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by apricot 2y ago
I had one of the original Fisher-Price records player as a kid, and I remember trying to understand how it made sound, by running my fingers under the tonearm and figuring out that the bumps on the plastic records were an encoding of the so
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by apricot 2y ago
That's a proprietary thin client, not a PC.
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by apricot 2y ago
Today is the same but with AI-powered privacy destruction
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by apricot 2y ago
Does Linux really need another media player?
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by apricot 2y ago
IMO, just because a microprocessor has a quirky instruction set that doesn't include some standard instructions, or was made for a specific purpose in mind, doesn't make it not a microprocessor.
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by apricot 2y ago
Maybe those few schools haven't done it because they don't want to have a racist admission policy.
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by apricot 2y ago
> When I get asked if the person in a video is real, I still feel pretty confident to answer I don't. I mean, I can identify the bad ones, sure, but how do I know I'm not getting fooled by the good ones?
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by apricot 2y ago
The commercial microwaves we have at work have both a large dial to set the time, and four large buttons under it for 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% power. No other controls. They are great.
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by apricot 2y ago
I remember one action game on the Apple II that played music during gameplay: Microwave. But the sound was made on purpose to sound kind of choppy (a bit like voice fry), so that there was some leeway to fit graphics updates and calculation
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by apricot 2y ago
I'm not gonna lie. Opening a massive Toughbook in a classroom full of puny Macbook Air and other ultrabooks felt GREAT, and worth lugging the 8-pound behemoth in my book bag. Plus, free rucking workout.
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by apricot 2y ago
> The keyboard feels awful So sad. I had a Toughbook CF-30 and its keyboard was one of the best I ever used on a laptop. Not mechanical, but it had a bounce to it that made it easy to type for a long time without getting tired. In the ne
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by apricot 2y ago
My son's first computer, back when he was 5 years old, was an old Panasonic CF-18 Toughbook that I bought from eBay for that purpose. The smaller keyboard was perfect for his little hands, and the computer survived countless drops, spi
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by apricot 2y ago
I remember fondly "Roland was here but he left". I learned so much from studying your programs!
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by apricot 2y ago
I don't know about you, but I write my 1 in just one stroke of the pen. Also I use a space as a thousands separator, and you need to write 一万 in Japanese for 10 000, not just 万 by itself. That makes for a closer game: 一 / 1 (one s
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by apricot 2y ago
In the 1990s, I worked on a Canon typewriter (AP800) that had a similar-looking keyboard. That keyboard is the best I've ever had the pleasure to type on and I've tried quite a lot, including IBM Models M and F, all Cherry colors,
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by apricot 2y ago
In the beginning, self-reference was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
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by apricot 3y ago
Nice. I learned programming reading similar books with Basic programs to type in, with a glossary at the end for commands that differed between Basic dialects — if you have a Commodore 64 type this, if you have an Apple II type this instead
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by apricot 3y ago
Well can you blame him? I mean, pigeons
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by apricot 3y ago
I just wrote a simple CPU emulator last week for the computer architecture class I'm teaching, and used PySimpleGUI for the interface. When students tried to install it on the lab computers yesterday and asked me about that "30 da
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by apricot 3y ago
In my opinion, a keyboard like the Canon Cat, with modifiers centered under the spacebar [1], would be a joy to use: familiar yet more ergonomic. Sadly, very few keyboards use this layout. [1] https://vintagecomputer.ca/wp-c
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by apricot 3y ago
The Nand2Tetris computer is a bad fit for 74xx chips and breadboards. It's 16 bit, for one thing, which implies a lot of chips and a lot of wires on a lot of breadboards, and the usual current problems that come with that. Better have
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by apricot 3y ago
Yeah, the title is misleading here. What happened is that the Turing test judges, who had to decide whether they were talking to a human or an AI, judged ELIZA's output as much too poor for current AI, and therefore probably generated
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by apricot 3y ago
Best movie I never want to see again.
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by apricot 3y ago
You can still do that. Many do. But the next generation of TVs probably won't even deign to turn on without you giving them Internet access.
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by apricot 3y ago
In China, similar tricks are used to work around automatic censorship. For instance, in the early days of the covid pandemic: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/03/china-social-...
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by apricot 3y ago
Today, one often hears "He is special needs" said by people who think they are being politically correct. But that's awfully wrong. He might have special needs, but he is not needs. He is a person. To me, that's a lot
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by apricot 3y ago
My parents had the same octagonal glasses used in TNG. I still have a couple, and often think of the Enterprise when I use them. https://star-trek.design/glassware/octime-double-old-fashion...
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by apricot 3y ago
Yes, WPL was the most amazing feature of Apple Writer. It reminded me of programming a scientific calculator, but with text rather than numbers. When AppleWorks came out, I was really disappointed that it didn't include anything like i
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by apricot 3y ago
Wait, a 6502 version of WordStar? I was a serious hobbyist in my Apple II days, and I never heard of that. I bought a Z80 expansion card so that I could run CP/M and WordStar on my Apple II (also Turbo Pascal, which was the main reason
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by apricot 3y ago
English is my second language. I agree with your definitions except that I've always thought "several" is more than "a few". Say 3-5 is a few and 5-7 is several. 5 works for both, but 4 is too few for "several&

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