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There seems to be a link to an English translation in footnote 1 of this article

I think the point here is that the Disk II controller did _not_ have a microprocessor or microcontroller. Rather, it was driven by software that ran on the system CPU, requiring mi…

Page 12 (PDF p36) seems almost written for the people who did the Tahoe menus

zsh wants to write a history file so you can recall previous commands. You can disable it or set to to write somewhere else

Like a time capsule. Last modified date at the bottom of the page says 2007. Also: > Saffron has been licensed to Adobe and is shipping in all Flash-based products, including Adobe…

The form of wording goes back at least to 2014 in The Onion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_...

FL20 is 2000ft. Did you mean FL200?

Complete (4.5h) interview and transcript are linked from https://amturing.acm.org/interviews/thompson_4588371.cfm

In the default config, tmux panes _do_ have a highlighted border. It takes a bit to get used to how it’s done when there’s only 2 panes though (half the border is highlighted for e…

It reminds me a little of a thing used in clustering of DECs (later HPs) Tru64 Unix. The clusters had a shared OS image - that is a single, shared root filesystem for all members. …

This almost IS the tar format. It’s just a 512 byte header with metadata per file then the file data. Repeat for each file. The cpio format is similar but the header is shorter. De…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoda_conditions

Interesting! I hadn’t seen that Mad TV ad before. It’s quite reminiscent of this one from The Late Show on Australian TV in 1992. I can totally see people having a similar idea fro…

There is the option of PIN to drive. Evaluate your threat model and decide if you want to enable it.

Except in rapid speech, and particularly at the end of sentences, I can definitely hear “should of” being used by some people in local Australian English.

On mobile so I’m not sure which case OSC52 applies to, but I use mosh+tmux 8-10 hours a day. Both bracketed paste and tmux selection setting local clipboard work fine

I think there’s a bug in Figure 3. The unsigned m will always be >= 0 so the while loop will not terminate.

It it common to use a $ for yen, which is what I see, rather than ¥?

What is up with those prices? They are ridiculous!

I assume you’re aware that Admiral Cloudberg writes for Mentour Pilot on YouTube. Also, pretty low volume but also low sensationalism the Australian regulator, ATSB, posts report s…

I thought WASM allowed capability based permissions for the code running inside, or has that fallen by the wayside, which was my sad expectation?

Only in the dial string to ATD, surely?

I can see bathtubs being used in places like real estate sites.

Huh, TIL. I guess they might have used TIES https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Independent_Escape_Sequen...

Only if their modem didn’t implement the Hayes command set properly or you could otherwise control the per-character timing of the OS sending. It required a pause (1sec by default)…