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rjsw··on HMD Touch 4G
The linked page says that it can be a hotspot.
rjsw··on HMD Touch 4G
WhatsApp has reduced the number of platforms that they support, they had a KaiOS app but disabled it last year.
rjsw··on HMD Touch 4G
There looks to be an express chat app for iPhone and Android as well.
rjsw··on REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500
They are not in the website business though.
rjsw··on New era for Gibraltar with removal of border controls with Spain
The UK and the Republic of Ireland make up the Common Travel Area [1], the lack of passport checks didn't happen automatically.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Travel_Area

rjsw··on New era for Gibraltar with removal of border controls with Spain
The UK was not in Schengen when it was a member of the EU.
rjsw··on Volkswagen planning to cut up to 100.000 jobs globally
The EU didn't close any nuclear plants, that was just Germany.
rjsw··on Count Binface
That happened in Canada [1] and Farage has been quite open on picking the same party name to hopefully follow the same path.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Party_of_Canada

rjsw··on Count Binface
Better prior art [1], in an actual election.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Drummond

rjsw··on How to hide from killer drones
They can have AI enabled graphics in the goggles of the operator.
rjsw··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
They dig up the fibre to check that it isn't copper.
rjsw··on Materials innovation has a scale-up problem, not discovery
Even if the properties are good, there isn't an easy way to get material data downstream into design and manufacturing software.
rjsw··on How Donkey Kong Toppled Atari
You could run the original game in Mame.
rjsw··on Linux on the Atari Jaguar
The 68040 has a MMU, the original 68000 doesn't.

Linux can be built to not need a MMU, I have used that on Coldfire and Microblaze systems, I presume this Jaguar port is using it too.

rjsw··on Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July
Later wars too [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/190th_Fighter_Squadron,_Blues_...

rjsw··on Medieval-style fortifications are back in the Sahel
Or an early Norman one, for the same reasons. The people in the fort were different to those outside, city walls were built later in the medieval period once those differences had reduced.
rjsw··on Medieval-style fortifications are back in the Sahel
The UK built [1] castles in Afghanistan recently too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesco_bastion

rjsw··on Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition
Like this [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.50_Beowulf

rjsw··on Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition
There are cartridges specifically designed for shooting cars.
rjsw··on This is my attempt to get Vulkan going on NetBSD
See graphics/MesaLib.
rjsw··on This is my attempt to get Vulkan going on NetBSD
NetBSD uses the Linux graphics drivers too.
rjsw··on Wireless LAN SD
This was one of the use cases of the SDIO [1] specification.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD_card#SDIO_cards

rjsw··on This is my attempt to get Vulkan going on NetBSD
There are already Vulkan components in pkgsrc and wip.
rjsw··on The fall of the theorem economy
I did try asking one of the PIs whether they were doing it to demonstrate that it doesn't work in order to get paper authors to provide their real data but didn't get a reply.

Will be going to a conference at the end of the month where there will be several presentations on the use of LLMs for this.

rjsw··on Creating a Personalised Bin Calendar
At least in France, you sort the garbage then choose the correct communal bin to put it in.
rjsw··on The fall of the theorem economy
People are working on using LLMs to regenerate experimental data from the text of journal papers.
rjsw··on Pine64 launch $50 smart speaker for Home Assistant tinkerers
My reading of the documentation [1] is that everything is local.

[1] https://pine64.org/documentation/PineVoice/Software/

rjsw··on Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers
This [1] one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot

rjsw··on The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
What is wrong with LibreOffice?
rjsw··on FEXPRs vs. vtable: how LispE interpreter works
Lisp has had good native compilers for a long time, just use one of those.
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