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Riding a Spitfire: The Story of Margaret Horton

rafa.org.uk
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The Fulda Gap: A Cavalry Scout's Account of the End of the World That Never Came

twitter.com
5 points·by omnibrain·2 माह पहले·2 comments

Analysing the Urban Attack: Insights from Soviet doctrine as a 'model checklist'

researchcentre.army.gov.au
3 points·by omnibrain·2 माह पहले·0 comments

Open Source Routing Machine

project-osrm.org
2 points·by omnibrain·3 माह पहले·0 comments

Phantom of Heilbronn

en.wikipedia.org
9 points·by omnibrain·4 माह पहले·0 comments

Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch

arstechnica.com
1 points·by omnibrain·6 माह पहले·0 comments

Video Games Like Assassin's Creed Feed into Conspiracy Thinking

slate.com
8 points·by omnibrain·8 माह पहले·5 comments

A visual guide to how the Hong Kong fire spread

bbc.co.uk
3 points·by omnibrain·8 माह पहले·0 comments

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FM Synths Explained with Memes [video]

youtube.com
1 points·by omnibrain·9 माह पहले·0 comments

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omnibrain
·2 माह पहले·discuss
It's the shell around the core.
omnibrain
·3 माह पहले·discuss
German here and me and my wife almost exclusively use Apple Maps, mainly because it looks and feels nicer. The differences in navigation are miniscule, but if we want to really check the traffic before we start we do a quick glance at Google maps. One difference in navigation we noticed is, that Apple Maps gives some small local streets - those just one revel above "Feldwege" (agricultural/forestry roads) - more weight than they should have. They are not really "single track" (almost unheard of in Germany) but come close, with no lane delineation dashes, etc.
omnibrain
·3 माह पहले·discuss
The German ID card (Personalausweis) supports certificates and communication via NFC. I really don’t understand what’s all this about?
omnibrain
·4 माह पहले·discuss
Yes, I since embraced pwsh for terminal stuff on Windows. For everything else I switched back to proper VMs or remote hosts.
omnibrain
·4 माह पहले·discuss
Nobody that is not already writing (L)GPL licensed software wants to pull LGPL licensed libraries into his software. I'm not a lawyer. If you have it in separate object artefacts that you can dynamically link to, you should be fine. Everything else may be more difficult.

See what FFmpeg writes on this topic: https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html
omnibrain
·4 माह पहले·discuss
> It’s also stupid in terms of screen real estate.

You can't really blame MS that around the same time screen manufacturers started to switch to 16:9 for cost reasons and cheap laptops all only offered a 1366x786 resolution.
omnibrain
·4 माह पहले·discuss
> people who've already come to grips with the app

They would, or should, be using keyboard shortcuts anyway.
omnibrain
·4 माह पहले·discuss
> 2010 was my favorite Office UI.

Mine too. Office 2010 was what made me switch back to Windows after using Linux and OpenOffice for years. I found the ribbons to be perfect for my use of Office. They usually automatically focused on the task at hand. Everything else was just a click away. Advanced stuff stayed in the menu. And, at least for me, it helped discoverability of features.
omnibrain
·5 माह पहले·discuss
Try reading Masters of Deception first, to get in the right mood.
omnibrain
·5 माह पहले·discuss
One of the worst things about Brexit for me in mainland Europe is that it became very difficult to obtain real, proper Haggis and Stornoway Black Pudding.
omnibrain
·6 माह पहले·discuss
It's interesting that this is a serious movie by the director Michael 'Bully' Herbig, who is generally known for bad taste comedies, full of clichees about race and sexuality.
omnibrain
·6 माह पहले·discuss
His explanation why he endorsed Hillary Clinton was pretty lunatic though.
omnibrain
·7 माह पहले·discuss
How does it compare to the PiKVM?
omnibrain
·7 माह पहले·discuss
I have fond memories of Publisher. We used it to layout our school newspaper back in the 90ies. I even considered going into the DTP field as a career and did a small internship. But I soon realised that while I can easily master the technical aspect and learn all the rules, my "design work" just doesn't "pop".

Nonetheless, for years after, I was the goto layout guy if a relative needed something done. I soon stopped using Publisher after I "found" a copy of QuarkXPress.
omnibrain
·8 माह पहले·discuss
> ?

exactly
omnibrain
·8 माह पहले·discuss
Morrowind had (and still has) a huge modding scene. Especially because it's even more mod friendly as its successor. A big plus back in the day was that the Construction Kit came with the original game disks. So you had direct access to the real dev tools. Like Unreal came with UnrealEd but with access to an Open World RPG instead of "just" a shooter.

Nexus Mods started as portal for Morrowind mods.
omnibrain
·8 माह पहले·discuss
Sadly it's just 16:9. Not even 16:10.

I now run 2 3:2 Displays (BenQ RD280U) at home (more in the office, but I never go there) and love my vertical real estate. (No, portrait mode won't work out)
omnibrain
·9 माह पहले·discuss
> Minecraft is of course the poster child for very large worlds of interest these days.

Minecraft used to create very interesting worlds until they changed the algorithm and the landscapes became plain and boring. It took them about 10 year until the Caves and Cliffs Update to make the world generation interesting again.
omnibrain
·9 माह पहले·discuss
I played with pelleted cattle feed as a child in the early 90ies. I still remeber the smell. Not sure if this contained meat and bone meal but it's in the back of my head ever since.
omnibrain
·9 माह पहले·discuss
I live near a lake with lots of Swans. There is always one solitary one who is just into threatening everybody. Even outside breeding season and with no kids around. But I suspect he wasn't born this way, but some kids may have hit him with rocks or similar.