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by rwmj 7mo ago
What would "the financials" be on a git replacement? No one makes money on git itself. Probably not much even on the services around git, given that Microsoft funds github for its own reasons, and gitlab is constantly running ou
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by rwmj 7mo ago
Unless you've done a study of sentiment on HN (please link if so) then you have no idea.
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by rwmj 7mo ago
In hindsight it was quite prescient to be installing renewables wasn't it.
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by rwmj 7mo ago
I read this a few days ago, excellent article and an absolutely insane story.
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by rwmj 7mo ago
Hyperion has a pretty well-developed view of AGI.
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by rwmj 7mo ago
If you want an alias that's fine, just don't use it to do crimes.
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by rwmj 7mo ago
What's an "AR bus"? How can augmented reality windows work on a bus unless you are (a) tracking the passenger's head and (b) there's only one passenger?
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by rwmj 7mo ago
I always felt the problem with WinForms was the name. For many, many years I assumed it could only do forms (ie for data entry).
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by rwmj 7mo ago
Linux can answer the question, but you're considering Linux as a monolithic platform which it isn't. If you ask "how do you build a UI for Gnome / KDE / Android?" then the answers are pretty clear.
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by rwmj 7mo ago
Petzold is a legendary programmer. His book Code is worth reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code:_The_Hidden_Language_of_C...
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by rwmj 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPF/PC "SPF/PC is an MS-DOS-based text editor and file manager designed to have an interface that was familiar to those using mainframe SPF and ISPF"
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by rwmj 7mo ago
It's true, pensioners are very isolated from the problems of working people.
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by rwmj 7mo ago
Which is why it's important that Tisza are holding rallies across the country. It turns out this (very old) technique is important again when online spaces are filled with slopaganda.
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by rwmj 7mo ago
https://archive.ph/6aQIb
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In Hungary, the First Post-Reality Political Campaign(theatlantic.com)
7 points by rwmj 7mo ago|4 comments
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by rwmj 7mo ago
BIOS support has indeed been dropped from modern video cards. I was hoping something like https://github.com/CSMWrap/CSMWrap might work, but the README says that MS-DOS games don't work under that.
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by rwmj 7mo ago
> The NVIDIA GeForce 1050 GTX has some issues with windowed DOS prompts, and presumably newer NVIDIA hardware has the same problem. The issues include potential freezes when using the mode command to change the size of the prompt, and f
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by rwmj 7mo ago
The alternative is everything falling apart at home and our manufacturing industries declining dramatically. Maybe the "unpopular economic policy" wasn't such a bad idea after all.
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by rwmj 7mo ago
The US government doesn't exactly go out of its way to support people either.
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by rwmj 7mo ago
I actually sat through an Oracle sales presentation around 1999 (I was the product engineer, along with company executives) and honestly it sounded pretty good. At the time we were using Lotus Notes for a database so even pencil and paper
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by rwmj 7mo ago
One thing I'm missing here, did the heat shield actually burn through on the earlier test or not?
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by rwmj 7mo ago
Or Windows VBS, if you need to run full-featured Windows VMs.
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by rwmj 7mo ago
As you'd expect it was not a success in the end: > Supply exceeded demand, and 12,000 units were left unsold until they were sold off cheaply. This resulted in a £480,000 loss for Sinclair. Sir Clive Sinclair was certain that the T
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by rwmj 7mo ago
This seems to lack 2025 data, unless BEVs have suddenly disappeared! (Which they haven't, everyone around here in stockbrokerland seems to have one.)
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by rwmj 7mo ago
VLSI from the very start according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family#ARM1
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by rwmj 7mo ago
Drax isn't included. There's even a specific note about this next to "Biomass" on the page.
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by rwmj 7mo ago
My friend has a car which can charge only when prices are low. I'm not totally sure how it works though, does the smart meter communicate this to the car?
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by rwmj 7mo ago
This is great. Compare it to British legislation which is frankly a mess of patches. Example picked fairly much at random, this law was originally passed in 1990 and has been "patched" regularly: https://www.legislati
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by rwmj 7mo ago
Here's another more mass audience article about these plug-in solar panels: https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/plug-in-solar-to-become...
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Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables(grid.iamkate.com)
415 points by rwmj 7mo ago|299 comments

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