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Re:Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS on Thursday February 16, 2023 @09:21AM (#34818961)
I have an ASUS motherboard and recently went through the process of updating the BIOS. One of the things worth nothing is that it is not safe to just get the latest version and try to run EZ-flash. Some of the updates will update EZ-flash as well and those become required for installing later updates.

The download page actually has release notes which specify when a certain BIOS is required, but you basically have to read back through all of them to figure out which ones to install.

Re:Noisefunge: A music programming environment in Befunge on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:52AM (#24553838)
Honestly, I was just looking to learn Rust and this seemed like a reasonable project for it. It's small enough that I could conceivably rewrite it in a couple of months and the stakes were low if it didn't work out.

Mostly, I'm just sticking with the Rust implementation now because it has a couple of new features that I wanted. Also, it should theoretically (I have not tested) be able to run on other OSes, since it is built around JACK instead of ALSA.

Re:Noisefunge: A music programming environment in Befunge on Monday September 21, 2020 @09:55PM (#24550134)
It's a music live-coding environment that is part of the befunge family of (obfuscated) languages.
Re:Noisefunge: A music programming environment in Befunge on Monday September 21, 2020 @08:48PM (#24549847)
Creator here. I just updated the README and name for this project since it is the legacy implementation. I started the new implementation in Rust earlier this year.

If you're interested in seeing it in action, here's a recent video (there are more on my youtube page): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeseWGmcIbY

Re:Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay? on Sunday December 29, 2019 @10:33AM (#21906373)
If you divide the total revenue by the number of HR employees, you will also get a much larger number. (Total revenue / total number of employees) will always be less than (total revenue / subset of employees).

This is not a very good metric.

Re:Ransomware gangs now outing victim businesses that don't pay on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @11:54AM (#21815479)
If you don't pay and they expose your data to the world, doesn't that mean you can effectively get it back without paying?
Re:The Anti-College Is on the Rise on Sunday June 09, 2019 @05:47PM (#20142149)
Zuckerberg never had to interview at Facebook.
How is gold created out of the collision of stars composed of neutrons?
Re:ETS Isn't TLS and You Shouldn't Use It on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @12:33PM (#19256414)
If you're having trouble getting etsi.org to load, try using their static key for diffie-hellman: 0x00000000.
Biosphere 2 was meant as a self-sustaining ecosystem capable of supporting human life. It wasn't entirely successful, but was along the lines of what you described.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2

I don't believe it is accurate to say that nothing happened in the Sony case. They were sued by state governments, the FTC, and faced class action lawsuits. They also incurred the cost of recalling the affected CDs.
Re:A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:41AM (#16755765)
I think it's also worth noting that the US does have laws against slander and libel.

I feel like this article missed that the "right to be forgotten" is meant to cover speech that is true.

Re:Newly Discovered Form of Water Ice Is ‘Really Strange’ on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @08:06PM (#16321476)
I'd suggest going to Philly to taste the water ice, but from what I understand it was recently sacked.
Re:How Generative Music Works on Saturday January 27, 2018 @10:44PM (#16249672)
I actually have a musical project I call Intercal which is based on the idea of obfuscating well known musical works algorithmically. It generally takes a lot of attempts to find something that works, but I've had some promising results.

https://m.soundcloud.com/revjohnnyhealey/sets/intercal

https://revjohnnyhealey.bandcamp.com/album/obfuscated-x-mas

Re:Nicolas Cage DeepFake on Saturday January 27, 2018 @11:29AM (#16246780)
This is a major plot element of the 2013 film "The Congress". I highly recommend it.
Re:Were the Cuban sonic attack victims actually poisoned? on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @01:12AM (#16156196)
What if it was an accidental poisoning? Maybe the embassy got a shipment of bad rum. Methanol poisoning would explain the white matter damage and disorientation.
Re:The Banana As We Know It Is Dying Again on Monday January 08, 2018 @01:58AM (#16095120)
Inedible Plantains Version 6?
Re:The dawn of online piracy (2015) on Friday January 05, 2018 @06:05AM (#16077891)
Yarr. In me day, "piracy" didn't involve computers and had actual pirates, Matey.
Re:LLVM patch to fix half of Spectre attack on Friday January 05, 2018 @05:13AM (#16077723)
Do they really need 100 formats?

1. Video ad that autoplays.

2. Punch the monkey.

3. ???

I once saw a person smuggle in a small bag of microwave popcorn in his hat.

Except he had overcooked it and it smelled terrible.

Re:Red Lang goes blockchain on Monday December 25, 2017 @01:29PM (#16005150)
I'd buy into that Initial Crab Offering.
Re:A Backlash Against Piped Music on Sunday December 24, 2017 @11:41AM (#16000174)
And my first thought was of pipe organs.
Re:The musical side of my dad's dementia on Saturday December 16, 2017 @10:42AM (#15939985)
My grandfather started playing piano at the age of four. He taught music as an adult.

In the last years of his Alzheimer's, he didn't know who I was and could barely remember conversations we'd had 5 minutes prior.

But, if you put him in front of a piano, he could play songs for hours.

Net Neutrality repeal was very popular among deceased Americans.
Wasn't Pai appointed by Trump instead of by election?

Didn't most of the voting Americans vote against Trump?

It seems like a better approach to US politics is to be rich.

Coincidentally, Catch Me If You Can was showing at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, MA tonight. It was part of Hanksgiving (Tom Hanks series).
Anyone know why the headline was changed on HN to remove the Koch Brothers?
Re:What If We Put Warnings on IoT Devices? on Friday October 13, 2017 @09:16AM (#15465301)
Do not taunt happy fun ball.
Re:Proton-size puzzle deepens on Saturday October 07, 2017 @03:00AM (#15422651)
I just hope it doesn't collapse when anyone looks at it.
Re:Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets on Friday October 06, 2017 @11:56AM (#15417797)
Plus, there are systems like quickcheck that can greatly simplify the act of writing tests.

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