cmiller1

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   by cmiller1 2y ago

   Of course since it's Ruby you can just monkey patch those to_s methods to do whatever the hell you want, confounding anyone else working on your codebase. I love using Ruby when I'm the only one who will ever have to look at or to
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   by cmiller1 2y ago

   *Case in point
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   by cmiller1 3y ago

   https://www.businessinsider.com/safety-not-guaranteed-meme-2...
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   by cmiller1 3y ago

   > which I've never heard anyone suggest ISN'T healthier than eating a large amount of animal fats I see you haven't run into the anti-seed oil nutjobs.
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   by cmiller1 3y ago

   > But the structure of those abstractions was discovered while making the mess For me at least it's more like bang out the naive implementation mess then "discover" the proper structure of the abstractions in bed that nigh
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   by cmiller1 3y ago

   For example with the 0.36.0 release ## was changed to mean "escaped #" instead of a valid start of a comment line (comments start with #) so some heading type comments I had like ### Input config ### were suddenly throwing errors.
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   by cmiller1 3y ago

   Been using Hyprland for about a year on my arch box. I do like using it but I don't like that they seem to make breaking changes to the config file format regularly. There have been at least three time where an update left me with so
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   by cmiller1 3y ago

   But later it betrayed him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjuQs5mEHmw
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   by cmiller1 3y ago

   These two: https://www.yipesoftware.com/yipeii.htm https://www.yipesoftware.com/yipeiii_MAC.html
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    I was playing an old RPG for the classic Mac OS recently and it has a casino that lets you gamble for money. One of the games is "dot racing" where you pick one of three dots and they race across the screen in random spurts and y
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    If anyone is interested in using HyperCard to make MARCHintosh content feel free to drop by the HyperCard Discord server I run if you want help! https://discord.com/invite/TAvA6TauZB
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    I wish more websites were still HTTP! I can't access most of the modern web from my vintage computers and I see no reason I need security on websites I'm not logging into.
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    Making sweeping generalizations of other people's motivations and aesthetic values shows you have poor judgment.
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    Not having the awareness that other people have different tastes than you, and may find what you consider ugly to be beautiful, is the trashiest thing of all.
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    I haven't used React so I had to look this up to realize he's talking about how it repurposes the <link> tag, but I've written HTML since the HTML4 days and "<a> doesn't swap nor replace your page conten
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    I still have some books on my shelf that include a floppy disk securely nestled in a pouch in the backcover.
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    If I have many documents open in one of those programs and I'm pressing the key commands to close a window and open a new window often I don't want open a new window to suddenly stop working because I didn't realize I had clo
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    Why should a process and a program be different things? Sounds like an additional abstraction to me
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    In a perfect world startup times would be indistinguishable from instantaneous.
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    What is happening with that first picture?? Is that an extra penguin arm coming out of the apple?
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    But why would closing a window close the program? If my program has many windows open which big X should close the program? Why shouldn't I be able to run a program without any windows open?
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    I don't understand what the problem is with the windows!=applications paradigm, I GREATLY prefer it.
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    Here's an album containing all of the built in wallpapers in every version including for the classic Mac OS https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNNQyeVrqxBdNmBkq9ILswi...
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    I'm curious which models you mean by "esoteric Macs"? All I can think of are maybe the cube and the TAM?
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    What about a place that served you baklava in a balaclava?
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    If people DO start replacing other devices for video content like their televisions with VR experiences I'm kind of excited about the implications for interior design. Imagine the living room no longer having to be TV centric.
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    > less awkward to get up and pee Arguable, imagine getting up to pee and not interrupting your movie at all.
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    Pretty much all bans against PEDs and doping are to protect the athletes. If you allow them then the winner is whoever pushes their body furthest without going over the point that kills them, and a lot of people end up going over.
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    A commercial fridge and a chest freezer.
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    by cmiller1 3y ago

    Initially I thought this was going to be a plea for more opera comedies.