@Alaric Snell-Pym
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My microwave has an "auto sensor" button. You put something in, hit the auto sensor button, and it says "soup" and you hit start.
Whatever you put in, it says "soup".
@nprofile1q... I suspect it's actually *asking* you what you're cooking, and it uses an appropriate process for that food to know when it's done. When it says "1 SOUP" there's probably a control you can poke to move to "2 SANDWICH" or something before you press start?
🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with ...
@nprofile1q... 🤔 what's the function of the MOSFET and a variable resistor in the -ve power rail of the op-amp on the cover...
I'm gonna build the visible portion of that circuit on a breadboard
I'm gonna build the visible portion of that circuit on a breadboard
the easier parental digital surveillance gets, the more i worry about queer and trans kids
@nprofile1q... I've been a scout leader for queer and trans kids, and them finding safe communities *despite* parental interference is essential. They will also go to great lengths to find them - so making it harder just causes them more pain, and increases the chances of them being exploited (like people smugglers exploit refugees)...
Why do people fall for this?
Second time I have seen a nicely printed sign in a shop window with a #QR which when scanned says your free trial is over.
Just make the QR go to your own website FFS.
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@nprofile1q... a similar thing that saddens me is shop/van signs saying "https://joes-garden-services.com/ [email protected]"... You've got that lovely domain, why not use it for email? 😞
I've also got a couple other spare power connectors. No idea what they're called, though.
I mean, I call them "the square power thing" and "the rectangle power thing," but they probably have better n...
@nprofile1q... oh man, nostalgia! The little white rectangle powered 3.5" floppy drives back in the day!
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You are a criminal/artist in a cyberpunk and/or fantasy world with intricate fancy social codes. As a ner-do-well you have never needed your own symbol to stamp in wax for your letters (you just used ...
@nprofile1q... I am disqualified from this, as on my real desk I have a wax seal stamp with my kitten tech logo
@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... once the company I worked for resold access to their fancy leased line to another company in the building. They came complaining it wasn't working one day and I took a look. Everything seemed fine at our end, but their firewall blocked pings so it was hard to check the link to them. However, nmap had this stealth mode that did a clever trick to detect open ports behind a firewall - so I sent them a list of open ports on their internal boxes to show the link worked...
@nprofile1q... yes! And I love the diversity of skills. I've met so many people who feel threatened by somebody being "smarter" than them, but I just want to surround myself with people who have skills/knowledge I lack - so I don't HAVE to know everything and we can work as a team, y'know?
@nprofile1q... have you looked at BSD man pages, out of interest? I haven't checked the situation wrt. terminal stuff in particular, but in other areas I've had to use them, I've found them a bit clearer and better at explaining big-picture stuff than the GNU/Linux ones.
got a lot of great answers to "how is the shell involved in handling Ctrl+C" to the effect of one of:
- "the shell is responsible for sending a SIGINT"
- "the shell takes input from the terminal emul...
@nprofile1q... it would be kind of nice if ctrl+c and friends were handled by the shell, to be fair! After all, the shell handles a lot of job control UI for the user, it would be 'natural' for it to handle the 'hotkeys' too...
Ok, a question for #database #dbms nerds. Many years ago I worked on a join order optimizer that used a heuristic formula to estimate the number of rows produced by an equijoin, based on the number of rows in the two tables being joined and the number of distinct values in the join keys. This formula came from an academic paper, but I can't remember what the formula was or find the paper. Does this ring a bell for anyone? Boosts appreciated...