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Trump rolls back Obama fuel economy rule(theverge.com)
16 points by petecox 6y ago|1 comments
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by petecox 6y ago
There is no intellectual curiosity in climate change denial. Don't editorialise.
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by petecox 6y ago
parrot VM: initially a joke until someone twigged that a dynamic-lang runtime to compete with .Net & JRE wasn't so absurd.
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by petecox 7y ago
Well at least it finally has a trackpad, after years of insisting that no one would ever want to manipulate the UI with a mouse pointer. un-prevention, of sorts.
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by petecox 7y ago
It's commonly used for malaria. A related '-quine' is the active ingredient of Gin and Tonic.
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by petecox 7y ago
The (poorly worded) background suggests no previous research has been done concerning this compound w.r.t. corona.
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by petecox 7y ago
UK (and Ireland) are outside Schengen. Even if they don't restrict it to British passport holders travelling to the USA, it's still arguably easier to screen for the virus through one departure point than, say, 30.
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by petecox 7y ago
> the/e/ name will be abandonned for something else quite soon. Good to know; a word that's more easily duckduckgoable may help with branding.
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Coronavirus Meets Linguistic Diversity(languageonthemove.com)
1 points by petecox 7y ago|0 comments
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by petecox 7y ago
Indeed, there was a [0] story yesterday - an initiative Vodafone are supporting to compute a cure for cancer while your phone is charging. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22479644
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by petecox 7y ago
The article mentions a mismatch of 4KB (Linux) vs 16KB (iOS) page sizes. Further reading: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/... https://developer.apple.com/
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by petecox 7y ago
At least here in Australia, corner shops doing repairs are a dying breed - there's no money in it once you factor in rent and electricity and wages. An online search replacing a popular Samsung was $AU99. My current 3 year old phone is
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by petecox 7y ago
What part of "it ain't finished yet" would most users not understand? It's a Preview release for a reason. Mozilla aren't exactly pulling a KDE 4 here.
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by petecox 7y ago
Yes, to see what the fuss was about with respect to donating those coins to creators. I didn't view sufficient ads to be rewarded with any crypto in the timeframe (monthly?) and none of the webpages I visit regularly seemed to be eligi
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by petecox 7y ago
Windows 10 (Edge), Chrome OS and Android all now bundle Chromium, while it's packaged in desktop Linux. That really leaves only macos. VSCode, say, as a slimmer download sans web runtime is a possible outcome.
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by petecox 7y ago
After reading an article here on HN, I gave Brave a crack for a week but returned to my regular browser. The thrill of dopamine hits from earning a BAT oken for viewing a brave-blessed ad for the underprivileged wasn't worth changing a
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by petecox 7y ago
It has potential as a mouse-based launcher. I use Taskbar from f-droid, which activates by touching a screen corner and draws a retractable taskbar over the current application.
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by petecox 7y ago
A detailed introduction to setting up a RPi as a network device using the usb gadget interface. It's good to have options if you already own an iPad. c.f. tablets supporting Crostini, WSL2 or termux - or GNU/Linux native with the
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Gender Diversity in Greek and Latin Grammar: Ten Ancient Discussions(medium.com)
2 points by petecox 7y ago|0 comments
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The language of Dario Fo, an outward-looking reinvention (2019)(termcoord.eu)
1 points by petecox 7y ago|0 comments
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by petecox 7y ago
Replicant has an evaluation page incorporating this info with a handy table. https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/Pinepho...
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by petecox 7y ago
Yes, I did. 'Light-hearted fun' perhaps but it strikes me as in very poor taste as someone whose parents lived through the 1940s. Okay, you went there - to its logical conclusion in which your time adventures messing around with t
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by petecox 7y ago
Top discussion currently is on Hitler. No thanks, I'll give it a miss.
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by petecox 7y ago
> find a sequestering use for that algae. Beer. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-15/growing-algae-to-brew...
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by petecox 7y ago
For Android, they're proposing GKI module shims that a vendor can code against. So a vendor plugs a binary blob into, say a 5.4 GKI module, which is hopefully forward compatible with the interface to a 6.25 GKI module released someti
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by petecox 7y ago
Understood but the point being made is that your OEM will build AOSP with some ancient, say 2017 or whenever your device was released, embedded version of chromium - susceptible to security flaws from that release date. Chrome overlays a re
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by petecox 7y ago
Here in Australia, the local council expects you to keep the nature strip, or verge, between the road and the pavement looking presentable but anything behind the front fence is your own creation. And so the 'front lawn' is my veg
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by petecox 7y ago
5. I'd expect various bricks-and-mortar cinema chains to go bust or amalgamate, thanks to online distribution and 8K TV.
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by petecox 7y ago
Apple wouldn't have based a product around it if it were GPL.
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by petecox 7y ago
Sounds like a business opportunity for the Brave browser. This article requires x BAT to access. Unlock? Y/N

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