abraxas

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871.
by abraxas 6y ago
Well that and high quality video. One and only one tangible benefit of this new web is better quality video. Everything else sucks as much or worse than in the days of Altavista and punch the monkey ads.
872.
by abraxas 6y ago
Yes, the UK state has implemented far more egregious privacy violations than a national ID card.
873.
by abraxas 6y ago
Looks interesting except for the ps2 keyboard and mouse ports. I'll take a closer look though.
874.
by abraxas 6y ago
I want to build something similar but with bare metal Lua as an educational computer for kids. For all of the STEM toys on the market none have the magic of a 8 bit machine that boots to Basic. Except in this day and age Basic should be rep
875.
by abraxas 6y ago
So... a sociopath?
876.
by abraxas 6y ago
Far more plausibly she has a health anxiety and never had the coronavirus to begin with. She isn’t well but it is most likely a psychological rather than a physiological condition.
877.
by abraxas 6y ago
Yeah but Monteral is frigid for 8 months in a year and has so so public transit IMO. It is in Canada though which I dearly love (but not for its weather or its cities).
878.
by abraxas 6y ago
I did not call him racist so don't put words in my mouth. I said that he sounded like he was scared of Black Americans which I think is rather obvious from what he wrote. Granted I'm not an American and I have no idea how hostile
879.
by abraxas 6y ago
In those countries it _really_ depends what your job is. If you're a teacher or a bus driver then yes rent is too damn high. If on the other hand, you have a corporate job at a branch of a western company it's extremely cheap. So
880.
by abraxas 6y ago
Is this your long winded way of saying "I'm scared of black people"? There are plenty of very diverse races living in Europe and nobody is scared of them.
881.
by abraxas 6y ago
I also heard that lately. But up until the recent run up in prices it was quite the bargain for what you were getting.
882.
by abraxas 6y ago
Nonsense. There are very walkable and affordable cities with pleasant neighborhoods that don't break the bank in all parts of the world (sans North America). Off the top of my head and from first hand experience: - Warsaw - Glasgow -
883.
by abraxas 6y ago
Thanks. Finally a voice of reason drowned by the cacophony of "I roamed the internet as a baby and look at me now!" bozos. Facebook, YouTube and whatever SnapCrap of the week is in vogue these days employ hordes of PhD's whos
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by abraxas 6y ago
Umm yes to all of the above with the exception of Google docs as Google already has my email address because I have a Google account since they have a bunch of services that I like. Every single Tom Dick and Harry with an app ain't get
885.
by abraxas 6y ago
I'm in the same boat. I want to try something like Flutter to keep the JS madness at arm's length. Not sure if going that way will make it worse or better though.
886.
by abraxas 6y ago
restart Chrome
887.
by abraxas 6y ago
It was a happy day when I discovered you could disable auto hiding of scrollbars in OSX.
888.
by abraxas 6y ago
Just right and a good insight into how easy he is to emulate in software. Very good brain.
889.
by abraxas 6y ago
First tell how it works before asking for payment. Is it a chrome extension? Is it just a site that I have to paste urls into? Are you just indexing the pages or saving them for posterity? There used to be a service similar to yours called
890.
by abraxas 6y ago
11/16
891.
by abraxas 6y ago
Nobody will complete this in minutes. If anything it's a great showcase of how insanely convoluted and onerous web development truly is. In my day we did it with JSP and app servers and groaned about how painful it was with the war fil
892.
by abraxas 6y ago
No. That's just not the case. Even if we set aside the most iconic street scrapes from various places even an ordinary street in Europe varies a lot in the look and feel. A random place in Barcelona will not be mistaken for a random pl
893.
by abraxas 6y ago
Even 458 miles (737 kms) of highway EV driving at 70mph (112 km/h) is phenomenal. If this is coupled with a relatively fast charger infrastructure (150KW+) this means game over for fossil cars. When you can drive for 6 hours or more on
894.
by abraxas 6y ago
With the relatively small size of the place and the mild weather the UK as a whole could probably switch over to 60kWh EVs tomorrow and nobody would bat an eyelash. Things will take longer in places with greater distances and more extreme c
895.
by abraxas 6y ago
> I've yet to encounter a single Flutter app in the wild. I'm not aware of anything mainstream using it. In their showcase page they have a bunch of popular apps: https://flutter.dev/showcase
896.
by abraxas 6y ago
I sense Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri vibes
897.
by abraxas 6y ago
Yeah, luckily in Europe the all cavity search hasn't (yet?) caught on as a ritual of the train station experience.
898.
by abraxas 6y ago
There is something magical about train travel for me. I find boarding and riding trains extremely soothing. Flying has the exact opposite effect. It's not entirely rational but that's how it is for me.
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by abraxas 6y ago
How can you not notice the difference between the whitewashed houses of Greek islands vs the clay roofs of Porto and Lisbon vs the elaborate facades of Vienna vs the somber everlasting feel of Edinburgh stone masonry? They look NOTHING alik
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by abraxas 6y ago
Sociopath Zuckerberg found out how easy Trump is to manipulate. Things will get interesting from here on out. It might be in Mark's interest to ensure there is a compliant puppet in the White House for the next four years.

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