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Thanks, perfect for what I need (offline, single user, simple to use).

Seems an ideal use case for SVG.

Dell's default installation was so full of junk that it lead to the rise of the "Dell Decrapifier", a script specifically written to remove all the junk from the default install and turn a Dell into a usable computer.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070108044336/http://www.yorksp... [2006]

Isn't the ball terribly unbalanced? Trackball users often "throw" the cursor, where the ball rotates freely at speed, and it would induce an awkward wobble with an unbalanced ball.

Factorio is such a high quality game. Not just the gameplay, but the entire development process where every alpha release is actually really stable and playable, certainly more stable and playable than most big-budget games are on release day.

Amongst the total conversions, I've quite enjoyed Krastorio 2.

If you're into really detailed and complex factories, Industrial Revolution might be for you.

And here's the present times maps: https://www.police.uk/pu/your-area/city-of-london-police/com...

Alas, the city has grown and you have to browse it by borough. Also, murder is mixed in with other violent crimes.

> 502 Bad Gateway

https://web.archive.org/web/20210102052512/https://fediverse...

We're living on a boat. We have 600W solar and that's sufficient for most of our power needs. Of course living off solar means on some days you'll not be doing GPU intensive stuff on the computer (which tends to turn it from a low-power, quiet machine into a hyperventilating 90W monster), but that's fine. We usually have enough power left to run the 12V watermaker.

Biggest problem is crap software. Everything seems to be designed to be online all the time and expect you to have unmetered high-speed internet. We often have various combinations of metered, slow and unreliable (packet loss, high latency spread, interruptions). Nobody even tests their software for this scenario anymore.

Obviously you can forget about using Xcode with its multi-GB updates every couple weeks. Or any cloud software. Even MacOS gets annoying, as it wants to verify an app before starting it and if the connection is flakey it can take a minute before that request either goes through or is detected as offline and your app finally starts (yes, I know you can turn that off).

Websites with dynamic forms often don't work, as the programmers falsely assumed their XHR always goes through and never implemented retries or network error handling. Download pages that generate dynamic URLs are a big sin too, so when you try to continue from a partially downloaded file you can't because your URL is no longer valid.

What works well is keeping data offline but occasionally syncing it, like IMAP for email, Unison file sync, etc.

Piracy is also important, because when you travel from country to country, geo-IP blocking is a constant problem. Suddenly the TV show you were in the middle of watching is no longer available in your country (because you sailed to another country) or the entire service is blocked (Amazon Prime Video). And it's safer to use cracked software that won't suddenly stop working because it couldn't contact its license server in a while or demands you to download a multi-GB update. Or software that doesn't require such nonsense.

Hardware is less of an issue, if you keep it dry, which requires some care, but so does the rest of boat life. I've had a keyboard die from circuit board traces corroding away, but am still on the same 8 year old laptop. Had one netbook get accidentally wet once, but managed to save it by immediate taking apart and rinsing out with alcohol. External drives are kept in waterproof plastic food containers.

Backup is offline only and consists of two external drives in another waterproof box, which go with the grab bag (the one you take with you if ever have to abandon ship). There is no real need for off-site backup, as the nature of life on a boat means either you and your grab bag make it off the boat, or neither (in which case you won't be needing your data anymore).

How to get your friends and family to use Signal instead: "I'm on Signal if you want to talk to me."

I find the syntax both terrible to read and terrible to write.

Syntax is what I look at first with any unfamiliar programming language. The syntax is the UI of a language and if that's terrible, I won't enjoy using it.

I can't deal with these 16:9 screens. Especially when almost all models have a plastic "chin" at the bottom of the screen where the missing pixels (to make it a full 16:10 screen) would be - there's clearly room for it, so put it there.

16:9 is optimized for watching video and not much else. Give me back my pixels. Luckily some vendors have finally begun to see the light on this issue (Dell XPS, Huawei Mate, LG Gram - Microsoft even goes 3:2).

Finally, some real life use for that n-key rollover feature of my new keyboard :D

Where's the missing 17,681?

So, uhm. What _is_ new? There's a bunch of removals and updated pre-reqs, but somehow the page doesn't tell what's actually new in Celery 5.0?

That website is very wrong. The links aren't links and right-clicking is disabled.

I quite like the learn-by-commit style. Look at a diff and see what changes it took to add a feature. Very good way of showing things in a format everyone is already familiar with.

Propellers are pretty noisy, even when they're not singing (a common flaw - look it up). As divers, we appreciate the warning, but also known how far this noise carries even to our human ears, which are poorly attuned to the environment.

You forgot: "Should be as small as technically possible".

Xcode is the fat, bloated bastard I'm looking at, but there's plenty more. And on mobile, where bandwidth is often metered it's even worse.

Well done, log scale, rebased to common starting point - the best way of depicting international comparisons so far.

Zeit.de has an interactive version of these (in German), which adds a rectangle for "days since numbers last doubled", a good indicator of how severe the situation in a country is.

Scroll down past the map to the third graph with international data, click on "Todesfälle" (deaths): https://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/coronavirus-echtzeit-k...

The problem with these laced harnesses is the same as with zip-tied ones - you can't add or remove anything (without destroying it or making a mess of it, unless you re-tie/lace everything), and that it's difficult to use the simplest and fastest method of wire tracing, which is tugging on it and seeing where it goes.

Therefore the currently best method is IMHO a slotted wire duct. Put the cover on and it's neat and tidy, but easy to pull the cover off, add or remove wires and trace where they go.

That's probably why that method is now industry standard.

Example here, with cover on in the middle and covers removed top and bottom: https://blog.hellermanntyton.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/P...

What's wrong with just parsing the webserver logfiles like we used to do (I still do this)? Is that too old-fashioned now or something? Doesn't require any account or paying anything or setting any cookies (and therefore you don't need to have that annoying cookie warning your users hate so much).

With their multiple-choice questions, OkCupid has a lot of in-depth personality data that is a total privacy nightmare if leaked to anyone. And therefore very valuable. Things like diet, sleeping habits, sexual preferences, religious and political alignment, addictions, everything really.

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I've fixed this problem a few times (on different drives) by giving the drive a not so gentle thwack with a hammer. The trick is to hit it on the long side, which tends to dislodge the stuck heads/arm. If you hit it on the top or bottom, you're likely to break something, and hits on the short side aren't likely to achieve anything at all.

Here you go: http://www.int33h.com/test/mi/index.html?lng=de

I grew up in Germany and we suffered a lot from badly translated Games (and worse so in dubbed movies). Almost everyone of my generation ended up just learning English and played the original instead. Most of the time that was all that was available anyways.

Except of course for the games translated by Boris Schneider. They arguably were better in German because of his excellent (and hilarious) translations, most notably the Monkey Islands.

Apparently his efforts earned him a Wikipedia page: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Schneider-Johne

Much of my early English vocabulary was attained by playing Leisure Suit Larry with a dictionary in my hand.

Looking at the timeline, that's some rather impressive productivity, especially with only being worked on in spare time. Well done!

Moof.

Nonsense. The airport has no need of additional procedures because it is gatewayed by Norway (it's not an international airport).

If you arrive there by boat, things look well different:

> Visiting yachts must obtain a cruising permit before arrival and make arrangements for special insurance to cover the possible cost of a search and rescue operation. Also compulsory is having a gun to protect the crew from possible attacks by polar bears, of which there have been several in recent years. Those who do not possess a gun can hire one locally. SAR insurance cover is also available locally but is probably much cheaper if it is arranged through one’s own insurance company or bank.

Source: https://www.noonsite.com/place/norway/svalbard-spitsbergen/l...