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The Asus 1000H served me well for my whole bachelor, and also became my first hackintosh with the glorious 10.6.8, iDeneb flavor (i even bought a new wifi card natively supported by Mac OS X for that).

I still have it, it still holds a charge. Amazing little machine, portability and usage time were really top notch (not so the performance, but I was patient, and even used it for Sketchup and Illustrator)

According to the Dutch railway maintainer, it's not needed there, and the effect is not really proven: https://www.prorail.nl/veelgestelde-vragen/zomer/waarom-zijn...

Same for the Swiss, according to the natioanl railway company the results of their tests were “inconclusive”, but other operators of the Swiss network say that it depends on the exposure and other factors (but the challenge is keeping them clean, in a week they are already too dirty). https://www.rsi.ch/info/svizzera/I-binari-sbiancati-non-serv...

Tbh this was somewhat underwhelming… I expected using a microcontroller+motor to replace the mechanisms of a regular cassette mechanism, or some other uses of modern tech for the cassette.

Instead, it’s just… a tape recorder connected, in a somewhat convoluted way, to spotify.

Can’t you use notarized AltStore to install AltStore original, and from there install Firefox? I did that earlier today in EU.

I just wish they had a different name now for AltStore Original… telling them apart from the icon is basically impossible

I didn't know tank have regular problems with starting, especially in cold weather, regardless of whether the choke is open or not :)

I was thinking that it’s been a while since I saw those file names… but I guess your username checks out :)

Not the submission title, just the automatically revised submission title. Pretty sure I submitted it with the proper casing/spacing

I don’t know, I remember them being great from a HW point of view (I had an iPAQ 514 and it was mindblowing even without touch and just a tiny screen), but UX wise…

I now have another iPAQ with a stylus and touchscreen, and I’m grateful back then I did not have it nor the mobile version of Age of Empires… it’s addictive stuff and a crazy good port. I don’t remember anything so good on PalmOS 5 (we had a Garmin iQue 3600, with integrated GPS and navigation… also very futuristic).

If I had to take a guess, I would say he heard it in a lecture by Prof. Alessandro Barbero, same as I did :)

But I think the source is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_vulgari_eloquentia In the Italian Wiki page, the "constructed nature" of latin is hinted at; it doesn't seem to be present in the English wiki.

Update: It's indeed in the book, at the end of the 1st chapter of the 1st book:

3 There also exists another kind of language, at one remove from us, which the Romans called gramatica [grammar]. The Greeks and some - but not all - other peoples also have this secondary kind of language. Few, however, achieve complete fluency in it, since knowledge of its rules and theory can only be developed through dedication to a lengthy course of study

4 Of these two kinds of language, the more noble is the vernacular: first, because it was the language originally used by the human race; second, because the whole world employs it, though with different pro­nunciations and using different words; and third because it is natural to us, while the other is, in contrast, artificial.

Here, vernacular refers to "italian" or whatever dialect, while "gramatica" is latin - the artificial one :)

It’s not just “touched by the LLM” — it’s literally transformed. /s

I have the same feeling, I skipped reading any paragraph that starts with “not X, Y”.

It’s possible the author has so little proficiency in English that without LLMs they would be hardly intelligible. Unfortunately I developed an allergic reaction to LLM-generated texts…

YES PLEASE! AI's rigor in terms of evaluation of ML systems has been only barely improving in the past 15 years.

Thanks for the concrete recommendations; unfortunately, most of these will fall flat, because nobody teaches how to do these, why they are important, etc.

Yep, started coding iOS apps on an EeePC 1000H on Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and XCode 3.1.something.

While the updates would break things, it was not more complicated than a Linux of the mid 90s to set up, especially with “hackintosh distros” like iDeneb. Surprisingly ok, given the anemic machine!

The evidence being…

Luigi Mangione, the guy who shot an health insurance company CEOs in 2024

Wow, you still need to even ask questions.

To you people who moved email to a different provider… how did you do that, practically? Email signature, reply from another address and hope your contacts pick it up, or something else? How well did it work?

I have been a user of gmail since you needed an invitation to register, and even though I have felt for years the pressure to de-google myself, I find it a daunting task due to the amount of people/services that think my email account is gmail, and forever will be.

Look up Visual Basic for Dos for a surprisingly good TUI editor!

So… the moment the Interface Designer in XCode can identify the app only has a single button at the center of a window, the window should be a circle? :)

No, Windows NT until 4.0 had the same interface design as Windows 3.x (although there existed a semi-official SP/addon to give NT 3.5 the Chicago interface, making it quite similar to 95), and NT 4.0 came later than 95

I picked something that can be rooted and made cloud-free with Valetudo for the same reason

I mean, I’m sure there _are_ drive adapters without CHS support; in my sample size of 1, a cheap no-name adapter bought from Amazon a few years ago, it works just fine (I’m assuming the very early IDE drive I used didn’t use LBA, but I don’t have it anymore).

For what is worth the adapter is one of those half-red half-black vertical-insertion ones with a cursed USB-A to USB-A cable, connections for SATA and PATA (2.5 and 3.5”) and a sliding “Molex” connector for the 3.5 PATA drive. Not a quality item…

I don’t know, I have a cheap Chinese USB adapter and it read a 40 Mb hard drive from a 286 laptop just fine, so… plus larger (hundreds of MBs) disks too.

But only if you run Tiger or newer :)

MuLinux was also a floppy-based “live” distro, with optional floppy disks for X11, programming languages, etc.

Veeeeery slow charger :)

But yeah, at some point we should also consider the tradeoff between convenience and battery life. Batteries can be replaced, having to charge twice a day is a PITA for me.

It’s the same principle of a safe-cracking robot, but for regular keys. Smart!

But… does it do commentary like “one is binding”, and does it try twice to see if it was a fluke? :)

The GTA VC screenshots are actually GTA III

Which keyboard shortcuts? In MacOS apps they’re usually done with the Cmd key (=Win key), not Option (=Alt).

If you mean in the terminal, or in a RDP session, yeah, that can happen (but it’s obviously a minority of users, and you can select the US International keyboard anyway).

The default Mac approach is IMHO superior in this. Just select the regular US keyboard, you have deadkeys available if you need them by pressing “alt”+symbol (e.g. “o” to have the dieresis symbol), then press the vowel you want to modify. But if you don’t know better, it’s just a regular US layout, and it’s always there, by default, on every computer (including that of your colleagues).

All phones nowadays have bluetooth/wifi mac address randomization

Source?