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Re:What was a Token Ring network? on Saturday October 17, 2026 @03:30AM (#50128809)
Now we have time slicing for high reliability Ethernet (IEEE 802.1Qbv). I have never worked with it and don't properly understand it, but I think that instead of passing a token around, there are time windows for high priority devices to transmit.

Low priority devices must stop transmitting in the window, and switches will interrupt any transmissions not allowed.

Re:Using AI to reverse engineer hardware on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:49PM (#50124464)
NegPy is mostly vibe-coded, too.
Re:Instrument clusters are now paid extras in two Hyundai models on Thursday September 03, 2026 @05:26PM (#49557297)
A lot of Minis had the central speedo. Unsure if it's true or just automotive legend, but allegedly it was for cost cutting (fewer changes between left hand drive and right hand drive models). So nothing ever changes.
Does the system prompt and list of tools give away that you are not using Claude Code?
> Which keys count as secret is decided by built-in heuristics on the key name

Maybe you could automatically redact high-entropy strings? It might be more reliable than looking at key names.

Re:JPEG XL converter and .jxl viewer on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @12:10PM (#49347882)
Do I look like I know what a JPEG is? I just want a picture of a hotdog.
Re:Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @02:52AM (#49179428)
If you like Emacs, why not make Emacs your harness?

https://github.com/karthink/gptel

Re:Codex Is Down on Saturday July 25, 2026 @05:39AM (#49046091)
I hate it when I have to think for myself.
Is 2008 a good cut-off? My 2016 BMW doesn't really have any annoying electronics or nannies compared to my 2005 model (other than electronic power steering :))
We could abbreviate that to SND!
Re:Migrating the American Express Payment Network, Twice on Monday March 23, 2026 @04:57AM (#47486890)
Em dashes, twice!
Re:Starlink Mini as a Failover on Monday March 16, 2026 @05:36PM (#47405268)
I live a 5 hour train ride from London and my mobile data is also unusable.
Re:I built a programming language using Claude Code on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @02:04PM (#47326752)
AI generate some feedback, then just move onto the next project, and repeat.
It's a bot that reposts popular links from Lobste.rs.
Re:FAA Halts All Flights at El Paso Airport for 10 Days on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @10:56AM (#46976518)
> bets

Investments on Kalshi!

I'd love to read about your setup!
Re:Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @06:07AM (#46703937)
Milk, then cereal, then bowl!
Re:JEP 504: Remove the Applet API on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @03:30PM (#46139700)
Java Applets were my introduction to programming! I'm sad to see them go.
Fans can move a lot more air than convection.
At the silicon level, it is the same.

Each memory DIMM/stick is made up of multiple DRAM chip. ECC DIMMs have an extra chip for storing the error correcting parity data.

The bottleneck is with the chips and not the DIMMs. Chip fabs are expensive and time consuming, while making PCBs and placing components down onto them is much easier to get into.

Re:Google is killing the open web, part 2 on Monday November 17, 2025 @02:42PM (#45957373)
> Which build process are you talking about?

The one in the comment I replied to.

Re:Google is killing the open web, part 2 on Monday November 17, 2025 @12:36PM (#45955882)
Could you run XSLT as part of your build process, and serve the generated HTML?
Re:Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N on Sunday November 16, 2025 @09:41AM (#45945465)
I think for AGM batteries, it uses different charging curves depending on the age/health of the battery.
A 300mm wafer on a recent process node (TSMC N3) is estimated to be around $20k at quantity[1]. I don't know what kind of testing and crazy packaging processes would cost for a wafer-scale chip, but I can't imagine it would put the price anywhere near the millions.

[1]: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmcs-wafer-prici...

Re:Show HN: W++ – Garbage-Collected Threads on Sunday October 26, 2025 @11:11AM (#45712512)
The readme is very overwhelming but still doesn't tell me anything about the language, and the only file in the example directory is a hello world.

It might be good to expand on that, for those of us that don't remember the original W++ :)

Re:Reverse Engineering a 1979 Camera's Spec on Monday October 13, 2025 @04:43PM (#45573139)
> Seems like I loaded the film incorrectly and nothing was on them, so I hate my life right now. Let’s skip this part then.

That's a shame! It's a mistake almost everyone that has used a film camera has made, though.

On these older SLRs, one thing you can do to check that the film is loaded properly is to watch the rewind crank as you advance to the next frame. If everything is loaded and the film is engaged properly, you should see it turn.

Re:The EU Just Killed ARR on Friday September 19, 2025 @11:43AM (#45302903)
> Boom. Subscription gone. Access revoked. Business workflows broken.

Maybe we need more regulation to require a grace period after a failed payment...

Re:The Value of Bringing a Telephoto Lens on Saturday September 13, 2025 @04:08PM (#45234932)
> Normally they only use primes to achieve compact setup

There are the two Tri-Elmar-M lenses (16-18-21, and 28-35-50) which select between discrete focal lengths instead of zooming continuously :-)

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