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by IIsi50MHz 5mo ago
Last I read, Kagi is using data from 3rd-party scraping of Google results, because buying directly from Google comes with onerous limitations: - Must not alter the order of Google's search results - Must not alter the appearance or pl
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by IIsi50MHz 5mo ago
> Moore law did its thing, now you can do it with a lot less computer power. s/power/time/ maybe? Or on second thought: so energy-efficicient that it actually uses less power in the same-or-shorter time… which brings me ba
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by IIsi50MHz 5mo ago
Although…my gran's coasters were made of Waterford crystal, and could definitey do some damage. (-:
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by IIsi50MHz 5mo ago
Some countries chose different physical sizes and/or embosed bumps in the corners.
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by IIsi50MHz 5mo ago
You can, but then "The cake is a lie.", because linecount and bug rate, when concieved as proxies for productivity[1] or quality rarely match up with reality in a way that allows you to make predictions or reason about past outcom
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by IIsi50MHz 5mo ago
There is long-standing tradition that if a company's "core competency" is retained, it remains the same company. And also of adults being adopted into a family (including when done as a means of producing a successor when the
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by IIsi50MHz 5mo ago
Perhaps they take issue with "_any_ other source". I agree that U.S. govt data is now suspect, but there are far sources. Maybe an s/any other/more reputable/ would be accepted?
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by IIsi50MHz 5mo ago
But…you're correlating previous climate changes (which had much slower rates) with "Even though this one measures daramatic'ly different, it's the same.". As some others have asked you, would you be so kind as to pl
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by IIsi50MHz 6mo ago
Colour me confused. Dark mode on an oled reduces brightness (and power consumption). Dark mode on my work laptop (not oled) reduces backlight brightness. This is auto-tragical, because it seems to only respond to changes in the display buff
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by IIsi50MHz 6mo ago
Man, I forgot NeoPlanet. Thanks for the reminder! It was one of a bazillion IE-based browsers. I vaguely recall it had some nice features that seemed they should be in every browser…but I can't remember any of them now.
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by IIsi50MHz 6mo ago
Now returns Null for me, but looks like it was https://fiverr-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/f_pdf,q_auto/... Also, a version of this appears to be currently sold on Amazon for $15 USD.
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by IIsi50MHz 6mo ago
As has been said before, sites that don't use unnecessary cookies don't need to have a cookie banner. Having the banner is often just malicious compliance (or for a non-compliant one banner, maliciously non-compliant).
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by IIsi50MHz 6mo ago
> Maybe using an unnatural placement of )parentheses( could have worked O, c'mon! That is clearly a giant heading in a display font, squeezed in the middle and wider at the top and bottom. (-;
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by IIsi50MHz 6mo ago
The first one I remember is RealPlayer. I think the official story was that they were having more and more trouble convincing people to install upgrades (at a time when 56k and slower modems were still common, dowloading an app could take m
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by IIsi50MHz 7mo ago
Engineers & architects leave a lot of detail out of their designs, relying on the plumbers and other trades to figure out the Right Thing. (-:
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by IIsi50MHz 7mo ago
"one data structure" doesn not have to mean "all data it one instance". Each of 100 functions could take a slice of data, or use a separate datastore which has the same structure. Separate instances of one structure can
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by IIsi50MHz 7mo ago
>> There are many unenforceable laws, with drastic consequences if they were enforced, which are not being fixed > > Irrelevant. While I don't see why "unenforceable laws" is being mentioned so many times, given
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by IIsi50MHz 7mo ago
Also sources: the Myst making-of video included on the Myst CD-ROM, and the Cyan team members who made it!
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by IIsi50MHz 8mo ago
I was going to recommend the Gadgetbridge app, but it seems to have little or no support for Fitbit. I does support hundreds of devices, though. I used it extensively with a Mi Band 3, but have yet to try it with my Garmin.
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by IIsi50MHz 10mo ago
Yes, occasionally using old systems from decades ago can drive this home. Copying a tiny file at 1.1 MB/s should feel instantaneous. But on Win 10 and Win 11 with an SSD, you can get a multisecond progressbar. And if you dare to cancel
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by IIsi50MHz 10mo ago
But…LAMBDA()! And LET() and friends. Also, the Excel Labs formula editor. But it needs a way to tell it "I know I have too many cells! Just let me trace over the 100 nearest rows." The old scripting language can still be handy if
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by IIsi50MHz 10mo ago
Haiku (OS) caches the vector icons rendered from HVIF[1][2] files which are used extensively for UI. I didn't find details of the caching design. Possibly it was mentioned to me by waddlesplash on IRC[3]. [1] 500 Byte Images: The Haiku
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by IIsi50MHz 11mo ago
At work, when we send stuff From USA to Canada for repair, we just need to put the correct Canadian customs code and "For warranty repair" on the packing slip.
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by IIsi50MHz 11mo ago
I believe the Jargon File has a couple of lyrics about IBM and JCL, to the tune of the Mickey Mouse Club theme.
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by IIsi50MHz 11mo ago
Wordperfect still exists and can be purchased. It's part of a suite that includes Quattro Pro, the spreadsheet program that fought Lotus 1-2-3. WordPerfect has special features for law firms. WriteNow is gone, but Nisus Writer is still
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by IIsi50MHz 11mo ago
It's not even a lecture if all they do is read from the book. I'd say that's one step away from phoning it in. (-:
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by IIsi50MHz 1y ago
OS X and later are derived from NeXT Step, which makes it derived from BSD. And thus, UNIX-y. Macintosh system software versions less than 10 are Apple original development. The earliest versions were designed for hardware with only 512 or
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by IIsi50MHz 1y ago
True. And if it's from SAGE Software, .1 is .nope. They never release a .0, because they thínk that'll trick customers into using it instead of waiting for patches. I've had so many customers tell me they won't upgrade a
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by IIsi50MHz 1y ago
> reboot the house […] flip the […] breaker My gran's power company doesn't like this. When I flipped the main breaker, they saw the load drop and scheduled a crew to investigate and repair[1]. We found out when they called to
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by IIsi50MHz 1y ago
That thread's too old for me to reply, but for me this "eerie ad for what we just talked about" went away when I disabled "Ok Google" detection.

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