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Replicant project will receive a mobile device from Necuno Solutions – Replicant(blog.replicant.us)
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by petecox 8y ago
Yes, it's generally a Qualcomm SoC underneath. Already several Lumias were reverse engineered to run Android. [0] A month ago, MS announced Project Mu - opening up their UEFI implementation on github. [1] Extending that project to thei
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Chinese coffee startup trying to topple Starbucks(theage.com.au)
1 points by petecox 8y ago|0 comments
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by petecox 8y ago
Combine brine processing with sewage treatment? There's ample non-potable water whenever someone flushes the toilet, I would surmise.
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by petecox 8y ago
The Jordanian plan is to pipe brine into the Dead Sea, which is already hypersaline.
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by petecox 8y ago
I'm partial to Leo Moracchioli's metal version, myself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9FyLsfDzw
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by petecox 8y ago
Yep and that's a UV index of 13 [Extreme] even whilst cloudy . Australia and New Zealand have the highest melanoma rates in the world. We thus have a paranoia of "taking care not to burn", during office hours when UV is most
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by petecox 8y ago
Have they tried tweaking with the formula to just use less sweetener in the first place? I'm a dark chocolate guy - anything less than 70% isn't "chocolate". So I'm wondering if there's a market for Coke Bitte
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by petecox 8y ago
The wikipedia page on the Icelandic alphabet [0] sheds some light, þorn is runic, eð is from 'd'. Icelandic employs a 19th century reconstruction of the old norse alphabet noting that "Various old features, like ð, had actual
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by petecox 8y ago
Baking certain apps into the system partition is typically how vendors ship an out of the box experience, since apps are generally downloaded via the Play store, which requires the end user to first log in with Google. In that case, the onl
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by petecox 8y ago
Our local species of cicada has been measured at 150 decibels - bloody loud. So I imagine if the bedroom walls were bugged next to one's pillow, hearing damage is plausible. It's consistent with a "blaring, grinding" n
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by petecox 8y ago
My point about common grasses was if they don't supply the recommended intake of fibre, we might look to alternatives. The article mentions 'inulin' - it's a form of carbohydrate that alledgedly doesn't cause the sa
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by petecox 8y ago
Staples such as rice and wheat are , technically, grasses.
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by petecox 8y ago
A gentle introduction to phonetics and the IPA is let down by poor argument. MAGA (rhymes with dagger or lager?) would never be pronounced with a soft G because 'ga' is only soft in such anachronisms as 'gaol' (modern sp
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Children Are Using Emoji for Digital-Age Language Learning(wired.com)
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by petecox 8y ago
Essays for academia thus typically insist on word counts. Albeit they encourage 3/2 or double spacing so they can leave annotations during marking.
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by petecox 8y ago
The fangyan/topolect distinction reminds me of Italy. The Tuscan language of the renaissance and Dante was deemed "Italian" following unification in the mid 19th century. Yet the regional topolects of Italy derive not from a
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by petecox 8y ago
I've never been to Moçambique but absolutely I felt a bond with people over the other side of the Pacific in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. Similar post-colonial perspective on the world, similar emigration stories (e.g. strong Italian
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by petecox 8y ago
> Southern Hemisphere" is an irrelevant non-interesting click-baity qualifier here. Sigh . Not everyone is blessed to be have been born in the southern hemisphere, it seems. As a resident of the big island to NZ's west, it is
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by petecox 8y ago
Are you sure? I thought Qt Widgets were deprecated by Plasma 5, which uses QML internally.
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by petecox 8y ago
> iOS app porting inherently creates bad Mac apps Reassess in a couple of years when app porters have matured with the technology. Gestures and pinch and zoom won't work with a mouse but the key point is interfaces designed for a
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by petecox 8y ago
Those of us in the Southern Hemisphere never really got the sleighride thing. Not when it's 40ºC.
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by petecox 8y ago
I'm wondering whether a webapp environment such as Chrome OS would be that niche (with a couple of commits in their issue tracker to enable x32). Hardware is typically a price sensitive netbook contrained by RAM and with a low powered
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by petecox 8y ago
As the resolution of the bug report suggests, the iOS toolkit needs fixing. It's the symptom of a phone OS evolving into something more general. c.f. In Android land, by design, none of the web browsers support desktop-style spellcheck
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by petecox 8y ago
Manure is basically a monoculture of whatever the cow ate - i.e. decomposing grass. Worms and bugs need a balanced diet. So a farmer will, presumably, add crop and other agricultural waste to cultivate these helpful aerobics. (I'm only
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by petecox 8y ago
(Wake up where? You mention the grandfather paradox but 1718 is precisely 70 years before my country is invaded/colonized by the British. My very presence, as a 'European' on the continent of Australia would tear a rip in the
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by petecox 8y ago
Why not open the protocol, so I can use the one app for all my cross-service messaging needs? e.g. Pidgin.
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by petecox 8y ago
Previously, MS and Google have publically announced they will collaborate on bringing Chrome to Windows on ARM. Abandoning EdgeHTML on the basis of that bug report would be drawing a long bow.
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by petecox 8y ago
I still use the FM tuner built into Snapdragon phones. I guess everyone else streams their radio these days.
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by petecox 8y ago
Only if your telco still supports it. In Australia, perhaps not. Our home phone service was moved from copper to VOIP as part of the NBN rollout. The technician who did the installation confirmed our multifunction laser printer would no lon

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