digi_owl

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by digi_owl 9y ago
> Honestly, page-based systems that can be accessed with a castle/boat switch is fine for modern fighters and trained pilots. Hearing a trained Eagle driver rattle off how to get to a specific menu/page from any other page is p
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by digi_owl 9y ago
One reason i actually liked resistive screens, because i could rest my fingers on it without triggering anything.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I high end brand going on a retro binge...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I have and i used to like it. But some kind of mindrot is setting in at the user facing levels of development, and it is worming its way down the stack towards the kernel.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Frankly i find the "problem" to be modern Windows. The 9x series had little trouble being moved around between motherboards and such, but the NT based ones seems to error at the drop of a pin (never mind how ornery Microsoft has b
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Your first link gets me thinking about Street Rod, that i played constantly on my Amiga 500. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd4VwxBObo0
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by digi_owl 9y ago
To a lesser extent there is Link2SD: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buak.Link2... If you have rooted your device, and partition your SD card, it can mount one such partition so that it supplies
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Funny to read this, as the original scheme for Android was the OS and apps on emmc, user data on SD card. But then later some OEMs came up with partitioning the emmc and mounting one part in place of the SD card. Later still Google codified
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I miss their older layout.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
That is a different Kettle of fish. First of all, Apple came up with a slightly different set of resistors on the data pins (leaning that the data in and data out will read slightly different V) to signal to their devices that they could go
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Thunderbolt is not even part of the base spec, it just piggy backs on the generic alternate mode that can just as well carry Displayport vidoe (or anything, really). Most of it is not even with the cables, but the chips and software at eith
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by digi_owl 9y ago
What people usually refer to as USB-C are 3 independent specs. First there is the C plug and cable, including provisions for converting between C and the various A and B sizes. This is the spec that introduce various resistors to signal if
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Yeah i don't get how they went from a reversible USB plug (you can already find those in the A format, that use a small lip with contact pads on both sides) to a 20(?) wire monstrosity carrying anything from several amps of 20V electri
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by digi_owl 9y ago
> First telephone was invented by an Italian (Antonio Meucci). Living in New York and granted a US patent...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Lets see, the Cuban Missile Crisis is a nice place to start. Set in motion in part because USA had placed missiles in Turkey and USSR attempted to do the same in Cuba. Never mind having launch codes set to all zeros for a number of years. A
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by digi_owl 9y ago
The more i learn about US telecom, the more i wonder how the hell they managed to invent both the landline and mobile phone. Their infrastructure sounds like a balkanized mess...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Yeah i'm tracking his upcoming game already. It is basically Terraria with classes (meaning that you pick some kind of special ability at the start of the game), survival elements (need to eat, sleep, etc), and Diablo style randomized
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I can't help worry that Path of Exile has become a victim of its own success. Lately the updates seems heavily tilted towards trying to "catch" hardcore (one character death and it is out of the league) characters, leading to
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by digi_owl 9y ago
"Ah, fresh meat!" I still recall opening a door in the game (with hints of something odd about the tiles behind it) and hearing that come out of the speakers to this day.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I swear i have seen some video from a conference or similar where Brevik talks about being staunchly in the turn-based camp, until he sat down and implemented real-time (the game already ran on a system of ticks so he basically allowed the
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Not really surprising. Expansion packs have existed in one form or another for ages, these days they are just that much easier to distribute via Steam and similar services.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Hardly unique to Cisco. Every major tech company, yes even Apple, operate they try to sustain their existence beyond their initial success.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
With the added irony that they were late in signing the Bern convention on copyright (didn't happen until the 1980s).
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by digi_owl 9y ago
For me devops is summed up thus: http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2015/07/08/true-story-fixing-a...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Gobolinux is also mostly powered by shell script (i think you may find the odd python and compiled code in there for performance reasons).
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Reminds me that Intel didn't include PCI on their Atom variants aimed at mobile devices, supposedly because it was too power hungry. This in turn lead to Microsoft balking at supporting said hardware as Windows is deeply reliant on PCI
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Most real life implementations of "microkernels" end up being hybrids. NT started out as a micro, but Microsoft have been moving things (the graphics subsystem in particular) in and out of kernel space in the hunt for the optimal
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Do wonder how much of that was from code having adopted GNU-isms...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Honestly the way the page is styled reeks of "overcompensation".
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I have landed on IceWM over the years. Its Win9X/2k-ist behavior fits me just fine, as i try to ween myself off anything involving the big DEs.

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