NikkiA

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by NikkiA 3y ago
Depends on the stick, I have a couple of ~15 year old sticks that still work 100% reliably whenever I need a 4GB installation media, compared to HDDs that are less than 2 years old and riddled with remapped sectors :/ I think I'
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I don't get why plan 9 evangelists are so vocal, I've been hearing it since 1992 and it just seems weird to me. They even tend(ed) to rant about rio, yet it's the ugliest, least usable GUI I've ever seen.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Getting it out of the ground is expensive in both dollar terms and the cost to lives.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
shrug You can just create a 'god mode' folder and access it from there. https://www.howtogeek.com/402458/enable-god-mode-in-windows-...
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by NikkiA 3y ago
The true way to acquire new cats is to sit on your doorstep and offer chin rubs and belly rubs.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
The displays on the T series are relatively easy to replace too, and you can even usually upgrade too if you bought one with one of the lower resolutions - I keep thinking about upgrading the 1400x900 to 1920x1080 on mine, but the cost of
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by NikkiA 3y ago
TBH if we'd stopped at coppermine or tualatin and focused entirely on making the software better, it probably would be a better world.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Slightly annoying that that site doesn't accept ι (iota) typed normally for some reason (it expects the U+2373 ⍳ 'APL iota', which isn't anywhere as easy to type)
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Bit of a difference between those cities, and letchworth, which had a population of about 10,000 at the time.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
> then wait a while Yeah, that was underselling it a little, it took over an hour to download all 60,000 emails. Time will tell as to whether it happens again, but regardless, thanks for the pointers.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
For reference on how desolate the place is, Letchworth is the only place I've been casually offered heroin while minding my own business walking through the city centre during broad daylight.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
> They eventually settled on the “garden city,” a design popularized in the 1960s by English urban planner Ebenezer Howard. That's your problem right there! The 'garden city' concept had already failed by the 1960s (both o
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Maildir is probably the best way to handle multiple readers one mail source, ie, reading your mail from two+ locations, two+ operating systems, whatever. IMAP just kludges, and you end up with situations like I have, where thunderbird frequ
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by NikkiA 3y ago
What an absolutely awful program name, completely undiscoverable and ungoogable. It even requires regex knowledge to be able to find it in a package manager thanks to 'rr' being in thousands upon thousands of package names.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Most of them were along the ECML and WCML, you could see them in several spots from a train ride. They were not big enough to contain a restaurant, just two big dishes on top of a pole, on top of a hill.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I use 'Easy context menu' (aka EC_menu) https://www.sordum.org/7615/easy-context-menu-v1-6/
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Largely by the pro-car group. 'If you didn't want your bike nicked you should have bought a car' is a phrase often uttered by the public and police alike.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Similarly, Sheffield's railway station (fmr "midland"/"pond street") is built over one of sheffields rivers (the river sheaf - in fact, two rivers, since the Porter Brook and the River Sheaf join under Platform
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I suppose it can, it just feels to me somewhat deceptive declaring 'this recipient doesn't exist' when the email address is correct and valid for me , it's just that the other user who filled out the form on their sit
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by NikkiA 3y ago
99.9% of all folklore is long running jokes, I've never been sure if the humour is in seeing how many people are gullible enough to believe that people back then believed the story, or if the story itself is the joke. I grew up hearing
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by NikkiA 3y ago
With brown okra, yum
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by NikkiA 3y ago
> Can you imagine Americans up in arms that someone in China doesn’t like or respect America? Easily, yes.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I guess this proposal doesn't really in any way address the issue I have, which is that I get a lot of email as a result from service signups from someone with the same name as me, but she's completely unable to acknowledge that m
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Altium cratered in quality about 10 minutes after it ceased being Protel, first because of their braindead attempt to turn it into a generic FPGA layout system, then by their insistance on making it cloud based.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
A 'broader market' may well mean it's no longer $20,000 per seat.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
> in order to appease potential advertisers. It wasn't advertisers, it was apple, they'd been delisted from the app store, and getting rid of the NSFW material was part of the deal that apple would allow them back with.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Early Mac Systems were written in pascal, well, Clascal as they called their Object Pascal system in those days, Clascal was developed internally at Apple with Wirth as a consultant. Think Pascal was the primary alternative to MPW until mid
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I had one on monday that purported to be my bank claiming it was calling to verify some blocked transactions £300 for amazon and £1000 in 'foreign travellers cheques'. It was pretty obvious from the start it was an attempt at a sc
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I think I remember that one, it was something about a Lisp being a Lisp-2 by definition. I shook my head in disagreement at the time, and still do.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
When I was a kid, the pickles we bought would last 2-3 years in some cases - only typically being eaten at special meals like christmas, new years, easter, birthdays. These days I wouldn't trust a modern shop bought pickle to last more

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