talideon

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by talideon 8d ago
It's not the 16th century anymore. Can we please just give this up?
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by talideon 11d ago
If you want to be pedantic, then this also wrong: half of Ireland, the Isle of Man, and Scotland are actually on the Laurentian plate, which split apart. The Scottish Highlands used to be part of the same range as the Appalachian. Plates ar
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by talideon 11d ago
Lake Ontario wasn't a "nationalist" name. It's an anglicised version of the Wyandot name for the lake. The Canadian province is named after the lake, not the other way around. Don't be a ghoul.
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by talideon 14d ago
The term "cartel" might be useful here.
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by talideon 16d ago
s/actual NAT/actual firewall/
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by talideon 16d ago
NATs are not firewalls. Any firewall-like functionality provided by NAT is entirely accidental and better provides by an actual NAT.
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by talideon 1mo ago
Is it though? It's not as if it can pull in hypothetical superfamilies like Nostratic. It's not saying it's a family tree of all languages, just I-E. Your assumption is that somebody would look at it and forget that Mandarin
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by talideon 1mo ago
And a fun extra one is that Lithuanian "gobti" is cognate with English "give"!
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by talideon 1mo ago
Well, yeah, but that's like saying that producing a tree of pomaceous fruit hides the fact that citrus fruits exist. (Yes, I did make an apples and oranges joke.)
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by talideon 1mo ago
We're not talking commie blocks here, nor macmansions, which is what passes for top-of-the-line in a disappointingly large segment of the US.
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by talideon 2mo ago
Well, the likes of Wordpress make this a bit of a mixed bag. It still publishes multiple feeds in multiple format, with what proports to being an RSS feed actually being a Frankenstein's monster of RSS, Atom, and random other namespace
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by talideon 2mo ago
You don't have to convert anything to XHTML5. You only need to do that if you specify type="xhtml" on an element, but you can use="html" and escape the markup. RSS has this behaviour too, but it's spelled out b
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by talideon 2mo ago
It's almost like every release is just basically advertising.
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by talideon 3mo ago
It wasn't really the hardware's fault though. It was crippled by Commodore's marketing department wanting to maintain compatibility with the VIC-20's 1540 FDD, which meant that the bit banging method used to work around
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by talideon 5mo ago
Not really, and it's still more error-prone than Atom. There's really no good reason to use anything other than Atom.
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by talideon 5mo ago
And so it begins...
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by talideon 5mo ago
Sound trackers actually originated on the C64! Chris Huelsbeck's Soundmonitor is generally regarded as the first tracker. There were plenty of others, such as Electrosound, Future Composer, Ubik's Music, and the Ariston Music Edit
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by talideon 5mo ago
Hah! I never noticed that, but you're right! For those interested in how the Wizball soundtrack should sound, the best place to go is DeepSID: https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/G/Galway_Marti.
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by talideon 5mo ago
I'm not sure about Ocean, but a lot of companies used the Tatung Einstein, itself a 64KiB machine, as a development platform. I would assume that the software used for building this stuff was able to deal with source files larger than
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by talideon 5mo ago
That sounds nothing like any of the Wizball or Game Over tracks, I'm afraid.
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by talideon 5mo ago
Plenty, but these days mostly if you either (a) want a simple implementation or (b) don't have to worry much about cache locality. The problem is that (b) doesn't really exist outside of retrocomputing and embedded systems these d
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by talideon 5mo ago
There appears to be nothing linking Old English "git" with Modern English "git". Also, OEng "git" would've been pronounced more like "yit".
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by talideon 5mo ago
But originating on Unix in '81, and thus predating Lotus 1-2-3 by ~2 years.
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by talideon 5mo ago
It's a tool with a long vintage, and it wouldn't make sense to port it to a different language just to take advantage of the likes of bubbletea or textual.
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by talideon 6mo ago
I misread that acronym as TBDN, which made me wonder why they'd bought The Beef and Dairy Network podcast...
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by talideon 6mo ago
Germany has a population of ~87,000,000 though.
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by talideon 6mo ago
The US is not in a position to process much of the sweet crude it has. Instead, imports sour crude, which is what much of the US's refineries are actually built to handle. This is why Venezuela was such a thorn in the side of the US, a
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by talideon 6mo ago
Well, that's the first shoe dropping. Thankfully uv and ruff are MIT licensed and in a good place, so worst comes to worst...
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by talideon 6mo ago
Oil stayed more or less steady, so yes, it did.
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by talideon 6mo ago
The 'sell electricity to Ireland' bit here is doing an awful lot of work. It's more complicated than that. For those who don't know, Ireland operates an all-island grid, and EirGrid (the grid operator for the Republic) o

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