ConceptJunkie

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by ConceptJunkie 5mo ago
I bought a machine with similar capability for my wife that shipped with Vista and it was literally unusable. I think I ended up "upgrading" it to XP.
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by ConceptJunkie 5mo ago
I used Windows 95 for a few months and switched to NT and never looked back. I did later run Windows 98 on my kids' machine for games, but I never tried, or wanted to try Windows ME. Windows 2000 has the best look and feel for the GUI,
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by ConceptJunkie 5mo ago
Given that Windows search has been this broken for decades, do you think Microsoft is going to start caring _now_?! Next thing you'll be asking to make OneDrive even remotely predictable in its behavior (other than the predictability o
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by ConceptJunkie 5mo ago
Yeah, I never used it. I have barely ever used it since then.
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by ConceptJunkie 5mo ago
Windows 7 was the best Windows and one of the reasons was that you could still have the Windows 2000 GUI, the "Classic" theme. That was peak Windows. I'm so disappointed that all those years later, the Windows UI is literal
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by ConceptJunkie 5mo ago
After learning the secret of "breaking" protected BASIC programs in DOS (which involved a poke, as I recall), I remember making higher difficulty levels for a BASIC Star Trek game, because it just wasn't very hard.
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by ConceptJunkie 5mo ago
Their whole business model at the time seemed to be "making dubious acquisitions".
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by ConceptJunkie 5mo ago
Somewhere there's a "create a random, soulless, corporate website generator", and these folks used it.
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by ConceptJunkie 5mo ago
Beginners' All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, if I remember correctly. I also started programming in BASIC, and moved on to Pascal when I discovered Turbo Pascal around 1983, which also happened to be the language most of my CS cla
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by ConceptJunkie 6mo ago
Do they mean "pseudonymous" telemetry meaning "non-identifying telemetry", or do they mean "pseudoanonymous" telemetry meaning telemetry is that not really anonymous? Those two words have almost exactly opposit
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by ConceptJunkie 6mo ago
Companies like IBM and Microsoft did a lot of HCI research back in the 80s, and made a lot of progress with usability and common idioms that all software followed. Then when displays with 256 or more colors became common, all that went out
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by ConceptJunkie 6mo ago
Yeah, having to look up the "basic boilerplate" stuff is not worse for me after starting to use AI than it was beforehand.
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by ConceptJunkie 6mo ago
By the time Bezos bought the Post, most of that goodwill had evaporated, and since then, almost all of it has.
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by ConceptJunkie 7mo ago
I feel the opposite. I'm 61 and I feel like I understand ideas more quickly than I ever did before, so much so that I'm surprised at how shallowly I thought about some things in the past. While there is definitely something to th
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by ConceptJunkie 7mo ago
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the statement in the book (IIRC) that it takes 8 legs to be stable in 5 dimensions. I'd assumed it would be 6, but this is a layman's intuition. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong. A
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by ConceptJunkie 7mo ago
win32 dates back to 1993. OP doesn't know Windows history. Maintaining backwards compatibility was always a huge priority for Microsoft, even if it couldn't be perfect. If a program didn't work on a newer version of Windows
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by ConceptJunkie 7mo ago
That's a bit of a trick question, because if you'd booted into Windows, it would have eventually broken the dual-boot.
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by ConceptJunkie 7mo ago
I have to be honest. The idea that Microsoft is even admitting that their products are less than perfect is a step in the right direction. A step on a thousand-mile journey, perhaps, but it's a step.
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by ConceptJunkie 7mo ago
"XOR AXAX" was my license plate in the 90s.
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by ConceptJunkie 7mo ago
> The same trick can also be used for the other direction to save a division: > NewValue = OldValue >> 3; > This is basically the same as > NewValue = OldValue / 8; > RCT does this trick all the time, and even in i
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by ConceptJunkie 7mo ago
You're thinking of Lotus Notes, a completely different product. IIRC, originally it echoed one glyph per character typed, but later it definitely echoed 1 to 3 glyphs at random so it wouldn't leak your password length. The passwor
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by ConceptJunkie 7mo ago
Why, I bet it could factor 15 or 21 better than the latest quantum computers!
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by ConceptJunkie 7mo ago
640k RAM should be enough for everyone.
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by ConceptJunkie 8mo ago
In the U.S., I feel like the primaries are the place to vote for and work for the best candidate possible. That's the time to be idealistic and pursue the perfect candidate. At the general election, you need to be pragmatic, and decid
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by ConceptJunkie 9mo ago
There was a TV show called "The Mighty Isis" in the 70s. What were they thinking?! (Well, with Joanna Cameron around, I wouldn't be able to think too clearly either.)
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by ConceptJunkie 9mo ago
People? Do you know how many of them are murderers, fraudsters and all around finks. That's a terrible thing to mention.
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by ConceptJunkie 9mo ago
ReactOS has been around for 20+ years. You can run some old games on it, but it's hardly at the level of WINE and projects based on it.
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by ConceptJunkie 10mo ago
I've come to the conclusion that anyone who uses the term "AI slop" probably doesn't have anything meaningful to say. Not that "AI slop" isn't a thing, but its use is just a buzzword that doesn't mea
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by ConceptJunkie 10mo ago
It's seen as cool to hate on AI right now. I haven't used Firefox in about 10 years, and this is definitely not a feature I would want, but if I were still using it I wouldn't get all exercised over it.
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by ConceptJunkie 11mo ago
> ut phones aren't awesome little PCs, they're zombifying the majority of the public. They also, incidentally, are insidious little snitches busy at work trying to monetize every single thing about our daily lives. Yes, and cor

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