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by peteri 4y ago
They are being arrested typically for behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace. Often they're being arrested for their own safety, you only have to look at the example of the chip shop owner in Muir of Ord, who posted a video on
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by peteri 4y ago
True but the UI did often require the stylus to be pulled out. Compared to the capacitive screens it was pain to use. I did try and I used the N900 as a daily driver for a good couple of years but that UI wasn't designed for use withou
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by peteri 4y ago
Depends on the version to be honest. The newer ADO with git as the source control is fine with me but I suspect if the company started with some of the early scrum templates and rolled forward it could be a complete horror show. I wouldn&#x
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by peteri 4y ago
For concorde the numbers are quite different. Stealing from truly epic concorde thread on pprune. https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question.htm... At the beginning of the take off roll, each engine would
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by peteri 4y ago
Sadly you've missed a recent opportunity with the Minstrel Forth https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/shop/tynemouth-products/min... a modern clone of the original. There is a bit of cheating by having a micro co
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by peteri 4y ago
Thanks for that, I have some visitors next week and I knew I'd seen that as a feature somewhere (just couldn't find it in the UI)
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by peteri 4y ago
I had the same issue, for me updating the TPM firmware solved the issue (but it is convoluted) https://superuser.com/questions/1668861/alert-tpm-device-is-... My guess is that Dell didn't update the TPM firwa
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by peteri 4y ago
HyperOptic are annoying in that respect, but Community Fibre are at least arriving in my area and I have had some marketing from them. I currently have an OpenReach 900/100 connection so I'm not in much of a hurry but CF do seem t
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by peteri 5y ago
There was a lecture given at Gresham college: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/what-really-ha... Which does have a decent list of failures due to the Y2K issue.
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by peteri 5y ago
Last time I asked the answer was no (which is annoying) but that is because IT don't want to support a special setup. I may try pushing for a monitor refresh again once we go back to the office.
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by peteri 5y ago
Totally agree with this, I have mine(2x27" 4K) running in the same scaled way and I really miss it when I go back to the office with a crappy three screen 1080p setup.
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by peteri 5y ago
Not quite, the FujiNet card connects over the Atari SIO bus and presents it self as both a disk drive and a modem. Ataris SIO is fairly clever and Atari fans claim it's the forerunner of the USB port.
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by peteri 5y ago
Yeah, I have that problem with gmail, I had a test account with a weak password get exploited a few years ago. Now for any new gmail address I want to send to seems to endup in spam. The problem here is there is no getting out of jail easil
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by peteri 5y ago
Reminds me of buzzard.2 from the 1992 ioccc contest. http://www.ioccc.org/years.html#1992
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by peteri 5y ago
Docs was a bit flaky earlier on.
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by peteri 5y ago
There are several reasons for Windows popularity today: Active Directory - The centralised control it gives corporates. Games and DirectX - Although this seems to be getting to be less of a reason. Backwards compatibility - Windows 16 bit a
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by peteri 5y ago
To get chrome / vscode / edge to resize correctly I needed to add some options to turn off the gpu acceleration (I think judging by edge://gpu). --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland There are issue
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by peteri 5y ago
Way back when I wrote accounting software in the UK. I had a conversation with my boss about us writing our own payroll software so we didn't have to a pay a third party to white label their software. I then went and found out how man
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by peteri 5y ago
Yep, the retelling I heard from the David Karlin (I worked with him after Sinclair went bust) was the micro drives didn't meet the spec that he designed the gate array to. The only real hardware bit that we could rib him about was the
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by peteri 5y ago
Totally agree, I have a Canon laser that I bought for $100-$150 around eight years when we moved house (lots of stuff to print for lawyers etc). The problem with Ink jets is that the ink dries up and clogs before I get to use them. So far t
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by peteri 5y ago
Queen Mary College had one in London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Queen_Mary_Universi... , as did Greenwich Naval College https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JASON_reactor . Surprisingly comm
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by peteri 5y ago
This is so VERY true, many years ago while working for an audio company I went along to ETH and met some researchers working on video compression. Once you've been shown the effects of overly strong video compression it is really hard
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by peteri 5y ago
My 5950X came in faster running in WSL2, but then I do have a Samsung 980 PRO running in a PCIe 4.0 slot. Benchmark #1: cargo -q install -f ripgrep Time (mean ± σ): 11.585 s ± 0.474 s [User: 176.733 s, System: 5.677 s] R
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by peteri 6y ago
I did something similar on the Apple //e running prodos.
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by peteri 6y ago
Oddly I was reading David Allen Green today who had this article https://davidallengreen.com/2021/03/you-say-you-want-a-writt... showing that there is a written constitution for the UK.
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by peteri 6y ago
I have a feeling that the "-" character for an option is a unix (multics) only thing. It is also worth looking at https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/4695/slas... where there is some disc
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by peteri 6y ago
I suspect partly size but mostly tracking. Images in email have been around since 1992 (RFC341 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1341 ) and I don't remember when downloadable ima
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by peteri 6y ago
Another name for this layout is 96 key. I built my own using a YMDK melody 96 layout but before that build I bought the VictSing 96 key which was super cheap (around $50 delivered from the US) and apart from the keycaps having awful legends
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by peteri 6y ago
I always use Sage (the accounting software folks) one of 00-80-2c as it's burned into my memory 30 years later after working on Sage Mainlan back in the days...
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by peteri 6y ago
Formally abolished in England and Wales in 2008. Still on the statute books for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Although a lot of anti-racist hate speech stuff could be used for the same effect in England and Wales.

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