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oniony
3y ago
It's not a camera, it's an optical sensor, lol.
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oniony
3y ago
My friend used to back up his Amiga hard drive to video cassette back in the day.
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oniony
3y ago
For a bit of historical context, during this period the Java ecosystem was very heavily into the Service Locator ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_locator_pattern ) pattern. This meant that your classes would look
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oniony
3y ago
That's so weird. Any idea why they decided to do the C64 version as a top-down.
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oniony
3y ago
Sainsbury's is a reduction of John Sainsbury's supermarket, so they need sense. Just like Wilko's is Wilkinson's general store.
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oniony
3y ago
Do Americans find it difficult to slice their own mushrooms?
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oniony
3y ago
Same. I kinda regret not paying the one-off lifetime fee now.
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oniony
3y ago
I bought my first Spectrum (a Spectrum+) in 1985. It was a great machine for its time and cost. I learnt to code using the manual that came with it and can probably thank it for my career as a software developer. I still have fond memories
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oniony
3y ago
I was completely convinced Groundhog Day was something that was made up for the film! Had no idea it was a real thing.
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oniony
3y ago
The 2,000 Yen note is mentioned in the article. Regarding the coin, I wonder if drilling a hole in them would get them to work in the vending machines.
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oniony
3y ago
WAME should publish an apology on YouTube, but in Ned Luke's voice.
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oniony
3y ago
Downloading a file or a loading screen is also a value in linear space. The only difference, in my mind, is that: • Progress is expected to go upwards as the underlying task is completed. It can, however, stall on a value or it can reset ba
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oniony
3y ago
I actually did this, inadvertently, as a kid in the 1980s on my parents' four-channel television set. From what I can remember (I was quite young) it pulled the colour towards the spot where I placed the magnet and left the rest of the
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oniony
3y ago
Missed an opportunity to put a saveloy to great effect.
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oniony
3y ago
Arch is literally the easiest thing to maintain. I've been running it for over fifteen years, update maybe once a year at most and 99% of the time it's a case of running pacdiff and updating a handful of config files.
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oniony
3y ago
Or maybe that's what it's supposed to do.
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oniony
3y ago
Besides, board games are dirt cheap entertainment. Assuming a cost of 50 of your local currency, split between four people for entertainment for perhaps six to ten hours is hard to beat. And you can typically sell the games to recover 50% o
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oniony
3y ago
Ah, that explains why they're so similar then!
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oniony
3y ago
Yeah, there's no electronics here.
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oniony
3y ago
Reminds me of https://excalidraw.com/
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oniony
3y ago
If you want to read of another fun fuck up, read about the time mankind set light to the coal seam under Centralia in 1962. It's predicted to burn for another 250 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine
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oniony
3y ago
With automation. I have my Google account transfer to my wife after _n_ months of inactivity, for example.
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oniony
3y ago
Yes, this is covered in the video. He talks about use in antiquity and in modern buildings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9-p4AkgVU8&t=407s
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oniony
3y ago
Interesting. I use `diff`.
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oniony
3y ago
Already posted
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oniony
3y ago
So Mary Shelley wasn't too far off.
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oniony
3y ago
There is no reason you could not stab the croissant with a heat conducting spike or two, to get the interior temperature up faster.
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oniony
3y ago
But there's no copyright notice attached to the copyright notice, so it must be a public domain copyright notice.
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oniony
3y ago
It's literally the cleverest name ever, and completely appropriate to what it is.
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oniony
3y ago
I love stollen. It's one of the few aspects of Christmas I actually look forward to.
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