omnibrain

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by omnibrain 13d ago
Funnily I did exactly this, so the {lastname}.name is now legacy for me and nobody else of my family ever picked up the offer to have {firstname}@{lastname}.name adresses anyway. Later (but before my name change) I managed to secure {last
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by omnibrain 13d ago
About 20 year ago I registered {lastname}.name and have dozens third level domains below it. So there are "privately owned" second level domains under .name for quite some time...
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by omnibrain 16d ago
EVE Online.
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by omnibrain 17d ago
"Object thinking" by David West was eye opening about this back in the day. The gist is to model the objects not along the line of real world entities, but along the line of "behaviour" like you mention.
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Show HN: Free Vision TUI Library for Go(github.com)
1 points by omnibrain 25d ago|0 comments
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by omnibrain 25d ago
Yes, stop making TUIs. Make GUIs in Terminals! It’s ridiculous how far we have fallen behind the Terminal GUIs from the early 90ies. Look at the Turbo Pascal IDE and business apps built with it. Windows, window management, scrolling in wind
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by omnibrain 1mo ago
They had bet 100% on it killing PA-RISC and DEC Alpha. They ported HP-UX, OpenVMS and NonStop to it. All 3 of them were tangled up in long running enterprise and government contracts. They since discontinued HP-UX, offloaded OpenVMS and por
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by omnibrain 2mo ago
I just built one of those plant sets. I'm use to that modern instructions just place 1 or two bricks per step. But these plant sets took the cake. You had to build identical submodules. From the picture at the box you could see that it
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by omnibrain 2mo ago
IIRC the Apple website used to use (client side image maps) them. But I suspect that was Mai my so they could do some research where users actually click on their screen.
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Riding a Spitfire: The Story of Margaret Horton(rafa.org.uk)
3 points by omnibrain 4mo ago|0 comments
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by omnibrain 4mo ago
It's the shell around the core.
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The Fulda Gap: A Cavalry Scout's Account of the End of the World That Never Came(twitter.com)
5 points by omnibrain 4mo ago|2 comments
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Analysing the Urban Attack: Insights from Soviet doctrine as a 'model checklist'(researchcentre.army.gov.au)
3 points by omnibrain 4mo ago|0 comments
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by omnibrain 5mo ago
German here and me and my wife almost exclusively use Apple Maps, mainly because it looks and feels nicer. The differences in navigation are miniscule, but if we want to really check the traffic before we start we do a quick glance at Googl
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by omnibrain 5mo ago
The German ID card (Personalausweis) supports certificates and communication via NFC. I really don’t understand what’s all this about?
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Open Source Routing Machine(project-osrm.org)
2 points by omnibrain 6mo ago|0 comments
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Phantom of Heilbronn(en.wikipedia.org)
9 points by omnibrain 6mo ago|0 comments
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by omnibrain 6mo ago
Yes, I since embraced pwsh for terminal stuff on Windows. For everything else I switched back to proper VMs or remote hosts.
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by omnibrain 7mo ago
Nobody that is not already writing (L)GPL licensed software wants to pull LGPL licensed libraries into his software. I'm not a lawyer. If you have it in separate object artefacts that you can dynamically link to, you should be fine. Ev
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by omnibrain 7mo ago
> It’s also stupid in terms of screen real estate. You can't really blame MS that around the same time screen manufacturers started to switch to 16:9 for cost reasons and cheap laptops all only offered a 1366x786 resolution.
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by omnibrain 7mo ago
> people who've already come to grips with the app They would, or should, be using keyboard shortcuts anyway.
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by omnibrain 7mo ago
> 2010 was my favorite Office UI. Mine too. Office 2010 was what made me switch back to Windows after using Linux and OpenOffice for years. I found the ribbons to be perfect for my use of Office. They usually automatically focused on the
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by omnibrain 7mo ago
Try reading Masters of Deception first, to get in the right mood.
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by omnibrain 8mo ago
One of the worst things about Brexit for me in mainland Europe is that it became very difficult to obtain real, proper Haggis and Stornoway Black Pudding.
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by omnibrain 8mo ago
It's interesting that this is a serious movie by the director Michael 'Bully' Herbig, who is generally known for bad taste comedies, full of clichees about race and sexuality.
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Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch(arstechnica.com)
1 points by omnibrain 8mo ago|0 comments
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by omnibrain 8mo ago
His explanation why he endorsed Hillary Clinton was pretty lunatic though.
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by omnibrain 9mo ago
How does it compare to the PiKVM?
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by omnibrain 9mo ago
I have fond memories of Publisher. We used it to layout our school newspaper back in the 90ies. I even considered going into the DTP field as a career and did a small internship. But I soon realised that while I can easily master the techni
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Video Games Like Assassin's Creed Feed into Conspiracy Thinking(slate.com)
8 points by omnibrain 10mo ago|5 comments

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