NikkiA

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by NikkiA 2y ago
Indeed, my parents' UK 1785-ish built house is mostly stone, but it has 3 big salvaged wooden beams (salvaged from shipwrecked masts) running through the frame.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Airline pilots had an engineer at the time before GPS was available, asking a 2-crew system to handle VOR-to-VOR or (non-FMS) IRS navigation as well as their regular navigation load isn't really feasible. That said, most airliners st
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by NikkiA 2y ago
And if the bank ever needs to call me, they a) call and get unanswered, b) leave a note in my bank account's message system which c) sends me an email telling me I have an unread note and to log in to read it. The few times this has ha
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by NikkiA 2y ago
That box of papermates that 'are now drying up too quickly' looks like it's been stored for 30+ years, I suspect that's his problem right there.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
And of course, back then there was also Camino/Chimera as the OSX version
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Once had a cockatiel that escaped via a loose window, it flew around the neighbourhood for a few hours, then sat on a branch near the window waiting to be let back in.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
It's a 'misunderstanding' of how reddit works. It turns out that you can't delete comments from subreddits that are private without the required posting permission flag. So when subreddits went 'dark' during th
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by NikkiA 2y ago
It's not the first time, I'm sure it won't be the last either.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Intel used to, I think they stopped around the time of the cc820 debacle.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
> If all you are using sudo on is a personal (i.e. single user) laptop/desktop to install packages, this (along with other things like pkexec or doas) would seem to present no issues Of course, once distros start to say 'wait,
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by NikkiA 2y ago
I always felt that graffiti/jot got the 'return' gesture wrong, it should always be a down stroke followed by a leftwards stroke, which IIRC both MacOS X's and Windows Pen both used.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
To be honest, it felt like a step backwards from the gameplay-similar 'Harrier Attack' on the ZX spectrum, though lets be honest, they're all essentially just 'scramble' clones (possibly with some extra inspiration
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Odd thing about F-29, compare it's loading screen to the loading screen of the 2-year earlier ATF by Digital Integration on the C64 .... They're probably both ripping off the same concept art of the YF-22/YF-23 (I suspect it&
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Yes, although I think elm came first, then pine. (edit: 86 for elm, 92 for pine, pretty much how I remembered it, although 86 was a couple of years too early for me)
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by NikkiA 2y ago
This created a mental image of 'Hey, Frank, pop down t' tesco and get us some AAs, here's a tenner' from someone at the national grid :D
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by NikkiA 2y ago
We will also have 0% coal by the end of the year (Radcliffe upon Soar has to shut by the end of October IIRC), by law.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
This strikes me that it should parallelize pretty well if you deputise the individual stripes to multiple threads.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Canis lupus to Canis lupus familiaris transmission is pretty much guaranteed to be easy.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
I had sudden flashbacks to Electric Sheep while reading this, and wow, it's been 25 years.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Whenever my Doctor's office calls to arrange annual vaccines, I (surname starts with A) get an appointment just before my boyfriend's (surname starts with B) because they invariably phone me about 10-20 minutes before him.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
> Also the injuries and the massive amount of property damage and other costs. I'd put the well documented, utterly massive cost to health and wellness, short and long term, due to pollution, up there too. Pretty much every single c
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by NikkiA 3y ago
well, you put SDL in it, which has so many i18n and accessibility gotchas that you've pretty much blown both your feet off already. I'd be surprised if it's keyboard handling is robust enough to work with non US layout keyboa
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by NikkiA 3y ago
In 1990 I had a VCR that when you asked it to program a scheduled recording would go to the relevant TV listings page on ceefax/Oracle/4-tel and let you select the program from the listing using up and down arrows. Then, when the
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by NikkiA 3y ago
> The idea was conceived in the 1970s. Satellite downlinks weren't that capable and several keyhole satellites still used film. Specifically, the mid 70s KH-9s had a re-entry vehicle magazine that carried something like 6 or 7 REVs,
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I think you'll find that North Korea is generally considered to be a country in Asia, too.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
It has it's own section in the trains part of Douglas' site: http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/brennan/brennan.... and http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO&#x2F
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by NikkiA 3y ago
We need stumbleupon back, and not some overly heavy attempt at it like cloudhiker is.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
1876 for selenium based solar cells. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenium#Solar_cells Silicon solar cells are/were massively more effective, and came to light just before their popularization in the space race.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Most certainly yes. I can't recall which card I had the experience with, but around that time I upgraded from a G200 to a Geforce 2 Ti of some type, whichever it was, it was almost certainly not beefy enough a RAMDAC for it, and result
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Thanks, I hate it.

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