gp is likely referring to a specific diet called The Mediterranean Diet, "inspired by the eating habits and traditional foods of Greece, Italy, and the Mediterranean coasts of France and Spain, as observed in the late 1950s to early 1960s."
Yes and no. Half of the screen was refreshing at a time, so it was really flashing at 30Hz. You still had a visible stroboscopic effect. True 60Hz and 100Hz screen appeared in the late 90s and made a visible difference in term of comfort of viewing.
CRT TVs only supported vertical refresh rates of 50Hz or 60Hz, which matched the regional mains frequency. They used interlacing and technically only showed half the frame at a time, but thanks to phosphor decay this added a feeling of fluidity to the image. If you were able to see it strobe, you must have had an impressive sight. And even if they supported higher refresh rates, it wouldn't matter, as the source of the signal would only ever be 50/60Hz.
CRT monitors used in PCs, on the other hand, supported a variety of refresh rates. Only monitors for specific applications used interlacing, customer grade ones didn't, which means you could see a strobing effect here if you ran it at a low frequency. But even the most analog monitors from the 80s supported atleast 640x480 at 60Hz, some programs such as the original DOOM were even able to squeeze 70Hz out of them by running at a different resolution while matching the horizontal refresh rate.
For some reason I remember 83Hz being the highest refresh rate supported by my XGA CRT, but I think it was only running at SVGA (800x600) in order to pull that rate.
Some demos could throw pixels into VRAM that fast, and it was wild looking. Like the 60Hz soap-opera effect but even more so.
I still feel that way looking at >30fps content since I really don't consume much of it.
> some programs such as the original DOOM were even able to squeeze 70Hz out of them by running at a different resolution while matching the horizontal refresh rate.
400p at 70 Hz was the default resolution of the VGA, pretty much all the classic mode 13h games ran at 70 Hz.
scoop, Choco, and winget are all very different. winget is closest to Choco in that it prefers to just run regular installers. It keeps its own state of installed packages, though, while winget uses the same sources of truth as "Add/Remove programs" (msstore/appx and the "uninstall" group in the registry). Scoop is its own thing that installs everything under its own prefix and manages its own state.
>winget uses the same sources of truth as "Add/Remove programs" (msstore/appx and the "uninstall" group in the registry).
I find that behavior incredibly annoying. I mainly use Chocolatey, so every once in a while when a package is heavily outdated or missing from the repo I end up using Winget instead for convenience's sake. That means Winget keeps trying to update or manage Chocolatey packages, and as far as I know, there's no easy way to stop that.
The thing about Chocolatey is that, iirc, it’s still largely community members maintaining that registry. Not the best in a cybersecurity context, and some firms may have licensing against unauthorized distribution of their installer files like that.
Hence WinGet, a Microsoft owned and operated alternative that those firms may feel less jittery about.
It would be interesting to put an Alexa (or another voice assistant device) in a space with only an audio playback device around to keep it company, with that audio playback device playing sounds associated with various crimes (but never saying the trigger word obviously). I wonder if there are any crimes it thinks it would hear that would result in a police visit. If police were called as a result of this setup, would this constitute a false police report on Amazon's behalf?
In the US, because I'm at least reasonably confident that such a setup comes nowhere near any exceptions to free speech protections here.
Exclusive municipal franchise agreements have been prohibited since the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992.
Your city cannot unreasonably refuse to grant a franchise to another operator, in the unlikely event another operator would like to provide a similar service. These things used to be a government-granted monopoly, but IMHO, the continuing lack of competition stems from market realities.
Building a new network in a city that's already covered adequately is hard to justify economically, because switching is a pain, and most of the market can't really tell the difference between providers; and even if you do start to attract customers, the competitor's network likely gets better as you relieve their bottlenecks.
Targeting only the areas of the city that aren't well served is likely to not be economically viable either. For one thing, the franchise agreement might have a minimum coverage percent. For another, there are probably reasons the other network doesn't cover those areas; some of which may still apply.
And there's the elephant in the room, the incumbent presumably has enough revenue from other areas that they can cross-subsidize network updates and build out to compete where you are. In some ways, this was Google Fiber's market strategy: Google Fiber's corporate goal was to get more people connected at high speeds so that they could load higher quality ads on YouTube and other Google properties. Building out fiber in the Kansas Cities was a way to meet that goal in those cities, but it was a lot of work. By announcing planned cities in early 2014 [1], Google was able to induce incumbents to improve their networks in those cities, reaching their goal before any Google Fiber permits were approved in those cities; then they could wrap it up and end all expansion works. :P
Windows does have a significant mitigation: whenever you connect to a new network, such as a coffee shop Wi-Fi, it defaults to considering this network Public (untrusted) and firewalls any such services from accessing it/being accessed from it. You have to explicitly set it as a "Private" network for file sharing and printer discovery and similar to work.
I've found Niri* to be the best but there are stability/performance problems (especially when you go over +20 windows) with all of them. Maybe once they will be "baked-in" in Gnome/KDE things will change.
I never ged ads for "real" drugs, just the normal OTC/prescription stuff and occasionally some legal analogues (non-psilocybin mushroom gummies come to mind). Very curious what they look like as well and what their sites say about the purchase process (what forms of payment do they accept, how do they ship, etc).
I'm pretty sure I've seen some for actual psilocybin before. I've seen some for switchblades too, which are illegal a bunch of places, but they at least drum up interest by pretending it's a switchblade spoon and then when you click to their site they are like "it's not a spoon", which is annoying because all of the comments on the facebook side are people saying they actually wanted a switchblade spoon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_diet
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