hyakosm

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by hyakosm 5y ago
> Since there isn’t a widescreen resolution in the SDTV standards En Europe we had WSS (Widescreen signaling), a digital signal embedded in line 23 describing the aspect ratio: full 16/9, full 4/3, letterbox 16/9, etc. It
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by hyakosm 5y ago
They've made a lot of efforts recently. Their new official website (quebec.ca) is clean, fast and straightforward and the new website for public healthcare (RAMQ) is nice but they still have a lot of improvements to do for administrati
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by hyakosm 5y ago
I like the satisfaction to manage my proper website and tools. It's like building it's own chairs, I could maybe find better furniture for a better price, but there is a pleasure to make its own things without depending on other s
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by hyakosm 5y ago
This is literally the only app having performance issues on my iPhone SE 2016.
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by hyakosm 5y ago
- It's slow - Middle-click don't open the folder in a new tab - It doesn't natively handle SFTP mounting - The visual fixed arrangement of icons can be weird
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by hyakosm 5y ago
The Finder doesn't even allow me to middle-click to open a folder in a new tab, it's horrible. I miss KDE Dolphin.
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by hyakosm 5y ago
I love it! (And George Abitbol would be proud of you)
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by hyakosm 5y ago
I hope too, I don't want my drawing efforts be wasted.
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by hyakosm 5y ago
Do we have a proof of this?
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by hyakosm 5y ago
And a jack headphones port :)
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by hyakosm 5y ago
With a RaspberryPi, a serial interface and a real VT terminal you can still do a lot of things!
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by hyakosm 6y ago
CRTC has done a lot to protect telcos interests, Canadian people pays the big price.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
Yes. I also made the choice to pay for my email hosting from a reliable provider, it's cheap (1.5$ month) and I'm considered as a customer, I can have a support with real humans.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
2x scaling in 4K is the Hi-DPI equivalent of 1080p: on 13 or 14 inch screens, elements on screen are really tiny. On this screen size, we have mainly 1280x800 (Apple) or 1366x720 (PC) resolutions, where the Hi-DPI or Retina equivalent (2x s
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by hyakosm 6y ago
Tier-1 support for ARMv8 is a great thing, I hope using it for Raspberry Pi or similar single-board computer.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
I was searching for the quote because the text is italic, and I realized it's because you wrote UNIX with a star two times (for Unix-like ?)
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by hyakosm 6y ago
The Amiga had a preemptive operating system, but because of the lack of memory protection Linus Torvalds called it "pseudo-preemptive" and considered it equivalent as cooperative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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Intel 2.0 Reboot(mondaynote.com)
4 points by hyakosm 6y ago|1 comments
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by hyakosm 6y ago
With my new TV, I have a "modern" remote with few buttons because everything happens in the UI. When I watch TV I need sometimes to enable subtitles (only on non-French speaking channels). With a traditional bulky remote I had a s
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by hyakosm 6y ago
ASCII is still alive in UTF-8 and other extended encoding systems. :)
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by hyakosm 6y ago
Interior flights will be banned only in case of a train alternative inferior to 2.30h. > Nous avons choisi [le seuil en train de] 2h30 car 4 heures, ça vient assécher des territoires souvent enclavés comme le grand Massif central... Ce s
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by hyakosm 6y ago
It's only for commercial tickets from one city to another. Short flights will still exist in correspondance of a bigger flight.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
In this document, it's rendered in bitmap.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
> There's already GTK and Qt. What more do you want? There's GTK2, GTK3, vanilla Qt, KDE-Qt with additional tooling... The problem in Linux is the lack of integration between these tools. The fragmentation of the GNU/Linux
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by hyakosm 6y ago
Yes! I meant "by young people of today used to modern Windows"
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by hyakosm 6y ago
David Plummer created the task manager and the pinball game (Space cadet). Search about him, he has explained and revealed a lot of interesting facts last year.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
The control panel was simple and clean in classic Windows, in Windows XP it's a maze with big icons and hypertext links, hopefully the classic view was still there.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
PySol ( https://pysolfc.sourceforge.io/ ) is awesome and multiplatform.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
NextStep was awesome but the computers were high-end expensive workstations. Windows 95 works on a 486 without FPU.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
Windows 95 is probably the oldest OS easily usable by young people. It's fascinating because: - It has established strong foundations about Windows UI. The Menu/Toolbar couple, scrollbars with a relative size, 3D buttons, start me

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