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by vasac 9mo ago
The legend was that Celeron 300A CPUs packaged in Malaysia were more overclockable than those packaged in Costa Rica. I specifically hunted down a Malaysian one, and it happily ran at 450 MHz for years.
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by vasac 10mo ago
I remember installing plain Windows XP at a time when Service Pack 3 had already been released. Since I had only recently gotten cable internet, it didn’t cross my mind to disconnect the network cable, and my PC got owned almost immediately
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by vasac 10mo ago
OpenJDK isn't a clean room port - it was created from the original source code of Sun's JDK.
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by vasac 10mo ago
A similar thing happened to me - I lent a phone to my mother-in-law and created an account for her. She returned the phone once her own phone was fixed. A few years passed, and a couple of weeks ago my phone broke, so I wanted to use that o
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by vasac 10mo ago
Any ideas why blackouts are widespread in Ukraine but not throughout Russia?
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by vasac 11mo ago
They even manage to steal IP before the original inventor actually invents it. Imagine that.
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by vasac 1y ago
Later, they made Macs with both a physical Esc key and a Touch Bar. It was a bit better, but it still sucked.
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by vasac 1y ago
Stasi wasn't doing it for the money anyway.
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by vasac 1y ago
> You install everything you can get your hands on Nah, I install what I find useful - sometimes I know exactly what I want and search for a specific plugin; other times, I just stumble upon something useful. Every now and then, I remove
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by vasac 1y ago
> We've managed to go 80-odd years with a reasonable global norm against redrawing borders, and it is worth a lot to demonstrate that we- the global community- do not acquiesce. Cool story bro. Almost like Kosovo never happened.
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by vasac 1y ago
How many plugins do you use? I probably have at least 70–80. Tracking what’s changed would be a job in itself, so I just update all plugins regularly, the same way I update IntelliJ IDEA, Homebrew, or Linux packages. If a package breaks oft
42.
by vasac 1y ago
You know the answer, you’re just not comfortable saying it out loud.
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by vasac 1y ago
Tank armor can be good as it gets, the problem is you can't have good armor everywhere on the tank otherwise it would weight hundreds of tons. So a small drone doesn't need to penetrate tank where it's best protected but to d
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by vasac 1y ago
Not exactly. It’s just that much more effort is put into making crimes acceptable to the general public. Embedded 'independent' journalists, collateral damage, precission weapons, 'mistakes’ everywhere, and the usual ‘but we
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by vasac 1y ago
For a win, replace Caps Lock with Esc when tapped and with Control when held.
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by vasac 1y ago
And only ten years ago, during the Arab Spring, social networks were praised for their role. Wondering what has changed in the meantime.
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by vasac 2y ago
> ...regime was installed Someone seems seriously upset here.
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by vasac 2y ago
I had an S3 ViRGE too. It really was a decelerator, and the number of games that actually supported it was minuscule. I managed to run GLQuake, but without any textures - just shades of gray - and even that ran at most a couple of frames pe
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by vasac 2y ago
Apparently, it isn't that rare, as I too used to place the taskbar at the top of the screen (I switched to Mac 10 years ago). I simply wanted the taskbar to be near the menu bar so I wouldn't have to move the mouse more than neces
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by vasac 2y ago
Things weren’t set in stone - Yugoslavia in the 1950s (agrarian reforms, Goli Otok, and similar events) was quite different from the Yugoslavia of the 1980s. In the 1950s, many people escaped to Italy in small boats on stormy nights. Ten to
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by vasac 2y ago
I remember reading, in the late '80s, a series of interviews with famous programmers in a Yugoslav computer magazine (I think it was 'Računari' - those were translations from some U.S. magazine). In one of the interviews, a p
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by vasac 2y ago
I don't particularly like Tintin, but I was watching it with a kid and was pleasantly surprised. In the end, it was a better adventure movie than the last Indiana Jones film. The chase scene in Moroccan streets was somehow much better
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by vasac 2y ago
How the mighty have fallen. I remember the Arab Spring and all the excitement about media being in people's hands, safe from censorship... So finally, non-Arab people got the same opportunity too. And now, apparently, there's nuan
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by vasac 2y ago
I don’t recall compilation being slow. The Clipper app for small businesses that my father created used overlays because it couldn’t fit in memory, yet compilation was still fast (all of this was happening on an XT). Linking, on the other h
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by vasac 2y ago
Comic relief.
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by vasac 2y ago
"Almost" is doing heavy lifting there. Why would they need additional chances when they have already expressed what they want? Oh, they dared to vote for a candidate that doesn’t suit the powers that be, so they’ll vote again and
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by vasac 2y ago
No biggie, they'll have another chance to pick a correct one. And another if they don't choose wisely
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by vasac 2y ago
In my case, I started with the ZX-81 and never emigrated, but I can relate to everything else. Thanks to Sir Clive, I have a great career and lots of fun with hobbies that are mostly related to computers. 10/10 would do it again!
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by vasac 2y ago
There were no T-80s in Iraq or Kuwait.
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by vasac 2y ago
Yeah, there were 100 million… They could have waited a year and then won the next election if they thought they had such a clear case. But they didn’t because they weren’t so sure. They chose revolution to overthrow a government elected thr

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