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by ndiddy 5y ago
The new TI calculators are still Z80 based, so the Python interpreter runs on a separate ARM CPU that communicates with the Z80 over SPI. This creates such a large bottleneck for performance that in most cases TI-BASIC is much faster than P
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by ndiddy 6y ago
There's a bunch of offline maps apps for Android, I use maps.me for example.
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by ndiddy 6y ago
The surface laptop has a Ryzen 4000 CPU, not Ryzen 5000.
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by ndiddy 6y ago
It also allowed Adobe to wipe out competition that was targeted towards the home market (why would you pay $99 for Paint Shop Pro when you could pirate Photoshop for free?)
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by ndiddy 6y ago
There are several submitted patches that add this functionality on the bug report but Gnome developers have not merged them. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154&
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by ndiddy 6y ago
From skimming the datasheet, it looks like a fairly bad product. Sure the A register is extended to 32 bits, but the 8 bit data bus means that it's not going to be much faster than the 65816 and the address bus is still 24 bits. I have
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by ndiddy 6y ago
Another way is how they have two "free" sites: One called "IRS Free File Program by Turbotax" and one called "Turbotax Free Edition". The free file version of Turbotax is only accessible from the IRS free file
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by ndiddy 6y ago
I believe that's only for filing a federal tax return, and for filing your state tax return you still have to either use a tax preparation website or do it on paper.
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by ndiddy 6y ago
Thanks for the info!
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by ndiddy 6y ago
How is the trackpad? Does it support Windows Precision? What material is it made out of? How does it compare to an Apple trackpad?
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by ndiddy 6y ago
Or the app talks to a remote server so it works normally during the review period, but after the app gets approved the author changes a flag on the server and the app changes to "scam mode".
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by ndiddy 6y ago
> almost no one will get the HTTPS version unless you deliberately push them over to it, which you will only be able to do after page load by some JavaScript-based user-agent or feature-based sniffing, so now the page loads and then relo
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by ndiddy 6y ago
Personally I liked the first episode but all the relationship drama later in the season made me stop watching, it felt contrived.
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by ndiddy 6y ago
The only successful examples I've seen of Reddit "unbundling" come from communities that were banned from Reddit. This is because of a quirk of how Reddit handles subreddit bans, where if a subreddit is banned and a new one i
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by ndiddy 6y ago
I’ve never filed an eBay return claim where I had to pay for return shipping. The site just gives you a label to print out and it’s shipped at the seller’s expense.
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by ndiddy 6y ago
My 2006 Thinkpad had a 1600x1200 IPS display. It’s more that Apple cares more about the high-end than the PC market does, so of course more Macs have high-end features than Windows devices.
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by ndiddy 6y ago
The "reddit enhancement suite" add-on gives you a WYSIWYG editing UI on the old site.
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by ndiddy 6y ago
Qualcomm has been unable to compete with Apple's ARM phone processors for years. It's gotten to the point that the only processor that comes close to a new Apple SOC on benchmarks is Apple's previous SOC. Why do you expect th
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by ndiddy 6y ago
Do you still need to use a third-party service in order to get binary software updates between distro releases?
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by ndiddy 6y ago
Lichess (a popular chess site) combats this issue by not actually banning cheaters. Instead, the cheater is not notified that they were caught and is still able play or create games, but they're only matched to other cheaters.
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by ndiddy 6y ago
>My computer hasn’t randomly crashed in years. Wow, what OS do you run?
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by ndiddy 6y ago
If you use the stopwatch, the mode button goes back to the current time display. I don't see an issue.
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by ndiddy 6y ago
Not him, but I'm currently working on an unauthorized port of an old Japanese computer game to the Sega Saturn. I imagine this has no commercial value.
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by ndiddy 6y ago
> I don't remember ever, not even once, using a paid search engine. I believe he's referring to Yahoo, where you used to have to pay a few hundred dollars a year to get your site listed on their directory.
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by ndiddy 6y ago
You can get a bag of pre-cut frozen vegetables for a dollar or so, and rice takes about as long as mac and cheese to cook. Eating microwave frozen foods is far more expensive than eating rice and vegetables. I'd say your education and
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by ndiddy 7y ago
The MCU variant on the motherboard https://i.imgur.com/ehNHPeY.jpg is one-time programmable, as opposed to an EPROM. Because of this, I wouldn't worry about it losing its data, as OTP ROMs use blown fuses to store 1&#x
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by ndiddy 7y ago
A working one is much harder to find, the hard drive is signed to the individual unit so when it breaks it's impossible to replace and you end up with a brick.