I think I heard “applet” being mentioned for embedded java or something in the early 2000s. I don’t know if that’s connected.
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I had to verify my identity with a UK government app recently, and the app scanned my passport’s RFID!
They linked to the wrong version.
I sometimes imagine some introvert developer at Zoom getting a monkey’s paw: “I wish I worked at one of the most well-known companies in the world, and I wish I didn’t have to keep going out and meeting people!”
Where’d this come from?
West Virginia, mountain mama.
Fun tip: if you’ve sorted the details list by cpu and the keep dancing around, hold down Ctrl to stop them from getting away while you kill them.
Well storing that would only take half a bit.
I have a text file of UK place names, so I can search it for various sub-strings.
“Ullit”, “ullet”, “ulit”, “ulet”, the only result for those was Fullerby.
Maybe this is like a copyright trap on a map, a fake place name to prove if someone copies the book :)
3·13 days agoI use rsync.net
It’s not the lowest price, but I like the flexibility of access.
For instance, I was able to run rclone on their servers to do a direct copy from OneDrive to rsync.net, 400Gb without having to go through my connection.
I can mount backups with sshfs if I want to, including the daily zfs snapshots.
I’ve seen videos of how to fry an egg on a CPU. Meeting you can do bacon on a GPU?
It’s the Windows 10 picture that’s really to find that it’s not rendered
1·17 days agoI think that he wore gloves, then they decided that they didn’t like it. So someone had to paint hands over the gloves and they didn’t try to re-scales them.
4·19 days agoThere’s Service Model, but that’s by Tchaikovsky, so maybe you’ve read it
11·20 days agoI generally agree, but this is the website of the BBC, a long-established TV and radio broadcaster.
It’s amazing that they put so many text stories on their site, really.
5·21 days agoDoes anyone know where Ethel was at the time?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
I used to have a t-shirt with that pattern.
37·25 days agoDon’t get it confused with a dating site.
Fantastic! I wish that I was cultured enough to fully appreciate it.
Web browser? “app”. Web page? “app”. Dialog box? “app”. Phone app that’s just a thin shell for the web site? “appapp”.