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721.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Ironically, it was copying google's chrome LAF that led to the decline in firefox since v57. They had to kill XUL to be able to keep up with the Chrome UI changes, and at that point killed off a vast amount of plugins, leaving firefox
722.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Vital is effectively NOT open-source, the source available on github is a single snapshot of the source as it was when 1.0 was released, it has not been updated since, and 1.5.5 is vastly different.
723.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Bright displays also absolutely fuck up my ability to focus my eyes for the rest of the day, so I attempt to use dark themes on everything, having to accept a light theme for any site or OS feels like a personal failure and reminds me of my
724.
by NikkiA 3y ago
And yet only one of that list is unique to Australia...
725.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Diamond called theirs 'shotgun technology' iirc. I used a pair of USR external modems cobbled into a shotgun configuration via a linux proxy to manage our internet connection, but we got DSL shortly after (and surprisingly early f
726.
by NikkiA 3y ago
> I did some medium-searching but couldn't come up with a name for the mind mapping software Gore used. Purely a guess, but probably OmniGraffle back then.
727.
by NikkiA 3y ago
They're related, but I've had 'explosions' that were NOT part of the near-sleep experience, so they're not purely a part of hypnagogic jerk.
728.
by NikkiA 3y ago
C++ class enums are perfectly fine, it's just the old style C enums that are awful.
729.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Even with the internet I was unable to explain to my GP back in 2006 what this was. All I could present was 'I dunno, maybe it's epilepsy, it's like an electrical zap sound deep in my head at times', I was told it was no
730.
by NikkiA 3y ago
In the 70s and 80s we had Cinema 180 and Dimension 360, everything old is new again.
731.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Sillier than 'Hero Protagonist'? e: or Ford Prefect ?
732.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Shame on you for not going with Rolling Sole [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sole_(fish)
733.
by NikkiA 3y ago
It can and does, there is the facility to upload native rasp-pi code and have it execute natively, not even pretending to be an ARM1.
734.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I'm honestly starting to find the 'web nostalgia' a little nauseating, I kinda like gemini, but it lacking inline images and other 'modernities' like that take it a little too far back. The web overall will never go
735.
by NikkiA 3y ago
60-year old memory testimony isn't very reliable and doesn't mean much. The fact that they've repeated/relived that testimony over and over actually counts against it being reliable too.
736.
by NikkiA 3y ago
All of the retro shaders and things like cool-retro-term seem to overdo the curve too, making everything look like a 9" TV, when for me 14" was the most common size and much less pronounced curvature. The tail end of my CRT experi
737.
by NikkiA 3y ago
They don't per se, the precursor wave travels through the ground at the speed of sound in whatever medium (usually rock in nevada tests), which is about 5x the speed of sound in air.
738.
by NikkiA 3y ago
https://vitux.com/how-to-add-ppa-repositories-in-debian/
739.
by NikkiA 3y ago
They had one (4167) for the 486 too, I have no idea if it only worked with 486SX systems, or if it could work alongside a DX (but then who'd have a co-processor socket on a DX board anyway, co-processor sockets had already become scarc
740.
by NikkiA 3y ago
In the 286 era there were even different types of co-processor, the Weitek implementation (2167) absolutely trounced the official 80287 (and it's second source versions) at CAD, that's most likely what your parents had.
741.
by NikkiA 3y ago
The other problem with prop phones is that they don't actually need to work.
742.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I'd expect the mode of the second prime factor to be 3, but not necessarily the median.
743.
by NikkiA 3y ago
At this point millions of people have probably visited that page, red flagging them all would just render the flag as useless.
744.
by NikkiA 3y ago
The virgin killer wikipedia page is what exposed the IWF's internet censorship about 15 years ago, since it was causing all UK wikipedia access to go via a transparent proxy to 'seamlessly' remove that page from the site. Aft
745.
by NikkiA 3y ago
KH-11 was cheaper than KH-9 by far ($3B vs $16B inflation adjusted, both for 20 satellites), each KH-9 had 4 re-entry vehicles, so you could only really do 4 passes per satellite before needing a new one (or some way to replace the module t
746.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Only because they thought they were going to be deploying pre-KH11 satellites that needed film/equipment retrieval/renewal.
747.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Oh look, reinventing the string wheel, badly, again. Now we have the string split over 2 regions of memory, the cache will be so happy.
748.
by NikkiA 3y ago
All of the planets are something like 20 km diameter IIRC, so [1] is very much a thing. They're annoyingly big to walk around, but tiny compared to earth's moon.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
It's never 'not windy' everywhere, plus gravity batteries can store power for days/weeks. Geothermal is also an 'always on' renewable.
750.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Adopting a US approach and developing a barrett M107 compatible tranq dart would probably solve that problem. Might be an expensive overkill for a single dog, but c'est la vie, it'll boost the GDP dumping all that money into mil d

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