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by easyThrowaway 11mo ago
The annoying part of .ccd files is the lack of support in the specifications for DPM data. It was officially used just for some old Karaoke machines and VDJing mixers, but more importantly for retrogaming aficionados, it was used by SecuROM
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by easyThrowaway 11mo ago
I mean, theoretically they could backport the D3DMetal wine driver from the Game Porting Toolkit. Also I remember there was some early preliminary work done on stock wine a few years ago. Honestly right now there is so much overlapping betw
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by easyThrowaway 11mo ago
I literally recorded an album using Ableton Live 8 (or 9?) and a bunch of synth VSTs on an Acer One netbook, with an AMD C-50 CPU and 4GB of RAM and a 128GB ssd internal drive. It had amazing performance for its size at the time...that is,
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by easyThrowaway 11mo ago
Shitty performance and questionable quality from several manufactures killed netbooks, unfortunately. I don't see Apple moving in that direction. Especially after the lackluster sales of the iPhone mini and the iPhone Air compared to t
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by easyThrowaway 11mo ago
'that were properly made' is doing a lot of work in that sentence. I've got a bunch of Sega Saturn and AKAI/Zero-G sample cds that are basically unreadable already due to disc rot. There was a lot of cheaply made optical
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by easyThrowaway 11mo ago
The water issues are less due to actual desertification (it's a contributing factor too, of course) and more caused by the ancient and perpetually leaking pipes infrastructure. Way more compromised on the weastern side than on the oppo
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
No, it's way worse than that. They not only control the garbage disposal business and regional administration, they physically stop you from keeping your street / neighbourhood / town clean...Guess how do I know. It's th
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
... This is also a great way to randomly arrive in Siracusa wondering how did you end up there, in some sort of re-enactment of the last Indiana Jones movie.
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
A tunnel would be massively easier to build, but there's strong political hubris and greed in keeping the original single-span bridge project from the early '60s.
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
The "mega bridge" is one of the most politicized and polarizing projects I've ever seen in my life. My family lived in Messina for a while and it seems that in the last 100 years no one was actually interested in building nor
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
I just did a brief frontend job for a smart-top device, so take this with a grain of salt, but basically when you're planning to release a cheap mobile phone (It was very common until a few years ago to find weird in-house phone brands
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
IIRC the development budget of the iPhone was around 2 billions and half (did a brief search on google and most sites confirm it was around that estimate), rebuilding a somewhat modern mobile phone (say, circa 2015 specs) without using prop
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
Did Arduino have any patents that were in some way useful to Qualcomm? I can't think of any other reasons for them to be interested in a retail-facing company, with mostly educational products, like Arduino. Honestly that's so far
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they're going to kill it with their own hands by implementing some half-assed AI feature that breaks the core functionality of the product.
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
The most sensible option would be to just show the error for the ad part of the website. Also, the whole argument falls apart the moment the banner has a javascript error too. Should we attempt to run malformed code just in case? Or should
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
We could've made the same arguments for supporting Adobe Flash on the iPhone. And yet Apple decided that no, this time we do it the "right" way[1], stuck with plain HTML/CSS/JS and frankly we're all better for
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
Realistically much of those layout differences and fine tunings would be handled by media queries, but by that point the amount of code compared to a decently written website with a "regular" amount of CSS would be pretty minimal.
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
> What would it take to get people to abandon the whole thing? A new styling language, with better syntax, written taking into account real-world scenarios, widely deployed across all browsers (or at least cross-compiling into CSS)? I wo
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
But she worked as bartender[1] - which is one of those jobs that teaches you how "Fuck Around, Find Out" works in real life, very quickly. Again, it's not matter of social or economic status, but coming to understand extremel
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
The extremely effective general strike that happened in Italy of a few days ago didn't start from academia, but dock workers in Genoa. Grumpy, robust, very left-wing dock workers. The biggest issue of most "performative", a
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
It's called "pragmatists versus theologians" (or fundamentalists, depending on the translation), and it was extremely common in any left wing movement in Europe from the '60s to the '90s. Umberto Eco wrote a fair bi
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
Because usually marketing works next to administration and legal, while dev, devops or infra is 2-3 layers of management below.
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
I am constantly terrified by the American healthcare system. That's exactly what I (and most people I know) routinely do both in Italy and France. Like, "when in doubt, call the doc". I wouldn't know where to start if I
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
> I like the idea of using old phones for infrastructure-lite applications, taking advantage of their low power requirements and built-in UPS (which, yes, has its own drawbacks which can only be mitigated to a certain degree). I'd l
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
On the other hand I once opened a ticket for Ableton Live 9 asking to fix an extremely annoying windows-only race condition when using midi at the same time from a Komplete Kontrol Instance and a regular track session session using an M-ser
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
I still can believe an album like "The idiots are winning" came out from that software. And there's even a friggin' video[1] explaining how he did it! [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtwJWhXceVg
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
Care to describe a non-spammy, non malicious use-case of your application? Like, genuine use case, not something like "Sure, Our anthrax-at-home is the best solution on the market to deliver anthrax powder at your designated address qu
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
The issue is you never really know which property "cascades" or not. There are special cases for block elements, flex elements, flex children elements, sometimes even the boring "a" link object. It's basically trial
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
CSSdev has been the bread and butter of my last 10 years of work, and I still have the feeling that CSS as a language is never designed, just expanded. A series of modules that are bolted on top of existing properties without actually impro
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by easyThrowaway 1y ago
Also write them a very stern letter, That'll show'em. The only way to stop those people is boots-on-the-ground political, social, and cultural activism. No, writing mean tweets and just taking part to that fancy "guess your n

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