OldTimeCoffee

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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
From the technical end, absolutely, way easier. From the design end, definitely not. Compare Nintendo's website in 2002[0] and today. Blue's News hasn't really changed layout in a long time and it looks substantially differen
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
It is based off it for sure, the credits are on the Github repository[0]. The CDN version has no comments, but the source JS file really should have the source in a comment. [0]: https://github.com/tengbao/vanta
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
While cash is probably some component of it, it's a lot more difficult today to make a professional looking 'modern' website than it was 20 years ago. Conversely, it's a lot easier to make and edit a professional looking
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
Twitter has no impact on how websites are designed. I'm not sure anyone has optimized their website for Twitter engagement. No one is selling their services as a Twitter Rank Optimizer. There aren't thousands of websites on how to
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
Google PageRank has done more damage to the open web than Twitter could ever hope to. At worst, Twitter's just exposed the worst qualities of people to a broader audience.
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
I think a system like how Slashdot moderation works. You get X points to rate issues or comments based on how many points you have. Comments get a value -2 to 5. Default view only shows 0 to 5. You really only focus your efforts on removing
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
IBM still does, it's called the PowerISA now instead of PowerPC (I guess we're finally in a post-PC world after all). And yes, I think that's right about not being able to get the heat down for laptop parts. That's still
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
PowerPC was more performant but limited to Apple (echoes of the current M1). The best place I know of to read about that era is Tom Hafhill's Byte Archive. Which has many articles from the 90s about x86, PowerPC and DEC Alpha[0]. Intel
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
I think this is closer to the truth. X86 isn't going anywhere because it's been pretty adaptable over the last 43 years. The newest adaption is the big.little design. It will be interesting to see AMD's answer to it. Unless s
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
There's authentication between the ONT and OLT that you would have to either implement or relay. This is an edge case because of running Tor. The average user isn't going to run into these problems.
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
>Of course a leader provides tens or hundreds of times the value of a follower, what an absurd question. Why is this of course? If it weren't for the followers the leader would have nothing except hot air. The real value is in the f
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
It's only legal in 13 states that way. It's actually illegal in 20 states to sell raw milk at all (as of 2017, I don't think this has changed recently). https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/rawmilk/nonpast
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
>And I’m also surprised that all the ‘good’ packets are 70-80ms latency (assuming those pings are from the CO to you and your neighbors houses). That seems pretty bad for a 1Gb/s Ethernet connection IMO. That is really, really bad f
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
ATT Fiber is mostly GPON with some areas that are XGS-PON. They just started rolling out 2gbit and 5gbit service in one city. There are a couple of bypass methods on the GPON network that let you use your equipment with the ONT and bypass t
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
You know, I forgot about WebGPU. If you have GPU Compute support I could see a full featured web version being technically possible. AutoCAD Web is really limited compared to the native application. The Web is just fulfilling Java's &#
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
I believe Teams just switched to Edge WebView instead of Electron. The point remains that native applications are starting to only be specialty applications like games, CAD/CAM, Creative Suite, etc where you need a lot of access to com
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
By the time you're publicly traded you're not looking to raise money via equity as you have excellent access to loans by that point. You're not talking about a startup that can't get a loan.
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
If there was a market of people who would pay for such an app, there would be one on the market to satisfy the demand for it. Supply is irrelevant if there is no demand for it in the first place. Even taking this assertion, it means there i
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
> Ad-support allows for a much greater userbase which is a key ingredient to having a good search engine or a good social network. This logic is backwards. Having a large userbase allows them to sell ads in the first place to the user ba
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
> Plenty of companies and services which people would pay a lot for choose to be ad-supported. I don't think that's true, because they would charge for access and have ads. These are fairly rare. >Google, Bing, and other sea
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
If Twitter was worth paying for, they wouldn't have used an ad-supported model to begin with (because people would have found it valuable enough to pay for in the first place). In some ways, Twitter has the "news" problem in
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
You're leaving out the fact concrete cracks. We put lines in concrete specifically to control cracks. There are some pretty massive advantages to using stick-built construction, it's part of the reason it's been so popular fo
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
> Helping kids understand the different between gut-rot crap on youtube vs. some educational game is very important. I've had a lot of frustration in this department because most of the quality edutainment games are from 15-20 years
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
I have one. The second one describes my kid. All unlimited screen time means is that I don't set a limit on it. They can decide to do other stuff and they usually do. I have a Kindle Fire they basically only use in the car, otherwise t
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
How's that? Because it's going to be basically impossible to single out this variable in a kid. First, not all 'screen time' is the same. You see the traits in a kid you know has unlimited screen time and ascribe that to
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
I'd assume long term they're going to do more with TPMs. Once they start pushing patches that require a TPM, unsupported configurations won't be able to receive that update.
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
It looks like companies have finally figured out that Amazon's retail success is strongly tied to the distribution network it created to enable 2 day shipping everywhere. This is pretty much the same thing Walmart did to become massive
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
That was only in The Witcher 1. They didn't have them in 2 or 3. And it wasn't really well received at the time either, but it was a way of handling romance without the awkward cut-scenes that existed at the time. They only brie
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
I don't think anyone is going to pay for K/D data from CoD. Data can be if it's useful, this isn't useful to anyone outside the people playing the game.
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
Because Amazon still has to have a record of the purchase. It's part of routine recordkeeping laws while running a business. They could unlink it from your purchase history, but they would still have to maintain the record of the purch

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