omnibrain

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A visual guide to how the Hong Kong fire spread(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by omnibrain 11mo ago|0 comments
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by omnibrain 11mo ago
> ? exactly
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by omnibrain 11mo ago
Morrowind had (and still has) a huge modding scene. Especially because it's even more mod friendly as its successor. A big plus back in the day was that the Construction Kit came with the original game disks. So you had direct access
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by omnibrain 11mo ago
Sadly it's just 16:9. Not even 16:10. I now run 2 3:2 Displays (BenQ RD280U) at home (more in the office, but I never go there) and love my vertical real estate. (No, portrait mode won't work out)
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by omnibrain 1y ago
> Minecraft is of course the poster child for very large worlds of interest these days. Minecraft used to create very interesting worlds until they changed the algorithm and the landscapes became plain and boring. It took them about 10 y
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by omnibrain 1y ago
I played with pelleted cattle feed as a child in the early 90ies. I still remeber the smell. Not sure if this contained meat and bone meal but it's in the back of my head ever since.
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by omnibrain 1y ago
I live near a lake with lots of Swans. There is always one solitary one who is just into threatening everybody. Even outside breeding season and with no kids around. But I suspect he wasn't born this way, but some kids may have hit him
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by omnibrain 1y ago
They will probably keep the other iPads at 60Hz displays in future. I don't need the other Pro features.
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by omnibrain 1y ago
> Can't view his reddit history as I'm in the UK What does this mean?
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FM Synths Explained with Memes [video](youtube.com)
1 points by omnibrain 1y ago|0 comments
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by omnibrain 1y ago
I think one of the troubles is deliviring the therapy, because generally the brain is protected from virii reaching him.
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by omnibrain 1y ago
With SD cards relatively cheap I long thought about, why delete them at all. Just put them into a box after importing the images/when full. So you still have a physical backup.
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by omnibrain 1y ago
Modwiggler changed name around the same time.
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Transportation, divergence, and the industrial revolution (2014)(unenumerated.blogspot.com)
1 points by omnibrain 1y ago|0 comments
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Tolkien Against the Grain(dissentmagazine.org)
5 points by omnibrain 1y ago|0 comments
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by omnibrain 1y ago
In the beginning I had my Obsidian folder in my iCloud, but had not so happy experiences regarding the conflict resolution.
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Leibniz 101: a simple guide to Xaoc Devices' binary subsystem(signalsounds.com)
1 points by omnibrain 1y ago|0 comments
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by omnibrain 1y ago
moricons.dll is also still around. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250507-00/?p=11...
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by omnibrain 1y ago
A few years ago, before the great System Settings revamp, I saw a post of system settings dialogs that had a 1:1 lineage back to NeXTStep.
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by omnibrain 1y ago
I tried to copy some files once. I was unsure about the syntax of "cp" and my sleep deprived brain did neither remember to just try "man cp", nor when I searched via Bing to add "syntax" to the search term &quo
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by omnibrain 1y ago
> Most people will never need a Quinolone At least in Germany eye doctors are very happy to prescribe them. It's "only" eye drops, but it is (for laymen) almost impossible to find information if they are also dangerous in
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by omnibrain 1y ago
Ok, but how do you call what we are doing: We have an interpreted language in which you can call "subroutines" by name. But you can build the name in you program "on the fly", for example out of data.
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by omnibrain 1y ago
I'm sure this is a naive take, but why is it not possible to enter a new key into the BIOS (dating myself, I know it's EFI) by hand?
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by omnibrain 1y ago
Just a few days ago, when those sprite pictures and videos first made their rounds, I thought about ball lightnings. Back in the 90ies I had a physics teacher that was obsessed with them because he saw one as a child. I figured, with the ad
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by omnibrain 1y ago
I always use the following analogy: I f your customer orders a feature, you implement all the code, just the button to call the feature is missing, then you delivered nothing. If you just add the button to the program, but implement nothing
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by omnibrain 1y ago
Those fill me with so much nostalgia. I think I read in a magazine about moricons.dll, this lead me to opening every dll and exe on our computer to look for icons.
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by omnibrain 1y ago
Oh, I haven't heard the name "Dr. Dobb's" for quite a few years now. I remember when they finally shut it down, they promised to freeze the website and preserve it in a read-only format, for all the computing history it
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by omnibrain 1y ago
My favourite example is a famous pop song: Desert Rose by Sting. There isn’t much else like it, I could find.
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In Memoriam: SF and Fine Artist David Schleinkofer(downthetubes.net)
13 points by omnibrain 1y ago|1 comments
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Macallan enthusiasm drove now deflating/deflated secondary market whisky bubble(old.reddit.com)
3 points by omnibrain 1y ago|0 comments

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