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by antiterra 4y ago
When? What release of Windows, and what games? I’ve been PC gaming and consuming video game media since before Win 3.1 at a level where it wouldn’t be under the radar if it was an ‘era’ where this was the regular thing to do. Are you absolu
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> Now lets remember back to the era of incompatible rootkits where windows gamers were reinstalling windows weekly because they wanted to play different incompatible games. I am guessing that there have been real issues with incompatible
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by antiterra 4y ago
I had this issue show up suddenly, but atter the past 10 years or so it has gotten a bit better. I know longer am managing rage if I know the person is stuffed up or following their cultural norms. I think it is very similar to road rage, w
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I have Airpods Pro and they provide some physical sound dampening, but the noise cancellation only works on rumbly white noise, not things like talking or eating noises. It can actually make talking seem louder by cancelling out the backgro
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If the main reason you’re making me write a cover letter is to verify that I am human and know what the job description said, you don’t deserve anything better than LLM generated.
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If they actually proofread or edit it, how are you going to know? How is it any worse than some job coach formulaically writing it based on the job description and resume? Cover letters are ignored all the time, and generally just serve to
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by antiterra 4y ago
I have ordered furniture from a catalog that took months to arrive, due to importing delays. They would have gladly given me my money back at any point. I just wouldn’t have decent furniture at a decent price I wanted.
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by antiterra 4y ago
What exactly is not a virtue about Bob’s eagerness to be able to eat lunch with friends and associates without having random people poking in and saying cruel things about his existence?
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> BBSs were all text all the time — no graphics, no icons, or avatars to go along with your posts and musings. ANSI/ASCII artists might beg to differ a little? Of course you couldn’t plop down reaction gifs or a quick photo of somet
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by antiterra 4y ago
The underpinning of the story is algorithmic, as mentioned elsewhere by others, Calvino was in Oulipo which existed to explore algorithmic art. Here’s a chart someone made: https://www.deviantart.com/monkeelino/art&#x2F
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That’s the Oulipo algorithmic underpinning, I don’t know if it makes for commentary or just is.
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I don’t think he’s bullshitting, I think all of them are true. They all are Venice in ways Calvino saw it. The point about language is that Polo and Khan aren’t even actually able to communicate the dialog as written, they don’t understand
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by antiterra 4y ago
The works of Calvino (as translated by William Weaver) are what I read and reread the most these days. I have far too much to say about them than could ever fit in an HN post, but: For the HN crowd, I recommend The Night Driver, a short sto
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by antiterra 4y ago
Tangential, but the one that sticks in my mind is 七転八起, shichitenhakki, which is basically ‘fall seven times, get up eight.’
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Check out Lost Cities with Albert Lin if you want to see some of this stuff being done and previous discoveries. It feels a little docu-dramatized but neat nonetheless.
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by antiterra 4y ago
Leica is doing interesting things with prosumer digital too, though. The rangefinder ergonomics of the Leica Q allow for completely different use cases and feel even though it is hilariously overpriced compared to a competing Sony fixed-len
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by antiterra 4y ago
Sony had a pretty solid hold on a chunk of that DSLR prosumer/enthusiast market as well. Fuji and some others started making headway right before mirrorless started taking off.
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Hasselblad’s current digital offering is only really interesting in the commercial space where you only really need one if you’re getting paid enough to rent one on the first place. Plenty of alternatives exist as well when it comes to digi
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Back then people also got hit with ludicrous internet bills the moment their site had large scale use and banner ads were the only real path to managing that cost. Adding a paywall would have created a severe amount of bad will.
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In 7th grade I went to a program for kids with advanced test scores, and met a kid who talked about math the entire time. He challenged me by asking what the most boring number was, and I was very pleased with myself to say that the most bo
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by antiterra 4y ago
I’m far from an expert but the people of Fiji at large may not be benefitting from the water anywhere near as much as you think. Unfortunately, articles on the issue are usually over a decade old and the new ones source the old ones. One of
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The 2D/3D Voodoo Rush performed so poorly that there was an offer to return the 3D daughterboard in order to get a proper standalone Voodoo card. You could still use what remained of the card for 2D. I did this and they sent me a retai
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by antiterra 4y ago
Fiji water is indeed from Fiji, which seems a little wasteful when there’s apparently nothing special about it otherwise.
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A quick glance at the market for clamshell g3 iBooks shows how irrationally well Apple computers can hold value.
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FYI, f you look up camera toss photography you can see stuff that doesn’t really look ‘blurry’ at all. There are other techniques that result in ‘smearing’ but still retain a feel of nominal sharpness.
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I’m talking specifically about the defense in the article that ‘if they include AGPLv3 in the title then it has to be AGPLv3’ due to the GPL/AGPL being a trademark owned by the FSF (this is argued in the expert report linked in the art
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I don’t understand how this argument helps PureThink at all. Even if Neo4j is not allowed to refer to their license as “AGPLv3 with the commons clause as follows” then isn’t that between them and FSF? PureThink isn’t a party to that dispute
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by antiterra 4y ago
I’m all for truly voluntary (no governmental pressure etc) euthanasia as an option to avoid incurable suffering, but something about renaming intentional terminal dehydration to ‘VSED’ and displaying it with corporate slides feels particula
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Hiragana, katakana and kanji are untranslated terms that are included in major English dictionaries. They are loan words. It is common for less-frequently used foreign words to not be inflected as plural if there is not a specific plural fo
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They do if we want them to. Take it up with Walter Benjamin’s ghost if you don’t like it. It’s ok in English to say ‘I love the shinkansen in Japan’ or ‘I love that one shinkansen, which was it… oh the Nozomi.’ Because shinkansen is meant t

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