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by rekabis 2y ago
Wow. Makes me want to break out my archived installer for Microplanet Gravity, assuming it even works on Windows 10 or 11.
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by rekabis 2y ago
There are only three major features (aside from things like syntax highlighting and indent guides) that make me reach for an IDE: 1. Intellisense 2. Linters 3. Code analysis All three of which help me improve my own skills, as I
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by rekabis 2y ago
We’ve seriously fucked ourselves. Not just an insect apocalypse, but a parallel bird apocalypse, a collapse of fisheries around the world, and finally global-scale climate change happening 10,000× faster than any prior historical shift, lea
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by rekabis 2y ago
Please do. We need renewables, yes, but we also need an almost-zero-pollutant power source that can be ramped up and down as needed when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. And yes, modern non-breeder reactors produce very lit
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by rekabis 2y ago
> This assumes good faith, and often that doesn’t reflect reality. I’ve helped a disturbing number of friends clean up their devices and accounts to free them from abusive partners whom they are already divorcing. You completely misread
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by rekabis 2y ago
If you need to install stalkerware on your partner’s device, just start the divorce process already. If you need to install it on a child’s device, you aren’t using parental controls appropriately. If you need to install it on anyone else’s
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by rekabis 2y ago
As a software and web developer, I frequently need to keep my eye on several things at once, including the code, reference documentation and research, diffs, database tables/structure, you name it. Four primary monitors in a row are id
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by rekabis 2y ago
They should advertise up here in Canada. Functional rotary phones are selling like hotcakes for $50-80 a pop. Especially original non-standard (not-black) colours.
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by rekabis 2y ago
> There is wind during the night. The wind is also highly variable. > Also, you can store the energy lifting heavy things 60% of North America has no significant vertical changes in terrain to do this on.
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by rekabis 2y ago
Without severe government regulation, capitalism always moves towards oligopolies and monopolies that use market size to deny new entrants and who can have minimal to no innovation to consume precious profits. This is only possible due to a
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by rekabis 2y ago
Put this out as a 486 DX2 100 or 120, and I would be all over this like ugly on an ape. Bonus if it came with Voodoo graphics and a Soundblaster card, and 32Mb of RAM.
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by rekabis 2y ago
And now, with a thousand times more RAM, you can get an equally unpleasurable experience running Windows 11 on only 4Gb of RAM.
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by rekabis 2y ago
Even as someone who writes programs for Windows, I am down to specific, purpose-use systems running Windows. Most of my systems are Mac, Linux, or BSD. And especially with all the bloatware and spyware that comes built into Windows these
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by rekabis 2y ago
> The carriers are limited to those speeds to maintain specimen integrity. If blood samples move faster, for example, blood cells can be destroyed. It’s not the overall speed that destroys the blood cells, it is the acceleration and dece
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by rekabis 2y ago
> What creates a drive for innovation if you take out competition? Closed-source is _protectionism,_ not competitive. _Open-source_ is the ultimate expression of competitiveness… because you are competing against anyone who could bring o
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by rekabis 2y ago
Renewals cannot produce at night, or when the wind isn’t blowing, or under various other conditions. Even a good hailstorm can take out multi-million-dollar solar installations. Nuclear is absolutely essential in providing a stopgap power
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by rekabis 2y ago
This isn’t another Electron app, is it?
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by rekabis 2y ago
Even in capitalism, the RoR - Return on Research - is something like 10-15% of what it was a century prior. That is, if $1 in 1924 R&R spending got $1 of new products or advancements, $1 of 2024 R&R spending now gets only 10-15¢ of
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by rekabis 2y ago
CaPiTaLiSm WiLl InNoVaTe!!!1!
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by rekabis 2y ago
I’m sorry but based on this, > NCS is a company that offers information communication and technology services. And more importantly, this: > After Kandula's contract was terminated and he arrived back in India, he used his laptop
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by rekabis 2y ago
How about making Firefox compatible with Tab Mix Plus again? As in, open up the API again? I consider TBP to be the second most important extension that I could possibly install, right after uBlock, but getting it to work correctly is a bit
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by rekabis 2y ago
> What I really think Thunderbird could use is account sync. NOPE. For account sync to be reliable and largely pain-free, credentials would also need to be synced. Which is a massive security no-no, as you don’t control the cloud they’re
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by rekabis 2y ago
> The Quilt system uses Wi-Fi (2.4 and 5 GHz) and Bluetooth to communicate between units and the remotes, and each Dial can also control the whole system, just like a thermostat does for a central HVAC system. The Dial has temperature, m
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by rekabis 2y ago
> But there seems to be very little or no mention of the benefits sexual freedom for men - the ability to say "I don't want to be a father, I don't want to risk being on the hook for child support right now" This is i
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by rekabis 2y ago
This article makes a primary complaint of “why isn’t women’s birth control as symptom-free?”. The difference in difficulty between women’s and men’s reproductive control is like the difference between (respectively) censoring a newspaper fa
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by rekabis 2y ago
> as early as 2010 MacRumors really needs to get editors to proofread the copy before it gets published. You use “early” to state an older time, “late” to state a more recent time. As in, an early model Ford from 2010, or a late-model
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by rekabis 2y ago
> 15. Last but not least, treating your potential hires with respect is always a winning strategy! LOUDER, for most of the recruiters. I gave up on working with or even responding to recruiters a good two decades ago because even then, m
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by rekabis 2y ago
> Harmony Gold did nothing to actually promote anime, beyond hyping their own products. Robotech was the English translated anime that happened to be on air in the US And because it was in syndication, smack-dab in the centre of at least
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by rekabis 2y ago
> the pricing page with no actual numbers and the ambiguous ‘Contact Us’ is a huge turn off. It’s also one of the top-10 web usability mistakes as defined by the Nielsen Norman group. As in, it drives away far more potential clients than
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by rekabis 2y ago
Granted, yes, the author should have chosen a more specific and less clickbaity title. But titles need to be short and pithy when dealing with the goldfish attention spans many people have. So a better, more accurate title could be, >“Th

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