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by bbarnett 6y ago
An interesting page, yet the font has text-shadow enabled -- which on my monitor/desktop/browser, just makes it look blurry. To me, it's barely legible. It may appear different to others, for example when I looked on my phone
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Suspended was, to me, one of the coolest games ever. Back in the day, on my C64, as a young teenager, I ended up with a pirated copy of it. I had no map, instructions, and it made it even more incredible / awesome. I was at that age
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I used adb to move files on/off the device. Zero issues there. Now sure about their note app, but I bet that review guy, mentioned elsewhere in this topic, covers it?
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by bbarnett 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26203389 Note that netguard (a vpn firewall solution) is not active at boot. It gets kicked well after wifi comes up. My tcpdump tests showed a few seconds of traffic before it started
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by bbarnett 6y ago
With all the phoning home, and lack of security updates, you may want to reconsider ever entering anything sensitive into a Boox product.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
This guy is indeed awesome, a very valuable resource, however he only reviews from the perspective of usage, not covering things like security updates, gpl compliance, phoning home, etc.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I bought, and returned the Note Air. The build quality is impressive. I had it for 2 weeks, used it for about an hour daily, and set it to only poweroff after a day of inactivity. Its battery dropped from 100% to 48% over that time. Yes, I
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Not sure I like this, for many spinning disk raids of that scale I have are mostly read, rarely write. With raid 6 for example, I pop in a new drive, and all the write/repair hits only that drive. With a virtual spare, all drives end u
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Except a case like this could so easily have memory, or even a physical toggle switch. So many things should be "preserved state" switches, but people put up with it. Not sure why.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Yes, this. I know they do with Videotron.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
High end fibre routers use multi-spectral bandwith, effectively allowing for multiple data streams to be transmitted on one fibre cable, and re-broken out at the other end. This significantly increases bandwidth. I doubt the laser links su
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by bbarnett 6y ago
But a cable is such a simple item to find out if it's broken 5 seconds?! Poor assumption. You're presuming this is "only the types of cables you buy". Many times I buy cables to do things with devices, for which I ha
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by bbarnett 6y ago
An interjection here. Not directly related to the NYT article, just your comment. I feel the entire US has "gone mad". I'm a Canuck, and US and Canadian politics don't 'mesh'. So whenever I've spoken to
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by bbarnett 6y ago
There are loads of cases of hyper-inflation, which means that the currency's real-world value decreases. Here's the worst I've ever heard of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe Yes,
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by bbarnett 6y ago
A good point. Also: https://www.covercropstrategies.com/articles/1368-adding-hay... There's also strong logic in having hay as part of crop rotation, which as we know, is vital to reduce the need for fertilizer. O
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by bbarnett 6y ago
If people are downloading the source, and executing that code, eg as parent said "frontend", then yes, it's on their computer. It's not server side, such as with PH, or python or backend js. However, the license doesn&#
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by bbarnett 6y ago
That's actually a buddy I knew on IRC, from 95/96 etc. Haven't seen / typed at him in 20+ years.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I just realised .. this site is probably older: http://geraldholmes.freeyellow.com/ but in the mid-2000s, when I discovered it was dying, I restored it here by finding images on archive.org: http://l8r.net/g
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Oldest I have, is a site I let a friend from IRC setup on my box. http://l8r.net/amiga/ Lots of the images are from 1996: amiga/images: total 1112 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12187 Nov 9 1996 amigactit.jpg -rw-r--r-
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Well, some older browsers would try slapping .com at the end, and adding www at the start too, if no domain was found... So just typing sex could be fruitful...
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by bbarnett 6y ago
For clarity here, the barber wearing the mask protects others. This stops larger droplets, spittle, etc from easily reaching others. Non-n95 masks / etc don't filter much when breathing in. We wear masks to protect others...
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Didn't know about the max down votes, but it wasn't that. I didn't want simonh to have the wrong impression, or others. But thanks for the info.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Does my edit at least clarify, that my intent was not so? I prefer that, over comment removal...
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by bbarnett 6y ago
What? No! You cannot agree, you have entirely and completely broken my brain. This is the Internet! The Internet . Right or wrong, correct or not, you are supposed to argue your point relentlessly. God help us all, if more of you appe
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by bbarnett 6y ago
The point of the brownie isn't "people who are into photography". It's for every-person. Those who aren't into photography, and just want to have pictures to remember things. There are two points here. Who init
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by bbarnett 6y ago
There's not a lot to discuss here I guess, when your world view is so bracketed by infallibles.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I find it difficult to respond without emotion, to such a comment. We likely know very very little about physics right now. My point with Newtonian physics is that at the time, it was The Physics. According to observation capable at the
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Interesting. Wan-to did such things, a plasmatic being which lives ib a star, via author Fredrick Pohl. The World at the End of Time. I wonder, did the author of the study read, then postulate?
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Indeed. So many seem to exude the concept that "today we know precisely how the universe works". Would one insist that Newtonian physics was the Only Way to Think of Things, prior to Einsteinian? While the speed of light may rema
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by bbarnett 6y ago
The presumption that "today we know precisely how the universe works, and therefore, all stories must follow this mindset", is odd here. Would you insist that Newtonian physics was the Only Way to Think of Things, prior to Einstei

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