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by HeckFeck 4y ago
It's not objective, but I find I have more fun in Perl than any other language. The initial jump was steep, but it helped that I already knew some shell. Now I think in references, I can guess what $_ is going to be, I slap in a big, m
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
the camel shall crush the serpent
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
I had no idea it was this bad behind the curtain. My association with Flash is positive, though entirely for the animation culture it engendered and not the problems like these. I wonder whether Director/Shockwave was any better? Also,
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Here was I thinking someone had recreated the GUID Partition Table in some form of micropython. Perhaps someday.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
A shame. It seems that whimsical humour is becoming scarce in software. I wonder why.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
The UI isn't slow. This is a serious pet peeve of mine with other routers. I don't need a heavy frontend just to configure my router, I want to open port forwarding quickly. Fading effects and fake loading swirls are utterly unnec
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
As an aside, the hardware/driver support for sound cards is terrible on modern Windows. There's this trusty Creative Audigy Rx that I nabbed from a closing down sale at an electronics retailer. Poetically, both are facing the same
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
The dream isn't over yet.
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Cursor Mania Archive. All 12,000 of them(lelegofrog.github.io)
3 points by HeckFeck 4y ago|0 comments
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
I recall Cursor Mania which was a similar idea. It bundled Smiley Central which was a necessity to out-smiley your contacts on MSN messenger. It also prefigured emojis. And it almost certainly came with a generous helping of malware. Glory
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
You can buy a Bonzi Buddy NFT from the original authors, which is _somewhat_ the same!
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
> The company was criticized for secretly tracking users who installed the software, each of whom was given a unique serial number Doesn't seem too out of the line nowadays, does it? Even Microsoft recommended users uninstall the pr
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Ten Perl Myths (2000)(perl.com)
4 points by HeckFeck 4y ago|1 comments
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
It also helps criminals in government, the most dangerous of all.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
> there is no constant surveillance in Europe CCTV? I would also be extremely surprised to learn that European agencies don't have access to the Five Eyes program, or even their own analogue. Face it, every state wants a hand in the
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgsQNNYurWo Demolition Man called this. How did the police catch criminals before bio-engineered trackers were attached to every citizen? "We worked for a living, this fascist crap makes
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
How will you enforce 'limiting encryption'? Will you prosecute everyone who runs a few mathematical calculations on their own computers, presuming guilt? Do you think that criminals will care that it is 'illegal' to send
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Ask HN: What is it like developing and deploying ASP.NET on Linux?
3 points by HeckFeck 4y ago|4 comments
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Cynical, sly enthusiasm. I just can't imagine 5G bands devoted to adverts passing invisibly through my skin. It is too much like the adverts in your dreams skit from Futurama. Again, it is increasingly hard to separate satire from prop
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
This lady was raised by parents who beat her, then she reflected and studied hard to find constructive ways of raising her own children without needing to lift a hand against them. A commendable example of self reflection and improvement fo
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
I remember Sony Ericsson handhelds all came with TrackID back in the day (2007/2008) and I used it to name music I heard in public. It was the same idea. I think it charged £1-2 per track!
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Hah, and now the Windows help just opens a bing search results page in your browser. It is like they've fully capitulated. I find opening the browser to a search engine is very condescending; if I wanted to do that I very well could. A
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
> the White Wasteland > fundaminimalism > Google-Ugly Interface The irony is that you put more effort into coining those pejoratives than the UX designers put into their UIs.
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Xidel. A tool to query data from anything on the web and extract what you want(videlibri.de)
3 points by HeckFeck 4y ago|0 comments
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
As far as specific bands go, you can't beat http://www.gbvdb.com - yes, Guided By Voices has recorded and performed enough to fill their own devoted database. But I second your request, I'd welcome links to any electro
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
A noble move for those willing to dare.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
I will help you reclaim what is rightly yours with the aid of my army of dubiously-sourced primate JPEGs!
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
I accidentally had caps lock on, sorry.
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
Somewhat boring, but I wrote a shell script to tar and gzip my home directory and then rsync it to a NAS drive. It can be configured to exclude certain directories (.cache and Downloads being likely contenders). Also, it can read in config
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by HeckFeck 4y ago
> AFAIK MS does not publish checksums of their ISOs anymore Why no more? I'm sure they could script it as part of their build process. Even PowerShell is bound to have an inbuilt get-md5 or get-sha function.

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