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by billyjobob 3y ago
This episode was always my favourite https://youtu.be/462KBuAhncU It’s a somewhat darker, modern take on the story.
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by billyjobob 4y ago
Never used the distro but enjoyed The Lindows Rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSdRTOh2jeA And then after it was renamed Linspire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYtKHnU4mQ
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by billyjobob 4y ago
All the other compilers in the comparison are C compilers, right? Whereas this compiler is compiling its own home made language? So not sure how the comparison can be valid.
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by billyjobob 4y ago
Nope, it uses regular Minecraft with https://pypi.org/project/mcpi/ and https://dev.bukkit.org/projects/raspberryjuice so full Python.
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by billyjobob 4y ago
I fell for the hype that Textual always gets on HN and actually used it for a mid-sized commercial app a few months ago. I figured it was a 'safe' choice, given all the developers here who seem to like it, and it was the only TUI
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by billyjobob 4y ago
Depends how you define young. He has a few years left I would hope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright
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by billyjobob 4y ago
All this time I assumed that GNU TeXmacs was was a GNU Emacs mode for editing TeX. Turns out it isn’t related to either Emacs or TeX. If only they hadn’t chosen such a doubly misleading name I might have been using this for the past 20 ye
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by billyjobob 4y ago
It was killed due to the success of Fortnite.
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by billyjobob 4y ago
This is how Nintendo does online gaming currently.
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by billyjobob 4y ago
Slashdot started introducing features like this 20 years ago. We thought ”web of trust” would be the future of content moderation, but subsequent forums have moved further and further away from empowering users to choose what they want to s
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by billyjobob 4y ago
They made an excellent prequel though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron:_Uprising
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by billyjobob 4y ago
Whether I “follow up” depends on the purpose of the communication. If I’m asking to borrow money from someone then that clearly benefits me more than him so I will follow up if necessary. If I’m asking my friend to come to my party then no
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by billyjobob 4y ago
https://getaether.net/ is an attempt at a modern usenet, i.e. decentralised discussion. However it doesn’t have many users or third party clients. https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/superhighway84/ is a more di
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by billyjobob 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16143918
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by billyjobob 5y ago
Article claims it’s not possible to emulate a Pentium III at full speed on an Apple M1, and so there’s no point to a fork attempting this feat. But isn’t that exactly what Rosetta 2 does?
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by billyjobob 5y ago
ACPI was introduced in Windows 98, so when you say “today” you actually mean “the past 25 years”. In fact it probably took longer staring at the “windows is shutting down, do not unplug your PC” screen than it takes today.
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by billyjobob 5y ago
BiglyBT is the new name for Azureus. It’s older than qBittorrent and Transmission. The reason people use it over those alternatives is that those alternatives didn’t even exist when they started using it, and they haven’t offered any featur
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by billyjobob 5y ago
Fastmail created https://jmap.io/ as an open alternative to the GMail API.
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by billyjobob 5y ago
So to get into his home we just need to clone the MAC address that he constantly broadcasts everywhere?
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by billyjobob 5y ago
The majority of your cats’ diet should be wet food, or else you risk kidney problems.
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by billyjobob 5y ago
No, the motto was “Don’t be evil”. You can do as much evil as you like, so long as it’s justified by the goals of your totally-not-evil nature.
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by billyjobob 5y ago
From the site: > Although we would have liked to only use 2G, the least harmful radio frequency, it is currently being phased out around the world. We spent a good amount of time trying to find a flexible, modern and global GSM module,
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by billyjobob 5y ago
Probably out of date but I believe the classic introduction was +ORC: http://www.textfiles.com/piracy/CRACKING/howtocrk.txt Fravia was also popular, this seems to be a mirror of his site https://www.dar
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by billyjobob 5y ago
Why would you return an empty box? Legally Amazon had a contract to deliver you an item. They failed to do that, so you should have reported it as undelivered. When this has happens to me Amazon usually spend a few days “investigating” if t
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by billyjobob 5y ago
Sure there will always be someone willing to do it. But since you got hired and they didn’t, you are presumably better at it than they would be. So if you quit for ethical reasons, your unethical replacement won’t be as good. Thus the eff
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by billyjobob 5y ago
The JRE hasn't existed since Java 10.
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by billyjobob 5y ago
Space Invaders and arcades in general seemed more popular with adults than with children in 1980. I’m not sure when or why video games came to be regarded as a juvenile pastime. Possibly coincided with the kid-friendly characters and home c
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by billyjobob 5y ago
Intellectual property doesn't exist. Copyrights exist, patents exist, trademarks exist. But they are all different and none of them are the same as property. It’s just a propaganda term by people who want you to think they are.
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by billyjobob 5y ago
There are lots of creatures that can swim. Most of them swim better than a human. That’s why it’s not very interesting when we discover a new one. In contrast, humans are arguably the only creatures in the universe that can think. Certainly
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by billyjobob 5y ago
When I went to school, which wasn't that long ago, 'he' was also the gender neutral pronoun for English.

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