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by blue1 3y ago
Not an emulation, but a recreation: https://adamstrange.itch.io/qasarbeach
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by blue1 3y ago
Impact with a rogue planet? Grey goo?
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by blue1 3y ago
Trying to fix a rather large and mostly dysfunctional parliament, Italy recently tried the opposite solution: it slashed the number of representatives. It did not go well.
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by blue1 3y ago
What's the situation wrt the install process? I remember having to use a non-official distribution of OpenBSD.
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by blue1 3y ago
EOL as in "no longer sold" or "cannot install new openbsd releases on them"?
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by blue1 3y ago
In the last years I remember also using ftp (and its now-forgotten relative fsp)
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by blue1 3y ago
I published a couple of books with the following tools, which I found satisfying: - Emacs org mode for writing - Adobe Illustrator for the figures - Adobe Indesign (text exported from org to IDML via pandoc) for the layout - Amazon KDP + In
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by blue1 3y ago
Another idea of BASIC is that the language should be similar to english. To this day, I am not sure it is a really good idea, because while it appears "easy" on the surface, you actually have to memorize the specific syntax of eac
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by blue1 3y ago
> global white capitalist, colonialist, and imperialist framework Perhaps it’s because I am an European, but I’m really astonished by the widespread diffusion of this kind of obtuse ideological furore in the US lately, especially in the
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by blue1 3y ago
XSL-FO was a good idea, but it never went anywhere. Processors were costly and underfeatured, HTML+CSS ran circles around it. IIRC, XSL-FO didn't even have floats for a long time! It's a pity that there appears to be little intere
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by blue1 3y ago
SVG?
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by blue1 3y ago
Is this true for Adobe Illustrator too (which has arc and ellipse tools)? Even if saved to .ai format?
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by blue1 3y ago
D&D never made 100% sense, but it has flavor, probably just because of that. AD&D (1st edition) in particular was a vast collection of bizarre and picturesque things which were a disaster design-wise but which we still remember fond
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by blue1 3y ago
sshfs works (I use Monterey, M1), though it's slowish.
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by blue1 3y ago
A question for experts on the matter, is Sunrise Commander (OFM for Emacs) on par with the the programs cited in this thread?
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by blue1 3y ago
Also, there is no randomness in go or chess, unlike bridge.
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by blue1 3y ago
No, it is not. Perhaps your circle likes it like this, but elsewhere this is cheating. It is forbidden by the rules and is socially unacceptable.
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by blue1 3y ago
Here in Italy, both paper and PDF invoices are extinct. All invoices are electronic transactions that follow a certain protocol and pass through a giant government-owned interchange, so that the government can control everything invoiced. M
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by blue1 3y ago
"Holy Sea"
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by blue1 4y ago
It is not a joke. Color print exists, you know. For example, try obtaining a pure cyan from RGB color...
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by blue1 4y ago
One serious problem is that CSS do not support CMYK colors.
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by blue1 4y ago
These are heuristics. They work most times (so I don’t buy Packt anymore).
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by blue1 4y ago
It was in typewriter corrector fluid. I remember the smell.
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by blue1 4y ago
Please no. Doh’t feed bad typography to kids. (When I was a kid, I had access to good design examples. I hated fonts “for kids”. Also, because the essence of play is simulation, and childish fonts ruin the game)
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by blue1 4y ago
Does it include the images or it’s just the text?
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by blue1 4y ago
San Marino is harmless, on the top of a giant rock which is almost impossible to conquer by force, and in a position of no strategic importance. So no one has ever been interested in grabbing it. However, that does not mean that it is allow
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by blue1 4y ago
Some years ago a guy called Weps made a free remake for Windows of Kennedy Approach (identical to the original, with some optional improvements). It’s still fun.
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by blue1 4y ago
To me, it feels like sloppiness presented as a virtue. Even if you have lost interest, there are more civil ways to close a text.
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by blue1 4y ago
It is not scaring, because you do not experience anything at all. Time under anesthesia does not exist: it feels like you wake up at the same time you lose consciousness, with nothing in between.
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by blue1 4y ago
Cooling?

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