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by 4cao 6y ago
According to Wikipedia [1], it's allowed in some states, and the deposit amount is: $55k: Texas $50k: Mississippi $40k: Arizona $10k: Massachusetts New Hampshire and Virginia seem to allow it without a deposit. In Virginia you have to
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by 4cao 6y ago
> f-droid is a horrible experience though IMO. It's not good for app discovery. You already need to know what you are looking for. Other than that, most of the time it works fine. In other words, it's a bit like Amazon.
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by 4cao 6y ago
People who don't run Play services by choice will typically use MicroG [1], which still uses Google infrastructure. F-Droid is doing fine but mostly with a certain kind of apps that either run entirely on the device, or connect to thir
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by 4cao 6y ago
> If the OS-ish super apps are winning, means the customers are approving it. If people are not eating meat in North Korea, it doesn't necessarily mean they're supporting vegetarianism.
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by 4cao 6y ago
The history of Microsoft is the history of workarounds on top of workarounds, year after year, rinse and repeat. Here's a novel thought: instead of providing yet another iteration of workarounds for the power user, how about just fixin
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by 4cao 6y ago
There's also the matryomin: a single-antenna theremin inserted into a matryoshka doll. The Guinness world record for the largest theremin concert was set by a matryomin ensemble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnlsfeRN
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by 4cao 6y ago
Wikipedia already has too many policies and this is part of the problem. However noble the intentions, adding yet another policy-like document is not going to be part of the solution. Obviously harassment and toxic behavior are bad and shou
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by 4cao 6y ago
In China: - There is no single Play Store equivalent, so the barrier to make people install a relatively unknown app is higher. - Phones do not come with Google Services Framework, so the barrier to develop a networked app is higher. - Just
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by 4cao 6y ago
I wonder will this get triggered with a Cyrillic "с", which looks just the Latin "c."
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by 4cao 6y ago
As an aside, Lisbon was considered the "City of Spies" during World War 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal_during_World_War_II#E...
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by 4cao 6y ago
They could have asked the community to volunteer with maintaining the translations. I'm fairly certain there would be people willing to do that for at least some of these languages. > in order to maintain consistency Yeah, Microsoft
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by 4cao 6y ago
I think in DOS they were all global in scope. SETLOCAL appeared with Windows NT (cmd.exe), not sure which version (I didn't use the early ones).
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by 4cao 6y ago
Is this known to have happened for any other keyword as well? I'm not surprised with censorship inside walled gardens, and neither am I surprised with the sneaky way it is being implemented but I really don't see the motivation wh
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by 4cao 6y ago
> INSTALLHIGH is just putting a LOADHIGH in CONFIG.SYS instead of in AUTOEXEC.BAT Yeah, and if anybody wonders what the point of this was: starting with DOS 6 you could have different boot profiles (menu items) in CONFIG.SYS. For example
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by 4cao 6y ago
China used to have a similar system with Foreign Exchange Certificates until the 1990s [1] but nowadays it's not really the same. CNH/CNT/NDFs are an artefact of foreign-exchange controls but as a visitor to China you're
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by 4cao 6y ago
> So how were these found? Example usage for some of them could be discovered by going through the contents of .BAT files written by Microsoft, especially those that were a part of MS-DOS (and later Windows 9x) Setup (installer). All the
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by 4cao 6y ago
Never realized INSTALLHIGH and LH were not documented. I recall using these, so I always assumed they were commonly known. And :: for comments is just a creative trick based on how labels in batch files are parsed. It wasn't originally
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by 4cao 6y ago
Link to video documenting this very clever hack, by the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGjS5958g1g A second display is installed in place of the solar cell. The display is connected to an Arduino with Wi-Fi connect
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by 4cao 6y ago
Roosevelt traveled aboard USS Quincy. Churchill joined him in Malta. (For the record, Stalin took a train.) https://archive.org/details/secondworldwar00beev/page/709/mo...
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by 4cao 6y ago
The article doesn't have the cost for the whole journey by air in June 1939. They quote the price of the transatlantic Pan Am flight, which cost (US)$375 in June 1939 one-way, and from the linked newspaper scan, the round trip was $650
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by 4cao 6y ago
It's optional.
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by 4cao 6y ago
Relevant links from Wikimedia itself: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_n... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct
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by 4cao 6y ago
The NUC you mention was just released, and I've had my mini PC for a while already. The i7-10710U CPU inside the NUC is officially 2 generations ahead, so it wouldn't be surprising if it were more powerful. Not really sure what yo
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by 4cao 6y ago
It's called "SYWZ S200H." This, I think, is the manufacturer's website: https://www.syvvz.com/productinfo/817181.html
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by 4cao 6y ago
Might be worthwhile to look beyond just the big brands. I have an obscure Chinese Mini PC, which is about the size of a NUC (15 × 15 × 6 cm) but comes with a much more powerful i7-8850H CPU, and, since it has two M.2 connectors, I can use b
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by 4cao 6y ago
The (secret) opt-out URL is: https://www.paypal.com/nothanks Don't you just love it when businesses trying to push something you don't need and never asked for make you choose "No, thanks" for their pest
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by 4cao 6y ago
Makes me realize how I miss the "classic" advertisements that appeared in print. I used to enjoy looking at them as I went through a magazine or a newspaper. Some of them were a work of art. Online advertising, on the other hand,
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by 4cao 6y ago
.md is mentioned as an extension in the text/markdown RFC from March 2016: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7763 (Vim 8 was released in September of the same year.)
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by 4cao 6y ago
Markdown itself is from 2004 but the .md extension/suffix wasn't used for it until sometime later (not really sure where it appeared first).
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by 4cao 6y ago
It's really enjoyable to look at the source. These days one I feel it's quite rare to see assembly code not as an output from a tool like IDA Pro. If I remember correctly, the size of a compiled GWBASIC.EXE file was about 80 kB. W

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