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by acheron 3y ago
Ha, and I'm sure that's how he thought of it too.
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by acheron 3y ago
I feel like he honestly tries to be humble about everything, but with everything he's done it's awfully difficult. One thing about the book, it's very much "a life in computer games" as the title says, and not a ful
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by acheron 3y ago
I read this when it came out. It's fun if you remember the Microprose games, or I suppose if you don't and want to know what it was like. Also Sid debunks the nuclear Gandhi thing once and for all.
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by acheron 3y ago
Yep I have Z-Wave stuff with a Hubitat box. Works pretty well. I do wish I could locate a Z-Wave water timer for sprinkler/irrigation.
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by acheron 3y ago
I have never had this happen to me and have never been quite sure what causes it for other people. I sort of assume it’s a PEBCAK thing where someone has their phone configured wrong, but a more fair interpretation is that some cars have ba
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by acheron 3y ago
The “last two” it’s referring to are AT&T and Discovery. I’m not sure why the headline calls out just those two; it’s not like the merger with AOL wasn’t disastrous as well.
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by acheron 3y ago
One step closer to Seaquest DSV.
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by acheron 3y ago
Oh, “brick game” like Tetris, I initially assumed “brick game” like Breakout.
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by acheron 3y ago
The W&OD goes much of the way through Loudoun county and ends in Purcellville.
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by acheron 3y ago
https://www.theonion.com/8-4-million-new-yorkers-suddenly-re...
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by acheron 3y ago
You mean 1990s? I don't think Word and Excel even existed until the late 80s, and nobody[0] used them until Windows 3.1. [0] yes, not literally nobody. I know about the Windows 2.0 Excel or whatever, but the user base compared to WordP
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by acheron 3y ago
The leveraging their search monopoly to push it and paying other software to sneak it into installs is what made it a success.
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by acheron 3y ago
What about a floppy drive and parallel port connector?
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by acheron 3y ago
They didn’t “force” anything, they made it available to download if you wanted.
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by acheron 3y ago
Google picking up and carrying the flag.
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by acheron 3y ago
I definitely quit using it. Do people use the official app and watch the ads and drink verification cans and whatever?
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by acheron 3y ago
Surely they could do something better for humanity, such as selling heroin to middle schoolers.
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by acheron 3y ago
“Junk fees” is obviously manipulative language that has no real definition, which makes me automatically oppose whatever this “ban” is.
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by acheron 3y ago
Ugh yes, the interviewers who give ambiguous questions and expect you to read their mind are the worst. What’s the old xkcd: “communicating poorly then acting smug when you’re misunderstood is not cleverness.”
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by acheron 3y ago
In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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by acheron 3y ago
I had one of the original iPods, with the physical scroll wheel. The software it used on Windows was “Musicmatch Jukebox”; I don’t remember Rhapsody. It was definitely better when iTunes came out for Windows.
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by acheron 3y ago
Older than I once was, but younger than I’ll be, that’s not unusual.
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by acheron 3y ago
"Hm, Google tracks me everywhere I go and tries to store data about everything I do. It's pretty terrible, but what should I do about it? I know, I'll link my account to a real identity and credit card!"
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by acheron 3y ago
> Most people don't know and don't care. Search is the thing that pops up and they type into. You can even change that? To what? There are others? So we’re all still using Yahoo and Altavista?
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by acheron 3y ago
But ICANN makes a lot of money off of it, and isn't that the important thing?
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by acheron 3y ago
A huge part of the problem we have with it is the constant tracking and data gathering. Paying them isn't going to stop tracking. Hell, if you stay signed in (and give them a credit card to link to your account!) they're just goin
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by acheron 3y ago
Was going to say, I thought I remembered it was Queen Anne. (Not British but it’s just one of those trivia things I learned somewhere.)
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by acheron 3y ago
Why HN users insist on submitting Guardian articles is beyond me.
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by acheron 3y ago
“Lingua Franca” historically has nothing to do with French. It was a dialect used by Italian traders. Obviously this means the EU should run things in Venetian.
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by acheron 3y ago
I still have mine from 1991. I wish it showed 24-hour time but other than that it's great.

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