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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
What I hadn't realised (due to not having thought heavily about it) is that it's NOT just about the amount of ice melting that threatens sea levels, but the weight and location of the ice before it melts. The Antarctic landmass is
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
[Utterly Off-topic] - The body font on that page is 'zilla-slab' which to me looks really nice, definitely Courier New's beautiful cousin.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
One would assume, that like the faulty brake part, the legal process should be able to subpoena all the logs and the video footage taken by your car, and use it to either exonerate or convict you. Alas, I think it will take a few high profi
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
My other comment here is flagged. Really?! If you don't agree with what I say, be polite and state why. If that's still to much of a bother, vote me down and move on... But flagging?! c'mon.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
The harder problem isn't the software - that's solvable to a degree by most of us on this thread - it's the hardware. Alexa et al. are packed full of hardware tweaks such as array based far-field microphones which can determi
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Woman lost metaverse Instagram handle days after Facebook name change(arstechnica.com)
3 points by mattowen_uk 5y ago|0 comments
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Poll: Was NeXTSTEP a nice looking UI?
4 points by mattowen_uk 5y ago|3 comments
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
No. It looks dated and horrible.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
I have a theory that NeXTStep is so grey, is because high resolution monitors with sharp text were only really affordable in monochrome. So the theming originally leant into that.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
None of that happened to me. HN was one click on the back button. That said, agreed - LJ is trash.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
The official Windows Powertoys now include a bulk renamer.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Omicron is the beginning of Covid-19 becoming a 'mature' virus; it doesn't kill (most) of it's hosts and it spreads quickly. This is the aim of any would be successful virus. I forsee a future where only the vunerable ne
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Why not? LBC are an established commercial radio station here in the UK, who try to focus on the 'facts' of the news, and encourage open discussion. Granted a far few of the presenters lack impartiality, but that's easily out
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
I have all the bits and a spare phone line to run a classic BBS. It something I want to do before the UK phone network goes fully VOIP and modem speeds end up being capped at 9600 baud due to the digital compression. A last hurrah to that e
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
I have a rudimentary app wrapper for HN on Android, that just renders HN in a webWiew control but shells out to your default browser for external links. It was the starting point of my own HN app, but as usual I never finished it. I'm
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Ooh, TIL, thanks. :)
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
No. I didn't think there would be any interest tbh. I have 100s of little apps like that which I have never shared...
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
> I would have many memory cards that could be set to Read-Only by physically flipping a tab just like on an old 3 1/2 floppy. SD cards (not the micro ones) have a slider on the side to make them read-only.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Another astigmatism person here. I cannot get on with dark colour schemes at all . Every so often I give it a go, in my IDE or desktop theme, and then quickly switch it back. It's not that it's too dark per se, but it feels like
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Yes it does - it's specified via a registry key. I tried to find a reliable page to link to but the best I could find was this: https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-autoexec.html Many, many, moons ago Windows NT had support
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
I've ported fortune to Win32, and now have it show me a nice quote whenever I open a Command Prompt. It was feature I always wanted to have, and gave up waiting for MS to provide it. For me, my first ever experience of fortune was on D
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
So who shoe-d the horses then, was it the farmers?
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Not true. WhatsApp uses the same E2E encryption as Signal. The only place it doesn't use it, is when you are talking to WhatsApp Business users, as the business API needs access to the messages.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
I can't recall the last time I saw someone use that on HN. I'm pretty sure most people don't know it exists.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Here in the UK, on public roads, they are legally required to sign post that ANPR[1] is in use in that area, and the cameras have to be easily seen, AND a bright yellow colour. The shady side of it, is on private property, like car parks, w
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Either way, a two metre Amazonian mermaid is kinda hot.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
African or European?
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
Windows 11 has a cut down version of fancy zones built in.
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by mattowen_uk 5y ago
This is my personal Start Page: https://imgur.com/a/RKHB5LX It's built with a simple single file PHP that loads a list of links and formats them into collections of topic cards. The edit button lets me update the
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100 Years Ago RCA Sent the First Voice Message over the Air(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by mattowen_uk 5y ago|0 comments

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