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by DerekL 3y ago
* hazard Hazzard is a fictional county in Georgia that's the setting for the TV show “The Dukes of Hazzard”.
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by DerekL 3y ago
Which “Star Wars”, Stern, Sega, or Data East?
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by DerekL 3y ago
If you look at all types computing platforms combined, then Windows is ahead of iOS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
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by DerekL 3y ago
Chrysler is only 98 years old, not 150.
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by DerekL 3y ago
What do you mean? If the emergency lights and sirens are on, then other vehicles must pull over to the right and stop. “Well, you can pass me on the right” is not the standard.
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by DerekL 3y ago
Title is misspelled, it should be “Muni”, not all-caps.
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by DerekL 3y ago
* anecdotal
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by DerekL 3y ago
They're two names for the same thing, but yes, people should use the current name. Also, it was never “OSX”, like the article uses, but so many people call it that.
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by DerekL 3y ago
Title is misspelled, it should be “duration”.
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by DerekL 3y ago
“Coca-Cola invented the modern image of Santa Claus” is itself a myth. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-claus-that-refreshes/
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by DerekL 3y ago
That’s what they were before they went out of business.
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by DerekL 3y ago
There used to be many more SROs in the city. https://ccsroc.net/s-r-o-hotels-in-san-francisco/ > S.R.O.’s, including residential hotel units and rooming houses, may have numbered as high as 90,000 in San Francisco a
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by DerekL 3y ago
It only took until 1988 for CD-ROMs and players to become widely available. Also, there was a craze for LaserDisc-based arcade video games, starting in 1983.
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by DerekL 3y ago
This is a limitation of the NTSC composite signal. Eighty columns of text will never be readable through a composite connection, no matter how good the monitor is.
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by DerekL 3y ago
* Pyrrhic
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by DerekL 3y ago
Even before then, 5.25" was popular among personal computer makers, such as Apple, Radio Shack, Commodore, Atari, and Osborne. (Though the TRS-80 Model II used 8".)
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by DerekL 3y ago
From the subhead of the article: > The Defense Department has transitioned away from a 1970s-era nuclear command and control system that relied on eight-inch floppy disks.
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by DerekL 3y ago
That's from the New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/us/driverless-car-acciden... . The linked article is currently from SFGATE. It may have changed since you made this comment.
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by DerekL 3y ago
No, the title is correct. Even though it’s on atariarchives.org, it’s not talking about Atari computers.
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by DerekL 3y ago
Apple File System Apple events
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by DerekL 3y ago
Title is misspelled, should be “ridiculous”.
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by DerekL 3y ago
What does this have to do with the article? The lawsuit against Subway was dismissed.
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by DerekL 3y ago
It's “CO2” (or “CO₂”, to get fancy), not “C02”. (Oh, not zero.)
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by DerekL 3y ago
* losing
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by DerekL 3y ago
I've been wondering something. Has the PC ever been the majority platform for video games? It depends on how you define it. I'd define it as having more than half of all game software sales (including DLC, subscriptions, microtran
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by DerekL 3y ago
It doesn't matter who's paying for it, the plaintiffs still have a case. The law is crap. If lawmakers were concerned about privacy, they'd pass a privacy law regulating all services, not just one.
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by DerekL 3y ago
I just tried the fake URL by pasting it into Safari's address bar, and it “helpfully” percent-encoded the special slashes and tried to go to v1271.zip.
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by DerekL 3y ago
How exactly does this trick work? Thing is, a URL can't have any non-ASCII characters in it. So this would only happen if the webpage or some app takes the URL and undoes the percent-encoding to try to make it more readable.
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by DerekL 3y ago
It's been fixed now.
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by DerekL 3y ago
I can imagine this scenario: Cashier: Your total comes to $8.45. Customer: All I have is a $20. Is that okay? Cashier: Yes, it’s San Francisco law that we accept cash. Customer: Okay, here. Customer: … Customer: Where’s my change? Cashier:

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