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by nopakos 2y ago
A 18 year old German flew though Russian air defense, and landed a Cessna near Red Square in Moscow on 28 May 1987!
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The Notorious Flight of Mathias Rust(smithsonianmag.com)
3 points by nopakos 2y ago|1 comments
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Tesla bought over $2M worth of Lidar sensors from Luminar this year(theverge.com)
8 points by nopakos 2y ago|4 comments
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Google announces Pixel 8A, a midrange phone that might go the distance(theverge.com)
2 points by nopakos 2y ago|0 comments
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by nopakos 2y ago
We had PC emulators on the 68000 based Atari ST in the 80s. No extra hardware needed, but very slow! And I'm sure that emulators was a thing from the very first computers.
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Herculaneum papyri reveal Plato's burial place and shed light on his last hours(ansa.it)
4 points by nopakos 2y ago|1 comments
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PICO-8 fantasy console Education Edition(pico-8-edu.com)
14 points by nopakos 3y ago|4 comments
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Vice president of the European Commission hints at Epic store on iOS(twitter.com)
4 points by nopakos 3y ago|0 comments
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Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn 5-star safety rating in EU(theverge.com)
64 points by nopakos 3y ago|22 comments
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Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotify case(reuters.com)
588 points by nopakos 3y ago|677 comments
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by nopakos 3y ago
This hilarious book was published 30 years ago: https://archive.org/details/unixhatershandbo0000unse_c3g9
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by nopakos 3y ago
There is a little button "Code ▽" under the demo if you want to see how it's working!
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AI-CLI-lib: AI help for CLI programs(github.com)
3 points by nopakos 3y ago|1 comments
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by nopakos 3y ago
The ai-cli library detects programs that offer interactive command-line editing through the readline library, and modifies their interface to allow obtaining help from a GPT large language model, such as OpenAI's or one provided throug
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by nopakos 3y ago
Space is precious! Soldered SSDs can't be replaced, so we are stuck with the size we could afford at the time we bought our MacBooks.
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by nopakos 4y ago
Kind of trapped in a large project. Started in Turbo Pascal in 1994, ported to Delphi, and we're still working on it. Maybe will finally have to port it to something else if WASM support is not added soon. I like the language because i
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by nopakos 4y ago
Greece: https://guide.services.gov.gr/
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by nopakos 4y ago
So, there is the theoretical possibility that there could be a Google Play store on iOS, or an Apple App Store on Android! Interesting even as a thought.
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by nopakos 4y ago
A very low-tech tip: I keep a glasses cleaning cloth on my desk. It improves my eyesight instantly!
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by nopakos 4y ago
By chance, I was just reading that typing "x = 4.725" on Atari ST Basic crashed the computer. Still not fixed 35 years later :) [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST_BASIC#Bugs ]
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by nopakos 5y ago
The blog post announcing the release, with nice info like the save as URL feature: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=47278
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Pico-8 Education Edition – A web-based version of pico8(pico-8-edu.com)
2 points by nopakos 5y ago|1 comments
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by nopakos 5y ago
"Ron Gilbert told me I'll never make another Monkey Island" because of this: https://grumpygamer.com/if_i_made_another_monkeyisland [2013]
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by nopakos 5y ago
Ron Gilbert on "conditions" for making a new Monkey island [2013] https://grumpygamer.com/if_i_made_another_monkeyisland
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Return to Monkey Island, follow-up to Monkey Island 2 [video](youtube.com)
16 points by nopakos 5y ago|1 comments
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by nopakos 5y ago
I once got a warning for sexual content. The offensive phrase was "Virgin Mary".
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Run native, statically-compiled apps on any embedded platform, using WebAssembly(github.com)
1 points by nopakos 5y ago|0 comments
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by nopakos 5y ago
From wikipedia: "...[Danny Thorpe] in 1994 while at Borland, he contracted with Santa Cruz startup Cinematronics (David Stafford and Mike Sandige) to build a component model and collision physics engine for a software pinball game. Cin
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by nopakos 9y ago
In Crete there is a dairy product called Xygalo (Ξύγαλο), basically the same word. But I think it look more like cream cheese than yogurt.
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by nopakos 9y ago
Sorry, it's the same in Delphi (Pascal successor). The compilation time goes up exponentially as number of units goes up. Compilation of 2.000 files (750.000 lines) takes about 20 minutes.

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