carey

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Comment · 3 months ago
Their buttons fail way too easily, but can usually be fixed with some WD-40, CRC 5-56, or any similar thin oil.
Comment · 9 months ago
The atmosphere above Christchurch, NZ tends to form layers in winter that trap the smoke and make this worse, and new fireplaces have been restricted to clean-burning log burners and dry wood by law.

It seemed like the biggest change in air quality in recent years came from the tragic earthquakes in 2010 and 2011 knocking down all the unreinforced-masonry chimneys, though.

Comment · 1 year ago
The FSF also typically requires a copyright assignment for their GPL code. Nobody thinks that they’ll ever relicense Emacs, though.
Comment · 1 year ago
malloc in uCRT just calls HeapAlloc, though? You can see the code in ucrt\heap\malloc_base.cpp if you have the Windows SDK installed.

Programs can opt in to the _segment_ heap in their manifest, but it’s not necessarily any faster.

Comment · 1 year ago
Could it be an accent thing? Trying to learn foreign language pronunciation as a New Zealand English speaker is frustrating; I should not be pronouncing 에 as the vowel in “bed” the way I say the latter, but that’s what every description of it says.
Comment · 1 year ago
It’s accurate to say that there are twelve intervals, anyway, which is the point you were making.
Comment · 1 year ago
You have a fencepost error; the notes in Western music in equal temperament are C, C♯/D♭, D, D♯/E♭, E, F, F♯/G♭, G, G♯/A♭, A, A♯/B♭, B, then c an octave higher is the thirteenth.
Comment · 4 years ago
All the modern AS/400 servers can run unmodified AIX programs these days anyway.
Comment · 4 years ago
If it’s just for Java that’s not really a problem. They might be able to run the applet directly with appletviewer, or repackage it for Java Web Start. Otherwise, CheerpJ has a solution for continuing to run the applet in the browser by converting it to WASM.
Comment · 4 years ago
Same. Gradle even lets you configure replacement dependencies, so if anything depends on Log4J it automatically gets the adapter instead.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Given the long history of request parsing vulnerabilities in HTTP/1.1 servers and proxies, is HTTP/2 actually worse, or have most of the HTTP/1.1 bugs just been fixed already?
Comment · 5 years ago
In context, Twitter sees this as encouraging the violent minority of his supporters to do whatever they like at the inauguration, since he will not be there, only Pence, Biden and Harris.
Comment · 5 years ago
It’s in the blog post that I linked to, which quotes the tweet that you seem to be referring to.

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