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by udp 4y ago
That’s a really nice idea. Maybe I could do the same with Dropbox. A good project for the Easter weekend - thank you! I haven’t tried abiword as I didn’t use it “back in the day”, but I might give it a go. I’m also using AppleWorks on my iM
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by udp 4y ago
Mostly UT99 with the GLIDE renderer on my 3DFX Voodoo 3, but I consider it inspiration ;-)
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by udp 4y ago
I too love using old hardware for “real work”. My current writing workflow is Office 97 on Windows 95 (Pentium II) -> SMB share on a Raspberry Pi -> upload .doc to google drive from my iMac. It’s pretty nice for distraction-free typin
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by udp 5y ago
I had a similar experience but the Space Exploration mod has made it feel like a brand new game again. I haven’t even reached space yet, but lots of the recipes have changed in ways that are more interesting (e.g. the introduction of glass,
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by udp 5y ago
“More and more CPU processing” doesn’t sound like a CRUD API.
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by udp 5y ago
> A well-appointed kitchen [..] A toolbox [..] A hunting rifle ... one of these things is not like the others
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by udp 5y ago
Unsurprising. I have found Ubisoft customer support pretty abysmal. I pre-ordered the latest Assassin’s Creed directly from Ubisoft thinking it was better than buying it from Amazon. It got delivered to the wrong address, so I opened a tick
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by udp 5y ago
> I disapprove of local authorities making deals with retailers (advertising hoardings on the footway) and scooter firms to "monetise" space that's supposed to be reserved for pedestrians Except the app specifically tell
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by udp 5y ago
The local business that contracted a website does not want a custom hand-rolled implementation of DOM manipulation to maintain. You’re not a “trend follower” for choosing an industry standard framework and it has nothing to do with your abi
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by udp 5y ago
The misguided assumption upon which this snobbery is based is that React developers and, say, C developers are different sets of people. Most developers are pragmatic and are probably going to use React or Vue to build a website in 2021 bec
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by udp 5y ago
Also for a historical fiction take, Ken Follett’s “Pillars of the Earth” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pillars_of_the_Earth
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by udp 5y ago
I mean, imho RDF isn't the problem. RDF itself is very simple. As you correctly point out, the stack is overcomplicated. > Instead of redirecting their efforts to a more general graph model which has actual hype and use by develo
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by udp 5y ago
The ivory tower is working on it: https://github.com/w3c/EasierRDF
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by udp 5y ago
FreeBSD once had Docker working through the Linux compatibility layer. No virtualisation. I always thought would have been really cool to see that ported to macOS.
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by udp 5y ago
It would be more helpful to point out some specific examples of what has already been tried and what went wrong than just saying “don’t go there”
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by udp 6y ago
I once used this with pygmentize as part of a really hacky pipeline to convert code snippets to syntax highlighted PDFs with selectable text: %.pdf: %.* pygmentize -f html -O full $< | wkhtmltopdf -T 0 -B 0 --page-width 210
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by udp 6y ago
Anecdotal counterpoint: I bought a cheap Intel SoC laptop in 2019 thinking it would make a nice ultraportable writing machine. Things that it shipped without Linux support for: the trackpad, wifi, Bluetooth, and disk (eMMC controller). It
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by udp 6y ago
I would also add Bryan Sykes “Blood of the Isles” to the reading list after Oppenheimer. Both excellent reads... from strongly opinionated Oxford academics.
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by udp 6y ago
Similar debate has been going on about “Celts” for many years. Broadly labelling cultures is just a helpful method for making sense of a very messy and complex history. It doesn’t necessarily mean they were completely distinct groups of peo
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by udp 6y ago
No problem if it's inorganic. I expect there must be some kind of evolutionary reason for it - the fact that it's an itching/crawling feeling strongly suggests it has/had something to do with bugs.
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by udp 6y ago
I usually have a very strong (feeling unbearably itchy) trypophobic response to anything "organic" that has clusters of protrusions or holes e.g. lotus seed pods, but none of these examples have any such effect. I think it's
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by udp 6y ago
Two very different apes, however. Chimpanzees hunt and kill monkeys. Gorillas are mostly vegetarian.
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by udp 6y ago
How is the OP not "truly serverless SQLite for a web browser"?
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by udp 6y ago
I think it is a bit reductionist to say (2) can "do a business IT degree or something". Taught CS today - at least at UK universities - is a mix of discrete mathematics, electrical engineering, and software engineering. I think it
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by udp 6y ago
As you said, all contemporary populations . So there is nothing to suggest that the British Isles was a Neanderthal genetic time capsule prior to occupation by the Anglo-Saxons, Romans, or Celts. Likely all of these incoming populations we
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by udp 6y ago
> If there were populations with significant relict Neanderthal DNA, you'd be looking at more like the Celt/Gaul populations, and talking at least a thousand years before that -- think the British isles, before the Angles&#x2F
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by udp 6y ago
Came looking for the reference, and found it - but there are fewer and fewer mentions of SPARQL with each of these HN discussions. I think people just think "oh some semantic web crap" and move on without realising how powerful R
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by udp 6y ago
In London maybe. The Beeching report made sure that as soon as you’re outside a major city you are unlikely to be connected to anywhere useful by train.
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by udp 6y ago
I recently bought a 2015 27” 5K (5120x2880) iMac core i5 for cheap, put in an SSD, and upped the RAM to 24 GB. It handles everything I can throw at it as a developer (albeit not a game developer, just “full stack” web/java/node&#x
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by udp 6y ago
Maybe DDG is hoarding the results of every API call to Bing to build its own database. Then one day they can turn off the Bing integration and nobody will notice.

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