MBCook

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by MBCook 2mo ago
It was more than half (depending on age). I thought it always took you to 4.77 MHz to match the original 5150.
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by MBCook 2mo ago
Rebel Assault was the first to blow my mind. I had to have that game. That and the fully voiced version of Day of the Tentacle.
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by MBCook 2mo ago
Good art lasts. Some early PS games are truly awful. Realism of people especially didn’t work. Others still look great. Ridge Racer, PaRappa, Jumping Flash, Ape Escape. Same reason Mario 64 still looks good and Goldeneye doesn’t.
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by MBCook 2mo ago
I hated Malcom McDowell for years because of the game. Probably one of the first celebrities I had a strong opinion about.
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by MBCook 2mo ago
The fact that information is available somewhere is very different from making it available easily to the consumer right when they need it. What possible argument is there against that? Do you really think most consumers didn’t care? Or do
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by MBCook 2mo ago
Aren’t they also removed when you get new tires, so you don’t have to replace them?
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by MBCook 2mo ago
Right. If they wanted to ban things this would basically ban all knobby tires too wouldn’t it? This is a primarily a labeling law it seems so people don’t get accidentally screwed. Seems like a good idea to me.
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by MBCook 2mo ago
Seems right to me. So what is the right way then?
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by MBCook 2mo ago
They’re starting to cave. Turnis taking the reins perhaps? This has clearly been tilting at windmills this entire time. They were never going to win. How much time and money could they have saved by giving a reasonable amount instead of sti
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by MBCook 2mo ago
FWIW it didn’t do well under HPFS+ either. It’s not a new problem, though it may manifest differently.
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by MBCook 2mo ago
Macs are also real bad at handling low disk space. I don’t how other OSes do but the best advice on a Mac is to always have a decent amount free. What’s a decent amount? No idea. Don’t test it :)
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by MBCook 2mo ago
Doing it correctly requires setting a single Boolean. That’s it. The OS will do everything else for you if you don’t override it. There’s no need to implement a custom blur.
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by MBCook 2mo ago
I believe Apple added an entire section to the photos app to show screenshots that were taken. I don’t accidentally take screenshots very often, though it does happen. I know multiple people who seem to take them constantly. It’s crazy. You
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by MBCook 2mo ago
iOS and MacOS have a large number of built-in accessibility features. Taking a screenshot of the screen is not necessary.
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by MBCook 2mo ago
No, that feature long predates Snapchat. In fact, I think it predates iOS, but I don’t remember for sure.
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by MBCook 2mo ago
Actually I was referring to the Eufy app. How nice there are others.
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by MBCook 2mo ago
Yeah. I wonder if Apple does something to change this. This is a failure of imagination for Apple, but it’s hard to blame them. Who would think someone would put a button inside a “secure” text field and change the masked appearance to a lo
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by MBCook 2mo ago
People like to say that. How many hundreds of additional options would a modern phone OS need to provide that though? How could applications possibly be tested? You could have a million installs and 300,000 of them could easily have fully u
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by MBCook 2mo ago
The OS notifies the app after the screenshot is taken. The app doesn’t get to do anything in response to it being taken or allow it to be blocked. They’re abusing an iOS text rendering control function handled by the OS. Before the scre
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by MBCook 2mo ago
I’ve seen another app do that but for a different reason. It’s for security cameras and they use it to show a “hey idiot just press the save a picture button, don’t take screenshots” popup, which is also hostile. I’m not sure why the app ne
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by MBCook 2mo ago
Correct. Though I don’t see how this is anything like a keylogger.
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by MBCook 2mo ago
This exists for a very good reason. It’s so if an app is showing a password or bank account number or other piece of sensitive information it doesn’t accidentally end up in a screenshot. I think there are other places sensitive information
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by MBCook 2mo ago
How so? I don’t know anything about this area.
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by MBCook 2mo ago
I’m absolutely willing to believe there are some people that stupid. I doubt anyone who works on reactors is that stupid. But some idiot somewhere is going to put some industrial stuff under AI control pretty soon and murder a few people at
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by MBCook 2mo ago
The rods prevent an emergency. They’re a fail-safe. It’s possible nothing was wrong and some sort of “blip” triggered them when they weren’t needed. And if so that’s annoying for the operators, but nothing bad was happening. And it confir
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by MBCook 2mo ago
> But, I think "single rod-drop" will not shut down a reactor Why do you think that? When rods are used to control the reaction rate I thought it was by raising and lowering them small amounts usually. Being able to have a sing
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by MBCook 2mo ago
So “you were born somewhere ‘unlucky’, that’s how it goes, sucks to be you”. Is that really your take?
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by MBCook 2mo ago
As an American, it’s extremely Silicon Valley centric, at least in mindset. Extremely. The valley/startup lens is absolutely the dominant one.
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by MBCook 2mo ago
Every paragraph (maybe sentence) needs to fade in as I attempt to scroll. If I can read the first paragraph easily when the page loads (ignoring the pop-ups) then the website is too well designed.
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by MBCook 2mo ago
Works for me. The you must be logged in thing has been there for a while.

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