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Re:Show HN: A simple GUI Notepad using C++ natively made in my high sc...
on Monday June 15, 2020 @11:52AM (#23528729)
This guy comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egukLtEhyP0
Re:BHP to destroy at least 40 Aboriginal sites, up to 15K years old, t...
on Thursday June 11, 2020 @03:19AM (#23486060)
Yes, it's more of a "world heritage" concern. As in, these sites represent humanity's history and provide for our understanding of it collectively. The people descended most directly from those who originally inhabited these sites may have special concern with preservation, but heritage site preservation is a global collective responsibility.
Re:Early electric fans
on Thursday June 11, 2020 @02:47AM (#23485863)
These fans were certainly a luxury item for the time. The average price listed there was about $30. Adjusting for inflation, that's the equivalent of about $750 today (https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=inflation+since+1911+f...).
Put another way, it was a few weeks worth of the average salary for a railway or steel worker of the era (https://ahundredyearsago.com/2012/09/17/average-salaries-191...).
Re:Playing around with the Fuchsia operating system
on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @12:37AM (#23473959)
The problem with Chrome OS is that it's designed around treating your hardware like a kiosk. This is evident from design decisions like including an SSH console, but then disabling the escape sequences (see: https://codereview.chromium.org/5183004/).
Re:Interactive Map of Linux Kernel
on Monday June 08, 2020 @01:44AM (#23453923)
Is there a newer version of this? This is for Linux 2.6.36, released October 2010.