NikkiA

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by NikkiA 2y ago
I killed my first chicken when I was ~9 I think, maybe 10 at a push, my dad handed me the axe and said 'have fun'. Still eat meat.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
But we already have space-karen-linux, it's called ubuntu.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
I once had a strep A infection of my spine, trust me, strep infections can be awful.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
I always felt VMS' mailbox system was much more elegant, but I imagine it's an ugly mess under the surface too. https://wiki.vmssoftware.com/Mailbox
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by NikkiA 2y ago
I use Keypirinha* for launching (almost) everything that's not on my taskbar... * and yes, I know it's essentially abandoned, I've tried the 'spiritual successors' and never found one that is quite as close to ideal
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Hilariously, that exact feature was posted here a couple of weeks ago, and roundly decried as being the worst thing about that era of CVS, and how horrible it was that it made reproducible builds impossible.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Most of these are owned by some megacorp, which IMO renders them untrustable, the same may have been true for git at a time (I can't remember if Linus still "worked for" redhat at the time of git's creation), but it&#x
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by NikkiA 2y ago
> Most hotels are incredibly expensive if you need to stay for several weeks. Hotels have had 'long stay' rates for ever. I've lived in hotels 4 times in my life and each time the rates were around 2-2.5x what you'd p
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Win+1..Win+0 for taskbar pinned apps is the fastest way...
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by NikkiA 2y ago
It's other ! commands still work though, so !g will work as a backup or even !yandex if you feel that way inclined (and don't mind answering endless captchas
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Why are you not bending the keyboard's will to your whims ?
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by NikkiA 2y ago
In 1996 Yamaha was all about TwinVQ (which was far better than mp3 at low bitrates) anyway, so it'd have been that rather than mp3, had they gone that route.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
It's funny, because 40 years ago 'they won't be usable to create weapons with, so they could be built all over the world' was one of the selling points of fusion development; it was always obvious as a falsehood though,
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by NikkiA 2y ago
SubSpace was always just a lousy rip-off of XPilot anyway.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
And yet it's generational, if they cared that much they could/would surely stop the cycle. Instead I bet 99% of them utter the phrase 'it's what made me the man I am today'
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by NikkiA 2y ago
or use gcore which will save the core without terminating the process
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by NikkiA 2y ago
LineScan is basically a digital version of the circular flow system used in horse racing since 1937. https://www.donttakepictures.com/dtp-blog/2019/5/8/winning-b... (which IIRC was a plot point in a Colu
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by NikkiA 2y ago
> We are long overdue for an external variant of NVMe CFexpress, it's been around for a few years and already in a few major cameras https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFexpress
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by NikkiA 2y ago
I can only imagine "Hello, this is Guy Incognito..."
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by NikkiA 2y ago
The problem with motorola winning the 80s was that no matter what they did, they were facing the same problem in the 90s, the 88k was going to flop hard. And early PowerPC would still have been 'so so' compared to the Pentium and
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by NikkiA 2y ago
The image quality would average to that of a $5 webcam, ie, it'd still be shit quality.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
TBF he's a canonical employee, not a debian employee, he's paid to maintain Ubuntu packages, but volunteers for the debian ones, so I'd be more side-eyeing Ubuntu first. But then I gave up on debian a while ago because of som
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Well, since we were asked to locate material to pirate, which the company intended to sell, it would be criminal, but the criminal act would be the sale of the material, not the procurement of the material, as I read the law. There might ha
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by NikkiA 2y ago
"If hit by mistake it might autotype in a window that is not at a login prompt, but maybe on a chat session and broadcast the user's password" It's horseshit, but it's an argument lets see what it does here... Nikki
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Or a typo for extricate
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Not really no, I've been in that situation and we were all aware that we were committing piracy in the company's name.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Any, amazon have several 6GB ram/64GB storage for $50-60 many of them even have a microSD slot for more storage, they'll all do fine for reading PDFs, my first iPad had 32GB storage and it did that task just fine. Heck they have 4
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by NikkiA 2y ago
The spectrum didn't have an official (**) floppy disk add-on, the official mass storage upgrade* was the microdrive, which was a 100kB tape loop format - an improvement on cassettes, but not by much. As a result, there was a wide range
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by NikkiA 2y ago
For which a $50 android tablet will suffice just fine.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
And actually, that's exactly what most of us remainers pointed out was going to happen, because tories can't resist reducing standards of living, working protections, or consumer rights.

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