Gordonjcp
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Patty pan squash grows like crazy in most of the UK. If you live near a farm with cows or horses, get yourself as much manure as you can lay your hands on and dig it in well, and you will be eating the damn things until you're sick of them.
Comment · 3 years ago
It'd be interesting to compare that with installing Windows, which in 30 years of using Linux I have still to successfully do.
Comment · 3 years ago
> First person to watch a specific youtube video, which contains the password, wins.
Why would that be difficult?
Comment · 3 years ago
I love services like that. I love entering data into them! In fact, I love it so much that I wrote some scripts to do just that...
Comment · 3 years ago
Stuff like 6502s and Z80s are a bit like little single-cylinder engines - the world will move onto all sorts of interesting new places, but something somewhere will always be powered by a wee Briggs & Stratton that starts first pull of the string, and we'll be glad of it.
Comment · 3 years ago
Oh you mean like the cockleburrs you get on things? Maybe more about the size of a small grape, outside diameter?
It's weird, I've only ever noticed those on the west coast.
Comment · 3 years ago
I've found them to be rock solid stable, and of course unlike AMD they are accelerated.
NVidia are literally the only game in town for video editing, because AMD won't provide compute acceleration in Linux.
Comment · 3 years ago
> Whatever that weed is with the little spikey-ball-nodes that get into your pets hair, or in your laces and socks
In Scotland it's called "Sticky Willie" which is nowhere near as rude as it sounds.
Its primary function in the ecosystem is providing long thin sticky plants for children or childlike adults to stick to each other's clothing without the victim noticing, and seeing how long it takes them to figure it out.
Comment · 3 years ago
> a cohesive desktop OS
What would that look like, then?
Comment · 3 years ago
> some prolific volunteer commenting on a bug report there speaks in a manner that comes off as brusque or dismissive
Maybe they are being brusque and dismissive. Maybe they're allowed to. I know I use a somewhat different tone when I'm filing bugs against a project I've been submitting bug reports and patches to for ten years, run by a developer who I've known personally for 20 ;-)
Comment · 3 years ago
My toddler runs https://rangerovers.pub and it mostly holds up okay. He's not great at yaml because he can't really read so the significant whitespace is a problem, but he knows how to run the backups and ensure the mail handler isn't choking on all the Russian spammers. We try to limit his screen time though so he's only on for the 15-minute maintenance window. The Aprilscherz frontend for Docker is a big help.
Comment · 3 years ago
The thing you have linked to is correct, but you're reading it wrong.
VHS has 240 *horizontal* lines of resolution, meaning that a grid comprising 240 alternating *vertical* black and white stripes ought to be resolvable as a bare minimum. This corresponds (roughly) to 2.5MHz of luminance bandwidth. This is also confusingly named, but there you go.
Youtube's 240p resolution is lower quality than VideoCD, and far *far* lower quality than even fairly manky VHS.
"Oh the security stuff is in the way, why does it need that, MSDOS doesn't have it, no-one needs it"