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by aasasd 5y ago
Not quite the same, but Google provided Spotlight-like software for Windows, and shown some local results when you were searching the big web. This was over ten years ago.
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by aasasd 5y ago
I know there are different gradations of slavery, but I'd take working for food and shelter over fourteen months of rice and water. Especially seeing as eleven of fourteen men outright died on rice and water.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Squatting may also be beneficial in other contexts, as explained in the seminal ‘kink/unkink’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYWhdLO43Q
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by aasasd 5y ago
E.g.: > The ship, without a mast or a rudder, was carried across the northern Pacific Ocean by currents. It drifted for 14 months, during which the crew lived on desalinated seawater and on the rice of their cargo. https://e
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by aasasd 5y ago
> that's the only way to have an icon Icon for what? .apps inside dmgs have icons just fine, like anywhere else (locally). Moreover, people add background images via some special metadata files, to have those arrows telling you to
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by aasasd 5y ago
Emily Short's games tend to elicit positive responses.
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by aasasd 5y ago
There are multiple text adventure games where you have to figure out the game's mechanics before you can do anything, and of course you can't just wave the mouse around and click on some targets. E.g. (I myself haven't gotten
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by aasasd 5y ago
I mean, GH's first, and so far only, TV run is from April 1, 1963 to the present day. I guess they wanted to spice things up at some point.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Sounds like it would be much easier to reincorporate in a neighbour county. I don't know, of course, if the US law gives a damn about you not being located there.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Finally some use for VR.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Afaik 16px only relatively lately became the ‘default size’ on the web. I'm not even sure that ‘css pixels’ were a thing ten years ago. But it's possible.
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by aasasd 5y ago
A side-effect of Windows pinning fonts to pixels is that you can't get arbitrary font sizes and scaling. E.g. I had to use “font-size: 82%” in CSS, because at 80% the text looked bad (pinned to the wrong pixel, and possibly became blur
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by aasasd 5y ago
Datashat's Businessfunk mixes are the grandparents of businesswave: http://datassette.net/businessfunk/ and https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/near-mint-8th-march-2016-...
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by aasasd 5y ago
Some years ago I learned to touch-type in a month, at twenty minutes a day—though of course actually getting used to it took some months more. Ever since, I'm struggling to recreate the same approach in different topics. I used the app
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by aasasd 5y ago
Java literally runs on smart cards, including SIM cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card — and did so since the 90s. My guess is, applets were crashy for different reasons than CPU speed.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Gotta say, I can see the dissonance there: you use the specific ‘name’ for the country, but the two continents for the language.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Try searching for any life knowledge on the English web without specifying the country. E.g. home repairs: I'm pretty sure Brits don't live in those funny cardboard houses. The underlying distribution doesn't matter when ther
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by aasasd 5y ago
Considering that the English-language web is almost completely occupied by USians, it would be hilarious if they were required to finally declare that they speak ‘American’ and not ‘English’.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Exactly, it's very easy to see how Google doesn't leave the user unspammed. YouTube's search works the same way, and even if there are useful results on top, they quickly trail off into clickbait garbage. Plus the unrelated l
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by aasasd 5y ago
Yup, these very guys: https://s5.cdn.teleprogramma.pro/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/... A rather non-sequitur choice, like everything else with this thing I guess.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Sorta have to wonder if it's safe to open that pdf locally—the site doesn't quite work on the phone.
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by aasasd 5y ago
That's barely different from ‘Pocket PC’ aka ‘Windows Mobile’ of the mid-2000s. Just more concrete-gray here.
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by aasasd 5y ago
I hope fifty bucks out of this go toward Element on Android not slapping together separate paragraphs. And another hundred to display images that are larger than 5.5 mb.
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by aasasd 5y ago
IIRC the ‘History of English’ podcast mentions that pronunciation like ‘hwat’ was the norm either in Old English or before that. Then it changed, and the spelling was changed accordingly.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Now practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaMcIbIWt_4
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by aasasd 5y ago
Personally I'm more interested in indexing a boatload of data as fast as possible, with modest resource requirements. Had a couple of cases where I'd like to do that on a mid-tier laptop, with no particular success so far. I hav
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by aasasd 5y ago
If the import system allows your code to run instead of the ‘import’ statement, and to produce the module however you want, then of course you can do whatever: load code from Google or StackOverflow results, if you wish.
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by aasasd 5y ago
It's pretty much the exact feature that's behind the saying that ‘to parse Perl you must have the Perl interpreter’. Because Perl allows some kind of language/imports handlers, as exhibited by tricks like Lingua::Romana::Perl
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by aasasd 5y ago
> There are many deities Proof demanded.
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by aasasd 5y ago
> leave those acquisition alone and let them do their work Exactly the fate every casual commenter is hoping for with every acquisition of a decent company. Specifically in gaming. The companies keep calming the public down by promisin

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