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by antod 4y ago
Or encouraging
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by antod 4y ago
Not growing up in the US and only seeing cars like that on TV, I always assumed "boat" was referring to the handling more than the size.
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by antod 4y ago
I would love to watch Brian Cox be a bit more in depth and faster moving with less of the go somewhere exotic and spectacular for a reason which only adds a little bit tangentially to the material. Sure it looks goods, and is good the first
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by antod 4y ago
Then again, the intelligence services were riddled with communist sympathisers so that probably explains it just as much :)
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by antod 4y ago
You're right I had the timeline between abdication and "exile" condensed in my head. But by govt relief I wasn't referring to High Society but the functional bureaucracy of govt and intelligence services etc. I recall (p
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by antod 4y ago
Not directly, but for that reason it was a massive relief for the govt when he did abdicate and they could "exile" him and his wife and their Nazi sympathies somewhere far away. Basically he never wanted to be King, and seemed tot
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by antod 4y ago
LXC/LXD use the same kernel isolation/security features Docker does - namespaces, cgroups, capabilities etc. After all, it is the kernel functionality lets you run something as a container. Docker and LXC/LXD are different ma
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by antod 4y ago
>I’ve been tinkering with stable diffusion lately and this has been a rude introduction to python. Coming from .net (nuget) and JavaScript (npm), it’s baffling that there isn’t an established solution for python. Python has had multipl
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by antod 4y ago
Yeah, that was one of the reasons I said "just about". But minuscule compared to millisecond seek latencies on a spinning disk. So the problem getting orders of magnitude smaller while the costs of the cure increasing a lot swung
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by antod 4y ago
There's a difference between something still existing and something still being a problem. The reason it was a problem on spinning disks, was that the delay in getting the next bit of data highly depended on where it was relative to th
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by antod 4y ago
Yeah, the 8bit machines I used had 16bit address space. For example from my vague/limited Z80 memories most of the 8bit registers were paired - so if you wanted a 16bit address, you used the pair. To lazy to look it up, but with the Z8
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by antod 4y ago
I've never been able to get a Mac (currently using an M1 Pro) to get multiple monitors to share a physical port - eg DP daisy chaining or 2 monitors on a TB3 dock. It might be able to do it with a TB4 dock though?
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by antod 4y ago
Assuming you weren't trolling, VESA has had many more standards than just the mounting brackets. eg Display Port is one of theirs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Electronics_Standards_As...
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by antod 4y ago
Agreed. It's the increasing difficulty in getting things delivered to the big providers making it harder rather than spam. At this rate, eventually we'll have a handful of mail senders (Mailchimp, Sendgrid), and a handful of mail
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by antod 4y ago
>Operating trains is literally the origin of "engineer" That sounds pretty dubious to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smeatonian_Society_of_Civil_En... There were probably earlier usages of the term to
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by antod 4y ago
It seems like different people imagine very different things when they read/hear "wanting to have fun, make friends, etc" . I am also a grumpy old man, but I still want that "wanting to have fun, make friends, etc&quo
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by antod 4y ago
I had Sublogic FS II on the Amiga, which I think had something to do with MS FS II - an enhanced version for Amiga and STs maybe?
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by antod 4y ago
They might just have the same upstream DNS provider?
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by antod 4y ago
The technical bar was higher - the article itself had notable people seemingly proud of (with a little trauma?) getting their SLIP connections working. And how that itself seemed a step up towards greater access. Pretty sure namby pamby PPP
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by antod 4y ago
> The 90’s were rife with problems all over the world. Yeah, I think the difference is how disconnected from the real world the internet/web felt in the 90s. It felt like a different dimension you entered - and "cyberspace&qu
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by antod 4y ago
In that timeframe a lot of his blog posts related to the experience of moving to Google - eg comparisons with Amazon etc. It's now apparent that Google is both very a different place in recent years, AND that all the "Good Agile&q
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by antod 4y ago
One part of that post that hasn't aged well is the praise Google's launch culture got. 15yrs of hindsight later and it has probably become the biggest product pathology cliche identified with Google.
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by antod 4y ago
Is it bad that my first thought was "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these..."
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by antod 4y ago
Effluencer maybe?
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by antod 4y ago
My personal definition of a "modern laptop" would be having USB-C ports. Bonus points for Thunderbolt 3 or later.
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by antod 4y ago
heh, the Chief Certificate Officer position is vacant at the moment > Error 503 certificate has expired
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by antod 4y ago
External monitor handling is one area my Linux Thinkpad works smoother than my work Macbook Pro. The previous time I used a Mac (2015ish), it was the other way around.
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by antod 4y ago
That issue was my first intro to Wired when I spotted it on a coffee table and was intrigued by the Disneyland line. It was probably another year after that before I actually used the internet - after reading a few Wired magazines, I wasn&#
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by antod 4y ago
> I think that MS here is being used as a convenient scapegoat. Yup, the fact that many prominent desktop people from that era refute that here, that all the links in the article point to TheRegister, and that nobody else seems to reme
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by antod 4y ago
I still prefer Unity to Gnomeshell. But the 10.04 -> 12.04 era was the only time I stayed on LTS so I could avoid the early Unity versions. By 12.04 Unity was pretty solid and usable, but like KDE 4.0 a lot of the people it alienated dur

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