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by rlonstein 8y ago
> I was shocked that Steam sells games that quite > literally do not work on anything more modern than XP! Interesting since they have EOLed the client on pre-Win7 systems. https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.p
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by rlonstein 8y ago
No one can ever find 10mm when they need it. It'll come with a stamped steel armorer's multi-tool that will include a 10mm box wrench on one end.
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by rlonstein 8y ago
> The ventilation started once we were in flight I think how the A/C on an airliner is driven depends the location. There are the engines while in flight, the APU (Auxillary Power Unit, a small jet engine that starts the main engine
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by rlonstein 8y ago
> ... Gernsback Continuum... I agree with the thread sentiment that the short stories are better than the novels and novellas, though I enjoyed them when I read them in the 1980's and again, maybe less so, recently. But Gernsback Co
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by rlonstein 8y ago
> Plumbing putty Plumbing putty doesn't harden, it's calcium carbonate, petroleum grease, and silica. The hardening stuff is Plumber's Epoxy aka WaterWeld,et. al.
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by rlonstein 8y ago
It's changed as the demographics shifted and the county urbanized but thirty years ago the local sheriff still issued deputy animal control papers to hunters, farmers, woodsmen, etc. who reported dog packs. There are fewer farms, great
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by rlonstein 9y ago
What is your objection[1]? If companies in that industry are contributing directly to funding development or hiring developers it's positive for the engine and for the rest of the community who get it on the same license terms. Look at
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by rlonstein 9y ago
I still have one of the 32GB developer units from when HP was trying to entice people to write for it. I ran Cyanogen and Evervolv on it for a while. It will, with a bit of fiddling, run Nougat (see https://forum.xda-developers.c
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by rlonstein 9y ago
> Did you manage to try HHKB Topre ? I used a colleague's for part of a day. I didn't like it-- key feel or layout-- which saved me a few hundred dollars. As a bit of a collector, I'll probably get a Realforce eventually.
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by rlonstein 9y ago
I've gone through a lot of keyboards. IBM, Unicomp, Sun Type 4 and 5, Apple ALPS with ADB converter, a bunch with various Cherry switches including Filco, Leupold, etc. I had two Matias keyboards, the tactile pro (I think original) and
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by rlonstein 9y ago
> The checkout line was at least 50 people long and probably estimated at over an hour. Two cashiers working out of 8 or so possible registers, and as far as I could tell a singular employee on the floor itself. This is a perfect instanc
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by rlonstein 9y ago
> I'm not sure I ever met a CRT monitor over 19". Many years ago I delivered and set up 22" and, I think 24", Cornerstone and Sony branded monitors for banking, drafting, and medical use when I worked for VARs. They w
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by rlonstein 9y ago
I think you mis-spelled "bodging" ;) I've spent months, maybe years, of time fixing and maintaining cars, motorcycles, and bicycles. It's useful when something breaks on the side of the road or when you get an estimate f
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by rlonstein 9y ago
> 'Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb' is the one I know best * https://www.thespruce.com/yorkshire-forced-rhubarb-history-4... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhubarb_Triangle Interesting. I'v
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by rlonstein 9y ago
Really? Have you not been around long enough to witness bitrot and squatting of domain names? There were sixty-eight anchors in that page and one is no longer valid. I've sent an email to Paul because you're too indignant to be he
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by rlonstein 9y ago
> Henry Spencer's regex code: https://github.com/garyhouston/regexp.old Glad to see that come up in this thread. It was the first clearly explained regex engine for me in _Software Solutions in C_ (Schumacher D
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by rlonstein 9y ago
@jackpot51, any word on if System76 will build a Ryzen-based laptop?
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by rlonstein 9y ago
> 7D if you are a mantis shrimp. Don't be sure: * https://www.popsci.com/blog-network/ladybits/mantis-shrimp-v... * https://phys.org/news/2014-01-mantis-shrimp-vision-different... Tho
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by rlonstein 9y ago
I have progressives, from Warby Parker though my initial prescription was by a trusted local optometrist who gladly provided the pupillary distance measurement, and it took a few weeks to get used to them and the constant tilting my head. T
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by rlonstein 9y ago
> What is the definitive tool to process text? Perl? Haskell? Some Lisp dialect? Definitive? Being snarky, the one you have already installed and are familiar with. Like most I use Awk for one-liners, Perl if I need a little more or bett
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by rlonstein 9y ago
> The days of people paying $20 for an album anecdata, but I see a lot of people (myself included) buying $10 CD's and $20 vinyl with a download code at shows in small venues.
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by rlonstein 9y ago
> My money's on Go. Based on submission history, I'd guess Haskell.
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by rlonstein 9y ago
Nice. I immediately though of https://mirage.io/ and http://erlangonxen.org/ but with a more "mainstream" language.
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by rlonstein 9y ago
No, no, no! They get religion and put an index on every column.
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by rlonstein 9y ago
> LetsEncrypt works automagically out of the box Provided you let Caddy manage all the certs and/or permit dynamic dns updates on that host. Went through this last night and it's underdocumented when you want to handle it yours
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by rlonstein 9y ago
dists/EULA: 3. Restrictions 3.1 You SHALL NOT, and shall not allow any third party, to: (a) decompile, disassemble, or otherwise reverse engineer the Software or attempt to reconstruct or discover any source code, underlying
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by rlonstein 9y ago
> Who's making good portable digital music players nowadays? Flash-based? Sandisk's Sansa (Fuze, E and C-series, Clip, Clip sport, et.al.) line has been around for a while and is good. I have a Fuze that is approaching eight y
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by rlonstein 9y ago
> From what I've heard Ryzen runs Linux pretty well on desktops Confirmed. I'm running one here-- 1700 (8c/16t), no-OC, stock cooler, X370 chipset and Samsung-based DDR4-3200 RAM-- on Ubuntu Xenial/Elementary and it&#
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by rlonstein 9y ago
> 5. Experiment. This. I improvised a pan "pizza" that the whole family likes that's non-traditional but delicious... Dice 1/2lb of thick bacon or pancetta. Dice a few yellow potatoes. While the meat bits brown in a p
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by rlonstein 9y ago
> You can probably get away with a lower oven temp with > pan pizza. Oil cast iron pan, preheat oven I've been making homemade pan pizzas for years using aluminum half sheet pans (like this https://www.webstaurantstore

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