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petecox··on California-Grown Coffee Is Becoming the State's Next Gold Mine
The €1 coffee is possibly more prevalent across the border in Portugal.

They charge extra for milk, as black coffee is typically drunk as a side dish to iconic pasteis.

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/08/da/d6/7b/...

petecox··on Ask HN: Is there any WINE like software for running OS X software on Linux?
You could try porting your code to GNUstep.

http://gnustep.org/

petecox··on Ask HN: Would you pay to have a penpal?
Meetup - they have communities for lots of things. And its a paid service in the sense that an organizer may leave a tip jar on the table to cover costs.
petecox··on The Breakup Museum: Archiving the Way We Were
Veruca Salt wrote a song about the museum on their 2015 comeback album, whose songs detail the mended relationship of its creators.
petecox··on Chickpeas threatened by extreme weather conditions and genetics
I've never tried growing them but apparently pulses are a good 'green manure' in that the plants absorb beneficial nutrients that can be composted to improve soil quality.

Are green-thumbs up to the task of preserving these heirloom varieties via their vegie patch!?

petecox··on Show HN: Gnomecast – A Linux Chromecast GUI with transcoding and subtitles
There's a 'MiracleCast' implementation for Linux. I'm not sure how mature it is but it aims to stream to and from your desktop.

https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast

petecox··on Camels in early medieval western Europe (2016)
The article's record of Spain ends abruptly in the late 7th century, only 4 decades prior to Islamic rule.

So either the Umayyads had no use for camels or Dr Green's research doesn't include records from the period.

petecox··on The FBI, CIA and NSA say American citizens shouldn't use Huawei phones
Australia? We're totally in lockstep with America on foreign policy and surveillance as part of 5-eyes and ANZUS. Duplicitous politicians walk a fine line between China being our biggest trading partner and "All the way with LBJ".
petecox··on What to Do When Laptops and Silence Take Over Your Cafe?
I see. In Australia, they tie guest wifi login to one's student email address via the 'eduroam' SSID. This allows students from visiting universities to connect but not the general public.
petecox··on What to Do When Laptops and Silence Take Over Your Cafe?
free wifi to freeloaders who aren't students though?
petecox··on The Light Phone: Leave your smartphone behind
Strange concept. I get more SMS messages than calls these days.

2G-only makes it obsolete already in a number of countries - just as Nokia rushed to release a 3G version of their dumbphone recently.

petecox··on How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare?
I used Pidgin once and it worked fine on Windows and Linux.

So instead of one universal client, one requires Skype, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts/Allo/Duo. (I don't use iOS but Apple have their own, I guess)

Thus if anyone wants to contact me, stay old school and use SMS or email! :)

petecox··on Torresian crows have learned how to make a meal of cane toads
Since we're discussing snakes, wouldn't that be 'serpience'?
petecox··on The Last Scan: Keeping old TVs alive
I would suggest that the biggest group to mourn CRT technology would be our feline overlords. I had several cats that used to perch themselves atop a screen, trying to capture my attention and keeping warm but blocking an air vent in the process.

The switch to DVB-T from PAL saw us recycle our last CRT telly. I threw out my Trinitron computer monitor some years earlier. Its sharpness had deteriorated over time. Text became too fuzzy, perhaps something to do with electrons mentioned in the article.

I miss the vertical pixels - 1600x1200 was a standard but LCDs embraced 1080 panels from the Blu-ray craze. Luckily I have a 1024*1280 LCD (rotated) for A4 documents.

petecox··on Mozilla announces an open gateway for the internet of things
I recall that software developers from Firefox OS were re-tasked with adapting the phone OS to an IoT focus.

So I would assume this announcement is the fruits of that side project.

petecox··on Ask HN: Which Linux distribution do you use, and why?
KDE Neon - the bleeding edge KDE experience. It's ubuntu LTS under the covers.

LineageOS - Nougat for 'obsolete' phones, though I might switch to postmarketOS if they get calls working!

petecox··on Cracking Avatar’s Language Codes
A new year's resolution? Learn Na'vi before the sequel is released in Dec 2020!
petecox··on Puttin' on the Style: On writing, and on English style
Schooled in 1980s Australia, I'd never heard of the split infinitive controversy growing up; it seems a popular topic whenever Dr Pinker's name is mentioned.

Roddenberry's Star Trek seems to have been groundbreaking in more ways than one. To boldly split where no prescriptivist has gone before!

petecox··on I’m the Wife of a Former N.F.L. Player. Football Destroyed His Mind
Other high collision football codes are not immune to concussion.

In Australian football, AFL not rugby, we have recently seen a change in the rules where dangerous contact to the head is to be avoided and tightening medical governence on diagnosis of concussion during games. The initial reaction from fans was that making the game less rough bordered on pedantic but there's now an acceptance that degenerative brain injuries as mentioned in the article are a huge concern.

petecox··on How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm and Intel
My understanding was that Samsung (Exynos) and Huawei (Kirin) do release global models of their phones based on their own SoC for GSM markets.

But they can't overlook the Nth American market where Snapdragon dominates the US with CDMA2000 support.

petecox··on America's Love Affair with Avocado
I never understood the "smashed-avo" obsession but they're great in a vegemite and cheese toastie.
petecox··on America's Love Affair with Avocado
We have a compost bin in the back yard where they sprout from seed spontaneously. I have grown a couple of trees and given some seedlings away to friends.

Fingers crossed, they bear fruit eventually. If not, they make a fairly fast growing tree (2m after 3-4 years) - although this week the leaves burn quickly in the summer heat if inadequately watered.

petecox··on How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry (2015)
f-droid and anbox.io to the rescue?
petecox··on An island that switches countries every six months
Given that it's uninhabited, I don't think anyone enjoys it as such.

It's located in what, either side of the river, was the medieval kingdom of Navarre, subsequently ruled by distant monarchs in Paris and Madrid.

petecox··on Rust and QML: a timely example
> At no point is there a need to edit a generated C++ file

Well then maybe your example should reflect that, where a change is made in the C++ file replacing 'Simple' with 'Time'

petecox··on Rust and QML: a timely example
There's a distinction between a Qt project calling Rust code via a C ABI versus a Rust program bootstrapping Qt.

The author hand-edits a C++ file, autogenerated by CMake. In that sense it still needs a C++ compiler as part of a build step.

A binding relying only on Rust and QML might replace the C++ boilerplate with a Rust equivalent.

petecox··on Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production
I'm not sure on the train but Spain has security scans at railway departures for long distance rail. Not as stringent as for an international aeroplane flight but, given the investment, in theory it could be.
petecox··on Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any other meat industry
Salmon seemed abundant and cheap, relatively, at Chile's coastal restaurants and I guess now I know why.

Perhaps I'll pick something else on the menu the next time I visit. I wasn't a great fan of deep-fried seafood empanadas or ceviche but paila marina was tasty!

petecox··on In defence of swap: common misconceptions
I just wish Linux distro installers would make opting out the default option; no, I don't want to swap on my SSD. The last time I installed a distro, I still had to select the manual option for partitioning.

With an 8 Gig stick in my NUC, for normal desktop usage it never goes above 3.

petecox··on Can you get 32 level grayscale out of an E-ink display?
There's a dual screen Android phone by a Russian company, Yota.

www.yotamobile.com/index-EN.html

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