NikkiA

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by NikkiA 3y ago
'Tru64' would likely date this as being after Altavista's hayday, when it'd still have been called 'DEC Unix', or more usually 'OSF/1' if you were differentiating from Ultrix.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Given this sample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_shredder#/media/File:Shr... It doesn't look like the embassy was even using a cross-cut shredder.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
The RK3588 is great, but I really want a Dimensity 9300 SBC
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Probably the theft of the Mona Lisa
635.
by NikkiA 3y ago
More likely to be WebDAV, which was the 'great hope' for cloud storage before it was called cloud.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Bob dole advertised viagra for them, I honestly doubt it would take more than a few $$s to get him to advertise depends, AI not needed.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Neural networks were known about in the 80s, they were theorised about in the 1800s ffs, and the first computer based NNs were in the 1950s.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I think I heard he used LucidEmacs at around the time of Doom.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Late 2022 my partner needed to go to hospital here in the UK at something like 4am. On the way there we got slowed slightly by roadworks to replace a (normally) very busy roundabout. The signs all stated that the working period for the rebu
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Not quite as elegant as the Lenovo w701ds was though
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I am not surprised, I used to work with someone that held a retro arcade high score (national, rather than world-wide, I believe), and they almost based their entire personality on it.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
You can take the Hari Seldon approach and abstract away the macro level 'crowds/nations' and simulate them when they're not in the observer's sphere of influence/vision using a (much) higher level of abstractio
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Sure, sure, ignore the recession behind the curtain, it's irrelevant, honest.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Try getting americans to stop calling their "cheese" cheddar though. Which showcases the real issue - it's ok when americans approriate non-american names for things, but not when others do it.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Musk was born in 1971, as much as I hate to admit it, he's Gen-X not a millenial.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
-800 is NG series, not MAX series though. Not that it matters much to the public.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
From what I remember of using Odin a decade ago.. it doesn't actually 'flash' the device, it copies the binary blobs to the bootloader partition and tells the device to flash itself from them, then reboots the device. So it s
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by NikkiA 3y ago
It's probably a single probe packet once a minute.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Programming languages don't 'die', they merely sleep until someone gets interested in them again. For example, in certain hipster areas of the programming web, there's plenty of interest in all of the flavours of Algol.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
those aren't written in rust!
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by NikkiA 3y ago
An indoor-only rescue cat takes a cat off the street, keeps it from killing wildlife, AND gives it a better life.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Well, they weren't 'Fujitsu' at the time though, they were still British company 'ICL' ('International Computers Limited') in 1999. The post hoc insistance on using it's rebrand helps with the 'o
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by NikkiA 3y ago
This has been obvious for a long time, and it's incredibly unlikely they'll meet the new 2026 plan either.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I see no sign that that's the case, the article ends on: > Legal has taken over Which would imply there were probably consequences.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Makes me wonder what the m88k instruction set was like, sadly a quick search makes it look like the only programming manuals were (now expensive) physical books and there's no simple PDF online. edit: found it.. http://www.b
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by NikkiA 3y ago
The enterprise edition of 22H2 is probably a better bet compatibility wise atm.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I don't understand why it simultaneously gets it right and wrong... > Your Screen Resolution is 1440 x 810 > Device Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Oooh, wait, I get it, it's because I have my default zoom set to ~130% for my shitt
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by NikkiA 3y ago
> I don't get it. Why would someone not "like it"? "You may not like it, but..." is a stupid meme.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Slow worms are bigger than this, also carnivorous (eat slugs and other common garden pests), but are completely harmless to humans, endangered and protected by law, and live human comparable lifespans. Basically, the headline makes somethin
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by NikkiA 3y ago
When I studied drafting at school (age 15) in the 80s, we took paper off a roll using a guillotine slicer and the thing that held the roll had markings for the right length for A0 and A1, so you'd just pull the end of the roll to the &

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