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by wazoox 3y ago
My 2009 Macbook still works fine, thanks. The battery is a spicy pillow and the Superdrive is dead, but it works, albeit slowly. It's mostly running Debian nowadays (the last supported MacOS release, 10.12, doesn't even run a mode
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by wazoox 3y ago
Ah yes. In my first job the CFO repeatedly rejected IT manager's requests for a proper backup system of the AS/400 that held all of the business (ERP, CRM, accounting) because backing up the work of 300 people on 8" floppies
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by wazoox 3y ago
There are several level of relationships in a company: technical, business and social. Often, management hires consultants to push for organisational changes, and most of the time social relationships are ignored because in contrast with th
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by wazoox 3y ago
ProDOS on the mighty Apple /// (and also the Apple ][) had a file type metadata back in 1983 :) In fact even Apple DOS 3.1 (1978) supported 8 different file types.
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by wazoox 3y ago
In fact with a passing familiarity of AirTable I immediately understand it but I think it's probably the intended audience...
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Usually the line is pretended to be a digest of Ibn Khldun thought, unfortunately this is quite inaccurate, as Ibn Khaldun's theories are wider and more sophisticated than that. Now that I think of it Ibn Khaldun is precisely this exam
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by wazoox 3y ago
I'm using daily 30 to 35 year-old floppies. They're almost certainly fine unless you kept them in really bad conditions.
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by wazoox 3y ago
I didn't say finance, I said "helping finance".
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"Inadvertently" in the title is specious. Several high rank Israeli officials (including Benjamin Netanyahu) have recognized helping Hamas financing itself for various political reasons, like keeping the Palestinian Authority powe
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by wazoox 3y ago
The Reface DX can perfectly reproduce all sounds from vintage 4-op synths (TX81Z, DX9, DX21, DX11) but isn't directly compatible. However there's a solution to convert sounds for the old machines to the new one : https:/&#x2
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by wazoox 3y ago
It has a couple of decent themes, nowadays.
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Sure, I last updated my homepage in 2003.
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Gabriel Coulet just started selling a wonderful 24-months Roquefort. It's very soft and creamy, strong but not too pungent, and beige to light brown in colour (it really look like it's spoiled, but it isn't :) ). I'm pre
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by wazoox 3y ago
I think the question was more about the general tendency to make movies with that teal/orange look, that's still going on strong after 12 years.
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I remember this one well because I had an MSX, and like everyone else back then I didn't have that many games to play with, so I used this code quite extensively :)
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Well I don't remember in which issue it was, but the whole collection is here: https://archive.org/details/hebdogiciel-french I'm pretty sure it's really difficult to convert MSX-BASIC to 6502 assembly t
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by wazoox 3y ago
Back in the 80s when type-in program magazines were common, in France we had the wonderful "Hebdogiciel" with a perpetually running BASIC programming contest called "deulignes" -- which means "twolines". "
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by wazoox 3y ago
"Open a Word processor from the year 2000...", "Open a spreadsheet editor from the year 2000...", "Open an image editor from the year 2000...". This is completely silly; most desktop software still exists in a
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by wazoox 3y ago
IIRC Windows XP up to SP2 was vulnerable to this. Basically if you ran the install with the DSL modem attached, your PC was compromised even before the end of setup.
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That's basically how it works in Europe too. Actually I'd say it's how it works in civilized countries.
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Not yet. They just can't sell them anymore (even used ones). Recall will only occur if Apple doesn't provide any mitigating measures.
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No, Mercedes, BMW, Renault all do a way, way better job than Tesla, and they started much later.
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When they advertised QT3 and its new wonderful codec "Sorenson"? :)
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by wazoox 3y ago
"Wagons" are Chrysler Voyager, Renault Scenic, Citroën Picasso, Volkswagen Golf Plus, Toyota Prius+ and those have almost entirely disappeared (Golf Plus and Prius Plus aren't made anymore; Picasso will disappear this year, e
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My phone is a Oneplus 5T from late 2017, it will probably be fine for another 5 years at least but will probably require a battery replacement at some point. My wife uses my previous phone, a OnePlus One from 2013, still going strong, its 1
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by wazoox 3y ago
The code reflects the organisation, that's one of the laws of computing (Fred Brook's law maybe?). Microservices work well in a sufficiently large org, with autonomous entities working on different parts of the system, extremely w
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Justin Lee Schultz also plays the Harpejji, and plays both piano and guitar like a monster. :)
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Techmoan has a video where he explains and shows that reading 78s with a microgroove head gives very bad results, low sound, high noise, and no bass. It's a workaround, not a workable solution; you need a special 78RPM head which exist
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A very long time ago, I've worked on a Perl script to do just that ( https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=636777 ). Of course the problem with this sort of scripts is that they keep chasing behind changes youtube makes p
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It's the same with absolutely everything. How many people give money to charities, how many help them by volunteering. How many people actually take times in politics to get involved into parties, march the streets or leafleting. Etc.

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