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Bene592on Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine (2019)

But it's great at dissolving bones, and it does that even if you just get it on your skin

Bene592on History of the Italian electrical system

That has the center earth pin. Doesn't fit in to Schuko

Bene592on History of the Italian electrical system

440V would be split phase. We have 400 3phase here

Bene592on Growing sodium chloride crystals at home

Even 5 cm is more than enough for home use, or do you know a chip that is bigger?

Bene592on ADSL works over wet string (2017)

If it's also used as an analog phone line don't touch, if it's ringing you will get shocked

Bene592on Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments

Is that enough for just the TCP ACKs?

Bene592on 40 years later, a game for the ZX Spectrum will be again broadcast over FM radio

You can record it with a PC. Just make sure to use a lossless format

Bene592on 40 years later, a game for the ZX Spectrum will be again broadcast over FM radio

How well does this work with lossy compression? I would trust only lossless formats and analog with digital data encoded as audio, but I have zero hands-on experience with this

Bene592on 40 years later, a game for the ZX Spectrum will be again broadcast over FM radio

Both the CD and the ZX Spectrum came out in 1982

Bene592on The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword

8 hours should be enough to let the temperatures settle

Bene592on The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

Nothing, the book is mostly about proprietary Unices

Bene592on The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

For (1) there's stuff like BTRFS snapshots, or you could use Git on top of the FS

Bene592on Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? (2020)

XP wasn't that early. IDE worked out of the box. But if you had a RAID setup or something else that needed a driver (early SATA?) you could load the driver there

Bene592on FuryGpu – Custom PCIe FPGA GPU

If you do want to learn about pipelines, or want a more powerful breadboard computer without 6502 you should check out James Sharman[1] on YouTube. He has VGA and audio output too. [1] https://youtube.com/@weirdboyjim

Bene592on Why is it so hard to build an airport?

Allow only short distance deliveries by truck

Bene592on RP2040 Boot Sequence

Why? If you use only 1.1 features on a 2.0 platform it would work just like on 1.1 but faster. If you're on a USB1.1 platform and want to use a 2.0 feature you could just use a 2.0 platform without any changes to the existing code

Bene592on Hurried Thoughts: You're Wrong About Tidal-Locking

China had the sea between China and Japan, and they had some nice oceangoing ships¹.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_(ship)

Bene592on Hurried Thoughts: You're Wrong About Tidal-Locking

A planet that Spins only once in one of its years probably isn't dipolar

Bene592on New FCC Broadband Standards Should Consider Latency

If it's to the nearest IXP the ISP could create it's own IXP and measure latency to that. So it should be to not just any IXP, but a well-connected one

Bene592on A Plea for Lean Software (1995)

They could ship a web server that listens on 127.0.0.1 and launches the standard browser

Bene592on Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible "forever"

If the distributor doesn't want it anymore the author or publisher should get a different one