PlunderBunny

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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
I think that all humor belongs more or less to a particular time (a decade if you will). Garfield for example is very much a product of the 1980s. When humour is viewed outside of its time, it’s different. Did you read FarSide in the 1990s,
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
I wonder if it's possible to 'pre-consent' before onset, and if that would be considered consent?
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
The present just keeps making David Brin's 1990 book 'Earth' look more and more prescient.
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
I feel like this is similar to civil and criminal laws: When codes of conduct are very detailed, lawyers will argue fine points on the wording. When they are simple and general, people can't be 'rules lawyers', but you need t
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
(1999)
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
What I think has never changed, is that most people do not understand depreciation on an asset like a car, or how use of that vehicle contributes to the depreciation. People see the cost of maintenance of a vehicle as something inevitable t
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
I think Uber’s profitability has also been achieved by passing what would be debt to a traditional taxi company (the maintenance of the fleet of taxis) onto the drivers. I think many drivers aren’t making as much money as they think they ar
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
I had the same realisation about game app specifically - in the early days of the App Store, I’d buy several games a year, and play dozens more free games. I can’t remember the last game I bought.
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
They can’t code menus properly any more either - in macOS, try selecting something like a time from the drop-down menus for a reminder (on the main list of the reminders app, not in the window for editing that particular reminder). Immediat
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
Sometimes I see the 'border' move slightly where a ball hasn't hit it. I wonder if there's a fixed number of points in the border, and it's recalculating the border to eliminate points?
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
No criticism of you, nor do I want to put words in your mouth, but there seems to be a generalisation to 'all woman' in this argument, and from that an unstated assumption that the only way for humanity to preserve itself is somet
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
Yeah, I didn't believe it at the time - it was just one of those overly broad generalisations people do.
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
I'd like someone running macOS 26 to weigh in here, but I'm not sure it's true that - if you replace an app icon (presumably by pasting in the Finder Get Info window) - the replacement is also confined to squircle jail?
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
Decades ago when we made a version of our Win32 desktop app for the USA, we changed the icon on our settings button from a wrench to something else (I can't remember what) because we were told that - for Americans - a wrench signified
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
Was I the only one that consistently experienced a crash when exiting Visual Studio 6 without first closing the solution? I think this was running on some flavour of Windows 98 in 1999 or 2000. So I got into the habit of closing the solutio
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
Which nerdy teenager in the 80s with a computer (or a lust for one) could forget the "Ultimate - Play the Game" logo? [0] 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Play_the_Game
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
My thoughts exactly.
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
Fair enough - I wasn't there at the time. Perhaps (obviously?) we're still at the debating stage of AI assisted coding. But I think we can say we now understand the trade-offs etc around memory managed languages.
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
Not necessarily disagreeing with your points, or the general argument, but I think the trade-offs and consequences of choosing a language with automated memory management are reasonably well understood, and manageable, but can we say the sa
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
I think we’re at the point where the lifetime of a battery in an EV just isn’t an important consideration: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/07/heres-one-way-we-know-t...
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
The original iPhone was 2G, but it was just called 'iPhone' I think. The iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS models came after.
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
One advantage of having 'everything on the phone' is that you wouldn't need a cloud provider to sync between your laptop and your phone - it's a 'stand alone' experience.
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
Implicit in this is an assumption that the purpose of a higher education is to give graduates the skills demanded by the businesses. What if it (the purpose of a higher education) was something else? What if it had always been something els
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
The VAX/VMS terminals we used at university to learn Pascal defaulted to 8 space tabs, on a 80 column screen. That certainly pushed some people towards using spaces.
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
I don't think people resent the people for their wealth so much as the political influence those people wield in order to preserve their wealth and power.
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
Ant eater pickup line.
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
I think once-in-one-hundred-year is a definition for weather events used in building standards (sorry to be vague and possibly misleading - if my resident architect/partner was here, I could be more specific). I've certainly heard
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
I wonder how frequently that river (and the rest of the world) will experience once-in-a-hundred-year weather events from now on.
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It has its place. We were told to use passive voice when writing scientific document (lab reports, papers etc).
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by PlunderBunny 1y ago
Eventually, a feature was added (see what I did there?) that allowed the type of document to be specified, and setting that to ‘scientific paper’ allowed passive voice to be written without being flagged as an error.

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