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by acomjean 4y ago
I discovered rage because they gave out tapes at a body count concert and a friend picked one up. Rage was the opening band. I have the original body count cd, I got on release day. They had one and they had to go looking for it in the bac
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by acomjean 4y ago
When I was at IBM at the turn of the century the new CEO fought splitting the company up. He figured they were better off having everything together. It worked a little while he was there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by acomjean 4y ago
I like my ebooks drm free too. Oreilly books had drm free copies you could buy. Some good deals (buy 2 get 2 free) They moved to a drm based subscription model, but because the books I bought were drm free I still can access them! Manning
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by acomjean 4y ago
Are you suggesting people who pirate don’t want to pay?
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by acomjean 4y ago
It’s a fun problem. We hire 4 trolleys for our open studio event in Somerville. One of our volunteers bought some smart phones, and we pulled a together a php and MySQL back end, some google maps and Trolley Tracker. We can see them bun
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by acomjean 4y ago
When my car was totaled I had to buy a new hood. When I brought the car to the state salvage inspection station they checked the VIN #s of the car (front and back). The work was done in New York and it was a new after market hood and ther
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by acomjean 4y ago
“We’ll dive deeper into how TomTom will use OSM data soon, so stay tuned.“ So this was an announcement of an announcement…
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I had one. It worked pretty well but sometime took a little while to “lock onto” the gps signal. I think the cloud based gps on phones won for being free and having traffic info. My Tom Tom had the “mr T” celebrity voice yelling directions
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by acomjean 4y ago
Mastodon. https://joinmastodon.org/ But people go where people are, so we’ll see if it gets traction.
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by acomjean 4y ago
This guy? Chuck "Chuckles" Beuche? they interview him on the "Apple Time Warp" series. He wrote "Caverns of Calisito" at origin. The optimizations they came up with to make things work was crazy. (I think th
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by acomjean 4y ago
I can see that. One need only look at traffic when raining and people revert to drier methods of transport. In cambridge MA those electric scooters are quite everywhere. And they don't know where they should go (they tend to go in th
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by acomjean 4y ago
Apple Time Warp has John Romero interviewing some professional Apple 2 developers. Its seemed like mostly very small teams (1-4 people) writing code. Chuck Somerville's I though was pretty fun. Stewart Smith was a more "professi
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by acomjean 4y ago
It’s a separate path, the sensor is under the camera (this allowed it to work with film). 2 sensors per autofocus point which it tries at align. It’s actually kind ofvv be amazing it works. Gordy details, but the image helps see: https:&
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by acomjean 4y ago
I know someone who didn’t give Tesla consideration because they simply didn’t want to talk about Musk endlessly. (And the auto drive claims…) It’s not like Facebook is much better. Google plus.. got googleaxed… You could get of social medi
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by acomjean 4y ago
Basically they are saying to stop putting your app on the app store and letting google take a large % of the app and letting your business be dependent on another business. In this case the landlord is Google, and you are the sharecropper,
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by acomjean 4y ago
Well some games are eposidic. I play a little fortnite, and the island keeps changing, significant things come and go (some weapons, map locations, bosses, ufos, boats). Its keeps it from getting stale, but you can never go back to the wa
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by acomjean 4y ago
>And a colleague of mine is a huge fan of the new "match" keyword - he's working on a sports management application, and of course he had a "Match" class, used everywhere, which he had to rename... Namespace?
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by acomjean 4y ago
I haven't learned yet, but here are some resources posted here: Build a ray tracer in rust. Recomends the 'crab' book from Oreilly. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29791142 MAke a 2d game https:/&
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by acomjean 4y ago
MIT has public spaces and a museum too that recently reopened in a new place. They hosted events at the Cambridge science festival a couple of weeks ago as well. The Cambridge symphony orchestra is using their performance hall again (afte
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by acomjean 4y ago
I moved from mac to linux at work. Its been fine. Pop!_OS. Its Ubuntu at its core, but somehow is better. It took me a bit to get over not having MS Office, but honestly as a development box, it works much better.
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by acomjean 4y ago
Assasin's Creed odyssey actually has a "Tour Mode" where you can get a tour of Athens or other open world locations. They tried to make it accurate. https://www.polygon.com/reviews/2019/9/10&#x
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by acomjean 4y ago
Its actually made by a different company also named clevo in in China (TW) https://www.clevo.com.tw/clevo_prodetail.asp?id=1609&lang=en Its a little wierd but they seems to exist only to sell to resellers, although clev
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Kia and Subaru do that in Massachusetts with some features (remote start). They blame "right to repair" laws we have on the books.. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/02/07/kia-subaru-disable-usefu...
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by acomjean 4y ago
They seem to. They sell computers (with Ubuntu or Pop!_OS). I'm at least the 2nd one to get one at my work (that I know of). They're not "cheap", and if you know what they are and what you are doing you could just buy
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In Massachusetts we have a private grocery store chain called "Market Basket". Its cheaper than the rest and spreading. (After the 2 realtive that owned it had a spat, CEO Arthur T. was removed, causing workers to strike.. Whe
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by acomjean 4y ago
You might have a point. I never had an android device before, but I have a tablet recently (Samsung). Its confusing there seems to be samsung stuff (bixby voice recognition, samsung login and store, some tv watching app) and the Google uite
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by acomjean 4y ago
I came to post the same. It was a couple weeks ago. According to that recently renamed film “The UnRedacted.” National review is going to do its thing, though the times seemed to take a dim view of its Sundance cancelation. Here’s a nytime
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by acomjean 4y ago
Doesn't DDR5 have some ECC built in by default? I don't think its a good as memory with ECC, but its something. edit (looking up question...)according to wikipedia, it has some ECC, but I'm failing to see the difference betwe
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lamentably to late to edit.. The Java part of it is pretty well obfuscated/hidden, its much easier to install and get running than java for the most part.
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by acomjean 4y ago
He's working on version 2.0 of the Nature Of Code which is more P5.js based than "processing" based (processing is p5's faster, platform native, but non web based sibling.). I've used p5.js to make my nieces animate

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