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by petecox 9y ago
is café con horchata a big thing in the US? I don't remember seeing it on my travels. It's not widely known in Australia (to us Anglos) but a Mexican friend supplied me with some and it tasted better than the almond or soy substit
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by petecox 9y ago
I'm not sure. And I donated my copy to a friend some years back.
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by petecox 9y ago
I had the original 1992 printed manual using the lisp syntax; it used the same REPL as a Scheme I was using. A missed opportunity to release it for the web - it would have predated clojurescript by nearly 2 decades.
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by petecox 9y ago
Perhaps next time I want to visit Canada I'll go Melbourne -> Seoul -> Mexico City -> Montreal The previous time it was Melbourne -> LA -> Newark -> Montreal, flying home Vancouver -> LA -> Brisbane -> Melbou
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by petecox 9y ago
> if your final destination from Sydney isn't London or New York then you need to make a connection anyway. England is the 'motherland', so is still a popular destination for some and for Brits wanting to visit the colonie
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by petecox 9y ago
Perhaps we'll see an e-ink smartphone other than the recently announced Yotaphone 3!
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by petecox 9y ago
On power drain, it's an internet phone, the GSM/LTE module only needs to be active when you're not in range of wifi. Which for certain use cases such as being at home in an office, much of the day it can be switched off. In u
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by petecox 9y ago
The reason for choosing i.MX is that it can boot with a mainstream Linux kernel. https://github.com/etnaviv
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by petecox 9y ago
Before they switched to Qt, Nokia had extensions to GTK called Hildon.
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by petecox 9y ago
Yes but Lineage OS can indefinitely support a fair chunk of Android 7.x on an old kernel without official help from Qualcomm. Google chooses not to with AOSP past a timeframe.
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by petecox 9y ago
I thought the point was for Google to ween the developer off Java/Dalvik - by making Flutter the native toolkit for Fuchsia.
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by petecox 9y ago
even in English. 'impossible' and 'improper' is 'in-' modified by the 'p'.
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by petecox 9y ago
'pão' descends from the Latin word 'panis', with a 'n'. So it's possible the Korean form reflects the nasalisation that was occurring at the time of contact in the 1500s, while the Japanese doesn't. G
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by petecox 9y ago
I'm reminded of earlier efforts using Firefox OS which sought to create a "Web of Things". I'd didn't get around to backing the Runcible project but watching Aubrey's video below, I hope it succeeds. http:&#x2
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by petecox 9y ago
Firefox: media.autoplay.enabled = false
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by petecox 9y ago
The hardware on a Windows 10 ARM tablet is more or less the same (Snapdragon 835) as powers a mobile, only the screen is larger and they remove the app that makes phone calls.
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by petecox 9y ago
It's possible he learned a few words, given that the act of Henry the Eighth divorcing his aunt (Catherine of Aragón) sent shock-waves through Europe.
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by petecox 9y ago
Packaging. If I understand correctly, Halium's goals are simpler in just doing enough to bootstrap the libhybris layer. This allows projects such as Mer, Plasma Mobile, LuneOS, UBports and AsteroidOS etc to pool efforts without any dis
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by petecox 9y ago
The Pi zero phone is a cool hack but I doubt many would opt to use it as a 'daily driver'. Broadcom, according to the wikipedia page for VideoCore, did however make a couple of Cortex-A9/A7 SoCs that made their way into low e
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by petecox 9y ago
Why would an American not get a passport? You have French-speaking Quebec and a collection of Spanish speaking nations right on your doorstep.
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by petecox 9y ago
Web Browser: Firefox Chrome and Vivaldi each have their own apt repository, so why Ubuntu would bundle or package them, I'm not sure but give the option of adding an entry to sources.list. I mainly use Chrome for websites requiring fla
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by petecox 9y ago
Servo, as in rendered using HTML5? I guess if new management at Mozilla relaunched Firefox OS as BootToServo then the killer app from day one could be Emacs.
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by petecox 9y ago
Maybe because a number of Spain's biggest banks including BBVA, Santander and Caixa aren't headquartered in Madrid?
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by petecox 9y ago
Lineage and Copperhead are still AOSP, warts and all, under the covers. An interesting ticket [1] is to try and boot devices using an upstream kernel. This would enhance the utility of older devices, given the community fork of Ubuntu [2] i
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by petecox 9y ago
It grows on a tree, so it's no less a fruit than a peach or an apple.
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by petecox 9y ago
It's intergenerational cultural cringe. First it was Chardonnay socialists, then caffè latte drinkers, now it's war on avocado on toasted bread. But one might ask why avocado prices have soared from five years ago - I buy a bag of
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by petecox 9y ago
Here people in Tasmania are colloquially called Taswegians in honour of Glasgow.Tasmanian is proper but I would like to see Van Demons catch on in deference to the dutch name.
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by petecox 9y ago
To level the playing field, let's start by removing the reported $AU4Billion/annum subsidies in Australia to fossil fuels. That amounts to over $AU400 per household per year of taxpayer funds...
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by petecox 9y ago
No 20 is daft given 'Hispania' was used in Roman times, which ultimately gives us Spaniard, Hispanic, Spain and España.
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by petecox 9y ago
If they have LLVM up and running then any language that depends on it (swift, rust) should be doable.

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