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by axiolite 5y ago
zip/gzip are LZ algorithms, as mentioned near the top of the article. Based on LZ77 to be exact. Did you perhaps mean LZW (gif & compress), which was based on LZ78? zlib isn't really dominant, today. lzma seems to have overt
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by axiolite 5y ago
Given a bit of time, people will figure out how Zillow's buying spree works, and figure out how to game it to their own advantage. Perhaps put a fresh coat of paint on an old abandoned house that's about to fall down, list it sli
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Apple has had two versions of its charger (30 pin and Lightning), and USB has had how many? 7 iterations? Android phones only ever had micro-usb and usb-c, AFAIK. You can rant about variations on usb-c, but you can still charge your p
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by axiolite 5y ago
> an engineer’s job (especially senior level engineers) aren’t strictly technical. Text is able to convey information that is not entirely technical as well... This seems to be something people miss. Have you ever read a novel?
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by axiolite 5y ago
> evolved for millions of years for this exact type of communication A great many people identify themselves as introverts or antisocial, and would feel much better being excluded from all these neuron triggers. > The information band
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by axiolite 5y ago
> With rising sea levels and the fault lines in the region I'm aghast that so many of America's eggs are in one precarious basket Earthquakes don't kill people, buildings kill people... Building codes in California are s
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by axiolite 5y ago
You can reduce the saturation as desired (0.6 below): mplayer -vf eq2=1:1:0:0.6 -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo pal /dev/urandom
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by axiolite 5y ago
> It turned out that having the suits breathing down the necks of filmmakers was, perhaps, not such a bad thing afterall. Motion pictures are massive collaborations. When one person gets obsessed with their "artistic vision" a
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by axiolite 5y ago
Terrible idea on several levels. Avoid jetdirect (9100) port like the plague. Partial files? Errors parsing the postscript? Outputting to the jetdirect port will result in printing every bit of that trash out, no questions asked. Walked
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Any idea what the visual equivalent would be? Perhaps: head -c800 /dev/urandom > /dev/tty Or: mplayer -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=80:h=60 /dev/urandom
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by axiolite 5y ago
> My experience with some early Android sliders (HTC Dream and HTC Desire Z) is that the keyboards don't have all the keys I need. That's what the Sym button is for. Pop-up a menu on screen showing other, less-frequently used
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by axiolite 5y ago
It was around 2000, after buying a Cassiopeia E-100 that I realized a keyboard makes any computer massively more usable. With that I bought a Psion 5MX, used it great success, and never considered a device without a physical keyboard again
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by axiolite 5y ago
> I would much prefer if the pruning was done on per file basis and not by pruning whole backup sets. Then just don't prune! Unchanged files take no space. There's no reason you can't keep many months of daily backups, a
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by axiolite 5y ago
Switching to NewPipe solved this problem for me. Performs better than the Google Youtube app, preserves some privacy, etc.
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To H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks with Facebook(damninteresting.com)
353 points by axiolite 5y ago|176 comments
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by axiolite 5y ago
Corel was much too late in releasing their full Office suite. StarOffice was free by then. Even WordPerfect didn't have too much lead time over open source projects like AbiWord which were getting popular in the late 90s. Looks like
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by axiolite 5y ago
Linux wasn't mass market ready back then. So much hardware was unsupported, or extremely difficult to get working. Multimedia support was severely lacking, with XAnim the only video playback option, which worked with few formats and
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by axiolite 5y ago
NT 4.0 was a contemporary operating system to 95. It could run on a 60MHz Pentium with 16MB of RAM. There was no memory compression involved. RamBooster can be found here: https://www.freewarefiles.com/RamBooster-V_progra
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by axiolite 5y ago
Windows 95/98 was horrible. It's only in hindsight we forget the rough edges. I still remember having to reboot to watch a video. Later I figured out it was a RAM thing and running Ram Booster at it's max setting would for
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by axiolite 5y ago
Care to name any sites? I've always managed to find workarounds for everything I've wanted to follow. Most websites want to be indexed by search engines, and googlebot doesn't do javascript. So sometimes a forged user agen
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by axiolite 5y ago
Here's a list of RSS feed generators: https://github.com/AboutRSS/ALL-about-RSS#webpagehtml
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by axiolite 5y ago
I think the article is fine, the title is just pre-WWW clickbait. This quote seems a fair assessment, but doesn't exactly match the headline: "There certainly is going to be a need for more and better technical talent in the high-
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A speciifc network name can completely disable Wi-Fi on your iPhone(9to5mac.com)
12 points by axiolite 5y ago|3 comments
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Content of post is a link. No context, no summary, no single sentence...nothing. Run it through an RSS full article extractor: https://github.com/AboutRSS/ALL-about-RSS#full-article-extra... Many feeds are useless
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by axiolite 5y ago
Travel supplies are the big draw for me. Most stores charge about as much for a mini tube of toothpaste (or mouth wash, whatever) as a full-sized, name brand mega sized one. Dollar Tree will usually sell you a multi-pack of minis for $1, c
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by axiolite 5y ago
I had a friend who bought a $1 spatula. He's dead now.
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by axiolite 5y ago
The author has some interesting points, but with a labor price of $104.62 per sq. ft. it seems like there's a huge opportunity to reduce housing prices. That would be $157,000 of the price of a 1500 sq ft home. If factory-built homes
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by axiolite 5y ago
> In US in many areas the earthquakes safety requires to build lighter houses. A lighter building does not protect you from earthquakes. Less-brittle materials, much more securely fastened together is what you want. With wood building
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by axiolite 5y ago
That's a terribly oversimplified explanation. May I recommend this one instead: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/foam_wi... When learning about flight, keep asking yourself
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by axiolite 5y ago
> it also means the showering process doesn't include "step 0: wait a few minutes for hot water to start coming out of the shower". When you turn on the hot water, you get hot water. It's really soured me on the Amer

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