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by lysace 1y ago
Last time I heard the service was still actively maintained. I think it's still a thing in Africa, somehow.
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by lysace 1y ago
> Razr might have been a bit too early for that ? Opera Mini worked on the original Razr. Painfully slowly and with that giant cheesy font though. And that ZX81-like painful keypad. We spent a fun day chasing down some weird bug in its T
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by lysace 1y ago
I meant throughout the life span of J2ME, not specifically in 2005. We built Opera Mini 1.0 in 8 months with a team starting with about 2-3 people, growing to about 10. > You realize this is tiny? Well, yes - I remember being happy that
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by lysace 1y ago
> The result of all that is in 2005 J2ME was surprisingly capable, but virtually no one was using it, and so Opera Mini was kind of by itself for a while. Compatibility with J2ME was really fragmented and this was the time when there wer
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by lysace 1y ago
This August 10 the service will have been online for 20 years. It's certainly the most long-lived service I ever co-created. I'll probably even feel a bit sad whenever they shut it down. The version launched in 2005 did simple l
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by lysace 1y ago
Not quite my experience. > where every single server in a country would receive infinite re-captcha. What does that even mean? Have you also disabled cookies? Typically it's a Cloudflare captcha if you're doing that, not a re-c
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by lysace 1y ago
Hmm. 1. I linked to a specific moment in time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JkzrR-hznE&t=326s This was removed from the URL. 2. I adapted the title to fit this moment: (Something like:) Video of the stream of molten
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How ASML Makes Chips Faster With Its New High NA Machine(youtube.com)
1 points by lysace 1y ago|1 comments
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by lysace 1y ago
HTML email was a mistake. I believe the guilty party is Microsoft with Outlook 97. https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-outlook/97
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by lysace 1y ago
During this admin? https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/23/boeing-737-max-crashes-doj.h... (3 days ago) > Boeing, Justice Department reach deal to avoid prosecution over deadly 737 Max crashes See also: https:&#x
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by lysace 1y ago
Using the London subway is an adventure. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9xxlky2pno (2024) > Phone signal goes live on 25% of underground Tube
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by lysace 1y ago
Gitea (Github clone in Go) is easy to deploy.
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by lysace 1y ago
> Seeing them converted to the nearest 32nd of an inch feels like vandalism. Malicious compliance. As a non-American: I love it. ;)
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by lysace 1y ago
This v2 Sorkin movie is way overdue. "The Social Network" (2010) seems so innocent now.
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Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company (The Daily Show)(youtube.com)
4 points by lysace 1y ago|1 comments
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by lysace 1y ago
Github PRs. I bet Google are kicking themselves for killing Google Code. https://code.google.com/archive/about > But alas, in 2015 Google bid farewell to the service
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by lysace 1y ago
This is quite plausible.
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by lysace 1y ago
Ahem: > and i don't wish cancer on anyone. vs > Get yourself a better doctor [in the context of: "Here's a nickel, Kid. Go buy yourself a real computer."] Do own your statements, Kid.
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by lysace 1y ago
That pure hate of yours. :/ Ugly.
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by lysace 1y ago
Now that they have a text editor that can be used in a terminal: Calling it: 2025 will be the year of Windows on the server. /s
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Tutorial: How to File the Edge off a MacBook Pro (2010)(youtube.com)
5 points by lysace 1y ago|3 comments
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by lysace 1y ago
I was inspired to go look for this after purchasing the otherwise pretty decent Apple Magic Keyboard. Brand new USB-C revision, launched in November 2024. The edges of the aluminium body are very sharp. I guess they haven't gotten to
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by lysace 1y ago
The JVM was the first VM I got to know, at uni in like 1996 or so. Had fun building stuff using the Jasmin "assembler". Seems like it's on Github now: https://github.com/davidar/jasmin > Jasmin was wr
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by lysace 1y ago
Extremely well-compensated murican SV people: doing that Homer Simpson move trying to hide in a hedge.
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by lysace 1y ago
https://archive.is/5mKBo > To see why it is so difficult to restrict access to AI chips, consider Johor, a part of southern Malaysia once better known for its palm-oil plantations. Located just across the border from Sin
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by lysace 1y ago
They shared the Nobel prize for CRISPR. Yet you chose to lead with the American one. :/
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by lysace 1y ago
> When you go to a modern website and you see it downloads 900kb of JavaScript just to show you the homepage, how do you feel about that? That shipping sites like that should cause you to pay some kind of tax. Use that tax income to inve
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by lysace 1y ago
And there were no patterns, particulary between 1992-1995, for MS Windows apps?
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Gatekeeping or not, it was a useful indicator. There was so much crap.
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by lysace 1y ago
There has been so much VB love here lately. Here are some counterpoints: In the 90s, when you saw that a Windows app needed Visual Basic DLLs, you kind of knew that the app in question was very likely created by a complete amateur. The best

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