OnlyMortal

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by OnlyMortal 6y ago
At least it’s better than the “Yellow Snow” warning the BBC has put out. Nobody wants yellow snow.
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by OnlyMortal 6y ago
Crikey. I had to do a breesnam line drawing and hidden surface removal at Polytechnic back in the late 80s.
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by OnlyMortal 6y ago
Nonsense. Everything been a dictionary is incredibly important.
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by OnlyMortal 6y ago
Quite. It’s an insult to our ancestors to dismiss their ability to use their technology. The ruins we find around the world from previous civilisations tell us they were very smart.
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by OnlyMortal 6y ago
It was Agfa in Antwerp. Their guy was very polite but I had to explain to him what was going wrong. I think he was more tech support than anything else. Edit: Apple also had to change the linker for the sake of Macromedia’s monolithic appli
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by OnlyMortal 6y ago
Apple did this when transitioning from CodeWarrior to the GNU chain. Apple had to apply patches to the C++ compiler for the company I was at.
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by OnlyMortal 6y ago
What could go wrong? Will it be followed by releasing apex predators to keep their numbers under control?
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by OnlyMortal 6y ago
When I heard the original report on vitamin d deficiency and getting seriously ill from COVID, my first thought was people who have sedentary lives tend not to be outdoors been active. I’ll add an assumption that this may also follow with a
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by OnlyMortal 6y ago
What a waste of money.
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by OnlyMortal 6y ago
Good news for Bristol. It’s always been a tech hub for hardware and that continues to this day.
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by OnlyMortal 6y ago
Skate Or Die in the C64 was tricky as it had self modifying code for obfuscation. Took me a while to “debug” that. The copy protection of Ocean games was much easier to crack. They had a “IsOkToRun” type of function which returned 1 in the
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by OnlyMortal 6y ago
Do you remember Slashdot? Maybe Ars Technica, before it sold out?
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by OnlyMortal 6y ago
Mate! It’s closed as we’re in tier 3.
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by OnlyMortal 6y ago
They should have used blockchain.
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by OnlyMortal 6y ago
As someone who worked on NeXTStep and OpenStep, when it came to UI it buried anything else. Years ahead.
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by OnlyMortal 6y ago
People of Earth, your attention please,’ a voice said, and it was wonderful. Wonderful perfect quadraphonic sound with distortion levels so low as to make a brave man weep. ‘This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning
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by OnlyMortal 6y ago
Given the BBC based most of its news of social media... “It’s obviously Bigfoot, the human/ape hybrid the greys use when on Earth.”, says a source near to the monolith.
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by OnlyMortal 6y ago
Yeah, it needs Hyperconverged Blockchain to “accelerate the vision”.
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by OnlyMortal 6y ago
IBM kept their US and UK models apart. May have been historic or dataset size. As a FYI, I was told “the money” was in specific “dictionaries” for medical professionals and so forth. Apparently, doctors liked to dictate straight into text.
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by OnlyMortal 6y ago
Having worked on ViaVoice OSX back in the day, we had to have models for different varieties of English. The US model couldn’t understand my northern English (think GoT) accent. It’s why the product came out with a UK localisation. Wonderin