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by LocalH 10mo ago
Which Apple displays were you using that ran at 30Hz? Apple I, II, III, Macintosh series, all ran at 60Hz standard. Even interlaced displays were still running at 60Hz, just with a half-line offset to fill in the gaps with image.
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by LocalH 10mo ago
CGA ran pretty near 262 or 263 lines, as did many 8-bit computers. 200 addressable lines, yes, but the background color accounted for about another 40 or so lines, and blanking took up the rest.
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by LocalH 10mo ago
This shows that the government (all branches) has always ignored the Constitution. It clearly says in the 13th that it requires the person to be "duly convicted".
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by LocalH 10mo ago
The Mandela Effect itself is not meant to be humorous, no, but inevitably a non-zero number of participants are involved for humorous reasons.
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by LocalH 10mo ago
That's essentially what the Sega Channel adapter was. The service didn't rely on something like you'd expect from a modern cable modem. The games were broadcast in a round-robin fashion (presumably broken up into blocks, as I
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by LocalH 10mo ago
I fail to see how passively recording a space that you don't own is "first amendment protected". Passively recording a space isn't in and of itself speech.
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by LocalH 10mo ago
I didn't flame at all in my comment. I just recounted the history, as it's known to have happened. Windows 95 didn't bring that much to the table over Windows 3.1, in terms of basic window management. The taskbar is really ab
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by LocalH 10mo ago
Downtime for the conscious brain is paramount in life, as that allows the sub-conscious to absorb and act on new information. I have no science to point to, but I believe wholeheartedly that the conscious and sub-conscious minds cannot acce
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by LocalH 10mo ago
Early GEM allowed arbitrary window sizing and positioning at least within the file manager, and Apple thus sued them, because they felt they had exclusive rights to ideas that they stole from Xerox Also, the Amiga had the window management
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by LocalH 10mo ago
The thing that the earliest Macs lacked was multitasking (outside of desk accessories). It took until Hertzfeld created Switcher before you could run more than one full Mac app at a time, and even that required 512K RAM.
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by LocalH 10mo ago
Amiga also had explicit close buttons very early, Mac-style (and also had full pre-emptive multitasking in its very earliest days, which happened in 1984). I've seen pre-release screenshots of revision 24.24 of Workbench that had them
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by LocalH 10mo ago
This doesn't work on some newer apps, like W11 Calculator.
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by LocalH 10mo ago
It's pretty visually accurate, fonts notwithstanding. It even reproduces the slight gap between maximize and close that existed all the way back to the earliest Win95 builds with the "new" window style
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by LocalH 10mo ago
Their platform, that runs on devices they don't own?
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by LocalH 10mo ago
They figured out that the App Store made them more money than PWAs do, that's why
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by LocalH 10mo ago
And I'm flagging your comment because HN submissions stand separately, and HN isn't a hive mind.
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by LocalH 10mo ago
To me, it's part satire and part arrogance. Some people find it so hard to understand that their memory can be faulty that they'll construct a whole theory around something in order to avoid doing so. Others capitalized on that i
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by LocalH 10mo ago
Nobody said anything about "purposefully adding bugs or corrupting installations". What you're advocating is protecting the user from themselves, which is antithetic to the entire ethos of the hacker. Yes, you as a develope
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by LocalH 10mo ago
Piracy brings more benefits to the world than cigarettes ever could. One example is preservation. The best-preserved vintage media of today is that which was most widely pirated during its commercial lifetime.
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by LocalH 10mo ago
When that user experience clashes with a sufficiently knowledgeable user, then the user experience is the problem.
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by LocalH 10mo ago
Users who want things to "just work" aren't the entire target audience of software, and it's a huge misstep to act as if they are.
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by LocalH 10mo ago
We lost that when it was found that losing that was even more profitable.
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by LocalH 10mo ago
I just got a seven day suspension from Reddit for reminding a commenter that freedom of speech in the US only protects you from "consequences" from the government. Reddit's claim? That I was "encouraging violence".
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by LocalH 10mo ago
Is a driver impaired if they are using their phone to stream music (or screen-off Youtube listening ) to their car while driving?
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by LocalH 10mo ago
No, advertising is Google's core business.
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by LocalH 10mo ago
Favorite thing I've come across so far: prompt_engineer_ret 10 hours ago I miss the old days of Prompt Engineering. It felt like casting spells. Now you just think what you want via Neural-Lace and the machine does it. Where is the art
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by LocalH 10mo ago
Not a trademark lawyer, but I wonder if that can actually result in implications of genericization.
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by LocalH 10mo ago
Absolutely, in cases where it's clear that the person asked a chatbot and copypasted the direct LLM response without editing. I usually downvote those (if it's within the window to do so), and flag them.
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by LocalH 10mo ago
https://archive.is/F9sBL
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by LocalH 10mo ago
To be pedantic, the "U" in UFO stands for "unidentified"

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