HeckFeck

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by HeckFeck 4y ago
No, but pissing off people who love computers the most is a terrible idea. The Windows 98-7 era made me like the system and aspire to be a developer for it. I remember wanting to make my own window! Now it is simply a hostile wasteland that
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
The only 'ads' I've seen from Apple have been the aforementioned iCloud invitation in Settings, there is also a prompt to sign up for iCloud when first setting up the system. That's an element of user choice - 'use
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
It is much, much less obnoxious than the constant nagging to use Edge and OneDrive we see in Windows. Windows even sent a notification questioning my choice to disable location tracking.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Cruising down the street with my sweet keygen music, thinking not everything that results because of proprietary software is evil.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
I hate scammers with unbridled fury, but I will not transact with any bank that thinks it can impose what I do with my own money. Do they remember this thing called asking? I will respect the opinion of bankers and investors if they ask me,
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
I recall society picking up a very large bill for said banks in 2008, when mom and dad bet everything on property prices rising indefinitely for reasons.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
The other big one is that More is now Less ;)
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Oh, you, IBM. I'm more of an $ apt remove --purge nano > /dev/null man myself.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Some of my most enjoyable days were spent programming Erlang. I often wondered what an entire operating system would be like were it designed along the same principles.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
The Windows XP source tree contained various Unix utilities that were ported to Windows. Eg, Perl, Vim, Vi, wc, cat. Imagine if they made it into the public release.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
We've a way to go if this is an unpopular opinion. Stay and put up is terrible advice. Rotten companies deserve to fail.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
The fact that GitHub identifies HolyC as a proglang is magnificent.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
> New York, Texas to some village in Romania and founding a religion here The worst thing is I could very well see this happening. Some gent starts getting visions, then a few weeks later he's entitled to time with everyone's w
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Ah, I knew they were related but I wasn't sure of the precise nature of the relationship. Thanks for gratifying my curiosity.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Interesting source dump. I see a lot of utility scripts written in Perl; they even have the documentation as well-formatted POD. I wonder if there are any references to its progenitor the PSION. A cursory glance revealed none, at least not
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
I think we can give the ancient writers their credit. Ur was famous then, its name linked to the one city. If future generations read that someone contemporary was born in an equivalently famous city like New York, they'll know where w
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Nucleus? How's its Weissman score?
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
This reminds me of a Bernard quote from Yes Minister: "Well, 'under consideration' means we've lost the file; 'under active consideration' means we're trying to find it."
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
No question the alternative services will do it better. The problem is there are so many channels, comments and videos of historical interest on YouTube. And many curious types like me get their kicks from seeing how far we've come, or
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
I recently tweeted them regarding this. They replied, to their credit, and said the feature was removed due to problems implementing it on mobile. But they were "looking into" ways of restoring it. Hopefully it doesn't take t
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
> eat my shorts While I opened this thread I felt an restless rage rising at yet another fuck the user decision from Google, but this joke made me laugh and defused the situation. Thanks. The Macbook won't be thrown across the room
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Maybe. I like to cast a broad net =)
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
There is a slight risk with auditability, but were it me in the mid 90s I'd be honoured to hire someone who is excited enough to keep source copies of the GNU coreutils at home. Someone who is eager and creative like that is unlikely t
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
This is hilarious. I wonder if every language can be as playful as this. Or I am simply oblivious to it in English.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
And the government has been making it easier to hit $1bn thanks to inflation.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
For a second I thought we'd entered the realm of the truly cursed, known as "Multiple Inheritance". Then I saw the subtle 'implements', which brought immediate repose to my soul.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
And Ali G beat College Humour by a decade: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xx5t5ps-bwc "There is a mate of mine who rejects all technology... You can read about it on his website"
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
If it isn't, it had certainly worked out like one. Mounds upon mounds of personal data, recent photographs of the population, countless "private" conversations are all available easily and instantly if you just ask your mate
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Everything is so stingy and uptight now. Stories like this make me feel like I missed the golden era. Yeah, there were genuinely malicious actors. But there was also just plain old fun. So many Windows 2000 machines in my school and I didn&
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
APT: the only packager strong enough to tell the other packager where to go. Don't forget a --purge for extra wantonness.

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