Lammy

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America's various flirtations with the metric system(gribblenation.org)
2 points by Lammy 9mo ago|0 comments
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by Lammy 9mo ago
> which on most keyboard require a special key-combination that most people don’t know I am sick of the em-dash slander as a prolific en- and em-dash user :( Sure for the general population most people probably don't know, but this
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by Lammy 9mo ago
Meta: I didnt see an explicit date on the page and am ballparking 1999 because the <meta> GENERATOR tag says Netscape 4.51: < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_(web_browser)#Release... >
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An explanation of cheating in Doom2 Deathmatch (1999)(doom2.net)
30 points by Lammy 9mo ago|2 comments
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by Lammy 9mo ago
16:9 60Hz kinda sucks though :/ Yes I realize the Pro Display XDR has those same specs. 16:10 or 3:2 120Hz or 144Hz would be ideal to me.
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by Lammy 9mo ago
You shouldn't confuse disinterest with The Spectacle and its siren song to Support or Oppose every new storyline with belief in nothing at all. I am definitely not a nihilist.
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by Lammy 9mo ago
If only you knew how bad things really are. https://i.ibb.co/7NTZdSC8/intelligent.jpg
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by Lammy 9mo ago
The 175k miles I've put on it over the last decade say otherwise :)
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by Lammy 9mo ago
I would buy a North Korea phone if it was cool, band-compatible with my domestic carrier, and wasn't embargoed (i.e. if sale was possible), yeah. I already daily a China phone and depending on who you talk to that isn't much bette
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by Lammy 9mo ago
You do that merely by using the monetary system at all.
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by Lammy 9mo ago
Real ones wouldn't be thinking about it at all.
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by Lammy 9mo ago
Yes, anybody who puts a sticker on their car apologizing for owning it is somebody who bought it to make a statement. I bought mine because I researched best gas mileage, lowest ongoing maintenance cost, and dimensions that fit the the city
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by Lammy 9mo ago
Learn to read. I actually didn't see that episode until years after I both owned a Prius and lived in San Francisco, and I found it very funny :)
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by Lammy 9mo ago
> I do admire that they dared to do something different and took a big gamble on it. So many vehicles, especially in the truck space, are almost indistinguishable and lack any kind of imagination. I 1000% agree with this, in fact I love
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by Lammy 9mo ago
There's a language called SLang inside Goldman Sachs used for their SecuritiesDB, and that's how I read it at first glance even with the dollar sign lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dubno#SecDB
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by Lammy 9mo ago
“If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.”
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by Lammy 9mo ago
Pardon my pedantry, but Facebook Chat was never XMPP- based . They ran an XMPP gateway into their proprietary messaging system, but there was no S2S.
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by Lammy 9mo ago
> To be fair, this grip indicator only (and still) exists when the window has a status bar. Here's a resizable window in Platinum that has a drag handle but does not have a status bar: https://guidebookgallery.org/pi
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by Lammy 9mo ago
They are still very low-contrast compared to what was.
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by Lammy 9mo ago
Yeah that is also true. I have had that experience with certain CD-ROMs (maybe like two or three ever but has happened) on my PowerBook 2400c. If the authoring machine had a higher display resolution than my machine, and the author had the
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by Lammy 9mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581813
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by Lammy 9mo ago
True, but not a 1:1 comparison, because Classic Mac OS windows were much better at staying where you put them, even between sessions. John Siracusa wrote a lot about how this was missing from Mac OS X: https://arstechnica.com&#x2
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by Lammy 9mo ago
They're still too small and too light. Some times when a document is big enough I'm actually not able to find the scroll thumb on macOS Sequoia. Some times wiggling the scroll thumb around by scrolling slightly back and forth with
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by Lammy 9mo ago
Compare to Aqua and Platinum where every resizable window/pane had a big square drag target clearly labeled as such with some diagonal lines: https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/system/managers/f
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by Lammy 9mo ago
I think this is the earliest-born person I've ever seen have a personal website like this — 1929 ! https://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/amsterdam1.html R.I.P. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rogge I
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Quake Setup Guide (2023)(sarge945.xyz)
2 points by Lammy 9mo ago|0 comments
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Quake 1 Single-Player Map Design Theories (2001)(quaddicted.com)
77 points by Lammy 9mo ago|17 comments
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by Lammy 9mo ago
Those people didn't chooso Big Tech; they chose the path of least resistance to getting themselves online and in front of as many eyeballs as possible, because Big Tech stacked the deck over many decades to make it that way.
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by Lammy 9mo ago
How the hell should I know? Do you have any comments on Mr. Ellison's interview, or are you just here to nitpick my wording?
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by Lammy 9mo ago
Needs moar Happy Puppy https://web.archive.org/web/20000827164040/http://www.happyp... https://web.archive.org/web/19961023005340/http://www.happyp...

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