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811.
by trollied 6y ago
You need to be really careful with picking colours. In a previous role I created some reports & associated graphs for the CEO. I was really pleased with the visual representations of the data. He wasn't. He's colour blind.
812.
by trollied 6y ago
Have you read The Mastermind? I won't spoil things, but what a man Paul Le Roux is.... SUrprised there aren't 10 documentaries & films on Netflix about him.
813.
by trollied 6y ago
You have won the internet for the day!
814.
by trollied 6y ago
Winamp was so slick. Lightweight, did one thing very well. A modern version would probably be built on Electron, be a 500Mb download & require 8Gb RAM to just run (12Gb required if you want to change the skin). I long for the days where
815.
by trollied 6y ago
It says "Faster than 2080TI" right underneath it...
816.
by trollied 6y ago
It's going to be very interesting to see what AMD counter with. I don't think anyone was expecting pricing this aggressive. Competition is great!
817.
by trollied 6y ago
This was posted a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24241485
818.
by trollied 6y ago
I really liked Solaris. ZFS, Dtrace, Zones, brilliant hardware. It's a shame Oracle destroyed it (mostly) and Sun. Though some might argue that Linux taking over played a part in that. A parallel universe with Sun surviving & prope
819.
by trollied 6y ago
It's a shame that the web/browsers have grown up to be so forgiving of shitty markup that isn't valid. The experience would be much better for the user if it was all strict, as I suspect things would be faster.
820.
by trollied 6y ago
I've just got to the point where i can use robots. How do you go about ghost building stuff? Do you have to use blueprints? Can the constrution robots just build anything for you if the mats are in chests?
821.
by trollied 6y ago
Fortnite has been removed from the App Store as a result. Things are about to get interesting.
822.
by trollied 6y ago
They're opposing a trademark application. I'm all for calling out big companies when they do crappy things, but you have to be seen to defend your trademarks & the system to allow businesses to contest trademark applications i
823.
by trollied 6y ago
We have this in the UK. It's called Faster Payments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster_Payments_Service Never had a problem with it. I use a few banks that are technically good, and I can send a payment from on
824.
Using Raspberry Pi GPIO Pins as an IDE Controller(twitter.com)
1 points by trollied 6y ago|0 comments
825.
by trollied 6y ago
There are hands underneath the objects in the first picture...
826.
by trollied 6y ago
I had the same setup, and have just purchased a nice Ryzen 3800X PC to replace it. I've had enough of macos & its crappy software quality. Windows 10 has been fine so far (though the control panel is a complete mess, they really ne
827.
by trollied 6y ago
You might like the Darknet Diaries podcast (if you don't already subscribe). Often interviews reformed "hackers" who have turned their lives around.
828.
by trollied 6y ago
Migrate it to Azure. It'll get renamed to TikTok 360 because of the downtime.
829.
Booting a Windows 95 PC inside Minecraft and playing Doom on it(theverge.com)
2 points by trollied 6y ago|0 comments
830.
by trollied 6y ago
This story is based on a tweet from a month ago: https://twitter.com/mauriqhd/status/1276516095298605056
831.
by trollied 6y ago
A TL;DR for people: 'This project attempts to find the world seed of the iconic panorama image which appeared in the background of the main menu of Minecraft between 2011 and 2018.' Essentially it's Folding@Home but for findi
832.
by trollied 6y ago
I can't believe Twitter haven't managed to stop this yet!
833.
by trollied 6y ago
Loads of accounts still tweeting it in realtime. Follow it live: https://twitter.com/search?q=bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p8...
834.
by trollied 6y ago
You're actually both right. A company collects VAT from customers when they purchase. But it also buys from suppliers at a lower value. It pays the difference in the two VAT numbers (from customer-to supplier) to the VAT authority.
835.
by trollied 6y ago
It’s worth noting that the OP has recently acquired a 2-letter username from someone else & blogged about it: https://dev.to/yg/how-i-got-two-letter-username-on-github-i1... I imagine there’s more to this than disc
836.
by trollied 6y ago
Would you recommend it? I've looked at them a few times & have been close to buying one a few times.
837.
by trollied 6y ago
Just learn SQL. Please!
838.
by trollied 6y ago
Discussion from the original PCIe hack: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20399555
839.
Donald Trump's official Twitch channel suspended for 'hateful conduct(pcgamer.com)
3 points by trollied 6y ago|0 comments
840.
by trollied 6y ago
I swear Microsoft are slowly putting all of the pieces in place for Windows LX, which will be a Linux distribution.

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