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10 base 2 is 2 base 10. i gave four unique hard problems. and now typing this out i see that I was off by 1 (or two)

there are actually 10 problems: naming things, cache invalidation, base conversions, off by one errors, and cache invalidation

gp is likely referring to a specific diet called The Mediterranean Diet, "inspired by the eating habits and traditional foods of Greece, Italy, and the Mediterranean coasts of Fran…

all CRTs televisions were either 60Hz or 50Hz depending on where you are in the world

scoop, Choco, and winget are all very different. winget is closest to Choco in that it prefers to just run regular installers. It keeps its own state of installed packages, though,…

It would be interesting to put an Alexa (or another voice assistant device) in a space with only an audio playback device around to keep it company, with that audio playback device…

cat, pizza, dog, red car, Tokyo, dolphins, garden The usual context is "oh I saw some dolphins forever ago. let me see if I can find the photos..."

In my case, Comcast has a city government-granted monopoly to provide broadband, so they are my only choice (without going to a WISP/Starlink)

> I had no idea Linux just added anything found on a network before the user can even accept or be notified. The more you know! Windows does this too, I believe. At least it did it…

the only Zenfone they make now is the Zenfone 11 Ultra, which is a big phone :(

Are there any scrolling WMs you can recommend? I have always been interested but never found one that I could get working (on Linux).

I never ged ads for "real" drugs, just the normal OTC/prescription stuff and occasionally some legal analogues (non-psilocybin mushroom gummies come to mind). Very curious what the…

The most recent prolog news I've come across in recent years is some updates to SWIprolog (can't find a good link) and some talk of Scryer-prolog[0] which is a more recent implemen…

Can anyone recommend some business that would make harnesses from such a specification?

in files/DCN1.TXT there is essentially a hosts file, and in it are a bunch of udel hostnames that still existed when I was in undergrad and working for the EE/CIS lab. The PDPs wer…

Menlo Park, green blazers, I believe. I recall a 99% Invisible episode about them.

Hm, interesting. I guess they both could be true, like I could totally see myself sitting around trying to come up with a fun name for my software project and being influenced by a…

I unfortunately stopped daily driving gentoo right as core counts in consumer machines started to go above 1. I have played around w/ it a few times since, and was blown away by ho…

> Co-founder Brian Behlendorf states how the name 'Apache' was chosen: "I suggested the name Apache partly because the web technologies at the time that were launching were being c…

I was under the impression that striking actors concerns with AI were over AI reproducing their likenesses, but this article is claiming that the fears would also consider non-spec…

I know there are other search engines out there, but I haven't really given any a shot. Do any of them feel like the Google Search of the past?

in system settings somewhere you should be able to disable smart quotes (or something like that).

neither video/audio decoders nor demuxers nor subtitle format parsing/rendering have OS APIs. hell, there's at least a few ways you can draw a rendered frame to the screen on any O…

uninstalling should not work at all on at least some of those apps, as they will exist on the read-only system partition (that only gets touched when the phone updates).