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Jaruzel
7y ago
If you 'dd' the sd card over to a usb key, and add 'program_usb_boot_mode=1' to the config.txt, you'll get a more robust filesystem and a speed-up bonus as well.
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7y ago
Micro PCs also still have higher power requirements. For running costs, you can't beat a small ARM board (like Pi or its clones)
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7y ago
Skim reading through this, I still don't understand the need for a 'Metaverse'[1]. Sure it's a fun sci-fi concept, but what problem does it actually solve? --- [1] Or 'Matrix', or 'Oasis', or 'C
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7y ago
Go through your drawer of USB cables. You'll see that a lot of Type-A connectors now have the holes on both sides!
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7y ago
Got Facebook blocked, or simply don't want to visit it directly? I run a FB proxy for public posts: https://nofb.pw/?p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F4%2Fpost...
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7y ago
Or more accurately 'I quit working in a job for someone else, and switched to working in a job for myself writing a web app that has paying customers.' When I see 'I quit my job' I tend to think that the person no longe
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Space Sex Is Serious Business
(fivethirtyeight.com)
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7y ago
Everything these days is people-orientated. The rise and rise of reality TV and social media is testament to that.
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7y ago
> Currently the neighbor across the street and two houses up is putting out so much power that it drowns out my AP two rooms away. Give your neighbour a dose of their own medicine: Get a directional high db antenna, set a spare WiFi AP
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7y ago
> People ruin everything. 'Marketeers' ruin everything.
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Ask HN: Does Anyone Code in D?
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7y ago
All I have for New Tabs is 'Firefox Home (Default)' and 'Blank Page', it does not allow me to set a Custom URL. Which is why I have an extension installed to do it.
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7y ago
> ..but I'm not sure this a real problem If you are inside a large corporate network, that spans the globe and has many internal domain names, and a lot of DNS forwarding, it's a very real problem. Especially when trying to d
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7y ago
The one thing that really annoys me in all major browsers, is that you can't set a 'new tab page' without installing an extension. It's a nuts design.
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7y ago
Seconded. I personally think it should go up to 50 posts.
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Did I say not-referenced? Trust me, Librarians are the best people for referencing stuff - it's their job .
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> Windows 10 [...] cannot directly talk to the ancient SMB protocol used by WFW 3.11. Not true, you can downgrade the SMB version requirement in the Windows 10 registry.
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7y ago
Or, y'know, actually employ a qualified librarian to do the role. /smh Librarians (the real ones, not the trolley pushing assistants) despair at Wikipedia. There have been many reports[1] of Librarians who are subject matter exp
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7y ago
Yes. To be specific, if you are using the Web based WhatsApp (or the 'Desktop' app), it will not load the preview until your phone has pinged that it's online. There are many times when I wait for the preview to load (becau
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7y ago
If Microsoft baked in Auto-cert-install in to IIS that allowed you to cherry pick a provider, and/or just select their own free CA, that'd really solve the problem for Windows based web servers. In my experience CertBot/ACME
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Great Vowel Shift
(en.wikipedia.org)
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Humans placed in suspended animation for the first time
(institutions.newscientist.com)
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Anecdotal I know, but I have definitely experienced this.
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I do my PHP in completely different way, which in turn was the way I did ASP back in the day, also in a weird way. All my HTML is held in template .html files, with %%PLACEHOLDER%% text where the dynamic content should be, Then my index.php
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Bill Gates’ Personal Easter Eggs in 8 Bit Basic
(pagetable.com)
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I had a copy of the 1st edition paperback when it came out[1], I was in my teens at the time. Some of the phone numbers in the book actually still worked, and connected to various services like early online banking. As someone with a Preste
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Nicely done :) But also very true.
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Ah, but would the lay person have been allowed into them? Also, wouldn't most of the volumes in the libraries have been written in Latin and thus unreadable outside of the Church. If I recall correctly, most early libraries were situat
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> Isn’t 5000K very “cold” light? “Cold” lights (above 2700k, the typical incandescent color temperature) have a bad reputation, but 5000K is actually less cold than the sun (which is about 5500-6500K) I don't think the author is t
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Whilst playing about with useragents, Google started proxying sites through googleweblight.com when I had the useragent set as 'Windows CE'. I had no idea this feature existed.
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