vctrnk

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by vctrnk 29d ago
Whoa, now that's a trip down the lane. I've seen it too! But only in veeery old Windows, think Win95B or the like.
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by vctrnk 1mo ago
In the phrase "you _____ follow the law", - Most of Latin America is ' should/oughta ' - North America is more like ' have to ' - Europe is ' need to ' - And majority of Asia is simply ' WIL
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by vctrnk 1mo ago
This looks interesting. My current phone is an Asus ROG Phone 3, which I think suffices (Snapdragon 865+ plus 12Gb RAM) but isn't rooted. Even on outdated Android 12 this phone covers everything I could possibly need as-is, and I don&#
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by vctrnk 3mo ago
Semiofftopic but somehow I took offense at the Vista comparison. Aero Glass was peak UI design to me, and I'd certainly prefer it to modern paradigms like flat controls, or to stretch it even further, Corporate Memphis etc. Curse you,
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by vctrnk 3mo ago
Never thought of the fake variant as gasoline-like but it sure has that strange, very heavy 'chemical' aftertaste that lingers in your palate. Also never tried the real thing, I wonder if i'd like it or not.
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by vctrnk 2y ago
> Every time a manufacturer says vague descriptions like "security" or "performance" fixes, be wary - they probably removing perfectly working functionality for "reasons" I have a pair of WF-1000XM3s and thi
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by vctrnk 2y ago
Not to defend Google, but they end up saying much the same: > The next challenge for the field is to demonstrate a first "useful, beyond-classical" computation on today's quantum chips that is relevant to a real-world appl
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by vctrnk 3y ago
Up to that point, most Windows iterations didn't require (for the time) big upgrades to run fine. Many PCs designed for a given version could run the next, maybe with a little elbow grease, but the bottom line is: the out-of-the-box ex
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by vctrnk 3y ago
Oh wow. Count me in on the I didn't know I had that! camp. When younger I struggled horribly with ALL things math, and to this day still do. OTOH I've always had a knack for DIY involving measurements: lenghts, rythms, quantitie
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by vctrnk 3y ago
My course of action was to run Memmaker, and let it take care of (almost) everything. It usually worked fine. Sometimes I had to fine-tune config.sys/autoexec.bat to make a bit more room or disable EMS, but those were edge cases. Now t
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by vctrnk 3y ago
Out of curiosity, did you needed some particular feature in such an app? I've found that Google Lens is pretty darn good at identifying plants, insects, fungi and whatnot (assuming your camera has a decent macro mode).
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by vctrnk 3y ago
You cannot market nature, but you CAN market everything around it: Tourism, clothing/footwear, camping gear, even technology (cameras, GPS etc). All of them to give you the "upper hand" over your peers - And of course , you
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by vctrnk 3y ago
Same here, and it's not region-targeted (I'm not from US/EU). This is borderline FUD.
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by vctrnk 3y ago
I'm still looking for an open ECU focused only on old, carbureted cars. Projects like Speeduino, rusEFI, MegaSquirt, etc. are wonderful, but I have no use for them because they're more geared towards fuel-injected engines (thoug
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by vctrnk 3y ago
(bit of a rant here, you've been warned) As someone who could've developed an IT/programming career, but didn't because I felt things were already bloating back in the '00s, I agree with the majority: "harves
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by vctrnk 3y ago
I wouldn't have a problem with that, if only they were in better taste... that graphic looks like something out of XKCD, and the scrolling userlist almost gave me a seizure. Looks like it was done by a teenager or someone with more com
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by vctrnk 4y ago
I won't hold my breath. From the article: > In theory, we might be asked to give this device back. In practice, these devices are written off as soon as they’re sent to customers. In my country, there are various ISPs with the same
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by vctrnk 4y ago
What if randomness is desirable? What if volume of signals to process is so humongous, some (controlled) noise is actually beneficial? Analog computing sucks at processing digital signals, the same way digital sucks at finely approaching th
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by vctrnk 4y ago
> Ther is no reason a consumer oven should cook more than 5 meals a day. There is no reason a consumer toasteer should toast mpre than 10 times a day. Consumer ≠ business/commercial. A home oven (or toaster, fryer etc) isn't ma
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by vctrnk 4y ago
I'm someone from far away, reading this unfold with curiosity. My country's variety is NotCo, who in all fairness makes damn good patties without any of the downsides told here (the fakeness sensation, the heavy stomach after eati