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keitmo
·le mois dernier·discuss
NT performed unnatural acts to implement fork semantics for the POSIX subsystem.
keitmo
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
I'm right-handed, but I snowboard goofy. Coincidence (or not?) my left leg is dominant. I can kick a ball just fine with my left foot, but when I try to kick with my right foot I feel like I'm going to capsize. When I'm riding a bike and I have to stop, my right foot goes down. When I start again I use my left leg to muscle the crank through the first revolution or two.
keitmo
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
It seems to me that Backblaze does NOT exclude ".git". It's not shown by default in the restore UI -- you must enable "show hidden files" to see it -- but it's there. I just did a test restore of my top-level Project directory (container for all of my personal Git projects) and all .git directories are included in the produced .zip file.
keitmo
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
> Touching the circuit board on the back of the CRT tube by mistake trying to troubleshoot image issues, “fortunately” it was a “low” voltage as it was a B&W monitor….

My father ran his own TV repair shop for many years. When I was a teen he helped me make a Tesla coil out of a simple oscillator and the flyback transformer from a scrapped TV. It would make a spark 2 or 3 inches long and could illuminate a florescent light from several feet away. It definitely produced higher voltage than normally exists in a TV, but not orders of magnitude more. The high voltage circuits in CRTs are dangerous as hell.
keitmo
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
On systems with a single floppy, drives A: and B: were two logical drives mapped to the same physical drive. This enabled you to (tediously) copy files from one diskette to another.
keitmo
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
> but it's an example of why it's a bad idea to "cleanup" a system from a virus without a full reinstall

This x1000.
keitmo
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
I've always thought of him as Nibble.

2 bits = a quarter (25 cents), 4 bits = 50 cents

8 bits = byte, 4 bits = nibble

Therefore 50 Cent = Nibble.
keitmo
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
It's also known as JSONL (JSON Lines).
keitmo
·il y a 10 mois·discuss
"Remind me to make you an honorary blind person."