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by fredoralive 7mo ago
Yes, this isn't OpenBanking, I'm sure the Lloyds app could do that at one point to link to my Halifax account (or others), but it was flaky IIRC (and seems to have disappeared from the app?), this is a separate automatic thing.
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by fredoralive 7mo ago
Recently Lloyds Banking Group has upgraded their apps so that you can see details from all your accounts with them in every app (some functionality still needs the right brands app though). There's obviously some magic to glue differen
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by fredoralive 7mo ago
ARM Cortex-A cores also allow unaligned access (MCU cores don't though, and older ARM is weird). There's perhaps a hint if the two most popular CPU architectures have ended up in the forgiving approach to unaligned access, rather
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by fredoralive 7mo ago
Python has some work to trim bits of it's built in libraries, see for example https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/ and https://docs.python.org/3/deprecations/index.html .
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by fredoralive 7mo ago
An obvious source for 3rd party code is that it’s a real UNIX System V derivative, so the AT&T code would need to be cleared.
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by fredoralive 8mo ago
That's talking about the MZ signature at the start of every DOS EXE executable (and therefore every Windows EXE as they have DOS stubs), not this additional use as markers in the DOS memory management code. Which probably is also Mark
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by fredoralive 8mo ago
That’s not particularly unique, Mac OS and Windows have had compressed memory for years. No fiddling with setting needed either.
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by fredoralive 8mo ago
Hacker News does weird stuff to post / comment timestamps if a post is resurrected from the second chance pool. Makes both the post and comment look new even though they’re not. Not sure why, it’s kind misleading, I guess they want to
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by fredoralive 8mo ago
The era of bespoke arcade hardware died in the late 90s really. They couldn’t really keep up with consoles / PC with a declining market. By the early 2000s arcades were mostly console derived, beyond the Sega trio of Naomi (Dreamcast),
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by fredoralive 8mo ago
The Gamecube was competitive on graphics with PS2 and Xbox. It was the Wii where there console side moved away from keeping up in the cutting edge graphics race. I’m not sure how successful it was, it was outsold by Xbox and PS2. Although t
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by fredoralive 8mo ago
This mostly describes stuff to do with the [Windows] NT [OS][/2] (delete as appropriate) kernel layer, which normal mere mortals aren't supposed to interact with. You're supposed to use stuff like the Win32 KERNEL32.DLL not t
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by fredoralive 8mo ago
IIRC Microsoft's internal email still ran on Xenix at the time (until Exchange betas got good enough for internal use c. 1995?), so perhaps more trademarks than some sort of absolute hatred of Unix. Also note that one of the two APIs t
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by fredoralive 8mo ago
When were you watching? The US All Channel Receiver Act was passed in 1962. Prior to that UHF stations did struggle in the first decade of UHF TV in the US as few TVs had UHF tuners. The situation improved after that as they became standard
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by fredoralive 8mo ago
Just as a slight extension to this, in the UK VHF was used for the original 405 line (~376i) analogue TV system used for 1936-39 and then 1946 until it turned off in the 1980s, so any ariels still up probably haven't been used for dec
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by fredoralive 8mo ago
Not from the era, but I suspect serious enterprise stuff (accounts, ERP etc.) in the 80s would generally be on minicomputers and mainframes, so you’re probably getting into stuff like RPG, PL/I, COBOL and myriad other languages that ha
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by fredoralive 8mo ago
That U-turn was very fast. I guess they realised whilst Animate only has a small user base nowadays, they tend to people who really need that specific tool (with no Adobe tool providing an alternative) like animation studios. It’s still dea
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by fredoralive 8mo ago
Point some sort of video recorder (like another phone) at the screen then. Tedious to then stitch frames together into one image to share it on Twitter or whatever (or just post the video, everything’s video now because everything sucks).
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by fredoralive 9mo ago
The fact with Software-as-a-Scam subscription stuff discontinued software doesn’t just mean "it'll probably bitrot away over time" (probably a bit more aggressively with MacOS than Windows) to "it'll just be gone&qu
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by fredoralive 9mo ago
You probably wouldn’t like 20 year old Notepad’s habit of leaving Unicode BOMs everywhere, or only supporting CRLF line endings. They did improve it a tiny amount circa Windows 10. Does Windows 11 Notepad still choke on loading large files?
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by fredoralive 9mo ago
Replacing Office with Microsoft 365 as the brand is still stupid. I was messing with Windows 11 a while back pre Copilot, and in the start menu was a pre installed spam link for “Microsoft 365 (Office)”. The fact they had to put the old bra
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by fredoralive 9mo ago
Unix software like X11 and Motif…
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by fredoralive 9mo ago
New TVs often don’t have analogue inputs, so you’d need some sort of analogue to HDMI scaler, which range from aliexpress tat to expensive enthusiast stuff like Retrotinks, with various hobbyist stuff like OSSC in between as well. Some real
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by fredoralive 9mo ago
France has had one fatal crash on an LGV, but it was during initial line testing where some safety systems were bypassed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckwersheim_derailment
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by fredoralive 9mo ago
I suspect the curtains are closed to avoid causing exposure issues etc. in the photos being taken. As for windows in a computer room, seems a bit unusual, but a nicer working environment than the usual windowless box I'd guess...
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by fredoralive 9mo ago
I’m referring to the fact that there is strong speculation that the Steam Deck(Mk 1 /LCD) SOC was originally commissioned by Magic Leap for their second generation unit, but when the first generation didn’t have whales leaping from the
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by fredoralive 9mo ago
In the current climate for journalism the subeditor is a dying breed…
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by fredoralive 9mo ago
Don’t be so harsh, at least we got the Steam Deck out of all this.
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NASA considers whether to bring sick crew member back to Earth(bbc.co.uk)
7 points by fredoralive 9mo ago|1 comments
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by fredoralive 10mo ago
Law Enforcement Officers, ie the Police.
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by fredoralive 10mo ago
Well, the standard window title bar still does. But with so many apps implementing their own borders, it's a bit of a crapshoot if it (or the window menu itself) will work with many apps. Even Microsoft apps sometimes forget, like Team

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