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by xattt 8mo ago
It depends on the goal of your writing. You can usually set off the same thought with a comma or a semicolon depending on sentence structure. You can also just avoid the whole rigamarole and have a separate explanatory sentence. Times chang
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Is the image seen via microscope basically a readout of the image on a spectroscope? Those can have near-legible images, but most of the time they are not.
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I can only imagine a giant using the domestically-produced hardware of Lilliput.
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That’s adding a secondary feature to turn off to the BOM.
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There is an 18-year-old record (updated in 2008 ! ) about TekSavvy in Canada. The internet was different place back then. This info wouldn’t even relevant anymore as TekSavvy has since taken a business-centric approach in the interest of su
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> There were OS improvements too, but I have forgot what … Hold up, there is no need for this revisionist history. At the very least, Windows 95 introduced the ability to run 32-bit apps pre-emptively that was otherwise only available
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> bright pink, light blue This is magenta/cyan mode is essentially the proto-cyberpunk aesthetic.
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> I am typing this on an Lenovo Yoga, it has decent screen and keyboard, but the touchpad is horrible. Can we talk about laptops that you can’t carry by the edge where your palm rests because it flexes the frame and registers it as a mou
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Yeah, but K-to-12 edu customers don’t care for that and just want a keyboard with a screen with dead-simple admin options.
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Without clicking the link, I am going to assume that S/Key is stool-key verification.
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Everyone is at different points in their journey. Let the DIwhy-ers have their moment. I used to want to mod out Windows XP to look like OS X. Then I had a realization that I just wanted OS X and got that as my next machine because I could.
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Multiuser is already baked in iOS-adjacent operating systems. tvOS offers user profiles on power on.
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“Your sample was insufficient. Please try again later.”
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Apple UI designers wanted to avoid the Android hamburger so much that they doubled-down on the share menu to duplicate hamburger menu functionality. I guess printing it to paper is a form of sharing so they may have the last laugh.
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Open Rails(openrails.org)
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They feel like paper catalogues!
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> Mushroom® Packaging, grown from natural mushroom mycelium and agricultural by-products … Does anyone know the agricultural byproducts are?
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Microwave ovens have been a reliable way to heat milk without scalding at the bottom.
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I’m half-expecting a Therac-25 situation in those edge-case operating moments, but then remember that microwave ovens, unlike the Therac-25, have physical interlocks to prevent open-door operation.
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Is it possible to supplement the model with a diff for updates on modular memory, or would severely impact perf?
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People who knew what they did aren’t going to go online and say that they tried to return a dropped device.
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It can probably be decoded with some Dungeons and Dragons-level incantation of ffmpeg.
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The article reads like a naïve person coming to terms with the idea of consciousness… like “whoa maaan, my fingers… they’re finging!” “Extra-cerebral” neurons are optimized for different functions than neurons proper in the brain. It’s unli
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The Idea Factory is a worthwhile read. One of the concepts that AT&T operated on during monopoly times seemed to be focused on providing a “gold-plated” premium service. My understanding was that MCI rolled in and set up dollar-store ve
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Yes, the web page persists through reboots. You have to painfully force quit Safari by going through the motions of the gestures, wait for the phone to respond, and then quit Safari from the card task switcher.
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I get the sense the Arch wiki pages has more detail than the man pages themselves. The wiki captures the knowledge that developers of said apps assume to be common, but don’t actually make sense unless you are bootstrapped into the paradigm
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Why do I have a sudden feeling like I need to autoclave my phone?
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It was the accessibility. You were learning computing concepts from scratch, that would then increase in complexity in real-time as your learning caught up if you were actively engaged.
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A couple of interesting takeaways: - Pre-LED Jumbotrons used CRT pixels called "Trinilite" elements. This was a proprietary Sony technology where each sub-pixel or "cell" was a miniaturized CRT assembly. Each resolved on
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Sony Jumbotron Image Control System (1998) [pdf](pro.sony)
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