DerekL

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by DerekL 9mo ago
Someone should make a parody video game called Rouge Trader.
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by DerekL 9mo ago
You probably mean Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., not John. JFK Jr. died in 1999, and was not anti-vaccine, as far as I know.
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by DerekL 9mo ago
The term soap opera dates to 1938. There’s no way that Rod Serling coined the term.
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by DerekL 11mo ago
Half of NPR's revenue comes from payments from stations to run their programs, and most of the rest comes from individuals, businesses, and foundations. Those public radio stations are also mostly funded by listeners and donors. Also,
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by DerekL 11mo ago
It's faze , not phase . It's a common mistake.
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by DerekL 11mo ago
*precedent
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by DerekL 11mo ago
Title has a typo, should be “liberated”. Edit: I noticed that the article's page title is also misspelled this way.
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by DerekL 11mo ago
Stop minting the nickel and start minting the half dime again (this time in base metal instead of silver).
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by DerekL 11mo ago
The title is misspelled, should be “won't”. Even better, just change it to the actual title, “Why I'd never work for Google, Twitter, or Facebook”. ( Wont is a word in English, but it's not what's meant here.)
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by DerekL 11mo ago
Title should say “UPS”, not “Ups”.
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by DerekL 1y ago
I think the title removed the wrong words to make it fit into 80 characters. The actual title is “The key to why the universe exists may lie in an 1800s knot idea science once dismissed”. Removing “why the” makes the title ungrammatical. Re
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by DerekL 1y ago
*high school
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by DerekL 1y ago
True, but hardly anyone used it until Windows 3, or even 3.1.
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by DerekL 1y ago
> I dislike people all bunching up into cities Are you talking about how certain industries are each concentrated to a small number of locations? That's for good reason. Suppose you were a software engineer, and every five or ten ye
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by DerekL 1y ago
Yeah, these people could just get apartments in Stockton, then spend four hours each day commuting to their jobs in Palo Alto. Totally makes sense.
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by DerekL 1y ago
In the US, people of age 18 are adults, not minors.
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by DerekL 1y ago
But switching to making digital cameras wouldn’t have helped much, because selling cameras was never really their business. Their main business was selling film, photo paper, developer, etc.
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by DerekL 1y ago
Title is misspelled, should be “White House” (two words).
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by DerekL 1y ago
*hoi polloi
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by DerekL 1y ago
I saw two working PDP-11s this past weekend. They were Super Sprint arcade games, which use the microprocessor implementation of that instruction set. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_System#Atari_System_2
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by DerekL 1y ago
Beta wasn't better than VHS. It was better at a given tape speed, but the cassettes were smaller, so you'd have to use a lower speed to get the same recording time.
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by DerekL 1y ago
Mentioned in the article.
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by DerekL 1y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44328275
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by DerekL 1y ago
> When I heard that the image (Wall-e) of the fat people on board the spaceship, sitting, and consuming 24/7 (food, drinks, 'content' on their VR headsets). The people in Wall-E don't use VR headsets, at least not mos
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by DerekL 1y ago
I disagree that it needed a chunky pixel mode most of all. What you're asking for is a machine that can draw a scene byte by byte with the CPU, then just display that. But if your hypothetical Amiga is doing most of its graphical manip
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by DerekL 1y ago
Actually, Commodore should have kept their chips up-to-date with process improvements. That means releasing a new chipset with four times the performance every three or four years. So the AGA should have arrived in 1988, and the blitter sho
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by DerekL 1y ago
Title is incorrectly capitalized, should be “UPS”.
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by DerekL 1y ago
That's about the decompilation. This article's about the original source code.
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by DerekL 1y ago
It also supported smooth scrolling.
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by DerekL 1y ago
Title is incorrectly capitalized, should say “Playdate”.

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