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by acomjean 4y ago
I had the Intellivision computer ( keyboard component) when I was a kid. We loved the intellivision but the “add on computer” was truly awful. It had a couple interesting games though. As an adult I find out they released it because they h
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by acomjean 4y ago
I enjoyed snafu, armor battle, football and hockey with my brothers. And mind strike (which is clever enough someone should remake it) Even though the controller where charitably meh (I disliked the side buttons) The hardest part of playing
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by acomjean 4y ago
I was given a micro vax my employer was getting rid of. It was kinda neat but not super useful. I really couldn’t justify keeping it for the space it took. The RI computer museum has a warehouse full of old machines. It can be a fun visi
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by acomjean 4y ago
When I was at IBM I had a mouse with a trackpoint for scrolling. It was pretty great. I miss being able to move and scroll at variable speeds. https://www.microsoft.com/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=12... and a pap
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by acomjean 4y ago
I did a javascript project targeting web/blackberry and early ios. We used jQuery to smooth out the kinks (or that's what our lead told us). It worked as expected. Went from disliking it to really liking the syntax. Its pretty c
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by acomjean 4y ago
Libre office is pretty much the only game in town on Linux. Well excepting the web based office suites. I really like it, especially for csv files which it works great for.
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by acomjean 4y ago
At the same time are basically putting your trust in one company (apple) in this case to not do scummy things. But as pointed out this can be a way of helping themselves hold and expand various market positions.. which may or may not be
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by acomjean 4y ago
I’m not sure how they’ve structured the game sales and add ons (ship sales). Over charging people isn’t illegal..it’s a shame though. But if at some point enough people start asking their credit card companies for charge backs, this won’t
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by acomjean 4y ago
There should be the php equivalent of LTS (long term support). After such a long time on php 5.. it felt like one of the features of the language was stability. Your old code ran. 7 was much faster so easy sell to upgrade. the versions
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by acomjean 5y ago
Single Cell RNA Seq data is often stored in Loom which is a HDF5 format. https://linnarssonlab.org/loompy/ Its a little weird at first but its a great format and has libraries in a lot of major languages. It stores a s
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by acomjean 5y ago
I used "Dired" to view text files and move around directories all the time in emacs. Replaced "mc" (midnight commander) for me. Partly because were I'm at MC takes about 30 seconds to start. you can M-x shell and
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by acomjean 5y ago
Display link as far as I can tell is a weak video card on a usb connector. Does anyone else make something like that? I used one with a white plastic MacBook to get 2 displays. I have a new on for my Linux notebook. It works well, but th
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by acomjean 5y ago
I enjoyed the Stanley parable and what remains of Edith Finch. Both were fun, interesting explore titles. TSP is absurd. (The go outside award is for not playing the game for 10 years?) Stanley parables self commentary I thought was prett
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by acomjean 5y ago
I’m always reminded of “the curious case of the PI moms” when deception is involved. It’s different but another strange tale. The takeaway quote it “people want to believe” https://www.thisamericanlife.org/447/transc
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by acomjean 5y ago
Why wouldn't they? They make their moneyy from Patent Fees. If they stopped granting Patents their revenue stream dries up. They have no incentive not to approve patents. I'm wondering why companies don't sue the Patent o
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by acomjean 5y ago
I was in the "middle" tier math program in high school. But around sophomore year I wanted to get more into science/engineering but you can't switch tiers or catch up to those ahead of you, no matter if you're maki
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by acomjean 5y ago
Thanks. So its loaded and ready to go by the time you click the google doc link.
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by acomjean 5y ago
I tried it. Even though a magician never shares (excepting Penn & Teller) want an explanation though.. It seems to be pasting different things all over the place. I'm not sure how the "google doc card" past to just pas
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by acomjean 5y ago
I think this is sarcasm. But I can’t tell anymore. As a white guy with a really not white name, I will note that things seem to go better when I’m seen. There seems to be a lot of complaints and outrage from people that have it pretty good
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by acomjean 5y ago
Reviews are hard. Nobody agrees on anything, and some people have very strong options about certain things (trackpads, keyboards g that little mouse nub between the g an h keys).. I have a system76 oryx pro running pop os. It’s older now
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by acomjean 5y ago
There is a wordle bot that analyzes your play. It’s a bit much for me, but it has some insights. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/upshot/wordle-bot.h...
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by acomjean 5y ago
It’s kinda new. In the late 1990s after quitting my job I got a mortgage. They had all types (my favorite offer was one where you just paid back interest for 30 years and at the end owed the whole principal again). But back then as long
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by acomjean 5y ago
This is the NYTimes "gift article" version. Its ok, but its only for 14 days. We'll see how this goes. The page has some large images and is styled heavily. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021&#x2
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by acomjean 5y ago
I mean landfills are burying useful matter. Stuff doesn't really rot it just sits there. I'm not sure how the leachate was treated. At the end of the day the cap was supposed to keep the water out, so when closed there wouldn&#
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by acomjean 5y ago
The ones we specified were high quality HDPE plastic placed on top of a bentonite mat or 1 foot of clay (a low water permiable material). I’m guessing it would last a long long time. Acording to this study 400 years. https://de
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by acomjean 5y ago
When Lexus was a new brand in the 1990s the introductory ad was one showing Its refinement by having a ball bearing roll across the panel seams. It won some awards and is credited with pushing manufactures to better tolerances. https:&#x2
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by acomjean 5y ago
I used to work designing landfills and they're not a bad choice. Right now many landfills in the us are the worlds largest bags. They definitely are now better engineered so that toxic substances have less chance of leaching into th
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by acomjean 5y ago
I have shure e2cs. They require a good seal to get the best sound (any bass actually). They where good on planes. The tips are either memory foam or a soft rubber. The foam ones worked better, but lamentably they don't seem to make
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by acomjean 5y ago
I think its really really hard to make money producing online content. A lot of these companies start strong and have good intentions, but financially its not sustainable and they go into more click-bait and poorly written articles. I have
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by acomjean 5y ago
9 years.. that's the long game.

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