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by II2II 9mo ago
If I recall correctly, QWERTY was designed to minimize jamming. The myth is that it was designed to slow people down. Whether it does slow people down, as a side effect, is not as well established since, as another person pointed out, typin
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by II2II 9mo ago
Agreed. My take is: you're welcome to the party, but don't be surprised if someone shows you the door when you pull out the drugs. It ain't our type of fun. I understand various reasons why people are pushing for the adoption
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by II2II 9mo ago
The trouble is you need network access to end up at the desktop to install the network drivers in the expected manner. Both of the ways I am aware of resolving the issue involve dropping to a command prompt. One method is to run the device
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by II2II 9mo ago
I'm not a regular user of Windows, so I don't know if the changes I've seen were within the past 5 years or over five years ago. But ... I've noticed Microsoft has introduced things like programs hijacking the screen (e.
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by II2II 9mo ago
> since undergrads trying to hack their grade higher Would student records even be stored on an unix system at the time? I am under the impression that Unix was very much a research operating system in the 1970's (either the subject
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by II2II 9mo ago
The people who preserve vintage software typically respect boundaries in order to avoid cases where the copyright holder would be financially harmed. It is not a perfect guarantee, but it is a reasonable one. Hardline stances usually cause
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by II2II 9mo ago
> Can it be worse than those acid green on red sites of the 90s-00s? I think people are nostalgic for the social environment that enabled people to create websites of all fashions, may they be well or poorly designed. We simply hold up t
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by II2II 9mo ago
There were plenty of people who wanted OS/2. They simply weren't the type of people who would go to Radio Shack. By plenty, I should be clear: it probably wasn't enough for OS/2 survive. IBM made some bad decisions early
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by II2II 9mo ago
I have mixed feelings on this. In most respects, I am a diligent worker who tries to lead by example. On the other hand, part of my work is managing people. While I have employees who follow my example, even when I am not intending my habit
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by II2II 9mo ago
> For the same reason I have decided I don't like fast travel in games. I was playing Wing Commander, Privateer way back when (mid-1990's) and didn't realize that there were ways to travel faster. So I did the obvious: I p
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by II2II 9mo ago
Admittedly, I am more of a hobbiest when it comes to C++ development. I try to keep track of things, but I started learning the language before it was standardized and I switched to other languages shortly after it was standardized (never m
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by II2II 9mo ago
Question: why is a union memory unsafe? My meager understanding of unions is that they allow data of different types to be overlayed in the same area of memory, with the typical use case being for data structures that may contain different
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by II2II 9mo ago
Commenting from the sidelines: Doesn't modern C++ offer the ability to write memory safe code? The primary distinguishing difference from Rust, on this front, is that Rust is memory safe by default (and allows them to override memory s
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by II2II 9mo ago
Windows allows you to launch applications from a menu or via search. You can switch between windows with a mouse or keyboard shortcuts. Windows can either be floating, arranged in pseudo-tiled layers, or full screen. KDE can pretty much do
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by II2II 9mo ago
Even though he is sending mixed messages, it is clearly stated that misuse may break the system. The other nice thing about going the PowerShell automation route is the ability to see what was done and reverse particular changes (assuming y
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by II2II 9mo ago
It was more-or-less true with Windows 3.1 (and likely earlier). Some people could correct some problems by modifying the various configuration files, but most didn't. One of the ironies is that I, as a rabid OS/2 user, managed to
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by II2II 10mo ago
For all we know, the comment came from someone who was doing their job (by your definition) and were bitten in the behind by colleagues who did not do their job. We do not live in an ideal world. Some people are sloppy because they don&#x27
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by II2II 10mo ago
Ignore the AI people. In all probability, you were doing something similar before. The Internet is full of developers. Some may be faster at writing code than you are, or maybe they wrote better code, or perhaps they implemented your ideas
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by II2II 10mo ago
I'm not sure what the current state of most distributions is, but I remember update applications providing an option to accept or reject individual packages. Even without that, you could preview the list of pending updates and delay th
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by II2II 10mo ago
I get what you're saying, but OS vendors could prevent themselves from running arbitrary code, even from themselves, without the user's authorization if they really wanted to. I'm not sure it is in anyone's best interest
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by II2II 10mo ago
I look at aggression as an emotional state, rather than the capacity for violence. Consider the army. Soldiers are expected to commit violent acts on enemy soldiers, yet they are also expected to maintain emotional control. They are typical
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by II2II 10mo ago
> But creating and picking those placeholders used to be somebody's job, maybe a junior artist. This argument in this industry is problematic. The entire purpose of computers is to automate processes that are labor intensive. Along
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by II2II 10mo ago
They never said they continued to patronize Amazon. Given the thread kicked off with claims about loosing access to DRMed content due to an unrelated delivery/payment issue, the person involved may be concerned about loosing access to
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by II2II 10mo ago
Then you better be prepared to pay for it, and still expect cases where things go wrong. The problem with having support dealing with problems like this is that fraudsters will figure out how to manipulate it, while honest people will still
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by II2II 10mo ago
I agree with the untrue and revisionism bit, but I disagree with it being the opposite of what happened. People were trying to figure out how to make money off of the Internet from the early days of the Internet being publicly accessible (r
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by II2II 10mo ago
I simply removed it from the toolbar, same as I did with the Firefox sync icon. Out of sight, out of mind. Granted, they were much more pushy about other features and services. Much less pushy than other vendors and it was, in some respects
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by II2II 10mo ago
I find videos are a convenient way to get an overview of something I'm interested in, yet not so deeply invested in that I want to learn it in depth. In other words, I can do the chores and learn a bit more about the world in the proce
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by II2II 10mo ago
I think the answers are fairly simple. If you're talking about internally developed software: AI generated apps suffer from the same pitfalls. If you're talking about third-party alternatives: AI generated apps suffer from the sam
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by II2II 10mo ago
Killer apps aren't always survivors. Consider how Visicalc fell to Lotus 1-2-3, and how Lotus 1-2-3 fell to Excel. Arguably, the killer app for NeXT was WorldWideWeb. While it's successors weren't developed in Objective-C, th
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by II2II 10mo ago
I'm currently playing a game that is a blatent rip-off of Stardew Valley to the point where I frequently question why they were so obvious. (Or maybe those elements are rip-offs of Harvest Moon, I haven't played Harvest Moon to kn

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