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by abrowne 5y ago
"Mother Earth Mother Board" (1996) by Neal Stephenson is great narrative nonfiction on the subject: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
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by abrowne 5y ago
At least in Minneapolis, everyone who's buying a remotely desirable family house is paying a lot above the asking price, although what I've seem is more like 10–15%.
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by abrowne 5y ago
> Mild disappointment at how the demo page has been minified info a single gigantic line so there's no easy way to View Source and see how certain things are done. Have you tried the Inspector, rather than View Source? That (re)fo
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by abrowne 5y ago
At least in jurisdictions that have abolished capital punishment.
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by abrowne 5y ago
If you are consistent. A couple times I've successfully signed up for something with a username+string@gmail.com address but then have been unable to unsubscribe because my address is "invalid".
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by abrowne 5y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27255561 (In (at least?) the UK you stay or get redirected to .co.uk like that link. Outside, .com like this link.)
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by abrowne 5y ago
> Why does the Enter key look so strange? It looks like a design some other laptops use, with the top enclosure cut to fit both ANSI (horizontal) and ISO (vertical) enter keys, so there's no silver metal case between the enter key a
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by abrowne 5y ago
Huawei as well, at least in China, and with a Linux OS: > Huawei launches a Linux laptop with an ARM-based Kirin 990 processor > Now Huawei has launched its first laptop that doesn’t feature an Intel or AMD chip. The Huawei Qingyun L
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by abrowne 5y ago
Same. I'm slowly switching from GNOME to Sway, but I'm not going 100% until Chromium's Wayland support is better, since I spend 98% of my time in Chromium or VS Code. The good news is they are actively working on it since Chr
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by abrowne 5y ago
The Debian manual agrees to use `cp` and then to run `sync` to make sure all data is really written to the disk. I've been doing this for a year or two now with no issues, even from a Mac.
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by abrowne 5y ago
It's Wayland-only, right? Alacritty OTOH not only works on X11, but is cross-platform.
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by abrowne 5y ago
en-CA uses US paper sizes AFAIK. Which is why I use it, as an American, for the same reasons you state — plus $ as the currency — and without changing paper sizes should I ever print something.
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by abrowne 5y ago
The snap is also from Mozilla.
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by abrowne 5y ago
Interesting that they mention a lot of prices with a dollar sign without specifying the currency or converting any of the amounts to GBP.
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by abrowne 5y ago
NPR has a text-only version: https://text.npr.org/986997576
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by abrowne 5y ago
It's an essay published in the "Arts & Culture" section of a literary review. It's not "hard news". It's not supposed to be neutral.
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by abrowne 5y ago
Blogspam for https://www.salon.com/2021/04/07/ancient-cave-painters-may-h... which is reporting about https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1751696X.2021.19...
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by abrowne 6y ago
Convert all FLAC files in the directory to MP3s, in parallel using fd: fd -t f -e flac . "$@" -x ffmpeg -loglevel 16 -i "{}" -qscale:a 0 "{.}.mp3"
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by abrowne 6y ago
ASCII has a limited number of characters, so they designed it so some do double-duty. The grave could be a grace accent if you backspaced over a letter, or it could be an opening quote mark. The apostrophe was the reverse: it could be the a
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by abrowne 6y ago
Depends on the city? Minneapolis-St. Paul has ok cycling infrastructure for North America that certainly could be improved, but I don't see a negative attitude
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by abrowne 6y ago
I remember our family's Mac, with a 68LC040 CPU, which was a 68040 without a dedicated floating point unit, could only play back mp 2 files in realtime.
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by abrowne 6y ago
Or, to quote Ernest Hemingway, "Gradually, then suddenly."
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by abrowne 6y ago
Only if your default search engine is Google and with autocomplete turned on I think.
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by abrowne 6y ago
Funny to think that there's a land border between Brazil and the EU.
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by abrowne 6y ago
And the end of TenFourFox! http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-end-of-tenfourfox...
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by abrowne 6y ago
Do French Guiana, Martinique or New Caledonia count as "France"?
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by abrowne 6y ago
(2017)
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by abrowne 6y ago
Yeah, I was thinking of that film as well as Elena by Andrey Zvyagintsev. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drDu9Ta1JWc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_(2011_film)
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by abrowne 6y ago
This mean Glass makes a great movie soundtrack!
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by abrowne 6y ago
Do you have chrome://settings/system Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed enabled? I see this pref on Linux and Windows, but not Mac. I believe it's enabled by default…

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