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Thanks for troubleshooting my installation issue as well as fixing all of my other issues!

I discovered a US website that claims to have gone out of business but exposes personal info (health insurance claim forms) of many individuals across multiple cities in a specific…

Perhaps because I'm still on Debian 12 (or more likely I did something wrong), I had trouble getting it working by compiling the icl/ocicl sources with sbcl. It complained "Failed …

> Espresso PLA minimizer You can still find the software for Espresso (I ran it a few years ago): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espresso_heuristic_logic_minim...

> (Note 4) But to write a value into the latch, the switch is enabled and its output overpowers the weak inverter. This implementation is sometimes called a "jam latch" (the new va…

> However, the 386 uses a different approach—CMOS switches—that avoids a large AND/OR gate. Standard cell libraries often implement multiplexers using transmission gates (CMOS swit…

The form gives the option to identify as an individual, an organization, or anonymous, and below the selections gives this note: "Note: If you choose to identify as Anonymous, the …

As of now the web page indicates "Comment Period Ends: 12 Days"

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/2025.09.23/supportedsi...

Have used VLC for at least 20 years. Recently I upgraded an old Dell 9400 laptop that dates from around 2006 to Debian Bookworm (the end of the line for the 32-bit machines). It ha…

Dillo was included in the historic Damn Small Linux [1], a 50MB distro. [1] https://damnsmalllinux.org/old-index.html

Apologies, mistook for NATO. Maybe the alphabet is for fonts :)

I find that I like working with the directory stack and having a shortened version of the directory stack in the title bar, e.g. by modifying the stock Debian .bashrc # If this is …

I've found the NATO alphabet fairly common at call centers, with globalization being a factor.

For me it's when I call customer service or support on the phone, and either give them an account #, or confirm a temporary password that I have been verbally given.

Have an old Victoreen Geiger counter and have seen some interesting things: - Munich: Chernobyl (obvious high background radiation) - Arizona: Fukushima (noticeably higher backgrou…

> Paulsbo You probably meant Poulsbo (US15W) chipset

That was at UT Austin, where Dr. Roth was a professor. Another thing about that course - the problems that were given by the TAs for the 90% proficiency checks seemed pretty challe…

I had such a self-paced course in the '70s based on the book "Fundamentals of Logic Design" by Charles Roth, Jr. It should be noted that the book was specifically written for self-…

True except for their GMA500 graphics [1] [1] https://community.intel.com/t5/Graphics/Very-poor-Linux-supp... Disclaimer: I own a netbook and spent a very long time researching get…

Agreed, but prior to the change the "apparently random" as described in the documentation was similar to using random(fixed_seed), rather than the new behavior of random(system_tim…

I remember a breaking change that was not esoteric: "keys %hash" started producing a different result each time the script was run. It required replacing the construct with "sort k…

It mentions ALE [1] as the logical successor to syntastic. I've been using ALE for many years. [1] https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale