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by II2II 3y ago
You could also think of the early development of computers as the ultimate expression of the demoscene. The thing to keep in mind is that computers originated as very experimental calculating machines for the military about twenty five year
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by II2II 3y ago
These chips are not made. They are relabelled. In this case an older, somewhat compatible, and likely lower value chip was relabelled as something newer and likely more valuable. I have also heard of chips being relabelled as something inco
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by II2II 3y ago
Well, he described the single board version as a trainer: a way to demonstrate how the larger model works. That's likely why the address/data lines are toggle switches and the close is a button. People can setup the state then exe
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by II2II 3y ago
Is the purchase of physical media actually license? Clearly there are restrictions to what you can do with it (duplication, public performance, and so forth), but those restrictions are defined by copyright law. The notable exception is sof
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by II2II 3y ago
I am an Arch enthusiast since I like building my system up and learning how things are put together, but it is not a terribly good platform for learning how to use or manage a Linux system. One of the issues is that you end up with a system
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by II2II 3y ago
I believe it is a reference to the infamous Star Trek project. I did not know of the Digital Research connection, but it sounds like it was another one of those collaborations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_
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by II2II 3y ago
From my understanding, it was more intentional than mindless. The article suggests that the extermination of the bison went hand in hand with the destruction of aboriginal societies. The nomadic bison were also problematic for expansion, af
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by II2II 3y ago
> Perhaps if labels and studios paid artists more their argument would resonate more with the fans who consume the art. Granted, I'm probably an outlier here since I'm not a big consumer of the type of media they're talkin
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by II2II 3y ago
While the article suggests the increase is due to external pressures (e.g. inflation meaning that people have less to spend on entertainment), something that I've noticed over the past couple of years in my neck of the woods is an incr
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by II2II 3y ago
Perhaps the issues is with the software rather than the format. I use KOReader and it offers a number of tools for browsing through a book. Which is fantastic. Yet most of the software out there is incredibly linear (with the only exception
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by II2II 3y ago
It may not be the 5 to 10 years you want, but they did mention support being available in the 2026 timeframe. As for catching up with X functionality, times change and software changes with it. Not everyone will appreciate that change and i
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by II2II 3y ago
> YouTube recommendations have always been pretty awful, incentivizing people to avoid exploring videos on controversial topics once they learn that if they do so, they’ll be inundated with garbage on that topic. I haven't had too m
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by II2II 3y ago
> Hypothetically, if she figured out how to automate it on her own, would she get any kind of reward for it? If not, why should she automate it? One would hope she would be able to move on to more meaningful work, rather than doing drudg
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by II2II 3y ago
It is also worth noting that the Fraiser Institute is a conservative think tank and the article does not explain their methodology. In some ways the article is contradicting itself, by making assertions that imply causation near the top of
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by II2II 3y ago
> Would you? If I were to be honest, yes. There would probably be a lot more diversity in my paintings than demonstrated in the article, but ultimately my experience would be limited to what I see in the immigrant community, popular cult
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by II2II 3y ago
I think that Firefox containers is a great feature, use them all the time, and have no desire for using separate profiles. That said: - They aren't exactly an easy to discover feature. There is a mention of the feature in the settings,
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by II2II 3y ago
It's not that it sucks, it is error prone. Completely ignore a knowledge of tax law for a moment. Data has to be copied from one form to another, copied for calculation (whether you do it on paper or with a calculator), copied from one
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by II2II 3y ago
It depends upon what they are calling a puddle. I've seen a ten foot span of road covered by nearly a foot of water (at it's deepest point). Going at speed in a car, it may not look like much. I have also seen photos of people try
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by II2II 3y ago
Discussion forums are often run as passion projects, and many have been around for years. While something the size of Hacker News almost certainly needs a paid admin, something smaller and more focused can still be a worthy community.
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by II2II 3y ago
Well, you can have dilapidated and colourful. I was going to come here to say, why aren't more places more colourful. In this day in age though, it is obvious: everything is manufactured and manufactured finishes typically offer limite
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by II2II 3y ago
Yeah, too much of our society is based upon 24 hour time. The transition is also unlikely to have many benefits. Unlike most of the other units of measure, the everyday conversions are fuzzy. The only exception I've seen is when payrol
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by II2II 3y ago
I have not used spreadsheets very often since the mid-1990's. One of the reasons: I was excited by the potential of Improv, but disappointed when I realized that it had no future. Little did I realize that pivot tables were a different
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by II2II 3y ago
There are no good games that reflect your taste, or good games that reflect your taste are hard to find? On my end, there are so many options that I tend to look at qualities that I would not even consider twenty years ago, like tone and se
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by II2II 3y ago
While I agree that users shouldn't be reporting breakage caused by distro maintainers, those maintainers have the right to modify and distribute changes in accordance to the license. There are also many instances where these changes wi
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by II2II 3y ago
If a widespread power outage lasts more than a week, you would have bigger issues to deal with and (hopefully) community resources to draw upon. Otherwise, there is a good chance that things would be brought back up piecemeal, and you would
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by II2II 3y ago
There are likely various factors at play. Monochrome logos were expensive in past since colour printing (especially quality colour printing) was expensive. Apple was notorious for their colour logo, supposedly because they wanted to emphasi
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by II2II 3y ago
I always assumed they the small referred to the systems (i.e. microcomputers) rather than the size of the journal. I doubt the term "personal computer" even existed when Byte was born.
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by II2II 3y ago
It wasn't invented in the 1990s, but a strength of HTML was its relative simplicity. From my recollection, early attempts at hypertext added complexities like bidirectional links, which required more complex software to serve and devel
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by II2II 3y ago
I definitely agree with the difficulty in identifying reliable products, and it is made even more difficult due to marketing (e.g. conflating the "quality materials" of the shell with the overall reliability of the product). That
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by II2II 3y ago
Mold is a failure mode for floppy disks and water is a failure mode for many electronic storage media or the tools we use to read them. I suspect that many people associate durability with electronic media simply because it becomes obsolete

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