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- I've been led to believe those video thumbprints exist, but I know the hash of the perceived audio is often all that is needed for a match of what is currently being presented (movie, commercial advert, music-as-music-not-background, ...).
- Cash-only here. I have not (generally) accepted pennies since the mid 1980's.
Many of the local places (Seattle - Belltown & the Market) are cool with rounding transactions to the nearest dollar, so that helps. It might also be part of being an active participant in the local society.
- > Why Slackware specifically?
To me, coming from Unix, it's mostly sane.
- > ... vocal cord development ...
I've read, from a few separate sources that were not research papers, something similar that claimed the development was a result of existing in semi-aquatic environments such as home on land but swimming for food/safety. I neither agree or disagree (not my field, I don't possess appropriate background/information), but I do think of it when evolution of vocal cords is mentioned.
I don't recall the sources ATM, possibly something out of CoEvolution Quarterly or Bucky Fuller. Again, not research papers.
- > crappy java UI wizard
Nicely put (oof!). I believe it also enforced a minimal color depth, which none of our machines could directly support on their own hardware, forcing the use of remote X11 displays.
- OLPC XO1 and the MNT Reform both use LiFePO4.
- Print subscription - $99 (or pay more) / year:
- Jack Parsons' Lab?
- It's time for me to re-read the man page for bash. I was not aware of BASH_REMATCH, wow. It's in the first snippet on the linked page, and would save the hassle of using multiple var expansions of the %% and ## et al sort.
- And all heavy lynx users know about changing that on the fly to Mozilla for screwy websites that claim they won't work with lynx. I'm happy that I am encountering such behavior less and less over time.
- There's a better explanation in the last comment on the page You linked.
ISTR that Netscape used to have in it's README or INSTALL (or maybe an "about"-like menu entry) a note that the name of the browser is pronounced Mozilla while only being spelled N-E-T-S-C-A-P-E.
- Thanks for the formatted/expanded:) repost!
- Or maybe like when the virtual desktop is larger than the viewport? OLVWM-ish.
- Two prehensile thumbs up - your HISTCONTROL or
HISTIGNORE='m:??:info STARHERE:info:[bf]g:exit:[bf]g %[0-9]:help STARHERE:date:cal:cal ????:exec env ENV\STARHERE' (replace STARHERE with an asterisk)
generally works for me in bash(1).
- Interesting! Now I'm wondering if Leighton or Feynman was aware of these stamps (my ddg/google-fu is bad today).
- > ...survive repeated spilling of drinks on their keyboard...
Panasonic's "Let's Note" series, too. Their machines from ~2002 were quite impressive to me.
- The closest I found, which partially matches my memory, was from SOS Children that claims "This selection of articles from Wikipedia matches the UK National Curriculum ..." and "... we’ve checked all the articles, tidied them up a bit, ..."
https://web.archive.org/web/20171022101730/http://schools-wi...
- Didn't England or GB do (does?) a curated dump precisely for that purpose? I'll pull up the info tonight if no one else chimes in.
- Lynx is a web browser, bookmarking a page is done by hitting "adX" as in (a)dd (d)ocument to file (X). Or (a)dd (l)ink to (X). Nice and quick. The X is usually a lower case ASCII letter corresponding to a file. You can enable this mode (and the specific bookmark files) in lynx's config file. The Emacs extension uses the same keystrokes and, optionally, the same files.
Alleviations are (I'm intentionally vague here) for getting rid of finding a link, clicking through, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, just to get to where I need to be (like adding an update to a ticket). I usually only automate processes that are intended for use by mouse/pointer-driving users with an ability to comprehend what (and where) icons are - I have a self-imposed problem withe former and a physically/mentally imposed hard time with the latter.
- > What are the things you’ve written in elisp that have helped you?
Usually tools to alleviate working with dumbass web-based (supposedly needing the corporate-approved browser) stuff for $DAY-JOB.
Oh, and an extension to allow emacs-w3m to handle lynx-style multibookmarks.
- Older ThinkPad (pre-2008) snob checking in. The only recent laptops with decent keyboards (that I have found) are from MNT Research.
- Yes. Boeing Onboard Network System (ONS) running on the Network File Server (NFS)?
It and its 787 sibling are highly customized Linux distros.
Aircraft include the 747-8, 787, some 737, ...
http://www.b737.org.uk/flightinstsmax-maint.htm
https://www.teledynecontrols.com/en-us/Product%20Brochures/T...
- FWIW, local Yellow Cab et al, in the U.S., has been doing that for /decades/ in the areas I've lived.
Rx medicine delivery used to be quite standard for taxis.
- Much great info about JST connectors, heck the whole website is great:
https://www.mattmillman.com/info/crimpconnectors/common-jst-...
- Try comparing OpenBSD (or Solaris or ...) man pages to those on Linux?
The one for traceroute(8) has some great commentaries on the sample output ("God only knows what's going on with 12."). It's a personal favorite.
- This year I treated myself to a benchtop power supply for home use.
I've worked with electronics (mostly embedded hardware and lower-level software) for >3 decades professionally where bench supplies are everywhere. My hobby use saw me using various wall-warts, regulators, batteries, and hijacked/hacked-up desktop PSUs as I always thought owning a dedicated supply would be a waste. Purchasing other TE had higher priority.
Surprise!! Life is so much better, unbelievably, having my own benchtop power supply for idiot stuff that I would not have invested the time and effort to try previously. I was adding a fan to a project yesterday so I spent ~2 minutes testing candidates for audible noise when using 12V and 24V at various currents - not a necessary part of the selection process for the expected use but nice when it is low effort (turn on PSU, select output channel,dial in voltage, dial in current, done).
GW Instek GPP-4323
- > ... any door ... wouldn't lock behind me.
You are not alone with that precaution. Ages ago, before plastic gift cards were ubiquitous, I used to quest/urbex with shims of thin aluminum trimmed to door jamb size (making them harder to detect).
The buddy system also was used - "You stay on this side, I'll go through and test it can get opened from the other side."
Extremely useful when entering campus/city steam tunnels that may not have another good door for hundreds of meters (the tunnels were secured to prevent access to the structures they connected).
- Slackware. It has always had a bit of *BSD flavoring in it, too.
- No one has mentioned it, the album "I'm Your Fan" is a collection of LC covers by (album order): R.E.M., Ian McCulloch, Pixies, That Petrol Emotion, The Lilac Time, Geoffrey Oryema, James, Jean-Louis Murat, David McComb & Adam Peters, The House of Love, Lloyd Cole, Robert Forster, Peter Astor, Dead Famous People, Bill Pritchard, The Fatima Mansions, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, & John Cale.
I set a mark, move to somewhere else, then save the area between where I am and the mark: ma(assign mark "a" to position), jjj(move three lines away), |a(pipe from current-position to the "a" mark then a ! prompt appears so enter...) cat >somefile (which dumps the selected text, cur-pos to mark "a", into somefile).
That was great for saving snippets of news or emails.
Also, the -j setting. Sets the line position for searches so context is available, eg using -j8 means the search is 8 lines from the top of the screen.