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17:47, 16 April 2024 ‎Loopback (hist | edit) ‎[671 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- Loopback, in a wider sense, tends to mean 'wire an output to input, probably on the same device'. In audio, : it can mean that at analog level, or at digital level : but you may see the term more in a "we can treat this digital output as an input again" sense : see also Electronic_music_-_notes_on_audio_APIs#"Why_are_some_things_called_loopback?" In linux, * a loop/loopback device makes a file accessible as a block device (sort of by connecting one API's...")
17:00, 15 April 2024 ‎Revox B77 notes (hist | edit) ‎[170 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " ")
16:55, 15 April 2024 ‎RTP notes (hist | edit) ‎[274 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "")
14:02, 9 April 2024 ‎Dcc (hist | edit) ‎[281 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Around internet chat, Direct Client-to-Client was a way to do file transfers over IRC Around audio, digital compact casette was a digital audio recording medium.")
17:22, 7 April 2024 ‎Primary, secondary, tertiary source (hist | edit) ‎[2,287 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- '''In a general-knowledge sense''' * primary resource - to get as close to the original ideas as we can :: firsthand evidence gathered by the author, creative works by an author, the published results of research :: not a refinement of an earlier source :: preferably from the time - reports, letters, speeches, diaries, photographs, conference proceedings, newspaper reports :: ..but possibly documented later (recalled by the primary source), such as autobiographies...")
01:47, 6 April 2024 ‎Zero-copy (hist | edit) ‎[432 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "")
15:47, 4 April 2024 ‎Universal Naming Convention (hist | edit) ‎[1,307 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " <!-- Universal Naming Convention is a Microsoft(/IBM) standard of referring to remote network share paths, introduced as something Explorer could do around WinNT/Win95. It amounts to: \\<server>\<sharepoint>\<path> Where server can be * IPv4 address * server name * IPv6 address https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-dtyp/62e862f4-2a51-452e-8eeb-dc4ff5ee33cc https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/file-path-formats#unc-path...")
00:35, 2 April 2024 ‎Error function, loss function (hist | edit) ‎[128 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "")
13:34, 1 April 2024 ‎Global (hist | edit) ‎[125 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "")
16:57, 31 March 2024 ‎Hedgehog dilemma (hist | edit) ‎[61 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " ")
15:24, 30 March 2024 ‎Asio (hist | edit) ‎[524 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Around PC music production, ASIO Around programming, can refer to asynchronous IO, e.g. specific libraries such as [https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_84_0/doc/html/boost_asio.html Boost.Asio]")
17:08, 28 March 2024 ‎KVM (hist | edit) ‎[362 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " In computer hardware, a switch that lets you connect one keyboard, video, and mouse to multiple distinct PCs. : There are 19" rack-mounted variants that are both that distribution and that one controlling console (oftenfolds, so looks like a laptop) In computer virtualization, Linux's Kernel-based Virtual Machine that makes it a near-native hypervisor")
21:05, 27 March 2024 ‎Certbot (hist | edit) ‎[1,241 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "")
19:19, 26 March 2024 ‎SoC, SiP (hist | edit) ‎[923 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- IC = Integrated Circuit, functional whole etched into a single piece of silicon, which started simple but ended up able to pack billions of components onto a single chip SiP = System-in-Package, just means bundling multiple ICs in a single package : and may literally be the separate ICs : e.g. putting an existing CPU and some existing DRAM in the same IC, as separate dies with some interconnects to make them work : so less design was spent on integrating the part...") originally created as "SoC"
16:36, 26 March 2024 ‎Password manager notes (hist | edit) ‎[2,817 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "  ===KeePass=== <!-- KeePass - made for windows, added support for macOS and linux through Mono : KeePass 1.x : KeePass 2.x is not ''quite'' a successor KeepassX - started as a linux(-only) port of KeePass because at that time KeePass was windows-only : no longer developed since 2021 KeePassXC started as a community fork of KeePassX, itself a cross-platform port of KeePass KeeShare - lets you share KeePass...")
17:55, 25 March 2024 ‎Timekeeping in computers (hist | edit) ‎[9 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "")
15:00, 25 March 2024 ‎Method, procedure, subroutine, function, operation, etc. (hist | edit) ‎[1,689 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- '''"What's the difference between a method, procedure, subroutine, function, operation, and others?"''' Not at all a bad question, actually. If you are confused by this mix, you were paying attention. Each programming language may have a somwhat more specific definition of half of these (and ignore the rest). This makes sense, because how expressive an duseful each programming language is relates to how detailed/useful the contract of each of its parts is. So i...")
16:02, 23 March 2024 ‎Dotenv (hist | edit) ‎[750 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- .env files are intended as an , that is easy to keep out of source management, that is specifically separate from any code Is it just like a config file? : Absolutely. Is it special in any way? : Not at all. Does it solve secret sprawl? : Nope. Is it still a good habit to put all your secrets in separate place that, out of being a common convention, you can recognize as "don't share this?" : Yup. https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv#readme https://...")
16:02, 23 March 2024 ‎Monorepo (hist | edit) ‎[2,533 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- A repository in the software versioning sense ''usually'' stores a single project. This is the default choice since, well, always, in that the separation makes e.g. responsibilities well defined. '''Monorepos''' are a different view. A monorepo is a single repository that contains many projects - which tend to be unrelated projects, except that they may share code and often what company owns them. 'Monorepo' as a term didn't seem to exist before 2015 or so,...")
23:54, 22 March 2024 ‎What are those "verifying your device" pages for? (hist | edit) ‎[2,421 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " There is a new trend of CDNs inserting an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial_webpage intermediate page] before they actually show you the content. That intermediate page says it is verifying your device. Sometimes you need to interact - e.g check a checkmark - with it to be shown the actual page. tl;dr: : There is nothing unverified about your device, there is nothing much it's checking. : This seems to mostly be the "I only want people, not scripts, t...")
23:09, 22 March 2024 ‎Distributional hypothesis (hist | edit) ‎[1,126 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The distributional hypothesis is the idea that words that are used and occur in the same contexts tend to convey similar meanings - "a word is characterized by the company it keeps". This idea is known under a few names, but note that few of them really describe a technique, or even the specific assumptions they make. <!-- Distributional Similarity Distributional semantics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributional_semantics '''Distributional similarity''' can...") originally created as "The distributional hypothesis"
16:29, 14 March 2024 ‎We can’t connect to the server at www.googleadservices.com. (hist | edit) ‎[446 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " It seems that various google result links go first to their own tracking, then to the site being linked to. Apparently particularly sponsored links, but also things like shopping. When there is any ad blocking (e.g. extension, VPN), it may happen to block this - and effectively break certain google links.") originally created as "Www.googleadservices.com can't be reached"
11:33, 14 March 2024 ‎RTL (hist | edit) ‎[418 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " ")
16:19, 13 March 2024 ‎CRF (hist | edit) ‎[241 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " In, data modeling, conditional random Field In video encoding (mostly x264, x265?), Constant Rate Factor, a way to determine required bitrate based on content{{verify}}")
18:46, 12 March 2024 ‎Motion smoothing (hist | edit) ‎[1,104 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- Motion interpolation, or motion smoothing is video processing that invents frames between existing ones. Used live (e.g. various flat panel TVs do this), this attempts to make certain types of video more fluid. ...at the cost of some latency In video processing, it is a fake slow motion effect. Soap Opera Effect, because For large movements it is too creative and will look wrong, but ''mostly'' in a way too fast to notice (it's quite visible in the fake...")
16:56, 11 March 2024 ‎Flash (hist | edit) ‎[212 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "For the now-abandoned browser plugin, see Flash notes. The type of memory, see Some_understanding_of_memory_hardware#Flash_memory_(intro)")
13:45, 10 March 2024 ‎AFL (hist | edit) ‎[273 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Around '''software licenses''', the Academic Free License (AFL) Around stage audio, the After Fader Listen button on mixer channels")
19:30, 9 March 2024 ‎Bike tire sizes (hist | edit) ‎[649 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " ===Why have one standard when you can have several?=== <!-- Broadly, there is * European Tyre and Rim Technical Organization (ETRTO) : width in mm : inside diameter in mm : in principle, width matters less so any with the same diameter will work : 559 ~= 26", 622 ~= 28" : MTB, typically 559, also have wider tires - 37, 40, 44, 47, 54, 57? * German : (outside?)diameter (inch) : width (inch) * French : approximate outside diameter (can be 80--100mm more than ) : wi...")
15:17, 9 March 2024 ‎Amortization (hist | edit) ‎[19 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "")
13:21, 9 March 2024 ‎Security notes - encryption-supporting functionality (hist | edit) ‎[24,862 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==TPM== {{stub}} ===What is it?=== It's a hardware module that assists a few security needs Part of its job is just to be ''separate'', because that allows it to do some things with more secrecy than is easy to guarantee otherwise -- if used well, that is. And with footnotes (separation is also potential attack surface) For some other needs it's more of a coprocessor thing, which doesn't always make much difference Physically, TPM started as a clearly separat...") originally created as "Security notes - integrated security hardware"
13:45, 7 March 2024 ‎Esoteric (hist | edit) ‎[1,151 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- Esoteric information refers to things known and/or understood only by people with specific knowledge or interest. This often because it is not a mainsteam interest, if it is written about this is not exhaustive, and it may be changeable. '''Sometimes''' It can be nearby senses like * unnusual interests or likes - Aside from unusual and understood by a minority, it can also include something ''liked'' only by a minority, and so has an overlap with unusual inter...")
18:28, 5 March 2024 ‎Public dataset repositories (hist | edit) ‎[1,115 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " ==DANS and Dataverse== Dataverse : refers to bot h :: free and open source software [https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse] to archive research data and the likes :: the community and its many instances of that software, see e.g. [https://dataverse.org/#boxes-box-1473790649 this map] : https://dataverse.org/ : managed by Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataverse DataverseNL : seems to be a Dutch subset of dataverse {{verify}}...")
16:18, 5 March 2024 ‎Problems with URLs (hist | edit) ‎[772 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- Everything is terrible, so people break stuff. '''Link rot, or, the half-life of an URL''' Getting statistics on how long the average link lasts is complex, because which ones do you care about? But estimates are somewhere between two and twenty. But keep a collection of link around for many years? Many will be dead now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot '''When a 200 response isn't the actual content''' Sometimes, when serving changed, you will...")
15:39, 5 March 2024 ‎Infodemic (hist | edit) ‎[52 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " ")
13:53, 4 March 2024 ‎Latency (hist | edit) ‎[3,006 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " ==Device latency== <!-- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latency_(engineering) Latency] is, well, how late something is. Devices, by default, do their own thing, and do not know each other's timing. If there was no design consideration, then you should assume any one device can deviate from the plan, and its execution of your plan will probably not be better than order of magnitude, 10 milliseconds off from your plan. ===Does that even matter?=== '''If you are...")
11:28, 4 March 2024 ‎// (hist | edit) ‎[215 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "")
12:10, 29 February 2024 ‎Cloves (hist | edit) ‎[349 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " ")
18:31, 27 February 2024 ‎Security notes / One-Time Passwords (hist | edit) ‎[3,931 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{SecurityRelated}} <!-- So, passwords fail backward secrecy and some concepts like it: : If it is found today, it can be used in the future. : Also, it means people can spy on you, and you will only learn about that when they change something drastically, like locking ''you'' out. Wouldn't it be great if the thing that logs you in today is never useful again? Well sure, but doesn't that mean I now need to learn a new password every day (or use)? Or a way of bas...")
18:04, 27 February 2024 ‎Security notes / Multi-Factor Authentication (hist | edit) ‎[6,312 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Multi-Factor Authentication) Tag: New redirect
17:53, 27 February 2024 ‎Multi-factor authentication (hist | edit) ‎[19 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{security}}")
14:28, 27 February 2024 ‎Cf (hist | edit) ‎[83 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "#redrect Abbreviations:_Acronyms,_Initialisms,_Contractions,_Apocopation#Others")
13:43, 27 February 2024 ‎Energy, power, and work (hist | edit) ‎[1,461 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- MOVE: Note that "power is the rate of work" is a nice set of words, but does not teach differences like: * Energy and power :: e.g. 1000W is a ''rate''. 1000Wh is an amount of energy * Work and power '''''Roughly''''' speaking: * work is the total amount of expended energy * power is the ''rate'' - different rates over different times can equal the same overall work (or, less formally, energy, with the ). Pushing very hard for ten seconds may be just as much...")
18:06, 26 February 2024 ‎Algorithms (hist | edit) ‎[3,295 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- ===What does algorithm mean?=== A way of calculating. A way of getting a particular thing done. Typically, practical answers to 'how does it X?' It refers to only the method, not the data you feed into it, nor the hardware it runs on. Programmers will often prefer to call things algorithm only when they are either specific theory (e.g. a specific way of sorting), OR concrete enough to just run And usually for simple, well-defined, questions, such as "ho...")
17:34, 26 February 2024 ‎Experiment building - on online experiments (hist | edit) ‎[1,292 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Experiments}} ===On online experiments=== Online experiments, as convenient as they are, means there are many things you can no longer control for - display time, hardware response time, browser details, whether it is a computer or a phone (I have a years-old phone and I wouldn't trust its timing), headphone quality (there are some tests you can do to get a gauge of this) '''Browsers''' Assume that browsers tend to merge movement into 60Hz intervals - or what...")
17:33, 26 February 2024 ‎Experiment building - on counterbalancing (hist | edit) ‎[54 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "===Thinking about counterbalancing===")
13:56, 24 February 2024 ‎Are computers getting faster or not really? (hist | edit) ‎[1,973 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " <!-- Wirth's law - Wirth observed that perhaps software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster, though he attributes it to others who had been pointing out this patterns for at least a decade, and this is decades ago now. May's law / Gates's law - the speed of software halves every 18 months, compensating Moore's law. Programmers get lazy about efficiency because that isn't really visible as long as hardware And we keep adding more ''st...") originally created as "Are computers getting faster or slower?"
20:58, 23 February 2024 ‎Precision and recall (hist | edit) ‎[460 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "")
20:53, 23 February 2024 ‎False positives and false negatives (hist | edit) ‎[11 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "(ELSEWHERE)")
21:57, 19 February 2024 ‎What can I remove from ~/.cache? (hist | edit) ‎[711 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- It is arguably safe to delete the whole thing, in that you should not suffer permanent data loss. That said, * some things are built when they need to be (and will be slow then) * some things will be downloaded on demand, which you may not want very often * some things may be currently running and not thinking about half of it dissapearing from under it. Let's look at some offenders * [https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry pypoetry] - package manager, should...")
16:55, 19 February 2024 ‎Non-negative matrix factorization (hist | edit) ‎[436 bytes] ‎Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "")

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