NGRhodes

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by NGRhodes 5y ago
I used to love listening to mods and demos on my Amiga. One of my school projects was making an adjustable 2 channel mixer out of a couple of op-amps and a handful of resistors and a 2 pot variable resistor (plus power), even etched the PCB
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
Yes and also it was the tight nit communities that hung around on the more popular servers that helped monitor and deter cheaters and even have rights to kick users as needed to assist the server operators.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
You are giving them too much credit, it will be copy and pasted from the post/thread/comment/accepted solution that you have already stated you have tried and does not work.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
Meanwhile in the UK this week ... "The government agreed to regulate BNPL lenders after an independent review chaired by City expert Christopher Woolard, published in February, warned that the sector represented a “significant potentia
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
So the issue is not Android (AOSP) provided by google, but OEMs ?
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
PHP maybe worth learning and using for building websites, but PHP is one of the worst languages to learn for someone who is interested in learning programming as a hobby, interest or career.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
How many of those vulnerabilities have patches available ?
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
Removal of this feature from Windows 10 has secured the future of Linux Desktops in the University where I work, as we are years away from Windows 11.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
How do you know that and its not Facebook making that choice (based on poor decisions) ?
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
Agreed, I was locked out of access to my funds for months, not one human response until my complaint escalated to the Financial Ombudsman (UK), got compensation, then tried to delete my account after withdrawing all my money, raised a suppo
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
I've seen the pain and eventual death 2 close family members have had to suffer due to Kidney failure and I also will face the same as my kidneys continue to gradually fail, the complications are bad and side effects can lead to death
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
And a nicely detailed writeup.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
We evaluated Jupyter Book against Read the Docs when building our new docs site ( https://arcdocs.leeds.ac.uk/ ), the main reason we favoured Jupyter Book was that its easier to build and test locally and being able to use Gi
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
It gets even worse when you go from human eye to screen (eg sRGB) to print (eg Pantone).
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
> Researchers freely enter and leave without quarantine, have contact with an unsuspecting population, go to normal hospitals, infect other patients there. Just to be clear, which/what labs are you referring to here ?
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
Conversely, I have a new F&P CPAP machine and it was clear this machine has a built sim card and an app can be used to download the data via bluetoothfrom is explained in the instructions. My Sleep Doctor even told me. I don't hav
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
FYI, in the UK, historically city status was given to towns with cathedrals, but since the 20th century city status is awarded by the monarch. England has 3 large towns with over 200000 population -Luton, Northampton and Reading and about 3
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
We should also consider how many apps are usefully available as websites through a FOSS browser (on phone).
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
I have used it in the past and its great, sadly it does not support the multiple cameras of my Motorola.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
Though not FOSS, Magic Earth is a good OSM based car navigation app that respects privacy. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.generalmag...
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
I agree with that observation; also somewhere in-between you have hobby/club cycle racing that has some popularity (Road, MTB, BMX, 4cross, CycloX etc), which are essential feeders into the national/pro/elite (my Brother is a
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CelebrityGig gets a piece of their own medicine for ripping off content(celebritygig.com)
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
Money laundering is a challenge even in the more tightly regulated industry I worked in. Conversely at one of my previous employers some of our big spenders were publicly known high end rich.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
I once worked in an unrelated industry where we had a customer who spent so much money with us, that we shipped them a free iPad out when theirs broke so they could resume spending silly amounts of money.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
OSM also shows far more land and terrain detail, in particular field and tree boundaries which makes it far more useful for wayfinding and deciding which options is more favourable, often a longer route is an easier walk, but you are left t
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
Valve (as they did with Debian based previous versions of SteamOS) will maintain their own curated repository of packages, so they can control the versions of packages directly, no need to mess about forcing versions via pacman.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27764806
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
All that matters to me is what % CPU is used compared to what is the maximum available on demand to a user at a given point in time.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
Toyota knows it competitive edge is its culture. Culture to change, to be retrospective, to improve. Lean, JIT, Kanban etc were derived from a culture of striving for perfection and to develop the optimal processes for a specific company is
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
I'd hate taking an immortality pill only to be stuck with an eternity of pain and suffering.

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