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Their buttons fail way too easily, but can usually be fixed with some WD-40, CRC 5-56, or any similar thin oil.

The atmosphere above Christchurch, NZ tends to form layers in winter that trap the smoke and make this worse, and new fireplaces have been restricted to clean-burning log burners a…

The FSF also typically requires a copyright assignment for their GPL code. Nobody thinks that they’ll ever relicense Emacs, though.

malloc in uCRT just calls HeapAlloc, though? You can see the code in ucrt\heap\malloc_base.cpp if you have the Windows SDK installed. Programs can opt in to the _segment_ heap in t…

Could it be an accent thing? Trying to learn foreign language pronunciation as a New Zealand English speaker is frustrating; I should not be pronouncing 에 as the vowel in “bed” the…

It’s accurate to say that there are twelve intervals, anyway, which is the point you were making.

You have a fencepost error; the notes in Western music in equal temperament are C, C♯/D♭, D, D♯/E♭, E, F, F♯/G♭, G, G♯/A♭, A, A♯/B♭, B, then c an octave higher is the thirteenth.

All the modern AS/400 servers can run unmodified AIX programs these days anyway.

If it’s just for Java that’s not really a problem. They might be able to run the applet directly with appletviewer, or repackage it for Java Web Start. Otherwise, CheerpJ has a sol…

Same. Gradle even lets you configure replacement dependencies, so if anything depends on Log4J it automatically gets the adapter instead.

At least when it was released, IIS 10 supported HTTP/2, but did not support Kerberos, Negotiate or NTLM authentication over HTTP/2. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/get-started…

Given the long history of request parsing vulnerabilities in HTTP/1.1 servers and proxies, is HTTP/2 actually worse, or have most of the HTTP/1.1 bugs just been fixed already?

In context, Twitter sees this as encouraging the violent minority of his supporters to do whatever they like at the inauguration, since he will not be there, only Pence, Biden and …

It’s in the blog post that I linked to, which quotes the tweet that you seem to be referring to.

Unless you think Twitter was lying in https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio... , that last tweet was the call to violently disrupt the inauguration in POTUS’…

That’s my experience with notifications as well, but I also still miss having a separate LED to show pending notifications when the screen is off.

You will only get detectable antibodies if the virus activated the adaptive immune system. This could be the case if the infection was successfully and quickly controlled by the in…

It’s possible and desirable for a vaccine to stimulate antibody production where a “natural” infection would not, which is one of the things that will be tested during their develo…

Are you asking why it’s F3 as opposed to some other key? Because that would be from the IBM CUA standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access .

That's an awful lot of work just because Amazon can't charge the right account. It also doesn't necessarily solve the problem. The charges could accumulate in their systems until A…

Do you mean the Usborne books? For some serious nostalgia, you can read them for free at https://usborne.com/browse-books/features/computer-and-codin... .

Was it referring to browser.xul? There’s no XUL left, so you might need to change that to browser.xhtml.

It’s probably https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1574538 , so you could try Firefox Nightly and see if there’s any improvement.