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Wouter van Oortmerssen on Surviving in Early Access and Escaping Minecraft(report.wand.com)
4 points by mikelabatt 3mo ago|0 comments
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by mikelabatt 8mo ago
Is there a specific temperature and exposure duration at which freezing would be effective? This approach has been used against certain other molds.
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by mikelabatt 8mo ago
Was there a technical reason for not using corrugated ducts in the concrete, maybe because it's a shelter?
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by mikelabatt 8mo ago
I guess that's why the two most important suppliers of OLED panels for PC monitors (LG and Samsung) are rearranging their subpixel to use LCD-like RGB stripes: https://www.heise.de/en/news/OLED-with-true-RGB-L
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BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive(evclinic.eu)
443 points by mikelabatt 10mo ago|524 comments
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by mikelabatt 11mo ago
Any thoughts on how this might be different from existing products like GC Tooth Mousse (CPP-ACP-based, recommended by our children's dentist)? A paper from 2011 on the topic: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/
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by mikelabatt 1y ago
Thanks for your insights. I did change my mind about the need for a BOM (though not about the need to be able to parse/skip it if present). In a future where everything defaults to UTF-8 it makes sense. This is probably easier to envis
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by mikelabatt 1y ago
Makes sense, thank you. The observation about false positives for UTF-8 tending to zero helps understand. So I will vote for UTF-8 without BOM from now on (while encouraging parsers to deal with it, if present).
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by mikelabatt 1y ago
In a pure UTF-8 world we would not need it, sure. I get that point. But what do you want to do with 40+ years worth of text files that came after 7-bit ASCII, where they may coexist with UTF-8? If we want to preserve our past, the practical
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by mikelabatt 1y ago
Even the Amiga with its 8-bit text encoding was 40 years ago. Are you saying that for some radical reason modern apps on any platform should refuse to process a BOM? Parsing (skipping) a simple BOM header isn't the same as becoming ful
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by mikelabatt 1y ago
I like your answer, and the others too, but I suspect I have an even worse problem than running Windows: I am an Amiga user :D The Amiga always used all 8 bits (ISO-8859-1 by default), so detecting UTF-8 without a BOM is not so easy, especi
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by mikelabatt 1y ago
Nice article, thank you. I love UTF-8, but I only advocate it when used with a BOM. Otherwise, an application may have no way of knowing that it is UTF-8, and that it needs to be saved as UTF-8. Imagine selecting New/Text Document in a
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Kawasaki "Corleo" Robot Horse (Video)(youtube.com)
2 points by mikelabatt 1y ago|1 comments
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by mikelabatt 3y ago
My oldest son is 5, and I am having some of the same thoughts. What system did you do the demos on in the 1990s? Might a "classic" system like that not be the "contained" environment you are looking for as a learning env
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Amiga Speech by Ron Nicholson (Amiga Ireland 2023)(youtube.com)
12 points by mikelabatt 4y ago|2 comments
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by mikelabatt 4y ago
Thanks for the feedback. The page [1] has been updated to clarify this detail. The documentation is installed with the package (Help menu, or press F1 to open it), but if you would like to contact me @mikelabatt I can send you a copy. Me an
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by mikelabatt 4y ago
While PC floppy drives are mechanically the same as Amiga floppy drives, the controller that is attached to the drive is different. The controller used in PCs can't handle the stream coming from Amiga disks. The first thing I would do
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by mikelabatt 4y ago
Every demoscene production featured in Amiga Forever was included with permission from their creators. Credits are in the documentation. Please name one demo that you think should not be in Amiga Forever, and I will check that and report he
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by mikelabatt 4y ago
A century ago engineer Luigi Stipa did experiments with several flying wing aircraft designs. Here is Stipa-Caproni's "intubed propeller" from the 1930s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipa-Caproni Even
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by mikelabatt 4y ago
It was good to read "Why not AsciiDoc?" in their FAQ: https://markdoc.io/docs/faq
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A Simple Sharp PC Pocket Computer Emulator(github.com)
4 points by mikelabatt 5y ago|0 comments
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Restoring Satoru Iwata's VIC-20 Easter Egg(youtu.be)
2 points by mikelabatt 6y ago|0 comments
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Thermostat Interface and Usability: A Survey (2010)(osti.gov)
2 points by mikelabatt 6y ago|0 comments
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FCC Opens 6 GHz Band to Wi-Fi and Other Unlicensed Uses(fcc.gov)
3 points by mikelabatt 6y ago|0 comments
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by mikelabatt 7y ago
"He explained to me with great insistence that every question possessed a power that did not lie in the answer." - Elie Wiesel, Night
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by mikelabatt 7y ago
Indeed WPA3 is required for "Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6" only, but Ubiquiti already stated in a post that they are working on WPA3, even offering it as a software upgrade for many of their older models: https://community.ui.com&
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Science lesson: How anesthetics work, and why xenon's perfect (2017)(theconversation.com)
1 points by mikelabatt 7y ago|0 comments
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Philips Hue: Backup/Restore Still Not Supported(developers.meethue.com)
1 points by mikelabatt 8y ago|0 comments
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CO2 shortage: Coca-Cola pauses production at some plants(bbc.com)
2 points by mikelabatt 8y ago|0 comments
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Blur Busters Lagless VSYNC ON Algorithm for Emulators: True Beam Racing(blurbusters.com)
1 points by mikelabatt 8y ago|0 comments

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