mmphosis

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   by mmphosis 7y ago

   I am talking about short-haul flights where boarding is almost as easy as getting on the train. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/scotlands-orkney... https://www.harbourair.com/harbo
2. 602.▲
   by mmphosis 7y ago

   * Captive market of people sitting in the airplane shopping mall for hours. * Extra charges for everything. Compare airplane boarding with simply boarding a train in Switzerland / Europe: You get on the train. If you miss the train,
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   Rarely Used but Handy HTML Tags(medium.com)

   3 points by mmphosis 7y ago|0 comments
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   by mmphosis 8y ago

   early 90's on the Mac: NCSA Mosaic -- my comment at the time: That will never catch on. late 90's on Mac and Windows: Netscape, Windows95+ on PC: Internet Exploder 2001+ iBook: Safari 2008+ Intel Mac: Firefox today Ubuntu and D
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   Setting up a C++ project environment with nix(blog.galowicz.de)

   34 points by mmphosis 8y ago|2 comments
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   A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [video](youtube.com)

   1 points by mmphosis 8y ago|1 comments
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   Closures when variables are stored on a stack?(old.reddit.com)

   2 points by mmphosis 8y ago|0 comments
8. 608.▲
   by mmphosis 8y ago

   > or some other approach to de-candy-ify their desktop. It's called Linux.
9. 609.▲
   by mmphosis 8y ago

   I wish I could "Sync" without connecting to Firefox, among other intrusive things: geo.enabled ,false,disable asking to share location extensions.pocket.enabled,false,disable pocket
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    Exploiting Signed Bootloaders to Circumvent UEFI Secure Boot(habr.com)

    5 points by mmphosis 8y ago|1 comments
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    Harbour Air and MagniX Partner to Build World’s First All-Electric Airline(harbourair.com)

    1 points by mmphosis 8y ago|0 comments
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    Hot tech or hype magnet? Transport Canada funds a study of 'hyperloop' transport(cbc.ca)

    1 points by mmphosis 8y ago|0 comments
13. 613.▲
    by mmphosis 8y ago

    https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
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    A formally verified proof of the soundness of System F(github.com)

    2 points by mmphosis 8y ago|0 comments
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    by mmphosis 8y ago

    Your version number is an IP address. Among the many problems that can occur, like leaving out --ppapi-flash-version= or putting a space after it: exec /usr/bin/chromium --ppapi-flash-path=/usr/lib/adobe-f
16. 616.▲
    by mmphosis 8y ago

    I think that most code benefits from better variable names. For ease of typing and for historical reasons, abbreviated variable names are in the C and makefile domain: BIN = BINary executable SRCS = SouRCe fileS OBJS = OBJect fileS DEPS =
17. 617.▲
    by mmphosis 8y ago

    I swap left Alt and left Ctrl because my ancient "Mac" muscle memory expects a Control key and Command key in those places. I actually swapped the physical keys on the PC keyboard as well. alias x='/usr/bin&#x2
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    by mmphosis 8y ago

    Thanks so much for this. It feels like I've got some of the browser back. I avoid using tabs, I have them mostly disabled by default. This frees up the screen space taken away many years ago. This bit of chrome gives me the equivil
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    by mmphosis 8y ago

    Apple ][ Fire Demo -- 64 Bytes http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/apple2_fire/
20. 620.▲
    by mmphosis 8y ago

    The Poisonwood Bible a novel by Barbara Kingsolver
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    Unexpected fallout from /usr merge in Debian(lwn.net)

    1 points by mmphosis 8y ago|0 comments
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    by mmphosis 8y ago

    Here's another one: http://www.erasmatazz.com/library/the-journal-of-computer/jc...
23. 623.▲
    by mmphosis 8y ago

    Zoomed, not maximized. Windows are sized only as large as they need to be. You can drag and drop between windows/apps, for example dragging to the trash can on the desktop. I think full screen is excellent for a few consumer apps li
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    The Origin of HyperCard in the Breakdown of the Bicycle for the Mind (2015)(medium.com)

    8 points by mmphosis 8y ago|0 comments
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    Succinctness is Power (2002)(paulgraham.com)

    1 points by mmphosis 8y ago|0 comments
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    This Remote Hawaiian Island Just Vanished(civilbeat.org)

    1 points by mmphosis 8y ago|0 comments
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    Normal Accidents(en.wikipedia.org)

    2 points by mmphosis 8y ago|0 comments
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    by mmphosis 8y ago

    I agree there are worse types of power plants than nuclear: no SO2, NO2 or PM10, but at the risk of the release of Cesium-134, Cesium-137, Iodine-131, Xenon-133, strontium-90, plutonium-239. https://www.scientificamerican.com&
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    Playing today's games in a thousand years(eurogamer.net)

    1 points by mmphosis 8y ago|0 comments
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    by mmphosis 8y ago

    65536 was a lot when I first got into programming, there was also floating point, and then the realization that we don't need to be constrained to 4 bits, 8 bits, 16 bits, 24 bits, 32 bits, 64 bits, 128 bits, two digit years, 640K of R