What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

I love the floppy disk. Everything about it is just neat. The engineering is neat.

Drive motors weren't perfect and could spin a little too fast or a little too slow and could even vary speed over one revolution (wobble).

Now consider you could have data on a single disk that was written in multiple drives with different characteristics.

The data on the disk, although digital, was encoded via a very analog magnetic represention (flux reversals).

To read the data off a floppy disk the drive controller had to synchronize a data window clock with the rate the data was coming off the disk. To accomplish this, clock bits were encoded in the signal. In the PC world, this is called MFM encoding.

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油尖警區特別職務隊人員經深入調查後,昨日(4日)下午1時許突擊搜查油麻地上海街一個單位,成功搗破一處懷疑毒窟。行動中檢獲多種危險藥物,包括約139克懷疑可卡因、74克懷疑海洛英、20克懷疑冰毒及509粒俗稱「藍精靈」的咪達唑侖,另搜出約200元現金。今次行動合共檢獲的毒品市值約15.2萬元。

警員於單位內拘捕一名47歲本地女子,涉嫌「經營毒窟」、「販運危險藥物」及「外出時沒有攜帶身份證明文件」。同場另有19名本地男子及4名本地女子(24至78歲)因涉嫌「服食或注射危險藥物」被捕。警方發布的照片顯示,部份涉案者在登上警車前站立不穩。
#毒窟

May be an image of one or more people, train, bus, terminal and text that says 'KN 警油麻地破毒 乜破毒雇 24人被捕 多人警車前站立不穩 OL好'
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RE: mastodon.gamedev.place/@britow

This was entirely unscripted; the skellie took the kick ability it had for kicking bombs at the player and came up the defensive usage

The more time passes the more the enemy unit behavior is becoming a selling point.

Wishlist Chronicles IV! chrongame.com

And tell your friends!

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🚨 NEW: One of the largest COVID-19 vaccine studies ever (28 MILLION people in France) just dropped.

Results?
• 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19
• 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality
• No increase in 4-year mortality
• Vaccinated people had lower risk of death from any cause.
In short: mRNA vaccines weren’t just safe — they were protective across the board. 🔥📉 shorturl.at/GcZeK

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I’m wrapping up my EMT course (finals are Monday, license exam in maybe a week or two), and I found AI (Claude) immeasurably useful. Having a virtual study buddy to talk to all through the course helped me learn the material better and much more deeply than I think would have been possible (for me) just a couple years ago.

I’m also one million percent sure that had I had access to these tools when I was a teenager I would have used them to cheat, and wouldn’t have learned a damn thing.

🤷🏻‍♂️

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I always use my iPhone with CarPlay for navigation as I drive. My iPhone 12 mini was brilliant. My new iPhone 17 Pro has great difficulty working out where I am, so I frequently get shown that I’m driving through buildings or across fields. Has anyone else experienced bad GPS data in one of the new phones? My husband’s iPhone 17 Pro is just as bad as mine, so it’s not just a single bad phone.

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"31일까지 꼭 쓰세요"…서초구 '문화누리카드 잔액 소진' 안내
(서울=연합뉴스) 정준영 기자 = 서초구(구청장 전성수)는 2025년도 문화누리카드의 사용 기간이 오는 31일 만료된다며 잔액을 꼭 사용해 달라...
yna.co.kr/view/AKR202512050698

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I love the floppy disk. Everything about it is just neat. The engineering is neat.

Drive motors weren't perfect and could spin a little too fast or a little too slow and could even vary speed over one revolution (wobble).

Now consider you could have data on a single disk that was written in multiple drives with different characteristics.

The data on the disk, although digital, was encoded via a very analog magnetic represention (flux reversals).

To read the data off a floppy disk the drive controller had to synchronize a data window clock with the rate the data was coming off the disk. To accomplish this, clock bits were encoded in the signal. In the PC world, this is called MFM encoding.

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The opposite of schadenfreude is
mudita, a Buddhist term for sympathetic or vicarious joy. It's the joy you feel when someone else succeeds

I could use a little mudita today. What do you have for me, fediverse? Hit me with your successes, the more mundane the better (but I'm all for hearing about your big wins, too)

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昔は「公式アカウントみたいなのがないのも良さだよな」みたいなことを思わなくもなかったけど、今は割と「どんどん企業垢もMisskey来たらいいのにな」と思ってる側

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