13of40

35 ms·

421.
by 13of40 4y ago
I had a similar machine when I was in highschool - a Texas Instruments Professional Computer. It had the same basic form factor and build quality as an IBM 5150 PC, an ISA bus, and MSDOS 1 and 2 (so int 21 worked), but the BIOS was incompa
422.
by 13of40 4y ago
Trust me, I love PowerShell (disclaimer that I worked on it) but in MacOS it's an add-on not a first class citizen, and I think there are fundamental principles that can be picked up by other shells. In fact, the PowerShell cmdlets ar
423.
by 13of40 4y ago
Is there any shell on MacOS that's both a first class citizen and not based on antique unix commands and syntax?
424.
by 13of40 4y ago
I'd love to see a *BSD based OS where they're willing to get rid of the 30 year old cruft, meaning grep & friends, x servers, all that antique shit, and focus on the fundamentals. Something like a modernized AmigaOS UI and ob
425.
by 13of40 4y ago
I was talking about a button that sets the score for a single submission to zero and makes it stick. I know the numbers are fuzzed, but I don't think fuzzing will take something with a score of 1 and show it as 0.
426.
by 13of40 4y ago
Maybe this is already well-known, but I saw another behavior recently on some subrreddits where a lot of new posts are seemingly getting a single downvote to a score of zero. I suspected there was some troll doing it, so I went down the li
427.
by 13of40 4y ago
I'm not trying to take any kind of side here, but I just wanted to raise this curious point: Within the span of a few years, and for well over a decade now, we've gone from porn being a few old magazines in your uncle's close
428.
by 13of40 4y ago
I'm struggling to interpret this. On the one hand it could be saying that from the perspective of a capitalist, we unfairly decline to assign the capitalist system blame when someone falls through the cracks. But the fundamental diff
429.
by 13of40 4y ago
Just recently a friend of mine tried an online service that does psychological counseling (I don't want to name names, but if you listen to podcasts on Spotify you've probably heard their ads.) She showed me the transcript of her
430.
by 13of40 4y ago
I've always thought it was a little bit pathological that we require application developers to also be experts in build and deployment. The parts that can't be automated away should be handled by (highly paid) specialists so when
431.
by 13of40 4y ago
Funny story - I had to go to Cheltnam on business a couple of years ago, and while I was there I was getting banner ads trying to recruit me to GCHQ. I'm guessing their staffing people don't have access to the whole file, because
432.
by 13of40 4y ago
Thank you - that's truly horrifying. I put in a request to get my file from them, but based on their security questions they have my whole public profile. Whether they can map it to social media accounts and purchases isn't clea
433.
by 13of40 4y ago
It might actually already exist, but imagine if on the other side of the internet they aggregate all of your usage information so that a tech can sit down at one console and see that "jimbo123" on Reddit is actually Bob Smith who
434.
by 13of40 4y ago
> Macs were far far more malware-resistant than Windows In what ways? I work in the field, so feel free to speak technically.
435.
by 13of40 4y ago
I think Apple's original message was something along the lines of, "You can't get malware on a Mac", but the subtext would have been, "Only because we have so little market share that the scammers wouldn't wast
436.
by 13of40 4y ago
> Microsoft’s lame “I’m a Mac” ads are another. I think you'll find those were Apple's lame ads.
437.
by 13of40 4y ago
I like this in theory, but when I've experienced it, I don't necessarily enjoy aggressively pre-fab architecture in a place I'm staying. One example is earlier this year I booked a room at a hotel near CDG so I could spend t
438.
by 13of40 4y ago
One of the labs in my highschool was for typing training, and it had something like 50 barebones PCs in it. Every day you'd sit down at a random machine, which booted from a 5.25" floppy. The autoexec.bat on the floppy let you l
439.
by 13of40 4y ago
That's brilliant!
440.
by 13of40 4y ago
I used to have a freestanding gas fireplace that worked great in a power outage, because even though the blower didn't run it could still radiate from all sides.
441.
by 13of40 4y ago
> 4kya I don't know where you got that number, and I apologize if it's something well known since I am in a different field, but my father did his master's thesis and a lot of subsequent work (back in the 70s) on Clovis cu
442.
by 13of40 4y ago
You shouldn't be too hard on them - they were working with the evidence they had on hand, just like you are. IMO, the real evidence is under 20 feet of silt somewhere off the Pacific coast.
443.
by 13of40 4y ago
You could almost say that it's such an obvious invention that the first person who had access to an internally programmable digital computer came up with it. Scanning and printing over a wire were implemented in the late 19th century[
444.
by 13of40 4y ago
I think the worse effect of the bail loan system is that for anyone who doesn't have enough cash on hand to cover it now has to pay the loan fee (or sit in jail and miss work, etc). If your bail is $100K and you need to take out a loa
445.
by 13of40 4y ago
I think it's kind of interesting that the most controversial thing about these bots and image generators so far is that they're immodest. It's like we created Frankenstein's monster and he repeatedly shows up to dinner
446.
by 13of40 4y ago
I remember them, and it would have been the late 80s or early 90s. I had to ask my dad what it was, but I remember thinking maybe I would need to use that service someday. If you want to go down a rabbit hole, here's a classic video w
447.
by 13of40 4y ago
I had one for running very early builds of Win64 at Microsoft. It was a very aesthetically pleasing piece of hardware. The builds of Windows I ran on it were truly at the stage of "hey it built" so I remember getting a dialog on
448.
by 13of40 4y ago
Being right and sounding right are two important but separate skills in natural language communication. It sounds like they've nailed one of them and the other is somewhat hit and miss right now. To me it's obvious that there&#x
449.
by 13of40 4y ago
> well adjusted We just grew up with AIDS, the ozone hole, global warming, the gulf war, Panama, Somalia, gang shootings on the freeway, the massive earthquake that was supposed to crack California off and set it adrift in the sea...
450.
by 13of40 4y ago
Barcelona gets a lot of love despite most of it being a very regular grid of city blocks.

More ›