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by acomjean 4y ago
I was wondering how that got that battery life. I have an old system 76 (8th gen intel and nvidia) and while it’s quite speedy and can game, battery life isn’t great. The article hints at Linux now using intels new low power cores. Though
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by acomjean 4y ago
I have a Tini midi controller. It’s only a couple octaves but has 8 finger drumming pads. I like those for my limited beat making ability. It’s an akai and it’s was pretty cheap and pretty fun. I use it more than my full size keyboard wh
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by acomjean 4y ago
I love that there are offering like this too. When I bought the The main thing for me was "is this thing linux compatable", so pre-installed linux was worth the extra $ for me. I just couldn't bring myself to try and figure
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by acomjean 4y ago
System 76 laptops tend to have matte screens.
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by acomjean 4y ago
clearly they aren't using "destination dispatch" where the elevator tells you where to wait after you tell it where you want to go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destination_dispatch I've only seen
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by acomjean 4y ago
Some ui issues aside one can see the great potential of web apps with their ability to be shared and used without installing. I love native apps but for solo developers this is the best alternative.
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by acomjean 4y ago
250 Million was just licensing. So they're starting in a deep hole. Strange, Amazon seem to went the budget route for "Wheel of Time" which I enjoyed, (though popular I hadn't read any of the books). The effects were g
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by acomjean 4y ago
I think 30 years is a decent base in my mind. Let it be renewed a couple times for an extra years if the owners think it’s worth it. That way most stuff flows into the public domain but some works can keep creating value for their creato
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by acomjean 4y ago
The street artist Banksy put real works for sale in NYC at a booth outside the met. He sold very few, for almost nothing. This after people going through extraordinary lengths to preserve anything he created. https://gothamist.
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by acomjean 4y ago
We had open new all hands meeting and allowed questions for management at my stint at big defense company. People asked pointed questions (why aren't our raises keeping up with inflation? was one I remember. The company doesn't
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by acomjean 4y ago
I was wondering what that would look like. https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-parker-cathay... We had a giant plastic wall hanging perpetual calendar in the 1980s. "Ring-A-Date Perpetual Calendar&quo
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by acomjean 4y ago
I wonder if they’re all worth saving. I got quite adept at Black and white photo processing and printing. It’s a skill, but better (though slightly different looking) results are yielded with a digital camera and computer. So I’ve kinda a
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by acomjean 4y ago
There is out of town huckster in the Simpson monorail episode… Written by Conan OBrien. Had a Catchy song and had Leonard Nimoy cameo. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_vs._the_Monorail
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by acomjean 4y ago
You are right, but I’m guessing a lot of people don’t read the linked article. It’s a pretty good summation. Though it doesn’t mention using ~/bin. I use that but don’t add it to my path, so I have to explicitly call my scripts. The
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by acomjean 4y ago
I never played it, but was fascinated that they tried to create a virtual ecology in that Ultima Online. It didn’t work… With kinda funny results. Richard Garriott (aka lord British) explains in this 7 minute video. https://ar
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by acomjean 4y ago
When done, don't forget to click the "back" arrow in the upper left corner. There is another checkbox event (hurdles...) In a weird way this reminds me of the old 80s "epyx" sports game which seemed to involve type
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by acomjean 4y ago
Apple2 joysticks if I'm remembering right we're all analog. They were 2 paddles (1 for each axis). Many had that adjustment so the center was the center, and I'm not sure how many games actually used the analog features or
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by acomjean 4y ago
Interesting. He went back to SD card from USB storage.
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by acomjean 4y ago
There is a sort of state by state summary at the end, about all the forms they had to fill in. Boston's is on 98. They're not counted specifically, but general steps. It seems counter intutive but adding another agency (the &quot
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by acomjean 4y ago
My partner designed chips (for printers..) It takes a lot of money to design and fab a chip (her company was fabless). They synopsys or Magma software they used for design/layout was crazy expensive. (if you can't find a price...
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by acomjean 4y ago
After reading about Penn and Teller’s desert bus game, I wondered why job simulators got any traction. 8 hour drive for 1 point…. https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2013/7/10/4510388/why-t...
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by acomjean 4y ago
It can be useful when all your infrastructure is down, to get the word out. It’s a decent second channel. But I’ll agree I think most tweets seem like shouting at a cloud.
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by acomjean 4y ago
I don't understand the Farm Equipment exemption. Its not like NY manufactures farm equipment. Its a big enough market that I doubt any companies would want to leave.
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by acomjean 4y ago
I've been at big companies and really small startups. I've tended to alternate between them. My Big Company experience was they broke us up into smallish teams (6-20 people), which made us work more like a small company in many r
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by acomjean 4y ago
For those of us odd ones… php -S localhost:8000 -t webdir/ https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver...
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by acomjean 4y ago
I think you are correct, seems like it was replaced by drive through sand fast food. but with electric cars coming, perhaps with a bunch of chargers and an hour to kill these kinds of restaurants make sense again… (though many interstate re
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by acomjean 4y ago
I don’t have exact details but I did work in an civil/environment consulting companies (we worked remediating the GE silicone waste site in Upstate NY .. ) which might be why people are senesitive to the spelling.[1] But generally thos
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by acomjean 4y ago
My Mom went to an Prestigious University, when my Mom went back to work after the kids got old enough to take care of themselves (to some extent..), that degree opened doors. She was explicitly told, hey great university when she went for
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by acomjean 4y ago
I haven’t noticed or didn’t care that the content was in SD on Linux. I was pretty happy it worked. Use a Roku for streaming HD to the tv for the few things I watch there. There is a weird “wildvine” plugin thing that chrome and Firefox us
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by acomjean 4y ago
Many games you start by entering a numeric difficulty. Some games barely used them, but for others they were required. for football, you entered the play/formation information. Utopia (an island civilization sim) you used it to se

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