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811.
by II2II 3y ago
I have exited two careers precisely because doing work outside of working hours was considered the norm. (Not so ironically, one of them was teaching.)
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by II2II 3y ago
There are RP2040 boards (e.g. Pi Pico) that offer similar functionality to Arduino boards, are more powerful than Arduinos, and are much less expensive than (official) Arduinos. If you are more interested in performance or memory than the I
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by II2II 3y ago
It has been a while since I've used Mac OS, so I don't know if my comment is still valid: The original Macintosh could only run one application at a time, though the application could have several documents open at a time. With th
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by II2II 3y ago
> Not sure how common this is, but I’ve set certain apps to automatically open on certain workspaces [...] I suspect many of us use a variation of the theme. I do something similar, only it is task oriented rather than program oriented.
815.
by II2II 3y ago
The big one mentioned by the author is that Windows tends to get continual user interface refreshes. Desktop environments are much the same, though some change at a much slower pace. I think the absence of change is a good thing since it al
816.
by II2II 3y ago
The Home version of Windows doesn't have that option. I don't know if the advice in the article will work on the Home version for the same reason, but the flagged account option does work. The other amusement with the Home version
817.
by II2II 3y ago
A lot of the people here are much more experienced with technology, so our behaviour is going to be different, but I have a hard time understanding why someone would sign up for a forum as a first step for obtaining assistance. Calling the
818.
by II2II 3y ago
It wasn't limited to executable files. All files were split into data and resource forks. As a bare minimum, the resource fork would define the file type. Without it, the Finder couldn't figure out which program to open the file i
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by II2II 3y ago
Cost is likely another factor. Mathematics is an oddball since you could study it purely with books, pencils, and paper. Programming does have an entry fee to practice, but computers became very cheap very fast in the early 1980's. By
820.
by II2II 3y ago
> I don't find it okay to bash IE so harshly. Sure it wasn't the best but no one forced people to use it. No one was forced to use IE, but many people had the decision made for them. Sometimes it was because it shipped as the d
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by II2II 3y ago
> I switched over to Polar and now the watch I have lasts 5 days on a single charge - quit the change from about a day or less. I uncovered a cheap digital watch in the cupboard the other day. It hasn't been in use since it's s
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by II2II 3y ago
> You’re suggesting that because one person struggles with smartphone addiction, all of their friends and professional acquaintances should also give up their smartphones and not use them for social or professional interactions? To an ex
823.
by II2II 3y ago
I'm in the age group that is just old enough to remember adult life before everyone had cellphones. And yes, it wasn't an idyllic ago. People my age were constantly texting on the phone, mashing the alphanumeric buttons multiple t
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by II2II 3y ago
Assuming that some remain, I believe ArcaOS was licensed from IBM to provide support in such circumstances. Not to mention that you aren't going to use software from Hobbes on an ATM. For what it's worth, I have seen OS/2 use
825.
by II2II 3y ago
It could simply be a matter of having someone interested in monitoring the server. If they can't find anyone who is interested in OS/2, which is a strong possibility these days, they probably didn't have anyone volunteer to d
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by II2II 3y ago
> What's the alternative? I suspect users would be equally upset if they were charged per use of the software (eg. $5 per photo edited). For the publisher: offer the customer a choice. I doubt that many businesses and enthusiasts th
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by II2II 3y ago
If that sentiment is common, perhaps HP should be dropping out of the consumer printer market. (I'm in the same boat: I've heard so much about their anti-consumer practices with printers over the years, I wouldn't even consid
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by II2II 3y ago
> People asking for disk prices probably have looser standards in terms of UX. Perhaps the opposite is true. A site like this works because Amazon is poor at finding products, never mind for comparing prices. Even e-commerce sites that f
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by II2II 3y ago
I wasn't surprised, but that is not what I would expect if I were to see that expression. Two reasons for that: even though there is a decimal, I still mentally parsed it as an integer, and I wouldn't be thnking of the precision o
830.
by II2II 3y ago
> It shouldn't be everyone else's problem that people are unwilling to parent their children. There would be legal consequences if a child were to walk into a store and purchased age restricted products. It is because others ar
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by II2II 3y ago
I have heard of people recompiling the kernel to improve gaming performance (mostly to use a different scheduler or what be it), but don't recall seeing anything beyond single digit percentage improvements in performance. Which makes s
832.
by II2II 3y ago
A lot of the reason depends upon what you hope to get from the labour and the overall environment that you are working within. I was working with a 486 around 1995. Compiling your own software was the norm and compiling your own kernel coul
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by II2II 3y ago
I didn't mean to suggest that Gopher and Gemini enthusiasts are one and the same. Rather, I meant to suggest that it was a subset of Gopher enthusiasts that decided to address some of the shortcomings of Gopher. At least that is the im
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by II2II 3y ago
> Any slightly lengthy text will just bury you in a desert of letters. Is this a bad thing? Books are a "desert of letters", with little to break the text up outside of chapters, sections, and paragraphs. If you broaden the sco
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by II2II 3y ago
The problem with most of these discussions is they assume Gemini is a substitute for the web, when it is actually a substitute for Gopher. Gopher never really went away. A few enthusiasts were keeping it alive. Those enthusiasts realized th
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by II2II 3y ago
Let's just say that my initial reaction was: they must be dealing with staffing shortages. While it is fairly common for people to have time off around the holidays in Canada (which this decision also affects), the privilege rarely ext
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by II2II 3y ago
There is so much to unpack here, but I am going to focus upon one thing: interpretation. The recounting history aspect of the article coincides with my understanding of the history of computing. The point of victors writing the history is c
838.
by II2II 3y ago
> Maybe the author doesn't remember the blue screen of death, or reflexively hitting ctrl-S every five minutes to save because the software might crash, or clicking on menus in Word and they wouldn't open because you had a macr
839.
by II2II 3y ago
The article isn't very critical of Windows 11. It simply points out that many consumers didn't feel like it was a compelling upgrade if it meant upgrading their computer as well. Then you have the usual inertia with Windows. This
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by II2II 3y ago
The underlying problem is obtaining the books. Even if you never register your ereader and never let it go online, you are just shifting the problem to a computer. They loose fine-grained details about what you are reading, but that's

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