damieng

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by damieng 8y ago
They look nice but they're the same as on the + and the toastrack 128K and incredibly awful to type on - keys rub against each other and don't depress evenly.
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by damieng 8y ago
Did you have a joystick or RAM expansion on the back by any chance? Basically the edge connector was not sufficiently protected and a loose connection could fry the ULA or other components quite easily.
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by damieng 9y ago
There's been a massive amount of performance work in the last year. Definitely give it another try :) (disclaimer, on the Atom team)
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by damieng 9y ago
A lot of fonts feel like this. It's only once you set a whole page set in them it they start to look different especially when you do side-by-side comparisons. Programmer fonts are even more samey as they are used at such small sizes c
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by damieng 9y ago
You get much more than that - you are installing native binaries direct from apt-get. No waiting for ports, patches, recompilation or people trying to get the latest version working on cygwin. It pulls binaries direct from Ubuntu as if you
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by damieng 9y ago
And thanks to the way the extension system works in Atom you can keep your editor that way. These packages are entirely optional. The only changes made to Atom at all to facilitate this were better built-in watching of files in Atom (benefi
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by damieng 9y ago
The servers run entirely locally on your machine.
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by damieng 9y ago
The snapshot feature introduced recently makes a big difference to app start-up time.
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by damieng 9y ago
Yeah, he's now a developer on Atom and worked on the GitHub package...
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by damieng 10y ago
Just issuing a GET doesn't cause a somebody to be charged. It's a process involving delivering specific tracking cookie along with the ad that should you end up clicking through to the intended destination gets tracked through eit
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by damieng 10y ago
Surprised so much confusion around this. You log into http://alexa.amazon.com/spa/index.html#cards and you see all sorts of queries Alexa/Echo heard from you but didn't understand complete with the audio snip
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by damieng 10y ago
Oops, now your comment makes total sense including the CP437 remark, sorry! Glad you enjoy Envy Code R :)
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by damieng 10y ago
They're really not - the IBM PC set is double-pixel wide and with quite different choices for many of the letters because the MSX is 5x7 while IBM PC used 8x14 (EGA) or 8x16 (VGA). It is far more likely they took inspiration from the A
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by damieng 10y ago
Worth bearing in mind that this only helps if you are using LINQ against in-memory objects (i.e. LINQ to Objects). Depending on how this detects IQueryable providers it will either skip it, break it or worse of all silently 'work&#x27
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by damieng 10y ago
I've lost form content so many times from backspace going back a page (thumb just glances the touchpad to change focus from editable control). Backspace isn't a navigation function. It's to delete the last character. We have
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by damieng 10y ago
It's a Linux subsystem with apt-get access to Ubuntu packages. # apt-get install fish # fish Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell Type help for instructions on how to use fish There you go :)
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by damieng 10y ago
You can apt-get anything you find on Ubuntu. There is no need to run setup.exe each time and hope somebody ported it to Cygwin.
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by damieng 11y ago
Heads up: If you buy the US version you're getting Jim Dale. A totally different experience.
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by damieng 11y ago
"To do that, Netflix will transcode every one of their videos a bazillion times at different resolutions and at different bitrates, finally selecting the smallest one for a particular title that doesn’t suck visually."
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by damieng 11y ago
Author seems to think that they'll choose one file as the winner - that's not the case. Each video needs to be available not just in a few bitrates but also in different resolutions, codecs and profiles for broad compatibility wit
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by damieng 11y ago
Guernsey and Jersey are independent countries that have an agreement with the crown of England that has been in place for hundreds of years. They are under no obligation to placate your current government or adhere to their wishes. They hav
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by damieng 11y ago
The language is elegant, lets you perform tweaks down to an individual level and works across many platforms and can be used in any font. It's totally possible to create a safe virtual machine for specific uses. There have been many at
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by damieng 11y ago
Font hinting lets you move points around based on sizes, dpi and rendering modes using a stack-based bytecode language. Sure the primary use case for many years was to cope with low-resolution but it can be used in the way the poster above
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by damieng 12y ago
They also offer free hardware that caches and serves up the most popular content automagically. [)amien
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by damieng 12y ago
It is an interesting font although very different from the Sinclair Spectrum font. (I added a bunch of those to Cathode)
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by damieng 12y ago
They modified the upper case characters to shave 1 pixel off the height tho - presumably to fit it in an 8x8.