bluedino

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by bluedino 4mo ago
> that is still so much money that said founder and their family and very likely their descendants can live in extreme luxury for the rest of their lives even if they stop working right then. Professional athletes and lottery winners pro
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by bluedino 4mo ago
Oh, Karateka. I had the flawed Atari 7800 version as a kid.
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by bluedino 4mo ago
If you liked Flashback, try an earlier release (also from Delphine software) called Out of this World/Another World
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by bluedino 4mo ago
> Wolf3D didn't have textured floors and ceilings because of performance reasons, but several other similar games had them Blake Stone Rise of the Triad used later versions of the Wolf3D engine and had textured floors/ceilings
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by bluedino 4mo ago
And the 32-bit 4GB limit was often really "just a bit under 2GB" depending on the hardware, OS, etc
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by bluedino 4mo ago
We've spend the last fifty years shipping every job and industry overseas. What did we expect to happen?
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by bluedino 4mo ago
I find most of my kids friends don't mix sets, each set stays in its own box/bag
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by bluedino 4mo ago
Same here, my web browser shows as coming from 'Big Giant Firewall Company'....
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by bluedino 5mo ago
I love the trend of using AI to generate flyers/advertisements for everything: family reunion, restaurant, yard sale... The shit all looks the same. Every taco truck in town uses the same crappy style advertisements, all the food looks
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by bluedino 5mo ago
> In June of 1996, having shipped their title but concerned with NeXT stagnation, id Software switched their development stack. id also decided no more DOS games around that time (well, maybe a year later) > For Id Software to develop
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by bluedino 5mo ago
I don't see why it couldn't have been written in Pascal. Plus, Quake was written in C/asm, not C++.
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by bluedino 5mo ago
Reddit in a way is about finding an echo chamber with people who share your beliefs, not necessarily finding facts. Great for spreading misinformation and smelling your own farts.
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by bluedino 5mo ago
Question askers got lazier and lazier.
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by bluedino 5mo ago
About 10 years ago we moved offices, and I was over checking out the new internet circuit and cabling in the office. The circuit was up, and I hadn't brought anything with me to connect to the network, but we had already moved some box
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by bluedino 5mo ago
I thought this would mention Microsoft taking away free sodas https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
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by bluedino 5mo ago
Does DoubleTree still give you fresh-baked cookies when you check in?
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by bluedino 5mo ago
> The average family spends something like $5,000 on gas a year, maybe $10k. Half of that. https://www.fool.com/money/research/gas-prices/
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by bluedino 5mo ago
I'm scared of the floppy disk used to load Visual Baction
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by bluedino 5mo ago
Midwest. Kroger, Meijer, plus Costco and Sam's Club.
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by bluedino 5mo ago
Home Depot Coke. $3, and in a plastic bottle. The worst Coke. At least the grocery store sells cups at the register and there's delicious fountain Coke to be had on your way out the door.
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by bluedino 5mo ago
Various Dell prices from the US website: 3.84TB SSD SAS ISE, Read Intensive, up to 24Gbps 512e 2.5in with 3.5in HYB CARR, AG Drive Dell Price $8,825.13 /ea. 3.84TB SSD SATA Read Intensive 6Gbps 512e 2.5in Hot-plug AG Drive,3.
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by bluedino 6mo ago
And the useless notifications
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by bluedino 6mo ago
What does "in row" mean? For us non-English English speakers.
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by bluedino 6mo ago
Has Google ever done a good job with anything, other than search? I don't want to count YouTube since they bought it, but least they haven't ruined it...
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by bluedino 6mo ago
That was just a byproduct of how Rails did routing based on the URL
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by bluedino 6mo ago
Plenty of wealthy Americans live in big cities
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by bluedino 6mo ago
An old timer once told me about how he would read his printouts, make new punch cards, send them over to the main office, someone would put the new cards into the system the next morning, and then read the printouts on the day after that to
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by bluedino 6mo ago
> Lockheed Martin can, given peak rates seen in 2025, produce a new F-35 approximately every 36 hours Until we run out of materials https://mwi.westpoint.edu/minerals-magnets-and-military-capa...
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by bluedino 6mo ago
The current version, you can play on 'Easy', I think my kindergartner wins all his games on that setting.
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by bluedino 6mo ago
> Much of the USA accepts "gun deaths" as an unfortunate but acceptable price that must be paid for the widespread freedom to own guns. Much of the USA recognizes that "gun deaths" are caused by criminals who aren&#x2

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