akandiah

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VW to invest up to $5B in Tesla rival Rivian(bbc.com)
3 points by akandiah 2y ago|1 comments
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by akandiah 3y ago
The world outside of the USA that functions perfectly fine with CCS2 adapters.
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by akandiah 4y ago
The farebox recovery ratio in many western nations are not enough to ever fully fund public transport. In many cases, the systems to collect fares end up costing hundreds of millions of dollars. These costs are never made back. It makes sen
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by akandiah 5y ago
Fun fact: z/OS is now emulated on Red Hat Linux nowadays for "new" deployments.
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by akandiah 5y ago
I'd read the following before eating too many Brazil nuts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_nut#Nutrition_and_human...
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by akandiah 5y ago
Communications of the ACM.
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OpenSSL Version 3.0.0 Published(mta.openssl.org)
12 points by akandiah 5y ago|4 comments
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by akandiah 5y ago
> Such small software shops like Microsoft unfortunately cannot afford to hire designers to do multiple sets of icons. I had to chuckle. I remember back in the Windows 3.11 days, there used be a separate monochrome set of icons for all W
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by akandiah 6y ago
> An engineering company should have engineers as managers from the bottom level all the way up to the CEO. Sun Microsystems had this. Didn't work too well for them. It's not at all as simple as this.
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by akandiah 6y ago
I think this aspect is also worth considering: https://www.thebillfold.com/2012/05/only-an-idiot-would-rob-...
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by akandiah 6y ago
I believe Bryant and O'Hallaron wrote a text book just for this course. You can always "optimize" it by reverse engineering the benchmark app and providing the correctly aligned blocks to the bench-marking application. It&#x2
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by akandiah 6y ago
This is probably the best way to learn about pointers in C. The book "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective" addresses this area very well: https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/product
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by akandiah 6y ago
Bluetooth still isn't perfect for certain use cases. That's why Apple ended up augmenting it for audio. Apple was an early adopter of the standard. I remember when being amazed at being able to use a Bluetooth keyboard in the EFI!
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All of South Australia's power comes from solar panels(abc.net.au)
23 points by akandiah 6y ago|9 comments
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DeepFaceDrawing: Deep Generation of Face Images from Sketches(geometrylearning.com)
2 points by akandiah 6y ago|0 comments
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Wiki.js(wiki.js.org)
381 points by akandiah 6y ago|199 comments
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by akandiah 6y ago
> A lot of people forget that the G in GTK stands for Gimp Source? It's always stood for Gnome Toolkit. You must be confusing this with the GDK (GIMP Drawing Kit) that's between the library layer and the display server. The GDK
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by akandiah 6y ago
Is this an msi hiding in a wrapper? Anyone who has dealt with the innards of an msi file knows it's a dog's breakfast!
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Lock/login screen displays password in clear text occasionally(bugs.launchpad.net)
2 points by akandiah 7y ago|0 comments
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by akandiah 7y ago
They even had a version of Java for .Net called J# (J-Sharp). That didn't last long.
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by akandiah 7y ago
> You need a special screwdriver P5 Pentalobe screwdriver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentalobe_security_screw
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Zipper manufacturers are preparing for a market battle(abc.net.au)
2 points by akandiah 7y ago|0 comments
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by akandiah 8y ago
A couple of things I've noted over the years: - Fields, or anything that uses fields: They're completely broken. They only seem to function in straight-forward case. For e.g: it's very easy for sequences to completely go off
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by akandiah 8y ago
I'm glad there's always LaTeX. For any serious writing, Microsoft Word is one of the worst pieces of tools out there. It starts showing its ugly side when start using anything remotely advanced.
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Tesla on fire: UK director Michael Morris' car bursts into flames(bbc.com)
26 points by akandiah 8y ago|54 comments
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by akandiah 8y ago
I'm hesitant to rely any new Google services these days thanks to Google doing this almost all the time.
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by akandiah 8y ago
Hit Command+Shift+G and it will pop up with a dialog box requesting the path.
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by akandiah 8y ago
No functionality to cut and paste for one... Adding extensions (for example installing XtraFinder) has become a pain due to the new security features that need to be turned off.
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by akandiah 8y ago
The great thing about a Macbook is the warranty. If you have coverage, you can get it repaired anywhere in the world. It's a pain with any other manufacturer.
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by akandiah 9y ago
The link reads like an advert.

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