Gormo

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901.
by Gormo 2y ago
Haven't seen it available without preinstalled Windows, but even with that, the price is good, and it's easy enough to wipe it and install Linux.
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by Gormo 2y ago
It's x86; it works better for hardware accelerated video playback via VAAPI due to FOSS Intel drivers; because it's fully integrated out of the box, its total cost is a bit cheaper than an RPi, and as a single unit with no assembl
903.
by Gormo 2y ago
My understanding of /usr/local is that it's intended for software that's installed manually, outside the scope of the package manager.
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by Gormo 2y ago
The Apple II was very dominant in education, but Apple never managed to retain that dominance through the migration to the Mac. Schools started moving to Wintel boxes in the mid-90s as the Apple II was becoming obsolete -- Macs were presen
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by Gormo 2y ago
One of the nice things about MPV is that you can apply FFMpeg filters at playback, allowing you to use a wide range of transformations on a source video without having to re-render it for each variation. We're using inexpensive industr
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by Gormo 2y ago
Education was the niche that kept Apple afloat back then -- they'd managed to make the Apple II the de facto standard for school computing, and when they wanted to transition schools to the Mac in the early '90s, they had to go so
907.
by Gormo 2y ago
Even in the US, the Mac was very marginal early on. It wasn't until it established a foothold in the DTP market in the late '80s that it was clear the Mac would even survive as a platform. A ton of important business software ne
908.
by Gormo 2y ago
Are there any high-quality suppliers you can recommend?
909.
by Gormo 2y ago
> Part of the problem is that tech products tend to be natural monopolies. Middleman platforms often become natural monopolies due to network effects, but how does this expand to tech products in general? I don't see any structural
910.
by Gormo 2y ago
If someone's a weirdo and wants to stuff their millions into a mattress, that by itself should not be sufficient to presume them guilty of any illegal activity, or justify seizing their money.
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by Gormo 2y ago
> I recently looked into using Git in a decentralized way. It's actually pretty easy! Well, that's how it was designed to work! The whole point of Git is that it's a distributed version control system, and doesn't
912.
by Gormo 2y ago
I've come to realize that pretty much every general rule we have is only ever really true within a bounded context defined by a certain set of assumptions, and models that we think are universally applicable seem so simply because we c
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by Gormo 2y ago
CDs are extremely crinkly at a microscopic level. They're effectively thin sheets of foil that use embossed pits to encode data.
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by Gormo 2y ago
In this sense "adversarial" has the same meaning that it does with respect to the relationship between the defense and the prosecution in a courtroom setting -- the best outcome is going to be achieved from the equilibrium of dist
915.
by Gormo 2y ago
Nope. We are a society by virtue of the specific relationships we negotiate with each other as individuals, at all levels of formality and scale. We don't "live in" a society construed as some separate entity. And there is
916.
by Gormo 2y ago
Also, NAT is desirable for security/network isolation reasons, and having no distinction between a local IP and a public IP has a lot of disadvantages. Yes, there are ways to configure IPv6 to isolate subnets, separate local traffic fr
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by Gormo 2y ago
Nitpick, but it was ultimately Xerox's ideas that defined the personal computer, with Apple just being the earliest to have massive success at bringing those ideas to market. The figure in computing history I'd analogize Levitt to
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by Gormo 2y ago
I think something is seriously wrong if "we as a country" is a relevant unit of analysis w/r/t specific individuals and organizations making specific decisions in relation to local contexts. Whether the construction cost
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by Gormo 2y ago
A device that fails to offer the "average user" even the possibility of becoming power users, hackers, or developers, and stops them from even trying to explore the vast potential of the tools at their disposal, is a device th
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by Gormo 2y ago
> It was immediately obvious to me that Uber would go "oh, you need to go to the hospital, you'll pay more", preying on the need. That's certainly possible, but does not seem immediately obvious at all. Market prices
921.
by Gormo 2y ago
> Their LLM is slow, hallucinates stuff, and never seems to find the answers you're looking for. In other words, it's an LLM.
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by Gormo 2y ago
Four months worth of interviews is insane, as is the need for unanimity in a hiring panel. On top of that, diversity quotas are explicitly illegal under US law. The organization you work for sounds like it is profoundly dysfunctional.
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by Gormo 2y ago
When it comes to becoming the largest company on the planet, like the Highlander, "there can only be one", and those that fail wind up with their heads chopped off, not thriving in a smaller niche.
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by Gormo 2y ago
Pizza Hut was a semi-fancy sit-down table service restaurant (with a salad bar!) in the US well into the 1990s.
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by Gormo 2y ago
No, those things are substrates that carry information, not the information itself. And examining those substrates at a molecular level usually means looking beneath the level of complexity at which the information is encoded in the first
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by Gormo 2y ago
Adventure games have already been revived -- this article is from 20 years ago, and there was a sustained resurgence in the genre that began only a few years later. LLMs are terrible for this sort of thing.
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by Gormo 2y ago
Primordia is fantastic in terms of art and story. Resonance has some unique mechanics that are actually effective at restoring some of the reactivity and world-building flavor that was lost when adventure games moved from parser to point-an
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by Gormo 2y ago
Don't forget Wadjet Eye's entire catalog, including the Blackwell series and especially Primordia, Resonance, and Technobabylon.
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by Gormo 2y ago
I've found that as far as generational cohorts go, the most adept people are the late Gen-Xers and very early Millenials -- the people who grew up surrounded by C64s and Apple IIs and later had to fiddle with their config.sys and autoe
930.
by Gormo 2y ago
Everything is "easy" when someone else is doing it for you. Results are best when you develop and apply your own expertise to a problem, but it's not feasible to do that for every problem domain -- relying on others is often

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