asciimov

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by asciimov 4y ago
It's just another front in the current ongoing class war. News media has become the propaganda machine of the wealthy.
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by asciimov 4y ago
You're missing the forest for the trees. This isn't about an individual's right to free movement. It is about keeping employers honest about where their employees work and making sure they are paying their fair share of local
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by asciimov 4y ago
That's neat!
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by asciimov 4y ago
Loads of companies tried back in the late 90's and through the very early 2000's. Zip disks, Jaz, Clik! All had the same problem, the drives needed to read them weren't found on every computer. The winners ended up being writ
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by asciimov 4y ago
It was a shame Sony never produced a consumer grade minidisc writer for PCs. I always wanted to be as cool as Neo in the original Matrix, sharing warez on minidiscs.
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by asciimov 4y ago
A few years back I was doing some cleanup of old media. Checking to see what was on stuff and what I could toss. Of the hundreds of floppies, I had a file failure rate of about 5%. However, my CD/DVD failure rate was around 22% includi
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by asciimov 4y ago
I miss the physicality of floppy disks. Picking up a caddy of disks, thumbing through reading the labels, sliding them into the drive and hearing the motor whirr. Nowadays, my caddy has been replaced with a small plastic bag full of chips a
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by asciimov 4y ago
Git is part of the official doctrine of the Cult of Torvalds, anything else is heresy.
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by asciimov 4y ago
Nope. It does not bother me at all as I don't care for the people that profit from sitting on domain names.
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by asciimov 4y ago
As a kid that grew up poor, all I can think about is great... another way to divide the haves and the have-nots. Society benefits when education is free. Keeping educational content behind a paywall just speaks to greed.
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by asciimov 4y ago
In what way do I get to know the quality of the content ahead of time? Some community measure of the content quality perhaps? Something opposite of a Like button?
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by asciimov 4y ago
Frustrating, no. Half the people in the US couldn't afford food if the costs weren't low. Paying subsidies is a way to keep labor costs low while keeping people fed.
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by asciimov 4y ago
I'll turn my LCD down, but it uses LEDs for back lighting and will only go so far at night or else it would start flickering. Most CRTs I had had a knob you could turn, and you could keep turning it down till you can't see the ima
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by asciimov 4y ago
Things I don't miss from CRTS: Their weight, the heat they put off, eye strain caused by low refresh rates (below 75hz for me), having to adjust the rabbit ears or outdoor antenna when one of the 4 channels got too snowy, image burn in
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by asciimov 4y ago
I've had these kinds of weird issues happen on named brand computers too. One annoying one is a 2014 HP laptop with Beats Audio. The laptop has a non-standard internal speaker setup. With the installed Windows 8 & Beats Audio drive
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by asciimov 4y ago
Most of the women I know, regardless of political party, are very upset with all the regulations involving their reproductive health.
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by asciimov 4y ago
I don't believe it. We are pretty clever creatures, I bet we figure it out one day. I don't worry to much about us creating AI but I am concerned for our over reliance on it.
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by asciimov 4y ago
It is easy to complain about the issues surrounding suburbia. What I don't see much of is how to fix it. How do we fix the issues of suburbia without tearing it all down and starting over?
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by asciimov 4y ago
The vast majority of my spam comes from the bad old days of desktop pc viruses and people using outlook express (say 15+ years ago). Back then, my college required us to forward our university email to a personal account. That's fine a
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by asciimov 4y ago
Poor craftsmanship is likely the biggest culprit, followed by thermal shocks, putting the pans in the dishwasher, and not following care instructions. I went through half a dozen non-stick pans over a 5 year period that all had their coatin
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by asciimov 4y ago
That's because the "rest of the story" isn't as good. With a little digging you often find <minors>'s parent(s) are a researcher that studies that exact <thing> <minor> was building, or <minor&g
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by asciimov 4y ago
I am surprised that neither Apple nor Google have spent much time trying to address the discoverability of the features in their touch devices. On the one hand, I guess it's nice, I don't have to field calls from my family asking
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by asciimov 4y ago
Seeing the amount of y’all excited about the guification of the terminal makes me concerned. I get it, this is a reaction to the appifying the browser. Please don’t turn to the terminal as a panacea for browsers. I don’t want my cli apps to
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by asciimov 4y ago
Like most used things these days, book buying/selling/collecting was way easier 20 years ago, before smart phones. Nowadays half of the market is flippers and scalpers, prices have shot up, and nobody is getting a pallet of good b
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by asciimov 4y ago
Forcing public libraries to use a workaround to fix a problem Google created isn't an ideal solution.
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by asciimov 4y ago
This blind spot got so big because the vast majority of wealthy Bay Area tech workers have never been poor or homeless. It is difficult for those that have never lived in poverty to understand the struggles that it brings. Just look at his
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by asciimov 4y ago
I prefer to have an idea what I am getting into before I drop money on a big ticket item.
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by asciimov 4y ago
Well that's one way to kill platform adoption momentum. My biggest problem with VR is I've never been able to use it. I've been to One Microsoft store about 3 years ago that had some VR setup, but they refused to let me try i
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by asciimov 4y ago
How much of this is due to the replacement of home windows machines with mobile devices? I know multiple families with kids that don't have traditional pc's or laptops in their home. Instead everybody has a phone or tablet. If a k
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by asciimov 4y ago
I was the opposite, I spent a good chunk of my time growing up and then in college on the High Plains of Texas. When I took my first job it was in a pine forrest I often felt sick because I couldn’t see the horizon and because the trees blo

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