forms to create twisted reasoning for plenty of stupid laws. E.g…

This should be an add-on vs. being integrated in the app. Better still would be a wholly separate app. Thunderbird is for email.

Good suggestion. If the school is requiring your child to have the chromebook, then they should pay for the thing. They don't have the right to infect any device that your child ha…

Perhaps true, but this has already become the typical behavior of YouTube (and most other mainstream social media/media). My comment is focused on this now typical behavior and not…

Please take note that my remark below has nothing whatsoever to do with Ukraine. Do not assume that you know my position on the matter. YouTube (and most of social media) has lost …