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by petecox 9y ago
Interesting times for upstream Linux support; Qualcomm also hopes to acquire NXP - the chipmakers inside the etnaviv-driven Purism phone.
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by petecox 9y ago
It appears bay trail was a particularly bad release. Not to defend Intel but that was 3 generations ago; I would certainly consider a Gemini Lake for my next nettop - where media-pc quiet is more important to me than performance. (provided
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by petecox 9y ago
It is curious that Qualcomm continues to develop their own closed source driver instead of throwing their weight behind Rob Clark's Freedreno initiative. Broadcom at least pay someone to develop a FOSS driver for the VideoCore IV and V
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by petecox 9y ago
Thanks, Josh. Simple but addictive. I should really study the code to see how the AI works!
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by petecox 9y ago
For the duration of your stay I'd actually recommend throwing away your netflix subscription! Each country's culture, accent and slang will vary so if you're in Costa Rica watching content from perhaps Spain, Mexico or Argent
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Just curious, has the situation improved in real terms in the 2 years since Macri took over? I visited a couple of times in 2010-11 and the inflation over a 16 month period was evident. Wonderful, friendly, people but concerning economic st
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by petecox 9y ago
'Salt' is just salt, right? I could never taste a tangible difference with those premium products marketed as "Sea Salt" flavoured.
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by petecox 9y ago
... only to crack the thing when slipping the back cover off to change the non user-serviceable battery. Been there, done that (Nexus 4). Slid inside a rubber case that came with the phone, no one would see this 'bling' anyhow.
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by petecox 9y ago
Big Brother Xi implements 1984 and then bans it. Simplified Chinese, aka Newspeak 2.0, is removing thoughtcrime from the lexicon one letter at a time.
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by petecox 9y ago
Mozilla Firefox. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi...
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by petecox 9y ago
Ask your great great grandparents - horses! In the 19th century, cemeteries had railway stations for transporting the dead by steam train.
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by petecox 9y ago
I think it's just comforting having warmth to doze off to. My late cat seemed to jump on the bed at my feet on all but the hottest nights. Anyhow, just gone midnight and it's 24ºC indoors which is pretty mild for summer - doona we
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by petecox 9y ago
It's a slippery slope. The people of Venezuela voted to remove constitutional safeguards that saw populist Chavez stand as presidential candidate indefinitely. Bolivia rejected a similar referendum but Morales has said he'll run a
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by petecox 9y ago
What's pineapplefund.org ? A bitcoin-billionaire decided to give away his fortune.
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by petecox 9y ago
Melbourne - I am bemused at hearing a tourism spiel about our "historic" lanes overflowing with coffee shops, as if it were somehow unique. We do have per km^2 more tattooed millennials honing their barista skills than most, I gue
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by petecox 9y ago
My dual monitor setup has an old 19" with a stand that rotates 90º. Custom stands are available for any monitor that has the VESA mounting screws. Laptops are trickier but I'm hoping in the age of tablet-hybrid detachables that a
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by petecox 9y ago
Current discussion on a related subtitle project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16403967
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by petecox 9y ago
It's a relatively new market so its possible flavours will evolve as farmers and roasters mature their experiences with the product. And I would expect the price to level out once the novelty of sampling it has passed. But yes, living
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by petecox 9y ago
The €1 coffee is possibly more prevalent across the border in Portugal. They charge extra for milk, as black coffee is typically drunk as a side dish to iconic pasteis. https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s&#x
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by petecox 9y ago
You could try porting your code to GNUstep. http://gnustep.org/
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by petecox 9y ago
Meetup - they have communities for lots of things. And its a paid service in the sense that an organizer may leave a tip jar on the table to cover costs.
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by petecox 9y ago
Veruca Salt wrote a song about the museum on their 2015 comeback album, whose songs detail the mended relationship of its creators.
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by petecox 9y ago
I've never tried growing them but apparently pulses are a good 'green manure' in that the plants absorb beneficial nutrients that can be composted to improve soil quality. Are green-thumbs up to the task of preserving these h
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by petecox 9y ago
There's a 'MiracleCast' implementation for Linux. I'm not sure how mature it is but it aims to stream to and from your desktop. https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast
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by petecox 9y ago
The article's record of Spain ends abruptly in the late 7th century, only 4 decades prior to Islamic rule. So either the Umayyads had no use for camels or Dr Green's research doesn't include records from the period.
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by petecox 9y ago
Australia? We're totally in lockstep with America on foreign policy and surveillance as part of 5-eyes and ANZUS. Duplicitous politicians walk a fine line between China being our biggest trading partner and "All the way with LBJ&q
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by petecox 9y ago
I see. In Australia, they tie guest wifi login to one's student email address via the 'eduroam' SSID. This allows students from visiting universities to connect but not the general public.
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by petecox 9y ago
free wifi to freeloaders who aren't students though?
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by petecox 9y ago
Strange concept. I get more SMS messages than calls these days. 2G-only makes it obsolete already in a number of countries - just as Nokia rushed to release a 3G version of their dumbphone recently.
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by petecox 9y ago
I used Pidgin once and it worked fine on Windows and Linux. So instead of one universal client, one requires Skype, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts/Allo/Duo. (I don't use iOS but Apple have their own, I guess) Thus if any

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