NikkiA

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by NikkiA 3y ago
30 miles in entirely the wrong direction is actually much further than I'd have expected him to get
872.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Electrolysis is hideously inefficient and expensive even if you use a 'free' source of energy like solar.
873.
by NikkiA 3y ago
A neat trick that I discovered at university was that VMS' email system used 'sparse' disk blocks for your personal mailbox file, and immediately after forcing a rebuild of your mailbox by compacting it, you'd have dozen
874.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Pure TDD as originally described 'write the minimal function to satisfy the test' does not actually encourage any design at all, just throwing code together on the fly.
875.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Because 3d graphics are mostly matrix multiplications.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Red and green lights are the global navigation standard, red on port, green on starboard. The ships with the red light will be facing with port to the photographer, the ships with green starboard, the few that you can see a mix, will be hea
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Tech's Gen Y seemed to have a big 'NIH' thing about things that predated them, and it seems to have continued with Gen Z. Resulting in a lot of things just being trashed for the sake of it 'not being modern enough'.
878.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Yahoo did, but then lost it all.
879.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Laundr or Laundret
880.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Nope - although the last line is sarcasm, if that's what you mean.
881.
by NikkiA 3y ago
No idea sadly, I remember getting it from the university library in probably '91 or '92, and reading through it, but the title evades me, and searching on google and ddg brought no clues. As to what it was about? I recall it featu
882.
by NikkiA 3y ago
There was another similar book, that predated C++ / OOP popularity, that made a big fuss on the cover about how it taught quaternions.
883.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I live in such a lexical area, and you'd be surprised how often we have to explain to DPD 'no, it says <X> Court, not <X> Street, not <X> Rise, those are other addresses and we don't live there, what is prin
884.
by NikkiA 3y ago
My bank dropped using passwords back in july. Now all that protects my account is a 5 digit PIN and SMS, and you can reset the pin via SMS. I'm glad financial companies hire security minded folks.
885.
by NikkiA 3y ago
It says 1.0 in the extensions manager, but it was downloaded fresh this evening by clicking on the 'ZIP' link in your readme.md on here: https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat/tree/main edit, aha, dow
886.
by NikkiA 3y ago
When you absolutely must demonstrate how much 'the good guys' side you are.
887.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Would expect no better from the company that unabashedly profited from the holocaust and south africa's apartheid.
888.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I'm installed from github, I only see the speakers screen shot: https://i.imgur.com/eE06GBY.png
889.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Oh, we've found the nameless city, jolly good, 2020 part 4 keeps on giving.
890.
by NikkiA 3y ago
What this needs is a mitm service that gives shortened/custom urls like https://prom.os/paw_patrol_biscuits that redirect to the vendor's site, and when the promo/limited-run is over the url can be 'turn
891.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Would you really need a full date and time stamp for doing that? If you're talking about projections 10,000 years in the future do you care if it's mid-afternoon on a tuesday?
892.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I think it just mutes reporting on that extension. I'm a little puzzled why we only get the speaker icon, yet the screenshots all show the blocking options.
893.
by NikkiA 3y ago
If such schools have scholarships, then it would be pretty close - the whole point of a grammar school was/is that it's largely private, with 10-25% of the students non-paying, and chosen from the highest scoring state school stud
894.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Inferno
895.
by NikkiA 3y ago
6 digit years seem like a solution to a problem that will never be for the sake of looking forward thinking. There's absolutely no way current technology or social norms will last 8000 years.
896.
by NikkiA 3y ago
They were even generally considered a bad idea back on VMS' ACL system.
897.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I too miss MUD/Moo/MUSH/MUCKes I remember trying them all back in the early 90s, spending some time on lpmud instances and Amberyl's pennmush mostly, before writing my own. More recently I played a hellmoo inspired moo f
898.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Put the batteries and controller in the base, have the jug lift off from the electrical connectors to the heating elements, the jug is therefore light and convenient.
899.
by NikkiA 3y ago
A full on chat program is more of an active pastime, whereas mastodon I choose to browse now and then throughout the day, and don't expect replies or reactions to be necessarily the same day, just 'whenever'. Perhaps that&#x2
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by NikkiA 3y ago
People 'switched' to youtube instead of writing because everyone wants to be a star (although we call them 'influencer' these days). Nobody⁺ gets 'famous' writing these days.

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