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by agent86 3y ago
https://archive.ph/ZDCOS
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Apple Wins Appeal in App Store Case Against Epic Games(wsj.com)
8 points by agent86 3y ago|1 comments
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by agent86 4y ago
I would personally argue that Windows 2000 wasn't bad, it was just painful in the beginning. It was the transition point from the 9x kernel/setup to the NT kernel/setup and some manufacturers navigated that change better tha
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by agent86 4y ago
I used 3 of these - one personally and two on a BBS - and they were legit. They were just absolute workhorses, and they really were software upgradable to whatever was happening in the industry. My school acquired two via an educational BB
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by agent86 4y ago
I was more of a Trade Wars 2002[1] guy myself :-). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Wars
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by agent86 4y ago
Resolved - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolved_(film) - Follows a high school debate team that eschewed the normal speed and pitch common in debate and instead argued against the structure of debate on the whole. Cl
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by agent86 4y ago
Andy Hertzfeld called this his "worst blunder" with the original Macintosh. He talks about this, and a few other things he wishes they did differently in retrospect, in his folkore.org post titled "Mea Cupla".[1] [1] h
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by agent86 4y ago
In case anyone wants to watch the event without tracking it down on ESPN, you can jump to the YouTube version if it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1RVNGDSdw4
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by agent86 4y ago
The Cutting Room Floor has an entry about a prototype version of the game from before Warner Bros started messing with its development. It covers some of the differences between the prototype and the production game and provides a download
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by agent86 4y ago
For those interested, here is the last discussion about Dashy from when it previously appeared here on 05/08/22. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31284522
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by agent86 4y ago
Question for the more seasoned Mac/Linux folks on HN: Powershell has been a gift in getting things accomplished in Windows. But one thing I've also come to enjoy using it for is quick and dirty interactions and scripting with RES
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by agent86 4y ago
I'd vote this up to the top if I could - this is all so very true. I'm a testicular cancer survivor myself, and I did the self exams and caught it early. Caught at its earliest, testicular cancer is basically curable with a 99% 5
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by agent86 5y ago
Thank you for the kind words! I'm hopefully on the other side of it now having gone through it about 1.5 years ago. Smack in the middle of the original COVID peak, which made the situation all the more fun. I'm in what they call
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by agent86 5y ago
That's me and my experience with testicular cancer. No known causes, no family history, no risk factors other than being a white male. I was even outside the typical age range. Sometimes life just kicks you in the nuts. Literally in m
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by agent86 5y ago
Is the model a disaster, or is Tesla's implementation of it a disaster? Or is Tesla's implementation of it given the confines they were working under a disaster? If you look at Rivian and Lucid, their performance in this space h
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by agent86 5y ago
I just double checked and Mobile Service is still available in my area. I could actually get an appointment 2 days from now. One thing to note though is that not all repairs are mobile serviceable. For example, when my Model 3 needed its
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by agent86 5y ago
One big reason is that many people will insist that their representative doesn't contribute to a problem, or has a particular reason for doing so that excuses the behavior. It's essentially always everyone else's representat
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by agent86 5y ago
Also consider that the vast majority of the problems these non-programmers are trying to solve are not things "IT" is interested in solving. Many of the no-code apps I see getting built by non-programmers at my place of employment
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by agent86 5y ago
Traditional programming? I would agree. But no code tooling? I think you'd be surprised. As someone with experience supporting these types of people utilizing a no code platform, most of them actually thrive when given a toolset tha
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by agent86 5y ago
It's not just that it can do the job, but that the majority has access to Excel. There may be better tools/platforms to solve a given problem, but in most cases the rank and file don't have access to them or permissions to do
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PS4 Jailbroken, Exploit May Work on PS5 Too(kotaku.com)
3 points by agent86 5y ago|1 comments
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by agent86 5y ago
This likely mirrors what happened when we moved from analog to digital. CDMA versions of phones like the Motorola v60 came with pull out antennas and were still capable of latching on to analog signals. It would drain the battery pretty q
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It's Time to Get Rid of the IT Department(wsj.com)
16 points by agent86 5y ago|15 comments
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by agent86 5y ago
Fun Story: Was out for a late night walk in the fall and heard the same "hoot hoot" from an owl I've heard forever. Except this night, as I'm walking on the sidewalk as I always do, I get slammed in the back of my head
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by agent86 5y ago
For participants in this thread that want to reference an earlier discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28127240
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by agent86 5y ago
This is a bit outside the HN box, but I love our Kindling Cracker[1]. We made a little outdoor seating area with a fire pit and then realized we needed to figure out how we were going to fuel it. Plenty of downed trees around us, but we ca
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by agent86 6y ago
It works, but there are other levels of the stack between low level decoding HDMI and the "smart" parts. Without updates you might miss out on other improvements like decreased input lag, support for another format, and bugfixes f
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by agent86 6y ago
I am by no means an expert in this space, but this was my first thought as well. A government agency with bipartisan support and positive public image seems like a good entity for Cloudflare, Google, Amazon, Microsoft or someone else with i
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by agent86 6y ago
tldr version: - Comcast will impose a 1.2TB/month data cap for the remaining uncapped areas of their network starting January 2021. - Currently uncapped areas are Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, Ne
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Comcast to enforce 1.2TB data cap in entire 39-state territory in early 2021(arstechnica.com)
13 points by agent86 6y ago|1 comments

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