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by NikkiA 1y ago
I install them in ~/p/... and have a script that walks any directory under ~/p/ and if it has a 'bin' subdirectory, it adds it to the path, otherwise it adds the directory itself to the path. (it also wipes exi
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by NikkiA 1y ago
What has changed is who it affected. Meddling in foreign elections/uprising is the US's MO, but when it's reversed it becomes a problem.
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by NikkiA 1y ago
The objective is 'train our AI'
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by NikkiA 1y ago
And that unusuability was mostly due to the driver model change, once native Vista drivers appeared it performed better than XP/XP64 unless you were running old video hardware that couldn't handle aero - in which case you were sti
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by NikkiA 1y ago
The only 'bad' thing about Vista was it's change (and thus deprecation of many drivers) of driver model. Once tweaked and with good native drivers it was the first good 64bit windows - far more reliable than XP64. At least un
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by NikkiA 1y ago
Win 11 and Vista have been unfairly maligned, with some minor tweaks (and start11) both are solid performant windows releases.
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by NikkiA 1y ago
No; If you're forced to go to the US, take a burner phone.
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by NikkiA 1y ago
> Is there any fishing going on in the Black Sea at the moment? (genuine question) yes, while fishing vessels fairly rarely broadcast AIS, there's plenty of turkish, bulgarian, and even three russian fishing vessels broadcasting AIS
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by NikkiA 1y ago
> Yihua combined hot air rework station + soldering station. I personally wouldn't recommend this. I have one, it cost just short of £100. But I much prefer my T12 based 'KSGER' soldering station that was $30 from banggood
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by NikkiA 1y ago
Yet the moment google says 'you can't make videos calling for the murder of trans people' suddenly 'mah first amendment' comes out of your cohort's lips.
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by NikkiA 1y ago
My lenovo is 1400x900 and even the ubuntu installer is too tall for the screen. Developers have become incredibly lazy.
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by NikkiA 1y ago
Conspiracy theories have always just been a form of confirmation bias. They theorise what matches the reality they want to have.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
The fantasy 'dire wolf' and the real 'dire wolf' have close to zero in common, except that the real dire wolf was adapted for eating megafauna and thus had the strongest bite of all canines. And therein lies the problem,
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by NikkiA 2y ago
It wouldn't even make a top-100 craters-of-the-moon-by-size crater if it hit.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
"Si vis pacem, para bellum" we have always lived in that world.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
this is true of all 'config.d' schemes, and why most such schemes suggest/use number-name.ext style filenames to deal with sorting.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
"If C was mainstream braces wouldn't be shift-[ and shift-], clearly LOGO must be the dominant language"
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Animated LED billboards are the worst :(
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Sadly firefox's reader mode still renders it in a thin strip of text. Granted it's in a readable font that way, but still.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
I dunno, all of the Thompson twins are still alive, afaik...
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by NikkiA 2y ago
> and sending photos over a dot matrix phone line system in the late 1940's Facsimile was actually invented in the 1840s to transmit images over telegraph. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax
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by NikkiA 2y ago
Probably at about the point you look at implementing a network stack on a microcontroller that isn't the ESP32. Yes, this could have been a ESP32 project, because that has a network stack included, but it doesn't have an LVDS LCD
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by NikkiA 2y ago
This thread makes me realise I must be the only person on earth that detests the taste of the crystals.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
NT5 beta 2, before 2000 was enshittified. I would have stayed on it, but my video drivers (Rendition Vérité 2200) at the time were time limit locked and the next set of drivers released didn't support the betas anymore. 2000 was the ne
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by NikkiA 2y ago
But he made the gold turkey look bad.
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by NikkiA 2y ago
I'd much rather it be something that is neither used in normal* text/numbers, nor whitespace, thus non-printable delimiters wins for me. * Don't mind me extending 'normal' here to include human-written numbers with
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by NikkiA 2y ago
"New niobium thin film conducts better than copper" would have been my choice, but it would probably get butchered by the autofilter to something as useless as the current title anyway, because 'new' is probably elided,
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by NikkiA 2y ago
There's a decent argument that Bain invented it as facsimile in the 1840s and everything from there on til the introduction of commercial television was essentially just refinement until it produced a high enough frame rate and without
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by NikkiA 2y ago
nod I grew up with access to a big back garden, so barefoot walked on it a lot, unfortunately it involved crossing a little bit of asphalt pathway to get to, and I still have nightmares of the feeling of small sharp stones digging in my f
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by NikkiA 2y ago
All the fanfold green-barred paper I used had the green as a pinstripe, so it's hard to say which is closest, but I think it was probably either the #BB.. or #CC 'green's BUT perceived like the #A9 green because of the pinstr

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