NikkiA

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by NikkiA 3y ago
This seems like a case of 'oops they got into the cheese, and now people have cancer, sorry' waiting to happen.
932.
by NikkiA 3y ago
That's the point, it's referring design decisions R7RS-small made, as being due to the possibility of running it on microcontrollers.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
The standard 8" floppy by 1980 was 2MB, 5.25" never beat that, and 3.5" only beat that technically, 'ED' 2.88MB, LS120 and SuperDisk were all very rarely used in reality.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
native-mode joe is closer to zde/vde than wordstar, although jstar obviously slides that closer to wordstar.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
They had voice recordings of her, so it's unlikely it was facebook messenger
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by NikkiA 3y ago
So run quicken in a sandbox vm with only the standard system fonts installed
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Circa '89 here in the UK there was a 400+ page book of shareware you could get by filling out a form in most magazines, the book then listed shareware by what it did and encouraged you to order a copy (for a modest fee to cover disk an
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by NikkiA 3y ago
> What's the point of buying new generations if exploits are just going to slow down desktop performance by up to 30%? Probably in the fact that the older generations are susceptible to these exploits too, so mitigations will make y
939.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Soldering is best done with nitrite gloves anyway, so you don't get corrosive finger oils on everything.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I had a dual-866MHz G4 (MDD) and in most things my Tualatin P3-1200 at the time absolutely beat it. But the G4 was worth using until it literally caught fire just after the warranty ended.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
The CMD640 IDE chipset used was utter trash and most of the bottleneck. It wasn't until the G4 series that apple stopped slapping it in everything. A system with the CMD640 only used for cdrom, and a bootable SCSI PCI card performed a
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by NikkiA 3y ago
The boiling point of lead is too high (1700 deg C) for it to be vapourised during soldering. Rosin has a complex molecular structure that is too big to cross the blood-brain barrier. It is a lung irritant and has an associated lung disease
943.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Wait, it does? I'm still using .emacs.d like a schlub.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I'd look to the indian subcontinent for that kind of climate suffering first. As far as cities falling to climate, Bangladesh might see it first, but they only have 3 cities of that magnitude (although Dhaka is almost a country upon it
945.
by NikkiA 3y ago
The video description links to his trinket.io account that he's using for it.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Good, the web needs a non-western take on it for a change.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I've seen people throw litter on the ground next to a bin , here in the UK, with the mindset apparently being 'someone will have to pickup the shit that falls out of the bin when it's emptied anyway, so...'
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by NikkiA 3y ago
CoreWar, Crobots, and RoboWar, 3 I remember discovering in 1990, fun times.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Probably for privatised health care - once it's down to money it's the individual's fault for not being able to afford to live and no longer a failing of the system. Thus goes the libertarian concept of personal responsibilit
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Brightline would probably disagree, even if it's not the longest route.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Exactly, I use scripts to flag them up, and then manually appraise whether it's important enough to replace with an archive.org link, search to see if the data has shifted elsewhere (douglas self's site has gone through many such
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by NikkiA 3y ago
> PDP-11s under their desks DEC released at least 3 all-in-one desktop PDP-11s, the PDT series that were housed in VT100 cases. Plus even the 11/84 isn't really that much bigger than a modern mini-tower PC.
953.
by NikkiA 3y ago
820, but before I last ran a 'does this site still exist' script on them all, it was somewhere around 2200.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
For me guix failed at simply being too slow to use, but that was years ago. nix on the other hand, I loved the concept and idea, but it was just too much of a 'stop sign' followed by 'we don't do that kind of user activi
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by NikkiA 3y ago
The book also points out that it is much more than just 'drink', and 'drink' would by no means cover 99% of the way it is used in the book. That said, I've only ever read the full unabridged re-issue from the mid-9
956.
by NikkiA 3y ago
There are two types of nix users. Those who tried it and swear by it. Those who tried it and swear at it along with words like 'never again'.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
I've always taken 'grok' to be in the same sense as 'to be one with'
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by NikkiA 3y ago
Welltris was the 3d-ish variant all my cohorts played. although it's really fairly 2D in truth. https://www.mobygames.com/game/2121/welltris/
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by NikkiA 3y ago
The airbus tag is a bit iffy, sure, Sud-Aviation is part of Airbus today, but BAe isn't yet.
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by NikkiA 3y ago
What a waste of money and carbon footprint, it's not like you can randomly turn up at a mental hospital, and then do anything useful, so you are then paying to uber home, again, and the 2 wasted trips that have done nothing of use to a

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