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by slobotron 9y ago
For me it's mostly a novelty - I put RiscOS on it to try it out, and it seems snappy enough. But it's a mess of cables - I never got around to making it as pretty as some [1] [0] https://www.riscosopen.org/content
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by slobotron 9y ago
Motorola webtop on Atrix was too early - phones were just too slow for even basic browsing in Firefox in laptop mode. Perhaps Maru is smooth enough on new hardware? (Still have the lapdock lying around, now hooked into RPi.)
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by slobotron 9y ago
There was a bug in Windows 95 (98 too?) where if you tried to open 'nul\nul' or 'con\con' etc, it would BSOD instantly. Provided lots of drive-by fun in computer labs... (got really good at typing win+r con\con)
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by slobotron 9y ago
Nice work! Very tempted to try it out on a spare machine. Sure brings back memories of the fully functional QNX desktop that fit on a single 1.44MB floppy! [0] Tangent: It's a shame that Blackberry hasn't captured more of mobile p
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by slobotron 9y ago
Milk comes from cows that would otherwise nurse their calfs, so you need to get them pregnant anyways. At least that is my understanding...
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by slobotron 10y ago
In this [0] interview, Head of Olympus Imaging Division hints at that being the case indeed: > Technically, the major challenge is heat management. This is a stills-oriented camera, primarily, and that’s one of the reasons why [video rec
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by slobotron 10y ago
QML should be a relatively easy pickup for JS/HTML devs. https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-appstudio-samples/wiki/Unders...
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by slobotron 10y ago
Looks interesting, so far we've been using elasticmq[1] (SQS) and s3rver[2] (S3) to do e2e integration testing on local and staging. We spin them up using azk[3]. [1] https://github.com/adamw/elasticmq [2] https:
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by slobotron 10y ago
sounds like a win-win
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by slobotron 10y ago
Perl6 https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/day-7-unicode-p...
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by slobotron 10y ago
If you are predisposed to some genetic condition (say cancer), healthy living (excersize, eating right) can help delay the onset and improve outcomes. (s.o. is nurse and sees that stuff all the time, fwiw)
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by slobotron 10y ago
Would you say that castrating window decorations was a misguided attempt by Microsoft to make Windows more like eunuchs? (I'll let myself out)
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by slobotron 10y ago
Appropriate domain name given that in Serbian it's spelled Tokio as well. (.rs being TLD of Republic of Serbia)
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by slobotron 10y ago
About a year we opted for azk.io as an alternative to docker-compose.