acomjean

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by acomjean 7mo ago
I think this is a great idea. Free then make it cost more. A lot could enter the public domain, and valuable IP could be kept by companies as long as they’re willing to pay.
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by acomjean 7mo ago
I ended up at IBM around the turn of the century. They bought Lotus and I was brought on to write lotus notes applications. The article asks “what is notes”. For applications it’s a nosql database with a gui front end. You can make custo
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by acomjean 7mo ago
I had a 5D and have a 5D mk3. (The mk is the version number) Both take excellent photos, especially in low light. I reprinted some of the original 5D photos 11”x17” and even though they have fewer pixels the quality was fine. Canons are pre
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by acomjean 7mo ago
Had a 3x NEC external scsi cd drive. It had play/ ff and rewind buttons and a little lcd that showed the track #. With the headphone jack it made a decent cd player. https://recycledgoods.com/nec-cdr-400-3x-scsi-exter
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by acomjean 7mo ago
Last century my dad would give our pets names out with our real phone #(oddly or by mistake). The pets did start getting phone calls. If the info becomes bad, it becomes much less useful and valuable. I’m in the us and we o need some right
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by acomjean 8mo ago
I remember seeing my friends dad’s first cd player. Huge jazz fan and it did sound great. Especially the quiet parts (No tape hiss or record pops) and easy to use. He bought a couple of cds of rock and man they sounded good. Every other me
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by acomjean 8mo ago
Nice job. Maybe put the instructions you listed here on the site. I tried before reading the comments and got nowhere. (Edit:I just noticed the instructions on the page bottom… move them up) For me the symmetric pieces and the ability to ju
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by acomjean 8mo ago
“Done software”?
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by acomjean 8mo ago
The PS2 was also a dvd player, in a time where many didn’t have one. It was my first dvd player (I bought a remote to make it more usable).
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by acomjean 8mo ago
This happened to my mom when being interviewed when coming over here in the 60s. During verbal questioning she said something like “of course”. The government agent turned deep red and asked her if she understood the question (English isn
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by acomjean 8mo ago
So do we need new abstractions / languages? It seems clear that a lot of things can be pulled together by AI because it’s tedious for humans. But it seems to indicate that better tooling is needed.
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by acomjean 8mo ago
DG = data general a “large” computer company in Westboro mass. My mom worked there doing internationaliztion. Soul of a new machine is a fantastic book. About DG going up against DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) and their Vax machines.
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by acomjean 8mo ago
Frank Grimes is one of the best characters on TV. "I live in a single room above a bowling alley and bellow another bowling ally".. Very few shows, show actually living situations (flight of the choncords is the only other I can
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by acomjean 8mo ago
Thanks. I wasn’t sure what she voiced. I thought “computers sounding like they always should have” might mean GladOS from portal.
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by acomjean 8mo ago
Fun and interesting! It does loose a little of the “immersiveness” (large walls are covered by the patterns)but makes up for it in the fine details. The mass moca exhibit is good if you find yourself in north Adams ma. One of my profile ph
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by acomjean 8mo ago
I thought it was the song “one week.” But a quick search shows that song was on the MacOS 8.5 disk. There were always little interesting stuff on those discs. Some music cds at the time came with “macromedia” stuff. Wonder if that still
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by acomjean 8mo ago
I have a 2010 Honda. I found a usb port in the glove box. When I plug in my phone there is a 50% chance it will start playing my iTunes library alphabetically. (I get a Neville Brothers song, which isn’t so bad, I put it in there)
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by acomjean 8mo ago
True. I never used their return, but a lot of my newer ll bean stuff has had problems a couple years out, so I stopped buying from there. I feel like they’re using as an excuse to lower their quality. (Jacket zipper just broke and the butt
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by acomjean 8mo ago
Humans are very good at processing the images that come into our brain. Each eye has a “blind spot” but we don’t notice. Our eyes adjust color (fluorescent lights are weird) and the amount of light coming in. When we look through a screen
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by acomjean 8mo ago
Is knitting a really long knot?
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by acomjean 8mo ago
I looked up truckers hitch. It’s a slide show, even on YouTube. I learned that knot differently, and wonder if mine has a different name.
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by acomjean 8mo ago
Washington posts tag line was “Democracy dies in darkness”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Dies_in_Darkness It might be still, I unsubscribed due to this nonsense. Went to the guardian.
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by acomjean 9mo ago
I worked as a intern for the government many years ago. They were doing a study on "ice dams" in Maine. Ice flows down river gets stuck and causes flooding an property damage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I
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by acomjean 9mo ago
I took a bio statistic class. The tools were Excel/ R or Stata. I think most people used R. Free and great graphing. Though the interactivity of Excel is great for what ifs. I never got R till I took that class. Though RStudio makes
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by acomjean 9mo ago
We had a friend who would play Metal when the ice cream store he worked at was closed but the customers were lingering too long. It generally worked, as he was immune.
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by acomjean 9mo ago
Many years ago, before Final Cut Pro x my cousin asked me to help inject some video from tapes and keep the time code. In Final Cut Pro. I couldn’t figure it out. So in desperation I read the manual. It was seriously well written and I u
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by acomjean 9mo ago
Subscription model so it’s adobes model. But you can buy “one time”. Though they have a tendency to just end product support (aperture software was canceled leaving a lot of bad taste for photographers that used it) Wonder what Adobe thin
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by acomjean 9mo ago
one flight I was on had trivia which allowed multiplayer. We ended up with about 10 playing the game. I thought it was a good idea for a networked computer and captive audience.
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by acomjean 9mo ago
I’ve noticed on my work machine, it really really really wants me to save my new document to one drive. It was about three clicks in the save dialog to get back to a local drive. They were sneaky about it, with a switch to “turn on autosav
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by acomjean 9mo ago
When I’m riding my bike, I use the weather.gov weather graphs. It took me a little bit to read it at a glance, but it’s all the information for the next couple days in graph form. (2 more days a click away) They have the whole week summar

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