Gordonjcp

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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> Sorry, you can no longer watch OTA TV. And nothing of value was lost.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
You know what else? You probably first played it on a CRT, which was brighter with a far better gamut than a plasma or LCD TV, so it looked a lot brighter and clearer. GTA:SA looks like a sad and dull imitation of itself on a modern TV.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Yeah this is where you start to see decompilers outputting C code that just looks like assembler written out as C. There was one I used to use years ago - can't remember the name, some odd commercial thing from one of the many commerci
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Well, think about it this way - suppose you have a block of C code and you compile it to object code, like: if (hitByMissile == True) { lives--; if (lives == 0) playing = False; } ; next address is 0x8f02 it mig
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> Leaves little time to learn anything else besides the ins and outs of the industry I’d think. Yeah, in the music industry it's not like you ever have to deal with massive lists of numbers.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service got slated for having a series of ads run in the early 2000s telling people to just get a takeaway on their way home from the pub instead of trying to cook when they got in. The big complaint was that it
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> I'd wager that you'd be surprised at the number of people who don't know what Microsoft Word/Excel are. Presumably, anyone who has never had any kind of a job in any field ever, or been to any kind of school.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Why would they go to all the effort of making a fake phone and then CGIing in the details, when a device that looked and worked exactly as shown in the video existed in real life?
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> because the most basic computer skills are now as important as knowing how to drive Maybe not knowing how to *drive*, lots of people don't need to know that, but it's kind of up there with knowing how to read.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
You know that most musicians didn't start off as professional musicians, right? I can't imagine there's anyone who lives in a sufficiently technologically-literate world that they know how to use a mobile phone, and despite t
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Yeah, exactly, and because it's so popular it's become the "go-to" for any fault - "oh it must be bad caps!" - and then you end up with perfectly good equipment getting ripped apart and cheap shitty Aliexpress
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
So what's the equivalent for choosing a distro? 99.999% of people don't need to go off road, and only need a bog standard desktop distro.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Let's see, I think Lasermoon and Zipslack were on the cover CD with Computer Shopper in about what, 1993? Pink and yellow CD. I think I only binned it a couple of years ago - stupid of me!
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
This is actually a great way of running stuff in "foreign" distros where you can't guarantee the presence or absence of libraries. For example DaVinci Resolve is packaged for (now quite old) CentOS but runs just fine installe
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> And what Linux OS should you target? Linux is an OS. It doesn't matter which distro you pick, because they're all the same.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Lasermoon for me, which was a slight fork of SLS. Before that, whatever Linux it was it came on about half a dozen 1.44MB floppies. I remember it used a Linux 0.9 kernel, but not much else - except it was a Real Proper Unix System like I ha
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
It doesn't really matter which desktop you pick, they're all the same. If you went to buy a car, would you be fatally paralysed by indecision at seeing two different makes that looked ever so slightly different parked side-by-side
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
I'm currently spending a lot of time in La-La-Laplacian Land, so maybe my sense of humour is currently a bit warped. A bit like my filter responses, really.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
You're never going to find electrolytics that have "gone bad" sitting on a shelf.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Over about 50 years, maybe. Put it this way, I've replaced maybe a dozen "bad caps" in equipment in 35 years of repairing high-end musical kit, six of which were in one 1970s synthesizer made from very cheap parts. But, I&#x2
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
As long as they haven't been sitting on the shelf since the 1950s, any capacitors you have lying around will be fine. The electrolyte isn't milk. It doesn't go off.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
You know all those folk who claim the Earth is flat? You know they're joking, right?
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Man, it actually sounds like you've fallen for it too, or have I been whooshed?
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
But space is quantised, that's what Planck's Constant is. The oddity we see with things at relativistic energies is simply because - as with all discretised representations of continuous-time systems - things get a bit fucky close
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
You're populating a tiny template with a tiny list of numbers to produce a tiny plaintext document that will cache like Scrooge McDuck. Why do you think this is going to be a problem?
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
It's a joke, that people don't appear to "get". The more upset people get about "Flat Earthers", the funnier it is.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
That doesn't really answer my question, though.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Why would you spend money to run a website?
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Look at the video games industry. People travel from all over the world to study in *Dundee* of all places, which for the Americans here is about the side of Bridgeport, Connecticut, simply because the universities there offer the best cour
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> Regardless of if that upsets your sensibilities or not. So you'd be happy if I surrounded your house with huge billboards covered in pictures of dicks, and puppies being thrown into scrap metal shredders?

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