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by barfoure 10mo ago
I have a copy of it I think I’ll find it and upload.
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by barfoure 10mo ago
Here’s a few more: 1) in addition to Kali, people played War2 on MSN Gaming Zone. It was available under the TCP/IP section. 2) before war2bne, you could use a program to change the color of your in game name, and use non-ASCII charact
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by barfoure 10mo ago
Based John Titor poster.
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by barfoure 10mo ago
This reminds me of “what does 4chan think of HN?” posts. Look those up. HN is HN’s worst enemy.
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by barfoure 10mo ago
Some additional stuff: 1) you can find the War 2 for PSX source on Archive. It has all the Windows stuff commented out. It might be possible to uncomment and compile with something like Borland C or Watcom C or whatever they used. 2) the mo
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by barfoure 10mo ago
Companies that need estimates have an Estimations department. These are usually companies that are led by and perform engineering work. Software developers aren’t engineers. Project managers have no authoritative training, certification or
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by barfoure 10mo ago
> Wait wait wait OMEN MAX 16z-ak000 has a lot of capital letters, that one must be the best, right? But there’s also an HP EliteBook, Elite sounds like the best, do I still want a ZBook? To be fair the names chosen are usually cringe and
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by barfoure 10mo ago
Lost it at wooden structures at the playground.
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by barfoure 10mo ago
Do avionics in general subscribe to MISRA C/C++ or do they go even further with an additional (or different) approach?
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by barfoure 10mo ago
I’d love to hear some examples of poor electrical work that you’ve come across that’s often missed or not seen.
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by barfoure 10mo ago
You read HN to find out what people post on Reddit. Meanwhile majority of discussions about Reddit on HN have a smug air of superiority. HN rarely has content like this. You’re better off just going straight to the subreddit to get more t
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by barfoure 10mo ago
George is probably too young to remember when we thought OS X was hot shit because it was UNIX compliant. That meant a lot back then. However over the years they dropped the ball big time. Arch may be the new hotness but BSD was the once (a
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by barfoure 10mo ago
Who is this author and what is effective altruism and why do I feel like I’m being given a backhanded lesson in morality by someone who is insufferable? I hope I’m wrong.
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by barfoure 10mo ago
Yeah… she’s not wrong. If you want to put an end to this you’ll either need to boycott products, make your own, or get something serious passed to abolish a good chunk of ads. This industry is loaded with money and they reinforce their own
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by barfoure 10mo ago
Sad to see patio11 fell victim to Mammon. The great beast tempts us all.
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by barfoure 10mo ago
I don’t know if that picture is so fake as to be incredibly dumb but holy shit, burn it with fire.
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by barfoure 10mo ago
There’s an unrelated/related topic to this: people who want to be heard doing something. They themselves won’t do much, so you can expect the royal “we” to be tossed around a lot.
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by barfoure 10mo ago
> Paradoxically, raw throughput matters a lot more if you are going to scale on a single box. There’s absolutely nothing paradoxical about any of this.
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by barfoure 10mo ago
Not sure what to make of the post. Software Engineering isn’t a profession. Software Development is. Software development as a profession may wane and morph, due to advancements in technology and other creations. I don’t know any engineer w
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by barfoure 10mo ago
You think open source has a UX problem? Try learning to play a guitar. It’s so bad it makes some people’s fingers bleed. People spend years learning how to play and they still say they have a long way to go!
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by barfoure 10mo ago
Yeah I don’t recall ever seeing this on Windows in fact I can still run Win 95 games (yes, those exist) on Windows 11. Mostly[0] works. I can go and install games from my original CDs which shouldn’t be possible but a bit of toothpaste on t