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by acomjean 2y ago
I didn’t remember that one, pretty fun. I do remember the “nfl follies” game blooper vhs tape. Was pretty funny. I can’t imagine them doing another one.
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by acomjean 2y ago
I remember growing up our family got an extra phone we could use in the basement (I think it came with a magazine subscription oddly) . It had the keypad, but would just generate the pulses like a rotary phone. Very slow and felt wrong.
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those exist. except I think the one I did was an hour(? it was ten years ago). I got the interview, but that didn't go well, so I went to work elsewhere. they have part of the site that has lessons for developers: https://a
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by acomjean 2y ago
I’ll agree that there are cars that just look bad. I love my Honda Element, but even I admit it’s not a great looking vehicle.. it’s old enough that it’s no longer sticks out, though easy to find in a parking lot as few cars are shaped tha
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by acomjean 2y ago
Salt was bad for cars. (Having had a 80s car that was rusting badly). There was a hole in one of my rear wheel wells. Salt/ sand got into the hollow steel and rusted from the inside out at the base of the passenger door. It was was
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by acomjean 2y ago
That’s pretty funny. I’m all for a little fun at ridiculous audio stuff (monster cables etc) Are we sure that’s not a misprint? There other “accessories” are high but more reasonable. https://shop.mcintoshlabs.com/collection
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by acomjean 2y ago
They don’t call anymore. They just text.
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by acomjean 2y ago
I used to use photoshop and Lightroom a lot. I got pretty good at it. The Linux equivalents are quite good. I currently have 2 pieces in an exhibit I created with GIMP (manipulated photos). It’s got layering and the filters I needed. I’v
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by acomjean 2y ago
PsySh I’ll have to check this out. Though not popular php can be a surprising decent scripting langauge.
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by acomjean 2y ago
You have a good point in that it was supposed to replace all kinds of aircraft. That was kind of its thing. “ intended to replace a wide range of existing fighter, strike, and ground attack aircraft …” One aircraft for the navy, marines an
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by acomjean 2y ago
Updating some code years ago, I asked who wrote this abomination? (Checks source history) Crap, I did
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by acomjean 2y ago
He mentions arch. I thought that was a standard distribution (though I think I’m mixing it up with Manjaro, which we used one machine when our European intern installed it) I have to dig a little deeper. Thanks
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by acomjean 2y ago
I don’t know. I’ve bought a few machines with popos. They’ve been so few issues, that I haven’t learned that much new about administering them. I’ll install stuff from the command line but generally stick to the gui tools. And they work.
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by acomjean 2y ago
Whenever I think of adventure games, it the being stuck aspect of it. When these were released the lack internet help made it frustrating. Old man Murray (site is still up, though over 20 year since an update) had a good post about adventu
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by acomjean 2y ago
I have an iPad that is in that state too. Hardware is fine, os can’t be updated. I wish I could jail break it or install an alternative os. It’s only useful to play the few games I have for it (most of those haven’t been upgraded to 64 bit
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by acomjean 2y ago
I've been urban biking for years. It's no doubt dangerous. I don't think you become complacent like you do when when driving. You are pretty aware that these heavy fast moving vehicles are on the same road as you. Part of
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by acomjean 2y ago
There is Gathering for Gardner non profit. for recreational math: https://www.gathering4gardner.org/ They have conferences and talks and post on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/G4GCelebration
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by acomjean 2y ago
I used to use Pixelmator when I was on a mac. Its great for what it does, but its much much more limited than photoshop. Frankly most people don't need Photoshop. The UI is intuitive enough. I'm on linux now but missed that &qu
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by acomjean 2y ago
I’ll agree the AMD laptops from the past couple of years are really impressive. They are fast enough that I’ve done some bioinformatics work on one. Battery life is decent. At this point I’m not switching from laptop Linux. The machines c
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by acomjean 2y ago
Kind of new in the US, you can't stop people in the US from spending money on ads that amplify there speech. [1] Political spending is regulated, but we now have "political action committees" that can support candidates but c
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by acomjean 2y ago
This seems like really erratic behavior by one person. Hope he is ok. He's listed as a BDFL, but perhaps without the Benevolent [1]? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life I get that it rubs p
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by acomjean 2y ago
Many years ago, our project had a library that would link our Ada code to the low level operating system calls that are in C (network, shared libraries etc). Once it was written the code was stable, but you bring back not so pleasant memori
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by acomjean 2y ago
I don’t love Perl, but we have 10+ year old Perl scripts at work that work fine. The python scripts of the same vintage have to be reworked because python versions and importantly supporting libraries have changed. This is mainly because Pe
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by acomjean 2y ago
I know proton isn’t exactly emulation, but the “windows” target platform might be supported for a while..especially since it’s running on Linux pretty well. (Any game on steam deck is a running on linux) Kind of like emulation keeps workin
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by acomjean 2y ago
With streaming services you can never own the content. My partners mother wanted to see something, tried to get it out of the library, but only available streaming. It's weird what it means when content is not longer available in phys
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by acomjean 2y ago
I've seen some movies not knowing anything about them by avoiding trailer (this being much easier in the 1990s...) Movies seems to work better that way. Though it can be jarring: Eg. Silence of the Lambs or Leaving Las Vegas. The Onio
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by acomjean 2y ago
anything played on wmbr's "Late Riser's Club" https://wmbr.org/cgi-bin/show?id=8533 "It's like sewing your ear to a vacuum cleaner. " though they include metal now.
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It’s kinda punk pop. It has the intensity of punk. It definitely had the mosh pit element to it. I remember it being more intense than the grunge that was popular at the time. It was on MTV alot. But then again so were Primus and Faith No
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by acomjean 2y ago
A sneak preview happened during the eclipse this year. Those with EVs found large waits for charging on the way home. https://www.newsweek.com/tesla-charging-station-police-solar...
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I like PHP and javascript. Jquery wasn't pretty but it did smooth over browser differences (as someone who had to target a blackberry browser, I still respect it.) Vue/ React and company are pretty amazing. But sometimes I wonder

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