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by apricot 4y ago
The Apple Lisa had preemptive multitasking years before the Amiga.
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by apricot 4y ago
I like that AC1D1C is red but BA51C is green. Hex code litmus paper.
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by apricot 4y ago
“A temporary $2 fee will be added to offset macroeconomic pressures.” Hey Mr. Restauranteur, guess what, I also suffer from macroeconomic pressures. I'll have $5 plz. Gotta offset.
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by apricot 4y ago
Yes, an HP-32SII RPN calculator. I teach math and sometimes have to do some calculations while lecturing. My fingers know how to do RPN by themselves, so I can use the calculator blind while continuing to speak. This can be a good trick to
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by apricot 4y ago
> collapsed arrows Yes. Who ever thought making up and down arrow keys so small was a good idea? They are high usage keys, and every time I'm on a laptop keyboard like that, I cringe whenever I use the arrow keys. In fact, the keybo
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by apricot 4y ago
I misread it as "Commodore 64" and got very curious...
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by apricot 4y ago
That's the best name I can imagine for an anvil.
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by apricot 5y ago
"I'm behind seven proxies, two fish tanks, a doorbell, and a Korean dishwasher."
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by apricot 5y ago
From the article: « Proponents say the law helps ensure Israel's security and maintains its "Jewish character". » Which is eerily similar to the arguments in favor of the 1935 "Law for the Protection of German Blood and
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by apricot 5y ago
I love the fact that it comes with a "CMOC for Basic Programmers" manual. http://perso.b2b2c.ca/~sarrazip/dev/cmoc-for-basic-programme...
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by apricot 5y ago
Once in a blue moon I'll feel nostalgic and go see if the web sites for some of my favorite software in the 1990s are still up. ARJ software is one of my regular stops, and so are Semware [1] (I basically lived in QEdit, back in the da
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by apricot 5y ago
I used to feel vaguely guilty (in a "there-are-starving-children-in-Africa" kind of way) when I didn't read the entirety of the issue I had paid for, but eventually I realized it didn't make any sense. Sometimes I read a
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by apricot 5y ago
I subscribe to the Economist. My subscription lasts one year, and doesn't automatically renew. I get renewal reminders and renew at my leisure. None of that arguing with people on the phone.
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by apricot 5y ago
Slower than a Pi, and it's not even close... ouch
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by apricot 5y ago
> I feel zero guilt about ad blocking. The amount of guilt I feel about ad blocking is equal to the amount of guilt advertisers feel about bothering me with their ads.
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by apricot 5y ago
My son is using the Apple ][+ my dad bought in 1979 to play games, learn assembly language, and he even wrote a school paper with Apple Writer. Not quite 50 years yet, but getting close.
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by apricot 5y ago
Exactly. And that's why teaching programming to kids is important. Because nothing teaches you the fundamentals of something like having to explain it to a computer.
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by apricot 5y ago
Wait, they had Cheetos lip balm and I missed it?
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by apricot 5y ago
When I was a kid, it was "obvious" to me that dark green and light green were two completely different colors, and it frustrated me to no end that people wouldn't agree with me, yet insist that pink and red were different col
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by apricot 5y ago
The 2600 was designed to be a Pong and Combat machine. Players, missiles, balls, background. Its designers had absolutely no idea programmers would write things like Adventure and Pitfall for it.
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by apricot 5y ago
+1 for The Friendly Orange Glow. Also interesting: Konrad Zuse's "The Computer, My Life".
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by apricot 5y ago
I've been known to get up and code whenever something was too slow on the toilet.
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by apricot 5y ago
I imagine January is A and November is K, so 21A11 vs. 21K1 (or maybe 21K01).
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by apricot 5y ago
I call it the habanero trap. There is no ñ in "habanero", yet a lot of people say "habanyero", probably by analogy with "jalapeño".
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by apricot 5y ago
That's funny because the first operating system I used (Apple DOS 3.3) was very liberal about file names. There was a 30-character limit which was a lot, and it didn't mind spaces in file names. Even control characters were fair g
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by apricot 5y ago
I'm of the opinion that kebab-case is the best case for all identifiers, because it's easy to read and to type. As always, Lispers were right all along.
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by apricot 5y ago
By this point, I'm pretty sure there are people at gnome who compete to see who will make the stupidest suggestion that gets put in production.
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by apricot 5y ago
The problem is we're optimizing for "easy to learn" rather than "easy to use".
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by apricot 5y ago
The best mouse for me is the 3DConnexion CadMouse Wireless. And the reason for this is that the mouse actually has three real buttons on top, in addition to a wheel. Yes, you read that correctly, the middle button is a real button, not a wh
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by apricot 5y ago
It fits with GPD's reputation of not caring much about quality control.

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