Gormo

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571.
by Gormo 2y ago
It's a tool, not a source of empirically valid data. No one's going to 'get used' to LLMs being cited as sources of factual information any more than they'd complacently accept someone's Monte Carlo simulation
572.
by Gormo 2y ago
In the US, yes.
573.
by Gormo 2y ago
Corel's "Swiss" font is identical to Helvetica. Arial has many differences.
574.
by Gormo 2y ago
Wasn't he using a Kaypro running CP/M?
575.
by Gormo 2y ago
> what's the rationale for x86? To run vintage software? Sounds reasonable. In an off-grid situation, best to stick with software written before the mid-2000s.
576.
by Gormo 2y ago
> Yes, most people who have an incentive in pushing AI say that hallucinations aren't a problem, since humans aren't correct all the time. Humans often make factual errors, but there's a difference between having a process
577.
by Gormo 2y ago
The article makes no mention of the name "Babbage" in Emma's diary. Could that relate to Charles Babbage, who was a contemporary?
578.
by Gormo 2y ago
And what's wrong with a UI being "cluttered", especially if the alternative is that it fails to expose the software's full functionality?
579.
by Gormo 2y ago
By the early '90s, high-quality CRT displays had low dot pitches or very precise aperture grilles in addition to supporting a wider range of refresh rates, and better clarity of display was a major selling point. People were typically
580.
by Gormo 2y ago
> I'm still a firm believe that the majority of the work we do with computers today could be done within the Windows 95 shell. Wasn't that one of the ideas behind SerenityOS?
581.
by Gormo 2y ago
Win3.1 works great in DOSBox, and you can get an even more authentic '80s-'90s IBM-compatible experience using PCEm or 86box, which emulate a wide variety of PC motherboards, graphics cards, and sound cards.
582.
by Gormo 2y ago
Well, this is a modern OS capable of running modern software, for starters. It's just Linux with a Win95-lookalike theme.
583.
by Gormo 2y ago
Why would the Linux ecosystem -- a diverse community of lots of different individuals and organizations all pursuing their own particular goals -- be singularly concerned with increasing desktop market share of Linux as a whole, and all pur
584.
by Gormo 2y ago
> If we're talking about the subjective experience of recreating "a child's bedroom computer" from the mid 90s-early 00s Is that what this project is going for? I understood it to be attempting to apply design elemen
585.
by Gormo 2y ago
Most people vastly overstate the effect that CRT displays had on the appearance of legacy software. Yes, very early on, when people used TVs or cheap composite monitors as the display devices for their computers, there were blurry pixel edg
586.
by Gormo 2y ago
The themed UIs of that era were very superficial -- if they applied to serious software at all, they were just a cosmetic layer on top of an otherwise well-engineered interface, and could be easily disabled. Most people I knew, for example
587.
by Gormo 2y ago
XFCE is probably the closest thing around to a traditional Windows desktop environment.
588.
by Gormo 2y ago
> Also, around 2001 was the big architectural change for desktop from DOS to NT, so this might seem like cherry-picking the timeframe selected. It's true that the entire Windows product family converged onto the NT codebase with th
589.
by Gormo 2y ago
Well, there's always LD_PRELOAD and LD_LIBRARY_PATH on Linux. My experience has been that most of the time when older binaries fail to run, it's because they are linked against old versions of libraries, and when I obtain those l
590.
by Gormo 2y ago
> It's not just to prevent applications to read other applications files, but also to firewall each application individually Why would one want to prevent applications from reading other applications' files? We're talking
591.
by Gormo 2y ago
I wish these sort of articles would stop using vague, catch-all categories like "ultra-processed" and instead explain the specific ingredients in these foods that are thought to be harmful. Valid but insufficiently detailed argume
592.
by Gormo 2y ago
Individuals are drastically different from each other. Populations of humans, however, regress to the mean fairly readily, and even small groups (at least if they aren't grouped according to precise selection criteria) will tend to re
593.
by Gormo 2y ago
Which introduces even more problems when manually editing files is out of scope.
594.
by Gormo 2y ago
Sometimes people interpret the term too generically and actually implement a high degree of non-trivial, very idiosyncratic complexity, while still calling it "CSV". One project I worked on involved a vendor promising to send us d
595.
by Gormo 2y ago
That's true of the vast majority of protocols that people use in real life to exchange date. We're using one of them right now, in fact.
596.
by Gormo 2y ago
I've dealt with a few cases of CSVs including base64-encoded binary data. It's an unusual scenario, but the tools for working with CSVs are robust enough that it was never an issue.
597.
by Gormo 2y ago
Parsing Excel files in simple data interchange use cases that don't involve anyone manually using spreadsheets is an instance of unnecessary complexity. There are plenty of alternatives to CSV that remain plaintext, have much broader
598.
by Gormo 2y ago
Is it a contagious phenomenon, or is it just a situation where some people being lonely is highly correlated with other people being lonely? It makes intuitive sense that as more people are isolated, the pool of possible social interaction
599.
by Gormo 2y ago
I suppose that's true if we look literally at the Greek roots. Perhaps I should have said that the traditional English meaning usually refers to propagation of contagious phenomena. Sort of how the literal meaning of "television&
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by Gormo 2y ago
Seems fitting, since their original drummer was an electronic drum machine.

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