sbisson

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by sbisson 7y ago
Yes they are. It's an ext4 VHD, mounted under WSL.
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by sbisson 8y ago
I have a bunch of Excel spreadsheets that I use to handle invoicing and expenses; they're easy enough to feed into tax software at the end of the year.
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by sbisson 8y ago
If you still have the barf bag, it adds value!
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by sbisson 8y ago
Not seeing how that differs from the existing herdbooks that are kept for most breeds which are used to manage AIS programmes; they're how for example the Jersey and Guernsey remain distinct despite global distribution. They've be
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by sbisson 8y ago
As much as Mozilla would have liked Edge to replace EdgeHTML with its rendering engine, the odds on that happening would have been a lot higher if Mozilla was at a different point in its engineering cycle: it's in the middle of an ambi
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by sbisson 8y ago
I still have the certificate from back when I was Screeched-In in the early '00s; after a couple of months in St John's working with a software company there that was lead contractor on a project I was architecting... I was on a b
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by sbisson 8y ago
We are. In London the DLR is the most obvious driverless network, but various parts of the Tube have been essentially driverless since the 1980s (initially on the Victoria Line, then on the Central after its resignalling, and on the Jubilee
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by sbisson 8y ago
Back when I worked on skywave HF OTHR systems in the late 80s we knew that they could detect and pinpoint stealth aircraft easily. Most stealth systems are designed to either absorb or reflect millimetric point source radar. HF long wavelen
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by sbisson 9y ago
AKA; let's reinvent Lotus Notes. I thought the last Domino had already fallen.
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Microsoft's Future Computed, a Book about AI(blogs.microsoft.com)
1 points by sbisson 9y ago|0 comments
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by sbisson 9y ago
The update to "Billion Year Spree", "Trillion Year Spree" is highly recommended.
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by sbisson 9y ago
Well, on the UK side of things you can probably pick any of the authors published during Michael Moorcock's tenure at New Worlds: so Aldiss, Moorcock, M John Harrison, Hilary Bailey, Ballard, Barrington J Bayley, Disch, Brunner. You ca
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Thirty Years of the Culture(theguardian.com)
3 points by sbisson 10y ago|0 comments
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by sbisson 10y ago
Thanks! I'll correct it.
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by sbisson 10y ago
Back the end of September I was photographing folk on the Dawn Wall from down the valley, as we were passing through from the Bay to Park City, heading to a futurist conference... https://flic.kr/p/N3KDST
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The essential futurist SF list(medium.com)
1 points by sbisson 12y ago|0 comments
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by sbisson 13y ago
I'm also guessing that they now have to figure out how to redesign their product for C&P, post-Target. That's going to be expensive, as it'll change the backend as well as the reader - and require significant certificatio
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Microsoft updates its Photosynth imaging tools(photosynth.net)
6 points by sbisson 13y ago|0 comments
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by sbisson 13y ago
Nokia wanted to use its maps and not Google's, but still be a Google services licensee. That's a no go as far as Google is concerned. Microsoft let Nokia replace its Bing maps with Here, and in fact licensed it as a replacement fo
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by sbisson 13y ago
It's somewhat reminiscent of the ROM-based BBC Micro game Doctor Who and The Mines of Terror. Minus the programmable robot cat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_and_the_Mines_of_Ter...