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by 20after4 3y ago
It's much more than a temptation. It's the primary purpose of a commercial entity. Free software still wins this one every time.
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by 20after4 4y ago
The hopi didn't have a written language. Their prophecies were an oral tradition which is somewhat recently (1963) documented as a written work: https://www.amazon.com/Book-Hopi-Frank-Waters/dp/0140045279
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by 20after4 4y ago
My 2nd gen RX-7s were a joy to own and not at all difficult to maintain. They lack all creature comforts and practicality, they are loud, not fuel efficient but a lot of fun to drive. The RX-8 is much more refined and actually quite prac
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by 20after4 4y ago
The oil metering pump was a simple mechanical device on Mazda Wankel engines up to ~1991 (the first and second generation rx-7, and I presume other models in Japan.) This was replaced by an electronically controlled pump on all the later mo
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by 20after4 4y ago
What killed the rx-8 is emissions. Wankel engines are very similar to 2-cycle piston engines. Both 2-cycle and Wankel burn oil in order to lubricate their seals. Very difficult to do that and also meet current emissions standards. The seco
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by 20after4 4y ago
Amazon reviews and ratings are still useful signal if you know how to interpret: 1. Anything less than 4.6 is probably junk. 2. Ignore the 4-5 star reviews, only read the 1-3 star reviews 3. Really read them. 4. A good product will still ge
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by 20after4 4y ago
ubiquiti gear? https://store.ui.com/collections/operator-airmax-and-ltu
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by 20after4 4y ago
Bingo! This is exactly what's happening.
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by 20after4 4y ago
A more perfect construct would piss off the French and Russians simultaneously.
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by 20after4 4y ago
Indeed when I first saw the link I misinterpreted it as a link to Lars’ personal blog.
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by 20after4 4y ago
Get an old iso of Slackware and do it from scratch. For the authentic experience do it without internet access and using only the included install instructions. I once attempted this as an exercise on a very old thinkpad having only DOS+msc
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by 20after4 4y ago
I’ve had the great privilege of working with Lars. This deadpan humor is a constant feature of his discourse and even better in conversation than in this article.
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by 20after4 4y ago
Such a great article. Much respect to Lars. I had the great privilege of working with him at Wikimedia and he's genuinely one of the nicest and funniest people you could ever hope to meet.
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by 20after4 4y ago
I read that as "Apple recommends PHP."
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by 20after4 4y ago
Nice! I hadn't seen that one.
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by 20after4 4y ago
I did similar when I was planning to move. The new place was just a block away from my old address and my ISP told me my new address does not exist. After more than a month of arguing with their customer service people and being told there
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by 20after4 4y ago
We did a version of this in the deviantArt forums except it was longcat instead of a tower. Somewhere I have the composite image which was a LOT of pixels tall by about 128 pixels wide.
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by 20after4 4y ago
iOS already has this feature precisely. I can either grant access to all photos or only a selected subset, or even just one.
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by 20after4 4y ago
Fiber on utility poles is absolutely a thing, and it's usually far cheaper than buried fiber, not to mention easier to repair. Here in the USA, the main reason that doesn't happen is incumbent providers. Whoever owns the poles is
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by 20after4 4y ago
Where I live (Very rural part of southern Missouri) the service is oversold and very expensive. I was on the waiting list for 2 years and then they offered "RV" service at a best effort service level. The service was fast and reli
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by 20after4 4y ago
My apologies, I was being facetious. Of course he had failings but our society rewards rather than punishing them.
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by 20after4 4y ago
I used an extension a while ago, however, it became unnecessary once the built in json view was implemented. Not sure if it's still around or whether it offers any advantage over the built in feature.
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by 20after4 4y ago
Admittedly there were a few issues in the past, just nothing in the last couple of years that I can think of.
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by 20after4 4y ago
That's a feature not a bug.
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by 20after4 4y ago
I'm using Firefox on Linux¹ and I have experienced none of those problems. Although I'm not particularly happy with the direction that Mozilla has been headed, Firefox is certainly a vast improvement over Chrome or even Chromium.
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by 20after4 4y ago
China already operate a mirror of wikipedia content, minus anything they decided to censor. As far as I could tell they have a reverse proxy that fetches, censors and serves wikipedia inside the great firewall.
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by 20after4 4y ago
This feels like it should be somehow paired with https://datasette.io/
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by 20after4 4y ago
If a billionaire loses 90% of their net worth, they are still rich.
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by 20after4 4y ago
Driving battery replacement to the authorized dealer network, when combined with various up-sell charges that they concoct some reason to tack on and it represents a very significant profit opportunity. It has nothing to do with the actua
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by 20after4 4y ago
Failings? Seems he was rather successful. I mean, he got away with it.

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