NikkiA

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by NikkiA 3y ago
Why are you trying to create more noise in my home directory, your suggestion of new 'defaults' are also bad, it should be ~/.local/share/emacs/backups and ~/.local/share/emacs/autosaves
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by NikkiA 3y ago
TBH I don't trust google on security one bit after one of my namesakes attached her phone to my google account a few months ago without any warning or prompting by google to me.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
A virus checker is incredibly unlikely to flag a commercial game, even if the game does in fact contain malware. Virus companies whitelist binaries from commercial entities every day.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
AAs were more common on the recorders, probably because of the really terrible runtime gumsticks gave, but most of the later players (post 97? 98? whenever Sony bought Aiwa) used gumsticks, and even some of the recorders Sony developed the
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by NikkiA 3y ago
That might be an acceptable shelf-life if it's the original Aiwa Sealed Lead-Acid design, which should have a maximum shelf-life of 8 years. Would still be very iffy though. The newer NiCd and NiMh designs would be useless of course, s
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by NikkiA 3y ago
You should be able to find replacement gumstick batteries on ebay etc, but genuine sony or aiwa brand ones are a) hideously expensive and b) ludicrously underpowered - like 400mAh or less, which is worse than a single AAA
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Good film* cameras had interchangable viewfinder/focus-aids that are just an etched piece of glass in the viewfinder optical path. You'd ideally want to etch crop lines onto one of those. * And digital SLRs, most of the higher end
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by NikkiA 3y ago
This has pretty much been my experience too, although I only read the low-star and 4-star reviews, I assume everything 5-star is fake/bought (or someone that hasn't put much real thought into the review). I suspect it largely come
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by NikkiA 3y ago
> I wonder why space simulators and games always end up being so problematic. Elite Dangerous just seems to be going nowhere. Star Citizen is apparently a perpetual beta. Even KSP2 turned out to be a disappointment. Sigh. Feature creep.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
No, they were always just 'a pc', even XT (5160) vs PC (5150) was never really pointed out
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I think I was on DR-DOS at that point from MS 5.0 until MS released 6.20, and ISTR feeling that dblspace was a huge step down from the DR equivalent SuperStor.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
The big leap up from VMS in terms of performant concurrent users for us was when we switched to using a Sequent Symmetry, now that's another long dead system giant. Poor Dynix.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I'm starting to suspect the state of Computer Science is devolving.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
A leisure suit is just a suit that's only used for discos/night clubbing, they were often white with big lapels - a style that only miami vice agents could really pull off as 'work' attire. A lounge lizard was someone th
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by NikkiA 3y ago
The self-referential directory inode.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
time period limited was the point, it was supposed to ensure that you were born ~18 years earlier than the game.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Also disengenious given that people will assume chatgpt style chatbots, but the queen died before chatgpt became generally available, meaning this was likely some eliza level bot (and the quotes suggest that too).
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by NikkiA 3y ago
And liberia is in the process of doing so, but so is the US technically.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
From the looks of it it's just oscillation caused by breathing in certain ways, so yes, part of the autonomic nervous system, rather than something the cat chooses to do. The wording makes it sound like this is not all purring though
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by NikkiA 3y ago
No, this is 'science', following decent ethics - deceased animals that were donated to science by their owners. Perhaps discovering the source of purring isn't the deepest mystery cats could unlock via donation, but it's
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by NikkiA 3y ago
If it's an old microwave replacing the door seal would be cheaper and easier.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I'm not so sure, chorded keyboards have a fairly long history of being used by disabled users with mobility issues. The movement profile is going to be different compared to the lateral movements required for regular keyboarding. I can
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Yeah, we really do need software development to be a licensed profession.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
You cannot trust anything in any ad.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Be aware this, like most other "<X> to be <Y>'ed" news this week/fortnite is just conservative party signalling to themselves and some of their base in preparation for next year's (probably spring) gener
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I understand why even a pro-privacy group might think telemetry a good thing, but it's pretty heinous and shows questionable intent not to have it all sat behind a single on/off switch
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Not when you let farms and oil companies poison the water source for backhanders, no.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
> The only part of the puzzle I cannot solve is the Figma issue, which is an online tool. If your designs are already done, you can generate PDFs or PSDs to take with you. A locally run docker of penpot would probably work as an alternat
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by NikkiA 3y ago
The altair simulator also simulates a 68k for cp/m-68
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by NikkiA 3y ago
It's often done as a security measure too. I've worked 3 professional jobs where I was salaried and still had to check-in/out, one was due to the security need to know exactly who was in the building at any one time, the othe

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