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by petecox 9y ago
Since we're discussing snakes, wouldn't that be 'serpience'?
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by petecox 9y ago
I would suggest that the biggest group to mourn CRT technology would be our feline overlords. I had several cats that used to perch themselves atop a screen, trying to capture my attention and keeping warm but blocking an air vent in the pr
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by petecox 9y ago
I recall that software developers from Firefox OS were re-tasked with adapting the phone OS to an IoT focus. So I would assume this announcement is the fruits of that side project.
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by petecox 9y ago
KDE Neon - the bleeding edge KDE experience. It's ubuntu LTS under the covers. LineageOS - Nougat for 'obsolete' phones, though I might switch to postmarketOS if they get calls working!
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by petecox 9y ago
A new year's resolution? Learn Na'vi before the sequel is released in Dec 2020!
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by petecox 9y ago
Schooled in 1980s Australia, I'd never heard of the split infinitive controversy growing up; it seems a popular topic whenever Dr Pinker's name is mentioned. Roddenberry's Star Trek seems to have been groundbreaking in more w
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by petecox 9y ago
Other high collision football codes are not immune to concussion. In Australian football, AFL not rugby, we have recently seen a change in the rules where dangerous contact to the head is to be avoided and tightening medical governence on
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by petecox 9y ago
My understanding was that Samsung (Exynos) and Huawei (Kirin) do release global models of their phones based on their own SoC for GSM markets. But they can't overlook the Nth American market where Snapdragon dominates the US with CDMA2
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by petecox 9y ago
I never understood the "smashed-avo" obsession but they're great in a vegemite and cheese toastie.
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by petecox 9y ago
We have a compost bin in the back yard where they sprout from seed spontaneously. I have grown a couple of trees and given some seedlings away to friends. Fingers crossed, they bear fruit eventually. If not, they make a fairly fast growing
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by petecox 9y ago
f-droid and anbox.io to the rescue?
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by petecox 9y ago
Given that it's uninhabited, I don't think anyone enjoys it as such. It's located in what, either side of the river, was the medieval kingdom of Navarre, subsequently ruled by distant monarchs in Paris and Madrid.
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by petecox 9y ago
> At no point is there a need to edit a generated C++ file Well then maybe your example should reflect that, where a change is made in the C++ file replacing 'Simple' with 'Time'
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by petecox 9y ago
There's a distinction between a Qt project calling Rust code via a C ABI versus a Rust program bootstrapping Qt. The author hand-edits a C++ file, autogenerated by CMake. In that sense it still needs a C++ compiler as part of a build s
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by petecox 9y ago
I'm not sure on the train but Spain has security scans at railway departures for long distance rail. Not as stringent as for an international aeroplane flight but, given the investment, in theory it could be.
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by petecox 9y ago
Salmon seemed abundant and cheap, relatively, at Chile's coastal restaurants and I guess now I know why. Perhaps I'll pick something else on the menu the next time I visit. I wasn't a great fan of deep-fried seafood empanadas
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by petecox 9y ago
I just wish Linux distro installers would make opting out the default option; no, I don't want to swap on my SSD. The last time I installed a distro, I still had to select the manual option for partitioning. With an 8 Gig stick in my N
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by petecox 9y ago
There's a dual screen Android phone by a Russian company, Yota. www.yotamobile.com/index-EN.html
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by petecox 9y ago
Perhaps one advantage of the walled-garden of Windows S. No virus checker needed if every piece of software is vetted by an online repository and everything runs in its own sandbox
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by petecox 9y ago
And MS Office for Android.
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by petecox 9y ago
Algorithmically is it possible to pass only 'safe' interpreted code to the CPU? The majority of Javacript engines (Chakra, V8, Spidemonkey and JavasciptCore) are under a security-auditable FOSS license. Browsers claiming Spectre&#
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by petecox 9y ago
I agree on the elevated prices but assumed that it was avoiding the social stigma of turning up to a BBQ empty-handed. Lentil/chickpea burgers are often delicious but those faux sausages tend to be bloody awful! :) But rather than eat
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by petecox 9y ago
I noticed hiking yesterday a sign for UHF deep in the forest, presumably for emergency fire response at this time of year (summer). Ironically the mobile reception is sub-par in East Gippsland but I got a, relatively, strong 3G signal from
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by petecox 9y ago
'marvellous' saw something of an ironic renaissance in Australia as a homage to Richie Benaud. The Spanish cognate 'maravilloso' survives.
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by petecox 9y ago
Many phone owners these days put their device in a case. How then can it then "look like crap" if aesthetically it's hidden under a layer of coloured rubber?
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by petecox 9y ago
Then you'd love LuneOS. Every release name is a coffee drink.
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by petecox 9y ago
I bought a replacement battery kit for my non-Apple phone on ebay for about $AU15 - it came with tools to jimmy open the case and unscrew the housing. Undoubtedly genuine Apple batteries may be better quality but that's still ~$100 for
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by petecox 9y ago
Yes. The obvious universal API that targets big screens and small, touch or mouse is Qt. It started as a desktop framework, was made touch-aware to be used Nokia and BB10 for phones, powers KDE 5 and I'm hopeful Ollie Paranoid will pro
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by petecox 9y ago
I thought it was more Google providing Android compatibility within Chrome OS driving the push to bring apps to macOS.
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by petecox 9y ago
> the internet service’s Terms of Service (TOS) didn’t mention the Monero mining code. There's a business opportunity - free coffee if you agree to mine crypto on our behalf. Did Starbucks Bs As. refund their customers?

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