MenhirMike

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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Yes! and even if you search for foo.txt, it will also display foo_something.txt even though you didn't search for a wildcard (foo*.txt). And then you have that "fantastic" UI that helpfully tells you that the file is in &quot
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Because it's cheaper - until you actually encounter data loss. But yeah, when it came time to build my NAS, I went with a low-end EPYC, both for the PCIe lanes for NVMe drives, but also because it's guaranteed proper ECC without h
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
That's the problem with some of the best sales people: They are technically not lying because they _actually believe the bs they're telling you_.
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
I really don't understand where the nostalgia for XP comes from. Well, actually I think I do because a lot of home users probably didn't use NT4 and 2k and went straight from 98/ME to XP. But I remember all the ridicule that
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Huh, TIL, I assumed they used standard OS controls, but looking at some of them that makes sense.
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Windows 2000 was the pinnacle of Windows. Rock solid, and that was before they broke the search function (when it actually still actually searched in files rather than an incomplete index - thankfully, grepWin can be installed) or when they
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
One of things that really annoys me about Windows is that there doesn't seem to be a way to capture audio from a single application even though the audio mixer can clearly change the volume. But if you want to capture, it's only t
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Curious, why would OpenGL break VSTs? (And yes, I get that AU is the preferred way over VST2 or even VST3, which is why most modern plugins are available in AU as well. I just don't see how OpenGL plays into this.)
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Finally, a chip that outmatches the Noctua NH-D15!
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Isn't the infinite time zones thing basically how things used to work, until train schedules brought cities more in sync with each other in 1883? At least in the US, that is.
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Plot Twist: Uncle Steve works second shift, so 4:25 his time is the perfect time to call him.
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Typing in listings from magazines every month and then debugging stuff that didn't work to figure out if I mistyped it or if the magazine made a mistake was such a fantastic learning experience!
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
> (all my programming resources were basically the C64 manual) Real talk though, those Commodore manuals were AWESOME because of how comprehensive they were. Even the 1541 Disk Drive had a complete manual on how to use it's features
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Looks similar to BlueStacks or MSI App Player, especially since it also requires hardware virtualization, so I assume it's like the Android SDK (that I think used QEMU?). Definitely worth looking at if there are Android apps that you w
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
It's also the perfect age to do something like that. No lifestyle inflation or real responsibility yet, so go and do something crazy while you're young and carefree. I would recommend to any kid - if they can afford it/have t
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
I found touch really useful for taking notes (OneNote) and for drawing (Clip Studio Pro) - and that's it. I could try to build some Star Trek-like giant touch UI, but never found it useful to use touch for apps that work better with ke
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
I don't know about the 7700, but I have a 7900 and it makes the 7900X look utterly ridiculous in comparison, especially because it comes with a decent cooler (incl. RGB if people care for that). So yeah, I'd not waste extra money
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
It would be nice to have an UberSSR option for sure, for the people that just want a ride. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FUQYPfL0Pg
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Back in 2019 I paid $399 for a Vertex2, but if there are cheap options now in 2024, that would be awesome!
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
HDCP usually is an issue if you can't turn it off on the source. There are ways around that, though those are more than $199 if you're dealing with an HDMI 2.x source.
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
> It always felt incredibly good how applications were always just this one “file” While I agree with that in principle, in practice that's not true for a lot of applications that put a lot of stuff into ~/Library and /Lib
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Could the White House do a bit more, like requiring ALL government contractors/projects to exclusively use memory-safe programming languages? I know they are already big on Ada, but I don't know if that is still a thing for new de
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Your wee little NAS will probably still have 2x-3x better IO performance than cloud based services.
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
> What ever happened? For 3dfx, the Voodoo 3 happened. Whereas previous Voodoo cards were sold by a large variety of OEMs (like Diamond or ELSA), 3dfx decided to make the Voodoo 3 graphic card on their own. It was a perfectly fast and ca
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Your business cards must be huge.
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Yeah, they bought out Power Computing.
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Also conveniently made sure that clone manufacturers (who only had a license for System 7) didn't have a modern Mac OS anymore.
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
For reference, AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol in March 2016, which was another reminder to a broader non-tech audience how far things had gotten.
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Somewhat related, that's how guns are classified in the US: The Gun is "just" the lower receiver. Even though that one is useless by itself, it is the foundational piece of it to which one attaches all the accessories. (And e
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
Yeah, it sucks that the IRS is such a buzz-kill here, with 4-5% HYSA's, it would be nice to just let all the taxes sit there and pay one lump sum in April.

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