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by soapdog 5y ago
I have a Haiku installation here and it is having trouble upgrading to Beta 3. Anyone having trouble as well? What I'm seeing are some package resolution errors. Things like haikuwebkit higher version wanting beta 3 (which is not yet i
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by soapdog 5y ago
I'm running it on a x230 and it works great. I actually don't remember it not working on any of my old pcs.
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by soapdog 5y ago
I run it on a x230 and am happy with the results.
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by soapdog 5y ago
I prefer Haiku over any Linux distro. For me it is the tight UX and GUI that makes it a very good desktop. I’d rather have more native developed software instead of ports but I understand why ports are crucial.
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by soapdog 5y ago
I see most of the comments here being around specs, I think that leaves the more interesting bits out of the convo. Since this challenge does not affect work. You're free for a week to find a new fun workflow to do with an old computer
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Show HN: Launching the MVP for Little Webby Press(andregarzia.com)
1 points by soapdog 5y ago|0 comments
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by soapdog 5y ago
That is the biased narrative that we have been told for centuries, and it doesn't match recent research. Diseases happened first, they travel faster. The population affected devolves into chaos as disease often kills 9 in 10 and leave
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by soapdog 5y ago
Because it also hit the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Where would the invader come from? They were also dying of it too. In China alone there were about 40% dead according to recent estimates. The Black Plague was not restricted to Europe,
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by soapdog 5y ago
The battle of Cajamarca is in 1532. The Sapa Inka and his court were all wiped out by pox in 1527, then the successor died too of pox, then their successor also died of pox as well. Then the remaining of the court had to choose a new Inka,
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by soapdog 5y ago
There were diseases in the Americas, they were deadly too. One thing to consider is how they spread and if they are contagious between humans. Malaria is horrible, but you don't catch it from other people, pox on the other hand will sp
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by soapdog 5y ago
Yes, that is key! The lack of beasts of burden and domesticated animals in the Americas. People often overlook this when talking about "how could a whole continent be wiped out by pox"
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by soapdog 5y ago
You might enjoy reading 1491 and learning more about the cultures of the Americas. There is way more there than "tech from 1500 BC", and I don't feel like just quoting from the book because I want people to go read it. It is
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by soapdog 5y ago
> Europeans defeated indigenous peoples throughout history, by superior technology and numbers. Oh boi, not this horrible and flawed argument again. People have learned nothing from recent research into the impact of diseases in that his
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by soapdog 5y ago
It doesn't really matter if it has already been done. It is actually good because then you can compare and try different things, or add the same features to learn how hard it is.
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by soapdog 5y ago
The best strategy in my opinion is to build something that aligns with some of your hobbies or favourite things. Do not attempt to "solve a problem" or "do generic exercises", build something that ties up with something
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Creating a macOS Droplet with AppleScript(andregarzia.com)
1 points by soapdog 5y ago|0 comments
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by soapdog 5y ago
When all browsers were finally coalescing into a unified API for WebExtensions, Google comes in and just throws in a whole new namespace with a new API...
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by soapdog 5y ago
Plugins were native code, usually running under NPAPI. Extensions or Add-ons running with WebExtensions API are HTML/JS/CSS and have way less access to your machine. They run in a sandbox with very specific fine-grained control ov
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by soapdog 5y ago
The amount of hoops an Apple developer needs to jump through to get simple stuff working because Apple is a damn control freak never ceases to amaze me.
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by soapdog 5y ago
Can someone post some screen shots? :D
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by soapdog 5y ago
check out https://ssb.nz for more scuttlebutt info. A client called Patchbay has the book feature.
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by soapdog 5y ago
I'm active in the Secure Scuttlebutt community, which is a decentralization platform that some people from Activity Streams communities might also enjoy. One of the clients has a book review feature which is great and I wish was incorp
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by soapdog 5y ago
Author here, ask me anything :-P
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by soapdog 5y ago
Lots of people here recommending that they should have just built an VSCode plugin. That is the wrong take IMHO. Arduino is a platform, they need to be in control of their platform. If they'd just became a VSCode plugin, they'd be
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by soapdog 5y ago
yes.
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by soapdog 5y ago
I appreciate what the authors attempted to do in that article, but in my own personal and deeply subjective opinion what they described are not FreeBSD primary strengths. Many features there are not only common to other BSDs but also to Lin
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by soapdog 5y ago
The publishers usually survive because of the income generated by large bestsellers. This income is what pays for the books that end up not selling well. The vast majority of books don't sell much, so without the popular books, publish
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by soapdog 5y ago
people wanting more cores, more memory, eGPU support, and I'm here just wanting them to have multiple colours...
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by soapdog 5y ago
I don't think it ever claimed to be anti-theft. It is more focused on "finding something you misplaced" than being a security tracking device.
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by soapdog 6y ago
that is odd, in https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/imac it doesn't show the 16gb option.

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