Eric_WVGG

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by Eric_WVGG 8mo ago
> modern incarnation with all of the flaws and seemingly missing QA process … so I’ve been kind of biting my tongue on this thread because “works fine for me” is not interesting or helpful, but: it’s been working great for me since it wa
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by Eric_WVGG 8mo ago
I saw it around ~15 years ago in a NYC museum. My memory is hazy, but I remember being surprised that it was held together with scotch tape.
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by Eric_WVGG 8mo ago
Yeah… no offense, but only a person who didn't know anything about Mayor Eric Adams would ask a question like that. Just days out of office, he made a few million off a crypto scam. Buffoonishly corrupt. https://finance.yah
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by Eric_WVGG 8mo ago
Garbage collection hiccups are probably meaningless on a web platform. As far as real-time processing goes, one of the most significant figures in the history of C# thinks it's a bad fit. If you disagree with him, respond to the video,
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by Eric_WVGG 8mo ago
Miguel de Icaza of Mono fame has a whole video on how C# was a "multi billion dollar mistake," and is working on a Swift Godot package. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzt36EGKEZo https://github.com&#x2
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by Eric_WVGG 8mo ago
You don't need reception of any kind to do an NFC payment, as long as the terminal has network access (even through ethernet). the Prime code thing is a good point tho
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by Eric_WVGG 8mo ago
sincere, non-trolling question: Why? You clearly saw some value in the convenience. Smartphone and smartwatch NFC offers that convenience everywhere . Even setting up palm authentication feels like unnecessary work.
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by Eric_WVGG 8mo ago
o_O wow, okay. Appreciate it.
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by Eric_WVGG 8mo ago
It’s not as central to the GOP platform as it used to be, though. Really ever since the “War on Terror,” their messaging has mostly been around whatever the enemy du jour is. Small gov’t was a paleocon thing and McCain, maybe Rand Paul, are
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by Eric_WVGG 8mo ago
I’m kind of curious why Adobe hasn’t gone all-in on Linux by now. IIRC Adobe apps were built on cross-platform tooling like Java (InDesign) and AIR (all the CS UI, and then the underpinnings in C++). I guess Adobe doesn't exactly have
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by Eric_WVGG 8mo ago
> If 3 years ago you would have told me that Microsoft would singlehandedly sabotage their own OS, doing more Linux marketing than the most neckbearded Linux fanboy (or the most femboy Thinkpad enjoyer), I'd have laughed in your fac
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by Eric_WVGG 9mo ago
I love this, but I’d rather have an indicator in the menu bar, an app notification, or maybe a nice flow around the "notch" like NotchNook. ( https://lo.cafe/notchnook ) Can't really afford to play with an app
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by Eric_WVGG 9mo ago
> Since I already committed to ditching my partner in favor of a more attractive ex… This was a funny sentence to read, as my first thought as I started the article was “Windows users are starting to remind me of people stuck in cycles o
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by Eric_WVGG 9mo ago
beat me to it. another article: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/27/906423831/bro-this-is-not-the... her adaptation, The Mere Wife , needs to get adapted to film or series yesterday https://en.wik
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The Suicide Pact: what happens the moment we invade Greenland(substack.com)
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by Eric_WVGG 9mo ago
and "the Digital Antiquarian" just did a great, deep two-parter on the history of Looking Glass last autumn. (covers Thief, Thief 2, System Shock, and some forgotten oddities) https://www.filfre.net/2025/10&#x
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by Eric_WVGG 9mo ago
I remember Cold Fusion quite well. You might have PTSD.
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by Eric_WVGG 9mo ago
#1 is really good advice. I personally got started as the IT guy at a newspaper. Went from managing the network to digitizing their ad tracking (they literally used a clipboard) to going head-to-head with Craigslist. Being the only person
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by Eric_WVGG 9mo ago
That's what I thought after the first Trump administration. But the fact that we re-elected him proves that it wasn’t a one-off, we will always be four years away from the possibility of a wild regime change.
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by Eric_WVGG 9mo ago
This should be added into write-to-repair laws.
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by Eric_WVGG 9mo ago
It's the rate of change. Things like NAFTA took many years to implement, and were debated and developed in the open. Everyone understood what would happen to the economy and that there would be a decade of transition. Nobody announces
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by Eric_WVGG 9mo ago
There seems to be two takes on the whole liquid glass thing. - UI/UX pros who understand this stuff: “I hate it” - everyone else: “I didn’t notice until you pointed it out”
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by Eric_WVGG 10mo ago
I actually doubt that. Irwin was a philanthropist and a scientist, with a decent sense of humor. This is a basically profitless project for public good. I think if the founder has bona-fides, Irwin’s estate would jump at it.
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by Eric_WVGG 10mo ago
I’ve been knocking around and getting various false starts on three ideas for a while… - a videogame. I've got a pretty killer idea in an open niche, but the indie market is so massively oversaturated that it feels impossible to get ey
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by Eric_WVGG 10mo ago
okay, easiest branding ever: “quick! go fetch The Irwin!”
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by Eric_WVGG 10mo ago
Love this, I'll keep an eye on it. I'd happily use it with my apartment building's clothes washers, which are connected to the internet via a painful UI. Amazon used to have a thing for books that didn't have Kindle edit
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by Eric_WVGG 10mo ago
Portland, OR's Free Geek is a great place to donate old parts to. Every city should have a similar resource.
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by Eric_WVGG 10mo ago
Several of his “lieutenants” are following, actually. His successor Stephen Lemay has exactly the kind of pedigree a person who cares about UI could ask for. There's a lot to be optimistic about. https://daringfireball.net&#
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by Eric_WVGG 10mo ago
I’m also a speed reader, grew up on Infocom text adventure games. Interesting connection!
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by Eric_WVGG 10mo ago
Not me. It’s wildly unusual for Apple to raise their prices on basically anything… in fact I'm not sure if its ever happened. * It’s been pointed out by others that price is part of Apple's marketing strategy. You can see that in

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