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by allenbrunson 6y ago
it could be you can't see that thread anymore because a lot of it was flagged dead. if you turn on showdead in your profile, threads like that will be visible. it could be you are talking about the one that starts here: https:/&#
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by allenbrunson 6y ago
i can only speak for myself ... as directors go, herzog is wildly uneven. a lot of his stuff strikes me as right on the money, exposing truths i wouldn't have known otherwise. a bunch more of it seems self-indulgent and unnecessary. ha
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by allenbrunson 6y ago
i held off upgrading to catalina for as long as possible, due to the mail bug and other issues, like the removal of itunes, which broke all my applescripts. alas, xcode is one of my bread-and-butter apps. recent versions require catalina, s
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by allenbrunson 6y ago
pretty common occurrence, in my experience. if you own a macbook, it is just a matter of time until the battery swells up and needs to be replaced. usual first symptoms are that the trackpad can't be clicked anymore.
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by allenbrunson 6y ago
well, apple certainly de-emphasized subpixel antialiasing. i am still using a non-retina monitor for all of my day-to-day work. when i first installed mojave, it made my display look so bad that it gave me headaches. so i wiped my mac entir
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by allenbrunson 6y ago
kraftwerk was my favorite band for about a decade. i still love them, but other stuff made it to the top of my favorites list. the band had an amazing run from 1974 to 1991. it sure is strange, though, that past that point, they pretty much
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by allenbrunson 7y ago
also a fan of NextDNS. i have been using the service for a few weeks, since i saw them mentioned on twitter. looks like the aggregate number of queries from the many devices on my home network will exceed 300,000 per month, so i am happy to
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by allenbrunson 7y ago
if she really did get "fired" for that column, it looks like they must have changed their minds? because here she is with another byline in the NYT, two years later. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31&#x2
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by allenbrunson 7y ago
meta: i submitted this story a couple of years ago, but it didn’t get any traction. i was invited by the mods to resubmit it, and this time it did a little better. never thought i would be part of the “second chance pool” i have heard so mu
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How the Father of Claymation Lost His Company (2014)(priceonomics.com)
118 points by allenbrunson 7y ago|44 comments
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by allenbrunson 7y ago
> Youtube's current business model essentially breaks all ad-supported classical music content on the site. that strikes me as a bit of a stretch, given that YouTube sells a premium subscription, which gives you a 100 percent ad-fre
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by allenbrunson 7y ago
I can never let a thread about BeOS go by without adding my two cents, because I also worked at Be in Menlo Park, back in the day. (I went down with the ship and got laid off as they went out of business.) I was sore about it at the time, b
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by allenbrunson 7y ago
okay, i'll be the one to stick my neck out ... i read a few of the AI Dungeon transcripts. i think it's worthless. you type in a command, like you would with an actual infocom-style adventure game, and it spits out a bunch of flow
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by allenbrunson 7y ago
in my decade-plus on this website, i can't recall reading anything that i agree with more than your series of comments in this thread. sure wish i knew how to exert force to make the kinds of changes you are proposing come to fruition
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by allenbrunson 7y ago
boy, does this guy's ethos for fossil impress me a lot more than the justifications i hear for the insane complexity of git. to me, this kind of result is the most compelling argument that the world of high tech isn't nearly so mu
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by allenbrunson 7y ago
> killfiles, and you are done. no, that didn't work. and that's a lot of the reason that usenet died. no matter how many of the regulars in any given group might killfile the local trolls, there was always at least a few people
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by allenbrunson 7y ago
i've never seen that, but even if he said it, that quote is not even in the same ballpark. the 8088 had a one megabyte address space, more or less. when the original architects were deciding how to allocate that space to ram, rom, peri
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by allenbrunson 7y ago
dhh is pretty frustrated with apple's years-long keyboard screw-ups, so he had a fresh look at windows: https://m.signalvnoise.com/back-to-windows-after-twenty-year... his conclusion would be mine as well. yes, apple i
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by allenbrunson 7y ago
> I've come up with a modern version of Gate's saying of "640K ought to be enough for everyone". he never said that. i personally really don't like the guy, but putting words in his mouth is never fair. https:&#
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by allenbrunson 7y ago
i had this problem as well, the first time i tried to upgrade to mojave. but at some point, apple made it possible to re-enable sub-pixel anti-aliasing. https://www.howtogeek.com/358596/how-to-fix-blurry-fonts-on-... a
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by allenbrunson 7y ago
no, that didn't happen here. the user got banned first. the comment you noticed came after that. every comment that user makes after getting banned starts out dead, but can be vouched back to life, if somebody thinks it is worthy.
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by allenbrunson 7y ago
you mentioned this as an example non-offensive comment that is nonetheless dead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20600442 the reason it is dead is because the person who made it recently got banned for bad behavior. h
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by allenbrunson 7y ago
dude. you have apparently been here long enough to know that that kind of response is unacceptable here. you are choosing to interpret that series of events differently than i did. i see it like this: 1) kubrick reads the american version o
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by allenbrunson 7y ago
wikipedia disagrees with you: "In Kubrick's opinion — as in the opinion of other readers, including the original American editor — the final chapter was unconvincing and inconsistent with the book." https://en.wiki
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by allenbrunson 7y ago
good find! it's been decades since i read this, but the one thing i remember pretty clearly is burgess' high level of indignation, which, yep, is thoroughly on display.
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by allenbrunson 7y ago
clockwork orange, the book, has 21 chapters. for whatever dumb reason, burgess' american publisher decided to omit the last chapter on publication. burgess believes this entire subverts the book's message, making it say the opposi
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by allenbrunson 7y ago
i was never a turbo pascal user, but my first real programming environment was borland's turbo c, a close relative. it had a great debugger that would allow you to run your app on your primary color monitor, and display the contents of
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by allenbrunson 8y ago
well, i have to be honest and say that, if be had not been on the ropes, i would never have been hired. in the early days, the company was able to attract the best of the best of the best. i am a pretty decent programmer, but not at the A
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by allenbrunson 8y ago
I actually worked at Be, in 2000. I signed up knowing full well they were in trouble: they were no longer selling BeOS as a standalone consumer product, and had pivoted to "internet appliances." At the time, I figured: yeah, they
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by allenbrunson 8y ago
suppose for a moment that this Tobuscus guy was indeed unfairly maligned — i don’t know, but hey, could be. that in no way contradicts the parent commenter’s point, which is this: all the hand-wringing over the celebrities whose careers wer

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