Paianni

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by Paianni 3y ago
You mean Basic HTTP Authentication? I wouldn't say Chrome's dialog looks 'ugly'.
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by Paianni 3y ago
Chances are the pre-1980s lamps were mercury-vapour, not incandescent. Incandescent lamps were obsolete for road lighting by the 1950s. Sodium lamps caught on because they were much more efficient than both.
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by Paianni 3y ago
Maybe, but several companies had attempted 'internet appliances' in the past and failed, Chromebooks were a risk.
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by Paianni 3y ago
Chrome? Chrome OS? Google Docs? Those haven't been successes?
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What I've Learned Fixing Optical Drives(yesterware.blogspot.com)
5 points by Paianni 3y ago|0 comments
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by Paianni 3y ago
Quite an engrossing article, but I'm not too keen on the author's background.
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by Paianni 3y ago
Maybe 'dip your light'?
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by Paianni 3y ago
I think the 'SUVs driving through empty cities' ads are worse.
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by Paianni 3y ago
Reminds me of the 'lomography' fad of around 2009-2011, my younger self hankered after old cheap film cameras back then.
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by Paianni 3y ago
The difference is that the tyre manufacturers don't pay Ford to stick their tyres on Ford's vehicles.
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by Paianni 3y ago
Do you have anything of value to say other than 'don't spread despair'?
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by Paianni 3y ago
As if it were that simple.
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by Paianni 3y ago
We don't know how to remove the incentives to wreck ecosystems.
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by Paianni 3y ago
We can be effective stewards but the civilised world has dug a grave we don't know how to escape from.
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by Paianni 3y ago
The 6-pin connector was nice. But laptops and camcorders generally had the 4-pin connector (sans power)...not so nice.
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by Paianni 3y ago
I lost money on two Cherry switch boards until I got an HHKB Pro2. I feel no need to change.
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by Paianni 3y ago
Kinda depends on who, what and where one is in the world.
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by Paianni 3y ago
Well, our expense since we impose a system that makes this possible.
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by Paianni 3y ago
Most of those are B and C-segment cars, which are holding up ok in Europe. The real collapse has been choice and availability in the A-segment. The Fiat New 500 might be the last new offering for a while.
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by Paianni 3y ago
My 2010 computer (with 2012 CPUs) won't boot from USB flash drive images. So I'll be using optical media for a while yet.
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by Paianni 3y ago
When I was in secondary school (UK), Casio's were readily available so they are what I have, the newest being an fx-85GT PLUS.
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by Paianni 3y ago
Probably the biggest barrier to ffmpeg adoption is all the offline 'freemium' and web frontends, the host sites for which have been SEO'd for phrases people commonly put into Google like "avi to mp4", "mp3 to w
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by Paianni 3y ago
Looks like this has been inserted into release 117, which won't hit the stable channel for several months yet. Chromium is still the most secure GUI browser out there so I'm not in a rush to leave, especially as OpenBSD 7.4 will p
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by Paianni 3y ago
"build an audience on Twitter" That aged well.
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by Paianni 3y ago
GSM, CDMA and UMTS are all dead or on their way out in the US. In terms of LTE bands I think T-Mobile (or MVNO's depending on their network) is the sole choice.
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by Paianni 3y ago
PSA: Security updates for 2000 and XP are still available from Microsoft at https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/
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by Paianni 3y ago
It would seem Toaq was started by a former Lojbanist, interesting.
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by Paianni 3y ago
Your bills go up because of supplies of all sources of energy not meeting demand as well.
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by Paianni 3y ago
It makes composition easier. By that I mean, I can mentally simulate music and pick out the sequence of tones to write it down in sheet music or a DAW piano roll, and I don't need to 'calibrate' my pitch beforehand.
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by Paianni 3y ago
The CD-R audio recorders that came out in 1997 made MD obsolete even before computers got involved.

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