SeenNotHeard

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by SeenNotHeard 2y ago
It was widely reported that Musk was moving X and SpaceX's offices to Texas due to a new LGBTQ+ reporting law for schools, which in turn was heralded as Yet Further Proof of California's demise. https://dailycaller.com&
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by SeenNotHeard 2y ago
Resembles what The Onion predicted 15 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
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Generative AI Will Be a Boon for Public Domain Unless Copyright Blocks It(techdirt.com)
23 points by SeenNotHeard 3y ago|5 comments
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
Bjarne Stroustrup once wrote: "Software development is an iterative and incremental process. Each stage of the process is revisited repeatedly during the development, and each visit refines the end product of that stage. In general, th
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Why did older computers and OSes use UPPER case instead of lower case?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
153 points by SeenNotHeard 3y ago|149 comments
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
I think you're talking about Apple's Star Trek Project ("To boldly go where no Mac has gone before."). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project > For one thing a company like Sun Microsyst
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Why did Steve Jobs choose Motorola 68030 for the first NeXT and not Intel 80386?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
2 points by SeenNotHeard 3y ago|3 comments
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Was there any computer since about 1960 without interrupt support?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
2 points by SeenNotHeard 3y ago|0 comments
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
And Mike Alware is still salty about it.
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
"How the heck was Atari still losing money on computers in 1982? They had great hardware; the Atari 800 was Jay Miner's penultimate masterwork before he went on to design the Amiga chipset; it was still considered good as late as
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How did Atari lose money on home computers?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
1 points by SeenNotHeard 3y ago|1 comments
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
Sure, but I've not seen them offer tick boxes for things like the ability to choose which seat you're in, or complimentary snacks and drinks. ZipAir doesn't even provide free cups of water during its flights. They require all
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
It's a lot like SEO optimization and the chicanery that goes on there: Airlines know that customers (a) are using ticket comparison sites like Kayak and Google Flights, (b) customers sort by price, from lowest to highest, and (c) as wi
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Why didn't Microsoft use a well-known algorithm like RSA for phone activation?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
3 points by SeenNotHeard 3y ago|0 comments
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
Also at https://web.archive.org/web/20231109230950/https://linuximpa...
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
I have. They read it religiously, and uncritically treated its journalism as the truth. I thought they were being ironic, until I got to know them better.
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
> I feel obliged to point out that there are countless media outlets that fit this description for men, but when they get shut down a common reaction is that free speech is under attack and cancel culture has gone too far. Can you name o
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
Would "Grim Fandango" qualify as an ur-Mesopunk video game? It's cut from a similar cloth.
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Specimen cards holds complete snapshot of last type foundries in Germany(letterformarchive.org)
5 points by SeenNotHeard 3y ago|0 comments
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Who invented file extensions in file names?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
1 points by SeenNotHeard 3y ago|0 comments
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
"According to Atari design engineer, Al Alcorn, when Atari was on tour promoting the device, a Sears representative asked what the developers were smoking when they invented it. With that, a technician stepped forward holding up a lit
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The Journalist and the Influencer(compactmag.com)
2 points by SeenNotHeard 3y ago|0 comments
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
Some of those AI-generated green tea bottles look like motor oil labels.
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Did Apple advise customers to lift up and then drop their computers?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
2 points by SeenNotHeard 3y ago|2 comments
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
"I couldn't find that technical note in the Apple III Technotes page of apple3.org. Was this really a recommended procedure by Apple or is it just an urban legend?"
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
As a side note, this means that Microsoft now owns the copyrights to all of Infocom's interactive fiction: Zork, Enchanter, Deadline, HHGttG, etc.
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Andrew Plotkin: Microsoft consumes Activision; and a plea(blog.zarfhome.com)
1 points by SeenNotHeard 3y ago|0 comments
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
"Why do people find DNS so difficult? It’s just cache invalidation and naming things." https://twitter.com/jdub/status/739110670562557952
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Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of use in PCs?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
204 points by SeenNotHeard 3y ago|248 comments
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Why was BASIC's INT() a floor, and not a truncate?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
1 points by SeenNotHeard 3y ago|0 comments

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