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by petecox 7y ago
Microsoft, which is collaborating with Qualcomm on netbooks. Google, which has previously collaborated (OP1) with Rockchip on Chrome OS.
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by petecox 7y ago
They had a release only a month ago: https://pivotce.com/2019/10/24/luneos-october-stable-release...
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by petecox 7y ago
downstream LuneOS has ports to various devices, including a demo running on Pine64's phone devkit. https://youtu.be/G9lbXE_wWpQ
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by petecox 7y ago
There's a companion volume for Spanish learners, i.e. The publisher likely just tweaks a chapter or two for each specific target language, i.e. English Grammar for Students of $X. The 'surprising specific' bit is in how conce
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by petecox 7y ago
Eating plants and subsequent regurgitation is said to aid digestion "much as humans pop an antacid tablet". https://www.hillspet.com.au/cat-care/behavior-appearance/why...
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by petecox 7y ago
Seems like a case of s-dropping from a transliteration of a Greek name, Lucas . c.f. Andreas -> Andrea.
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by petecox 7y ago
He published a couple of short story anthologies in the 1940s: Fictions, Aleph - check your local library for a translation. I smiled when in this lecture when he goes off on a tangent about Don Quixote and then imagines a fictional version
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Duolingo: Saving Endangered Languages(edition.cnn.com)
6 points by petecox 7y ago|0 comments
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by petecox 7y ago
Not all brands, obviously, but don't assume the 'bag' itself is biodegradable. Anecdotally, certain fancy tea bags survived an 18 month composting cycle, which I had to then pluck out by hand before spreading said compost on
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by petecox 7y ago
My bank uses an app, Symantec VIP, to generate a 6 digit code. This works on vacation when I can't receive SMS. It was much cheaper to buy a 4G SIM in Barcelona (for Google Maps etc) than enable international roaming from Australia ($A
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by petecox 7y ago
When I was in the seventh grade, a curmudgeonly teacher insisted all his students learn copperplate. That made my handwriting worse - to the point that a couple of years later, at the same school, other teachers complained and I was sent
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PINE64: It's time to start giving back(pine64.org)
11 points by petecox 7y ago|3 comments
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by petecox 7y ago
A science week exhibition to get schoolkids here interested in STEM, replete with a gross-out factor for queasy parents!
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Urinotron – Power from Waste(scienceweek.net.au)
3 points by petecox 7y ago|1 comments
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by petecox 7y ago
Great feature! End-user upgradeable simply by swapping a device's compute module with a newer iteration from RPi. c.f. EOMA68
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by petecox 7y ago
> Tradesmen are often paid in cash Tradies here are stereotyped by (not all) unscrupulous operators that use cash to do jobs 'off the books' in under-quoting their true income or offering a discount to customers for unlawfully
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by petecox 7y ago
Isn't this just coppicing , where a percentage of trees are harvested for timber and stumps are left to regrow? https://renconforestry.com.au/managing-coppice-in-eucalypt-p...
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by petecox 7y ago
More coverage of Gretchen's book is quoted on her daily linguistics blog: https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/186456220892/reviews-of...
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by petecox 7y ago
Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal starred in a 2016 movie from the viewpoint of a fictional detective.
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by petecox 7y ago
Wikipedia calls it 'ng coalescence'. "This means that the words finger and singer do not rhyme in most modern varieties of English, although they did in Middle English." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by petecox 7y ago
A common alphabet for Africa has been proposed for sounds not represented by the basic Latin alphabet of colonial languages such as French and English. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_reference_alphabet
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by petecox 7y ago
It seems a case of rushing a product 9-12 months ahead of schedule, scrapping two silicon revisions, as mentioned in the announcement[0] in their haste to be "production ready". "Good, low-cost USB-C power supplies (and USB-C
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The US school keeping native languages alive [video](sbs.com.au)
1 points by petecox 7y ago|0 comments
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by petecox 7y ago
> Australia’s top three banks Our banking sector is generally referred to as the "Big 4". Notably, National Australia Bank - the fourth column, haven't signed up. The collaboration's website is below, with a link to a
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by petecox 7y ago
c.f. Debian, which has a policy to exclude non-free firmware from its installation media. The onus is on the user to themselves supply the firmware. https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s04.html.en
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by petecox 7y ago
In terms of 'ruts', the horse drawn proto-railway dates back to Corinth half a millennium earlier: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagonway#Ancient_systems
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Bridging the Internet's Digital Language Divide(wired.com)
1 points by petecox 7y ago|0 comments
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by petecox 7y ago
Fun fact: Pine64's dev-kit for their forthcoming PinePhone offering is codenamed "Don't be evil". https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Project_Don%27t_be_evil
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Once again, a neural net tries to name cats(aiweirdness.com)
1 points by petecox 7y ago|0 comments
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by petecox 7y ago
Android has the same limitation. i.e. I can connect multiple displays with Android via hdmi and a usb adapter but Displaylink technical support suggested for an extended desktop I'd need to pester Google.

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