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by chungy 3y ago
Huh. I thought the title might have been a grammar mishap ("from scratch" is how I read it first), but apparently Scratch is a kids-oriented visual programming tool: https://scratch.mit.edu/ Neat. Kind of reminds
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by chungy 3y ago
The "U" doesn't stand for Unreliable. It's basically the simplest possible packetization that doesn't offer much of anything that the underlying IPv4/IPv6 layer doesn't, besides filtering out packets based
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by chungy 3y ago
> Yet to see any proof that namespacing has made things better in other ecosystems It's really as simple as this: many libraries are generic enough implementing something that already exists. Let's say you want a library to man
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by chungy 3y ago
Perhaps my biggest critique is that crates.io has no namespacing. Anyone can just claim a global and generic package name and we mostly have to deal with it (unless you avoid using the crates.io repository, but then you'll probably hav
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by chungy 3y ago
Version numbers don't work like that :) MAME just has a permanent "0" major version, and the minor version continues to be bumped up forever. It's not a decimal number, so "close to 1" doesn't really make
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by chungy 3y ago
Who says 0.999 won't be followed by 0.1000?
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by chungy 3y ago
MAME stopped being "just arcade" long ago. It's basically an "emulate every hardware thing ever made" project :)
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MAME 0.260(mamedev.org)
159 points by chungy 3y ago|94 comments
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by chungy 3y ago
There were a good few years in the late 1990s that it seemed every prebuilt PC in America had them.
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by chungy 3y ago
Writing off the Zip disk as a footnote is incredibly weird to me. They were massively popular and everywhere, especially before CD-Rs got cheap. I probably have more Zip disks in my closet than 3½" floppies.
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by chungy 3y ago
Conversely, the selection buffer and middle click paste are features I consider so essential to my workflow that I cannot stand any system that lacks them.
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by chungy 3y ago
Windows 95 had it.
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by chungy 3y ago
I honestly can't say I've ever seen a computer keyboard that has a symbol on the shift key. The text implying that it's common took me quite by surprise.
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by chungy 3y ago
Or we can just use a calculator. I'm sure most people's phones can even translate it by a voice command "What's 20 degrees Celsius in Fahrenheit?"
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by chungy 3y ago
IPv6 standard notation already uses alpha characters. Some notations of IPv4 use them too. "Just adding characters" isn't a solution on its own. IPv4 is 32-bit addresses, IPv6 is 128-bit addresses. That's all there is to
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by chungy 3y ago
That's also where the `git config` command gets/sets things by default when you don't pass --global.
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by chungy 3y ago
In the US, the floppy version was very uncommon. I didn't even know it existed for a few years, until I encountered someone that had it.
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by chungy 3y ago
That wiki is wrong. (First off, NT 3.51 came out four months before 95, it'd make no sense as an argument that the CD player was too new for 95, yet included in NT 3.51) The Windows 95 release-to-manufacture disc, files dated 1995-07-1
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by chungy 3y ago
I don't even think the CD Player is an optional component, my Windows 95 VM doesn't have it in the Add/Remove Programs dialog. It's just there.
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by chungy 3y ago
Well I checked my Windows 95 VM, even opening a command prompt and typing "date"; changing the date view in that panel does change the date instantly. I never knew this was the behavior. He describes changing the behavior in Windo
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by chungy 3y ago
Windows 2000 might be the actual peak. It took the good parts of Windows 95 and 98 and combined them into something quite excellent. All downhill ever since.
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by chungy 3y ago
This site makes some weird choices. Calendar: "This GUI doesn't have this feature" -- yes it does. Double click the clock. Clock: The old clock application is still part of Windows 95, but it's also in the corner. Addres
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by chungy 3y ago
$5.99 on GOG. That was my first thought as well. Hadn't heard of the Loom described in TFA before.
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by chungy 3y ago
It should work fine in the DS backwards compatibility mode, but a native DSi port might be slightly nicer. The DSi has 16MB of system RAM. Following that, the Old 3DS had 128MB and New 3DS had 256MB of RAM.
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The Oldschool PC Font Pack(int10h.org)
3 points by chungy 3y ago|0 comments
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by chungy 3y ago
It's all too common for ISPs to give you just a single /64 going into your home. So if you want to define subnets within that, you're "doing it wrong"? Nah. Just use DHCPv6 and be happy.
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by chungy 3y ago
You can do finer-grained subnets with DHCP than SLAAC will give you.
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by chungy 3y ago
It's an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address. Just interpret the IPv4 address like it's the last 32 bits of the v6 address. In the example, 64:ff9b::103:307 is equivalent. A more complicated example might be akin to 64:ff9b::198.51.100.231, e
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by chungy 3y ago
Indeed; I think Windows 2.0 even had it. The story might sound plausible until the holes are poked in the hypothesis.
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by chungy 3y ago
The front page does not have the normal Windows XP logo. See Wikipedia for the unmodified one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_XP_logo_and_wordm...

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