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by geenew 5y ago
I would be sad to see it go, if only for the fact that they are (afaik) the only ones keeping mainframes alive as a modern thing. Idle speculation, but I wonder if that could save IBM, if and when the market starts to sour on cloud computin
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by geenew 5y ago
It's just an in-joke, it was a common misspelling on slashdot.
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by geenew 5y ago
I believe the correct spelling is 'powerfull'.
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by geenew 5y ago
The SE2 absolutely requires a case, too. The glass exterior is far too slippery. The rounded edges make a firm grip even more uncertain. The protruding camera makes a case required as well if you don’t want to be mildly annoyed every time y
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by geenew 5y ago
There’s always mpg123
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by geenew 5y ago
There will most likely be some sophistry/FUD on the part of lobbyists. Fusion in the long-term answer will provide benefits far beyond just eliminating power station greenhouse gas emissions, I suspect, but there are many technical and
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Hunga Tonga volcano spewed ash 36 miles high, a world record(washingtonpost.com)
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by geenew 5y ago
Global numbers from last year: "A record 260 gigawatts (GW) of new renewable energy capacity was added worldwide in 2020, up 50% from the year before, ... Cumulatively, installed global renewable generation capacity amounted to 2,799 G
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by geenew 5y ago
Jeremy Usborne: It's just, Big Suze and everyone, they're coming over. And you might want to make yourself scarce because we're going to be taking some magic mushrooms. Mark Corrigan: Magic mushrooms? Jeremy Usborn
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by geenew 5y ago
The apparent disregard of the risk of nuclear war that is evident in a lot of the internet commentary around the Ukraine war can only be worrying. Many people are willing to at least declare in internet posts that they think the risk of a n
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by geenew 5y ago
Relevant bit of related humour: "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love IPv6" https://www.theregister.com/2012/08/21/verity_stob_ipv6/ Choice quote: "'Do you NATter with your Neighbo
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by geenew 5y ago
One of my achievements in life is a email exchange I had at around the same age with someone from Cray, a conversation sparked after a newsgroup post about the model of computers used in the book version of Jurassic Park. It wasn’t anything
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by geenew 5y ago
The idea is that parties have to appeal to a various groups in society in order to win elections, preventing them from taking any position that is too obnoxious to any one group. Thus, centrism. Systems with ranked choice or similar measure
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by geenew 5y ago
And yet somehow there is regular turnover of the governing party approximately every 10 years, and the dominant parties have almost to a one been centrist. Not a terrible system.
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by geenew 5y ago
I can see why you used a throwaway. No need to godwin this up. It’s already clearly been stated the military will not be used. This is about enforcing laws which have been flouted for weeks, to the significant harm of citizens and industry.
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by geenew 5y ago
The capital city is still essentially lawless, and the local police force either refuses or is unable to fix the situation. This lets the feds use their own police to enforce existing law, for example.
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by geenew 5y ago
Who said anything about an online poll? “ The poll was conducted Feb. 9 and 10, 2022 among a random selection of 1,506 Canadian adults who are Maru Voice Canada panelists and is accurate within +/- 2.5 per cent, 19 times out of 20.” It
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by geenew 5y ago
hey, the steward gets back with his girl, that's a happy ending
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by geenew 5y ago
a good bad movie. an entertaining movie
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by geenew 5y ago
"Radio on the internet " s/Radio/Phonebook
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by geenew 5y ago
They had a lot of menus in the yellow pages. Pages and pages of menus. Not for every restaurant, though, just those that paid for them.
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by geenew 5y ago
Fwiw I’ve used a P50s and dislike the keyboard and track point greatly. The keyboard isn’t as stiff, and the track point feels imprecise. There is much more flex in the frame than older (t450, t500, x61) thinkpads that I’ve used, as well. T
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by geenew 5y ago
Esperanto: https://esperanto.cat/wordleo/
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by geenew 5y ago
Some of the original backup camera models (in ford cars at least) were integrated into the rear view mirror. Worked fine for its purpose and didn’t involve a central dash monitor.
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Total Commander: Getting Started(helgeklein.com)
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by geenew 5y ago
That is what we pay them for, to a material degree. iOS wins in a lot of use-cases because it's perceived as the platform that better protects privacy. For me, it's fine if they lose some battles, but they should budget to win the
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by geenew 5y ago
“A multi xmp system?!” is the quote I think. That line always stuck with me. Kind of a disappointment really that the movie had a thinking machine instead of a cray; the thinking machine had a lot of blinkenlights but the cray was always co
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by geenew 5y ago
Makes me think of the oft-repeated joke on MobileTechReview about bottom-of-the-line thinkpads with low-quality screens: "The laptop the IT department gets you when they hate you"
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by geenew 5y ago
I’ve thought for a while that regex could make for a good competition. Given an input, write a regex that will get some output. Multiple competitors get the same test, first one to produce the output wins. In a tie, shortest regex wins :) W
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by geenew 5y ago
Could you clarify: is this a replacement for traditional hydrocarbon based co2 producing fuels that does not produce co2 gas as an output when burned? That seems almost too good to be true. If the above is true, how does the cost, or the ab

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