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by arexxbifs 1mo ago
Even the stuff they've traditionally been good at? Funny thing is, I haven't bought much furniture for ages since my old IKEA stuff has lasted for several decades and is still going strong. Their major kitchen appliances are crap,
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by arexxbifs 2mo ago
Not really, since it was something that particular character would clearly have known about and wouldn't have gained anything from lying about.
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by arexxbifs 2mo ago
I played various murder mystery games this summer and one of them had this feature: you could call a suspect and ask arbitrary questions for a limited amount of time (three minutes or something). The problem was of course that the model hal
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by arexxbifs 2mo ago
The interesting thing here, I think, is what actually drives the growth of industrialization: cheap energy, an exploitable labor force and increased automation. Every industrial economy seems to reach a plateau of diminishing returns, and i
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by arexxbifs 2mo ago
It's not that I dislike the humor, I just don't think it's as hilarious as it's often made out to be. Insult sword fighting, for example, is at best a sensible chuckle and gets pretty long in the tooth after the first tw
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by arexxbifs 2mo ago
I played it when it was released and mostly enjoyed it, though I can't remember what difficulty setting I picked. I bought it mostly because I like Mark Ferrari's art, but ended up completing it. Some characters and jokes were int
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by arexxbifs 3mo ago
> I'm curious, where would you prefer to go for a discussion like this one with people you've never heard from before? That's my point: HN/Reddit/etc serve a different purpose than phpBB-style forums. The format
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by arexxbifs 3mo ago
Reddit and HN aren't forums, they're factories for quick takes and reactions (and yes this is one of them). It's a transitory experience. The good old "crappy" forum format isn't gamified with upvotes and often
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by arexxbifs 3mo ago
It really wasn't. It was a moronic move fueled by hype, implemented by the same type of incompetent business leaders who previously, to various extents, drank the blockchain and metaverse kool-aid. There was demonstrably zero cost or c
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1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone(oldtelephoneroom.ca)
77 points by arexxbifs 3mo ago|26 comments
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by arexxbifs 3mo ago
For me it's mostly about knowing what you're getting when craving the flavour of a particular dish. Carbonara is perhaps an example of a recipe that's turned too rigid, but I've also ordered it and been served diced boil
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by arexxbifs 4mo ago
Meta fired 8,000 employees not two weeks ago: "[Meta] revealed to employees in April that it would conduct a major round of layoffs the following month while nixing plans to fill 6,000 open positions. The company told workers in a memo
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by arexxbifs 4mo ago
What if there are several reasons all at once? * Economy is tighter overall. * Covid overhiring followed by firing means fresh graduates face competition from a large cohort of people with a few years of work experience. * Even if it's
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by arexxbifs 4mo ago
> Imagine asking “What will be changed by the internet?” in 1997 Pretty much all of the stuff that was suggested back then or earlier: Shopping, advertising, video conferencing, collaboration, software distribution, media consumption, ba
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by arexxbifs 4mo ago
An Indigo² would have been a pretty decent machine in 1998 though? As in, running current versions of application software and capable of keeping up with normal surfing, programming workloads, etc. A friend of mine still used a beefy Indy f
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by arexxbifs 4mo ago
Old home computers are still fun because there are hundreds or thousands of games and scene demos, and active enthusiast audiences for creative output. SGI machines are extremely cool, but I don't quite grasp if collectors of old UNIX
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by arexxbifs 5mo ago
Running your own small website is a constant battle against grifters and bad online etiquette. When people hotlink images, I usually make a point of having some personal fun with mod_rewrite.
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Pixels I Have Known And Loved: Memorable pixel art from the Amiga demo scene(datagubbe.se)
14 points by arexxbifs 5mo ago|0 comments
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by arexxbifs 5mo ago
Perhaps the approach to, and leverage from, using AI is different for someone who's been active on HN for two decades, and junior devs who've been brought up on iPhones in the flawed school system you're describing? As TFA sa
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by arexxbifs 6mo ago
It's not that I disagree with the basic premise and concern of the text, but I'm not convinced about the "RAM shortage will lead to thin clients" argument, because the thin client is going to be a browser. Everything tod
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by arexxbifs 7mo ago
Microsoft invented AJAX when building Outlook for the web back in 2000. GMail was released in 2003 and Google Docs in 2006. Around this time, even enterprise giants like SAP started offering web UIs. This is the shift from RAD to web I&#x27
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by arexxbifs 7mo ago
> Visual Basic (and other 90s visual GUI builders) were great simple options for making GUI apps Yes, they were comfortable and easy to set up (and use), particularly when compared to web development. > a platform where their best bet
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by arexxbifs 7mo ago
Visual Basic solved that. The web is in many ways a regression.
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by arexxbifs 8mo ago
You're sort of right. This particular grant is extra curious because it's typically been given to already highly accomplished artists. Sweden is a small pond and although there are a few fun outliers in this crowd, most of them ma
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by arexxbifs 8mo ago
Amazon was founded in 1994, went public in 1997 and became profitable in 2001. So Anthropic is two years behind with the IPO but who knows, maybe they'll be profitable by 2028? OpenAI is even more behind schedule.
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by arexxbifs 8mo ago
Sweden introduced a similar scheme in 1964, in which artists (broadly defined, having since come to include one clown and one chess player) have been given a basic income, supplementing their other incomes up to a specific level. Artists co
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by arexxbifs 9mo ago
I don't really care if it's because of bizarro designer hegemony, device unification, cost cutting, bad developers or something else, but it's astonoshing how far the desktop paradigm has fallen (and not just in MacOS). What
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by arexxbifs 9mo ago
A shame it can't be viewed anymore, it has all the makings of a cult classic. The guy who coded the actual Nohzdyve game (that runs on real ZX Spectrum hardware) is Matt Westcott aka Gasman. He's a demoscener and has made some bri
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by arexxbifs 9mo ago
Sure about what? https://www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?t=1179
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by arexxbifs 9mo ago
Some real ingenuity and creativity on display. The Amiga only had two pointer modes, the normal one and a "busy" pointer, and the system preferences provided a nice little pixel painter specifically for drawing pointers, so making

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