phcorcoran

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[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure but if my password is the entire lord of the rings trilogy as a string, hashing that would consume some resources

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm not sure if my comment is whoosh, but just in case; it's the transliteration of the letters in the picture if you read them as cyrillic letters, highlighting that they should be understood as faux-cyrillic instead

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think this (admittedly long) video is a good summary https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PfrtN2LlgSI

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm sorry but you can totally control the margin size in LaTeX if you learn the right incantation

backslash UsEpAcKaGe letterpaper H-maaaaaaargin point seventy-niiiiiine inch brackets GEOOOOOMETRY

then you spread the entrails slightly and stab towards the sky. Really don't see what the big fuss is all about.

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I took "rather than the other way around" to mean "rather than negatively-correlated" in this context, since positively was emphasized

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It sounds to me like people who grew up in one part of this graph need help from people who grew up in another part of this graph? I wonder which is which

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[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We had to replace the entire screen assembly for that at the time but I'm sure it's possible to do something less drastic if you are just working on your own machine

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I worked on repairing Macs during that period and I suspect that no wifi card except this specific one would fit in the relevant slot of the machine.

They weren't standard formats as far as I know and couldn't be used across models because the shape of the actual card was never the same. It's possible the connectors didn't change though, or that a third party manufacturer made new cards specifically for that model, although that seems unlikely.

Another commenter (u/bloodfart) wrote that the connector was a standard mini pcie connector; I can't confirm but that's plausible and would mean it's a lot more likely that an upgrade may be possible

One note of caution, it was really easy for an uninitiated repair person to sever the antenna wire from its connector when trying to disconnect or reconnect them, the cables are quite thin

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Getting books from the library to read?

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't really have great knowledge on this topic but my understanding is that it wasn't just because it was purple, it was that the resulting purple dye was excellent; it was bright, beautiful and never faded. You can dye stuff purple with cabbage but it's just not a very good dye in those regards

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