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by soneil 7y ago
I think Amiga find themselves at the perfect border of extendable and retro. Mine has 1024x768 (over hdmi/dvi), 128MB of ram, a cpu almost 5x faster than it shipped with (66MHz vs 14MHz), and an ethernet (pcmcia) card. I don't h
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by soneil 7y ago
> That's the same as international student fees. I'd assume that's who it's aimed at - GCN/SEA. All of the prestige for all of the cost, with zero the movement.
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by soneil 7y ago
I'm curious how you see this playing out in the real world. Do you: a) Destroy every storage device in your home every time you click a random link on IRC. b) Destroy every storage device in your home "when I opened the door we we
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by soneil 7y ago
Being a luxury isn’t necessarily a bad thing. There’s some cost to being a trailblazer, but it opens the trail for others to follow. In this case, being able to pick and choose suppliers who can accommodate their needs is a luxury, but onc
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by soneil 7y ago
I have the non-trackpad version of this, and you almost nailed it word for word. The bottom is marked “Designed in Park City, UT. Assembled in China”
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by soneil 7y ago
We use the term differently in British English. It’s a yacht if it has a cabin, a dingy if it doesn’t. We really don’t use “sailboat” at all (it sounds like “wingplane” to our ears).
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by soneil 7y ago
Buying more than one pair happens quite easily - I did, but I didn’t set out to do so. When the second generation came out, I upgraded for the wireless charging. I tend to sleep with one in (a pre-existing habit, and as I’m an “active sle
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by soneil 7y ago
There’s an interesting mix here though. As a nerd with a passing interest in politics, I don’t want to call Crimea lost. But at the same time, there needs to be a healthy dose of reality - if I’m on the ground, and crossing this imaginary
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by soneil 7y ago
My understanding of the soldered RAM is that it allows them to use LPDDR. It's not about thin, it's not about spending two cents on a socket, it's a genuine engineering trade-off as part of their near-obsessive take on power
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by soneil 7y ago
Side note, Soul-der is the correct pronunciation in the UK (and I believe also AU/NZ).
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by soneil 7y ago
I think a lot of these don't suffer direct comparisons well. eg, the greatest risk of accidents to a bus, comes from other passenger vehicles where the bus is more likely to win that particular dispute. The greatest risk of accidents
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by soneil 7y ago
I'm not sure it's actually as egalitarian as it first sounds. Low-income jobs tend to be a lot less forgiving to being an hour late for work, than higher-paying jobs. Back when I worked in food service, being an hour late probabl
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by soneil 7y ago
If a patent is being upheld for the right reasons, it's not a troll. The patent troll is the definition of a bad actor in this arena. There's arguments for and against patents, and especially so software patents - but there&#x27
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by soneil 7y ago
The number of 32bit intel macs is surprisingly small, too. Core Solo/Duo models ran from January to November 2006 (bar one mac mini model that survived into 2007). I'd be very surprised if there's a 32bit mac that'll run
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by soneil 7y ago
It's not dependant on the logged-in user, keystone is a background agent (daemon) that handles Google's updates. The expected scenario is that the browser is installed by an administrator (a sudoer), and the keystone agent is inst
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by soneil 7y ago
I think it's a user-experience thing. If a user-level application (eg, browser) discovers an available update, it has to launch a privileged process to update itself - which means an authorisation prompt. And just popping up and aski
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by soneil 7y ago
The way I picture it; see the caps set (10) as the default. From there you can shift to the lower-case (11) set, figure (01) set, or control (00) set. But then there's no such thing as CTRL+; - you're switching to two different
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by soneil 7y ago
Does that realistically make a difference? The only difference between selling it for $x or leasing it for $(x/3) (assuming GP's proposition to dramatically reduce the term), is whether they want exclusivity, whether they can bac
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by soneil 7y ago
This reminds me a little of baudot, which was 5bit but the shift character was stateful. So you had two character sets (nominally "letters" and "figures"). So sending "AA11" would be five symbols (A, A, FIGS,
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by soneil 7y ago
Well this made my day. I just noticed esr's original piece was updated to include it in four columns too - so perhaps I'm not nuts.
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by soneil 7y ago
I don't know about non-transferable - if IBM are better placed to capitalize on my invention than I am, I think it should be fair to sell it to them. But I'm certainly in favour of some use-it-or-lose-it clause that lets a "p
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by soneil 7y ago
I think it's very contextual. I'd expect such a rebuff from my grandmother - at any age. From a public service, I'd expect them to be overly familiar with the stresses involved.
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by soneil 7y ago
It still seems strange for "how the hell should I know" to ellicit such a reaction. Even if/when it's considered a curse, it's not aimed at anyone. It's strange to me to see someone take the defensive when th
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by soneil 7y ago
There's a men vs women trope of trying to solve the problem vs actually listening. I suspect it actually applies a lot to these situations. Once someone's to that point, they either don't want you to help - or don't thi
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by soneil 7y ago
I was curious how much coherency would help, thinking perhaps it's just the postcode that goes in the barcode too. Apparently they also use a field "Delivery Point Suffix" "A postcode is not always sufficient to uniquely
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by soneil 7y ago
The Irish system,"eircode", is actually more exact. Much more exact. I live in a regular semi split into two flats, and upstairs have a different eircode to me. Because we both share the same front door, our letter-box is actua
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by soneil 7y ago
This does seem like a nightmare scenario for the vast majority (4 in 5?) of Americans who live cheque-to-cheque. Your pay is yanked, life doesn't stop and the bills keep coming. A few days, a week later, it's corrected and the pa
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by soneil 7y ago
I think "Pro" is just admitting that they're running into two tiers now. They released the 8 and the X together, they released the XR and XS together. The iphone has diverged into two products and hopefully they've pic
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by soneil 7y ago
I've worked with CMS where each entry pretty much required a "hero". Elsewhere in the system articles were thumbnailed as photo+headline, and attaching a random coffee.jpg caused less problems than trying to fix templates th
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by soneil 7y ago
At this point, I can't figure out if I'm learning new and interesting things about how this system works .. or if they're just making it up as they go along now. And I'm British ..

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