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by aasasd 4y ago
At the Baku Formula 1 race this year, the Alpha Tauri team taped together the rear wing on Yuki Tsunoda's car when it began flapping around—perplexing some fans. (Dynamic adjustment of the wing didn't work after that, of course, a
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by aasasd 4y ago
Personally I advocate that people at least try to see if the flow of the writing makes any sense when read out loud—if not, it's probably just poor writing, stemming from a braindump with little organization. And as the very minimum, i
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by aasasd 4y ago
It seems to me that people ITT read ‘Soviet psychic dogs’, and their mind jumps to imagining cold-war shenanigans. And they completely miss the ‘1922’ right at the beginning of the article—when the SU was barely starting, Durov was living o
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by aasasd 4y ago
I've inevitably heard of the Durov circus dynasty, as they were pretty big around here in the past and iirc have a prominent circus building named after them. However I had no idea that Vladimir Durov was that dapper. Here I thought
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by aasasd 4y ago
Probably ‘.kkrieger’ would be a more-current inspiration, though it's almost twenty years old itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger My uneducated guess is that perhaps the thing of the day now is proper
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by aasasd 4y ago
> What Microsoft wasn't ready for was the hardware getting so good that Apple could just port their existing desktop OS and software over. Eh, I mean, MS attempted that more that once themselves: though WinCE wasn't Win9x ins
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by aasasd 4y ago
I'm not sure what services PalmOS provided to the apps, but to my limited knowledge the apps themselves were non-multitasking, and had a standardized database per each app instead of the filesystem (i.e. something like proto-IndexedDB,
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by aasasd 4y ago
> released on Steam Y tho Edit: in fact RCT2 is on Steam, so I guess you buy that and then run OpenRCT2, pointing it to RCT2's resources.
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by aasasd 4y ago
> A lot of Apple's OS people ended up going to Palm, where they made pretty much the same set of tradeoffs. It was very weird watching subsequent Palm models start to bump up against the same ceiling. Didn't know about this.
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by aasasd 4y ago
I'm not sure what kind of importance you ascribe to HN, but from here outside of SF I feel like Google doesn't give a remotest shit about this gathering, and generally has the feelings sensitivity of a triceratops. Moreover, they&
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by aasasd 4y ago
http://static.spiceworks.com/images/how_to_steps/0000/3886/t...
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by aasasd 4y ago
I mean, first paragraphs of the article explain what this is for.
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by aasasd 4y ago
Copilot themselves probably swiped it all already, since SO answers are licensed under CC-BY-SA, which to Github is equal to ‘just take it all and ignore the author’. With the possible small difference that the uploader doesn't agree t
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by aasasd 4y ago
Pretty sure they already show suggestions when the user is typing the question topic, though idk if they catch much. I guess the question here is whether some kind of AI would pop up more relevant suggestions, all the way to “your question
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by aasasd 4y ago
Ah, Officina, one of my first humanist font loves.
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by aasasd 4y ago
I mean, the Android version is more surprising, especially since the controls don't favor the touch screen. Though I've played OpenTTD on a tablet and it was pretty good, if a bit involved. OpenRCT2 seems to use SDL, just like Ope
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by aasasd 4y ago
Specifically, the ‘small team’ is Chris Sawyer, with art by Simon Foster and music by Allister Brimble. Even though the art is very recognizable (made by rasterizing 3d objects), both RCT 1-2 and TTD are very much Sawyer's games.
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by aasasd 4y ago
I vote for a trashy talk show full of HN crowd. Optionally with everyone on polygraphs.
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by aasasd 4y ago
By any chance, do you mean that containers work on the phone version of FF? Last time I tried, there were problems with the addons menu UI.
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by aasasd 4y ago
Firefox gradually adds protections against fingerprinting methods that aren't just cookies. Of course, sometimes this means stepping on borderline cases of legitimate API usage. Also these protections are added for the private mode fir
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by aasasd 4y ago
You can add any addon to your collection, including those that have no place on a phone. Some addons that aren't tuned for phones actually work just fine, even if one needs to zoom in on the settings screen. Some others work ok, but th
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by aasasd 4y ago
I updated my above comment, after cooling off enough to actually open Wikipedia. Afaiu we see the remnants of the supernova as well, but it was far from the Pillars, and the wave will take some time to travel there—hundreds to a thousand ye
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by aasasd 4y ago
I learned yesterday from a local-language article on this news, that the Pillars don't actually exist anymore, for a long time already. We'll gawk at them for several hundred years still, before we see a supernova wipe them away.
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by aasasd 4y ago
It's probably that they made good coolers and then decided to capitalize on the name by selling everything under the moon—i.e. reselling someone else's stuff.
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by aasasd 4y ago
“Never turn your hobby into a job.”
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by aasasd 4y ago
The Android Firefox, formerly known as Fenix, has a separate tracker on Github. However I wouldn't say that it's radically divergent in habits—more of a different take on the same problem that Mozilla has very limited resources an
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by aasasd 4y ago
My small wish is that FF on Android supports an intent that opens a URL in a new private tab. That way I'd be able to selectively open pages from HN, Reddit or other apps in private tabs—by the way of Tasker or Automate. I looked a bit
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by aasasd 4y ago
Aka ‘Death of the author’.
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by aasasd 4y ago
> HTTP Error 4O4 > 404 Unfound > The Web Server cannot give you the answers you need. Please check your life to ensure the path is correct. Did you press the right keys in sequence, and click with a firm but gentle hand? Are y
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by aasasd 4y ago
Might be some memetic cultural thing from that period, such that most everyone knew what that meant—but it was lost in time.

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