acomjean

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by acomjean 4y ago
In 89 we had 9600 baud direct connection from the dorms to the computing center… We’ve come a long way. Though I did have a Linux ppc box serving website under my desk in the early 2000s.. until they blocked port 80. https://web.
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by acomjean 4y ago
Sigh. Lamentably I think you are right. Although to be fair I'm using linux as my daily driver and it works great (PopOS X11 still...) Though I fear adding extra confusion to writing desktop linux apps isn't going to help things
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by acomjean 4y ago
Why are all these projects names based on Boston area towns? (Wayland, Weston, Wakefield…)
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by acomjean 4y ago
Competition works wonders.. having both of them (what happened to cyrix?) keeps them honest to some extent.
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by acomjean 4y ago
We didn't have any of the stability problems though is was kind of "quirky" (I also used it at another big corp which was only mail, which is terrible). I see you are not a fan. I had to use it and by the end kind of liked
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by acomjean 4y ago
I was at IBM (research) at the turn of the century after the Lotus acquisition. IBM was all in on Notes and I was developing notes applications for a department. (I actually came to appreciate Notes, and understand that Notes was being sol
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by acomjean 4y ago
Could you explain the PAR file and why that would help?
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by acomjean 4y ago
ChromeOS is oddly a good choice for older machines, though someone tried to use it for a programing class I took quickly gave up. chromeos flex had been tested on a lot of older machines. https://support.google.com/chromeosf
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by acomjean 4y ago
Steam is remarkably good at running games on linux. I've been using "heroic games launcher" with GOG.com and epic gamesto good effect. I have a steam deck and it occasionally asks me how well the game I just left ran, cloud
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by acomjean 4y ago
Those are decent schools, though I may be biased as they are my undergraduate and graduate schools respectively. Getting something out of College is a lot of what you put into it. At Umass we had students who didn't go to class and di
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by acomjean 4y ago
I'm not a grandma, but wanted a linux that would just work pretty well with minimal effort. Pop!OS (despite the strange name) comes pretty close. I did have some trouble upgrading one version of the OS, but did get it with some help
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by acomjean 4y ago
PC games have these weird all-powerful anticheet detection software. I'm not sure what its doing, but its trying to catch bad actors. Slightly scary the permissions it uses. (I play a little fornite on my partner's pc occasiona
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by acomjean 4y ago
Canon tried to use eye tracking cameras. Eg “look in the viewfinder where you want to focus”. It didn’t take initially (90s). But it’s back . https://m.dpreview.com/articles/6931257631/is-the-canon-eos-...
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by acomjean 4y ago
It’s hard to stop caring about you’re work. It’s a part of you, you are creating something after all. And often at work it’s hard to let your coworkers down, because the job may be terrible but you like them. It’s wrapped up in our ident
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by acomjean 4y ago
I’ve been to DIA beacon (one of my favorite museums). That large scale installation is kinda remarkable but not typical of Warhol’s art I’ve seen in other places.
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by acomjean 4y ago
Acording to Wikipedia the judge told him to settle because he’d likely loose. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_post... I think the take away here is you draw someone famous move the hair, rotate
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by acomjean 4y ago
When I have something in my steam library I seem to be able to use it on any platform it runs on. My knowledge about this is limited to a couple board game programs I used to use on a Mac and now run on Linux. It’s not gog type freedom from
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by acomjean 4y ago
One of the reasons I bought a Linux box as well, but can confirm Steam works well on linux now.. I "game" about a 2-3 hour per week gamer though I'll go a few months not playing at all. Board games with friends works well o
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by acomjean 4y ago
You can't tell people who are doing the work what to work on.. but considering there is a mountain of linux development for people with the expertise to be done for more open platforms. This work pretty much only helps one of the rich
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by acomjean 4y ago
I get that, but web applications are getting pretty good. They are also cross platform which is great for us Linux users.
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by acomjean 4y ago
I’m not sure how that would work. Isn’t enough downvotes the same a censoring as the site isn’t letting your opinion be heard. Dang won’t be able to step in and maintain order. Spam couldn’t be disallowed.
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by acomjean 4y ago
I guess you’d support no more downvoting or flagging post here either.
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by acomjean 4y ago
In my city at least the weekly street cleaning requires you to move your car weekly. So signs posted a week ahead are typically not as bad. Though the police did once us my apartment buzzer to tell me to move my car, it didn’t always ha
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by acomjean 4y ago
its happening in cars right now. The Manufacturers aren't too happy that some dealerships gouge the customers. Its bad for the brand, though profitable short-term
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by acomjean 4y ago
I've seen them, they're quite fun. The intro montage is quite funny. The fact he has the beagle bros tips poster is magic. https://beagle.applearchives.com/the_posters/ Its funny how you remember some thing
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by acomjean 4y ago
I had that experience. We were an apple2 middle school and a bunch of us would stay after and work in the computer lab. I wrote a little game in low res graphics. We'd trade tips. Lamentably the teachers weren't much help. We&#x27
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by acomjean 4y ago
This is generally why Solar installs don't work with the power out. They just shut off to prevent back feeding into the grid. (That and I think the dc->ac converter syncs with the 60hz of the US grid) We don't have a battery
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by acomjean 4y ago
In biology almost nobody pays for software. A lot of it is really rough around the edges (I have to install and try to run some of it as part of my job). It’s kinda interesting, most development is by grants and such, they don’t offer much
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by acomjean 4y ago
Or if you want to run your software on Linux. Its amazing how adobe isn't porting anything to Linux, despite linux being starting to be used heavily now in the creative industries with the rise of blender and tons of work being done on
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by acomjean 4y ago
There was a post on HN in the past month about people using music and self publishing to get that blue check. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32662123 (edit: that was instagram, but its probably the same idea..)

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