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by komadori 4y ago
Totally off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure Wolfenstein 3D was real mode, because I remember reading that Rise of the Triad was based on the Wolfenstein engine and one of the changes involved converting it to protected mode.
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by komadori 4y ago
Some of it will lie within the bounds of individual houses, but, yes, a lot relates to the streets. However, in the UK, aside from smaller infill projects, property developers will construct both the houses and the streets together. The str
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by komadori 4y ago
Wow! I worked at Google circa 2015 and there was an internal web page showing how many employees there were. My recollection is that there were about 50k full-time employees and 50k TVCs then. Even then, it felt crazy how large and incohesi
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by komadori 4y ago
Sure, they're probably not going to lay any actual cable, but there's a lot of infrastructure needed to bring the cable from the head-end to the exterior wall of your house and some of that can be laid in advance. Ideally, if you&
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by komadori 4y ago
"such as ducts, chambers and termination points"* This sort of thing is much cheaper to put in when you're building the street/house than after the fact. * https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2023&
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by komadori 4y ago
It's not necessarily a hardware limitation (depending on hardware), but the at the physical layer the frequency plan for a DSL or PON connection typically allocates a narrower band for upstream traffic than downstream traffic. GPON is
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by komadori 4y ago
Flux [1] by Stephen Baxter is also about the inhabitants of a neutron star. Hard sci-fi, but maybe not quite as Hard as Dragon's Egg so far as I recall. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_(novel)
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by komadori 4y ago
Twitter Business Pro customers can suppress tweets from Free, Blue, and Blue Plus accounts for a small fee per tweet. However, if you want to suppress tweets from Gold, Platinum, or Platinum Plus accounts then you'll need to reach out
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by komadori 4y ago
The novel "Time and Time again" by Ben Elton explores the possibility of averting of the world wars via time travel. I really enjoyed the book and would recommend. Without wanting to spoil anything, I would say it broadly agrees w
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by komadori 4y ago
If you want to increase the loading gauge of a railway, it may be expensive/difficult to reroute the track to go through a different tunnel. Also, making the track less straight may impair the maximum speed of the line.
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by komadori 4y ago
I moved to BitWarden a year ago after a billing problem with LastPass that their support handled badly. I haven't had any problems with the migrated data and I finally deleted my LastPass account last month.
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by komadori 4y ago
What's the website? I can only think of CantoDict.
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by komadori 4y ago
I used to use Mint ages ago, but then I switched to Ubuntu MATE because I had some problems with Mint. It's so long ago I can't clearly remember what they were, but it had something to do with the way Mint's package repositor
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by komadori 4y ago
Nick Bostrom's paper on the vulnerable world hypothesis explores this idea: https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf
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by komadori 4y ago
Revelation Space, Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap, and Inhibitor Phase by Alastair Reynolds for the main arc.
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by komadori 4y ago
Only US citizens, residents, and government employees can buy them.
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by komadori 4y ago
Not an answer, but nrp commented previously ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32181892 ) that the tooling costs for a pointing stick would be in the region of half a million dollars. My gut feeling is that you could re
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by komadori 4y ago
Huh, I hadn't realised Apple had been one of the investors when ARM Holdings was spun out of Acorn Computers. It seems their interest was in the Newton using ARM chips.
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by komadori 4y ago
In that case, first become an expert in life-span extension!
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by komadori 4y ago
> It is not possible for someone to buy their way into lordship or ladyship. Life peerages are still routinely created (excessively so, in fact) and, arguably, giving generously to your favourite political party might improve your chance
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by komadori 4y ago
That's probably true. Not that there aren't bits of Google doing fun and interesting work, it's a massive company after all. I've worked at a few, what I would consider to be large orgs, but my experience of Google was t
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by komadori 4y ago
A 1923 aerospace engineering degree probably is less useful than a 1990 Computer Science degree because more time has elapsed, but I imagine that both would confer useful skills and fundamental knowledge still relevant today. The notion tha
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by komadori 4y ago
Oh, wow, thanks! I did likewise and assumed the mobile port hadn't actually been released yet. Google's search is clearly awful :-/.
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by komadori 4y ago
I saw some DALL-E output recently where it had reproduced the watermark from a stock photography site! https://twitter.com/dalle2pics/status/1531721904121315328?s=...
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by komadori 4y ago
I wonder if Jörg Schilling's (RIP) star* handles this better. I recall he was pretty scathing about GNU tar back when I used Solaris. * http://cdrtools.sourceforge.net/private/star.html
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by komadori 4y ago
Well, I'm using a ThinkPad right now and I don't own a Framework. Even though I tend to like each successive model less and less, I'm kind of resigned to my next laptop being a ThinkPad too :-P. Whether the market justifies t
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by komadori 4y ago
In that case, I will continue to believe that you have an ultra-secret pointing stick keyboard in development that could be announced at any moment ;-).
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by komadori 4y ago
This was true, but UK stamp duty was reformed in 2014 to use marginal bands like income tax.
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by komadori 4y ago
There are no public benefits in Svalbard because they send anyone who can't support themselves back to Norway. The economy is small and dominated by a few state-owned employers who own almost all the housing and rent it to their employ
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by komadori 4y ago
A peerage in the United Kingdom is an aristocratic title which confers the right to sit in the House of Lords, the upper chamber of the legislature (parliament). Historically, peerages were hereditary titles passed down to the eldest son.

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