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by HeckFeck 4y ago
I wish the makers of Google Suite thought the same way.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
It's not him who works that counts, but he who counts how many are working - J. Stalin, probably
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
> GNU also has gotten in the habit over the years of randomly shifting flags around for no real reason other than to make sure that they stay as the coreutils. Sounds like they've been studying the works of The Enemy ;)
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
I was being a little sarcastic with my comment's parent, but maybe this isn't the forum for it.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Meanwhile, the books sit on my bookcase safe from the hands of studio executives and tell the same story every time.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Someone might confuse it with the Gluon Gun as well: https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Gluon_Gun
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
What I tried to convey in my Haiku but better described! I'd add to that, Andreas is creating his own memory-safe compiled language to build components for the OS. Jakt has already been used to build things, including its own compiler.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Absolutely. I'm not an expert but I'd wager that between eccentric airline CEOs, glamorous travellers and upstart aeroplane manufacturers, there's tons of untapped drama and mayhem to be had from the golden age of flight.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
From my experience the biggest source of depression was people around me. Especially those I felt obligated to, but they didn't seem obligated to me in return. Maybe looking here might help. Indeed, it is not uncommon to criticise the
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Curious. It sounds like meditation has been misappropriated in the same way as therapy. Therapy _should_ bring up difficult emotions and experiences from the past because they are often the root of dysfunction and frustration in the present
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Haiku and Serenity Two founts of hope For computing's future
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Suddenly this joke from the IT Crowd makes more sense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOE-q20RcDM
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Was that a pun based upon her name? We'd do the same but just without the courage to say it before any teacher's face.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
We may assume Hitler's involved a lot of yelling.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Retroactive programming; where whether we could always trumps whether we should. And who will question the unholy offspring? It is equal parts glorious and terrifying.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
From my reading of that piece, Win9x had its own kernel that was a descendent of DOS; it was not just an application running atop DOS like Win 3x. Consequently it lacked proper memory isolation and security features compared to NT but it di
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Perhaps someday soon with FPGAs we will have any CPU we want, whenever we want. Could have fun there.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
"Nothing sinister to see here, move along!" t. Nick Clegg
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
This is the situation where I live too, in a non-London part of the UK. There are buses and trains but they mostly just link you to the larger cities, outside of the cities it isn't a viable replacement for car ownership. Also if you&#
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Is this the genesis of an OpenSC2K, much like OpenRCT and OpenTTD?
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
The most useful ChatGPT has been is the entertainment from all the videos and screencaps of people trying to break it or force it into extreme moral quandaries. Perhaps this will wear down AI and it will want nothing to do with us, thus sav
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
This is why the ends should never justify the means.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
phr33 st00f pl0x
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
I remember asking my parents for top-up credit then paying for members with my phone. Good times indeed. PS, offering armour trimming on World 23 if you still play ;)
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
> Nothing any OS vendor or browser vendor has done in the last decade has been a user-focused positive experience. They have become delivery tools for revenue only rather than information access. Succinctly put. I've felt this shift
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
I went from Firefox to Brave, only because I need bookmark sync from systems besides Macintoshes. We'd likely agree advert blocking is mandatory. I didn't see any advert blocking in FF for iPhone, while Brave looks to use the same
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Chinese Android phones are sending off personal info without consent(theregister.com)
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
I wish we could refresh our IRL personas daily, imagine the resultant mayhem.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
If I remember correctly, the iOS binaries had DRM that linked them to your Apple ID. That was my biggest fear for future preservation of then-contemporary apps. Does this emulator work around the DRM?
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Reminds me of PrismWM. https://old.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/jvnzkb/prismwm_in... Something like it would be a revival of the OS9 theme and philosophy. Unfortunately the thread was started 2 years a

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