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571.
by cout 6y ago
I thought the graphics were brilliant. Reminded me of playing Battle Chess on 4-color CGA.
572.
by cout 6y ago
I settled for the second trick newcomers learn -- forking the Queen and the Rook with the Knight. Easy win being up a Rook and Pawn to a Knight, with the black's King uncastled and in the open. I expected it to play like Ed's Che
573.
by cout 6y ago
My ears have aged, but when I was younger, I was frustrated that my flip-clock/radio could not go low enough before the volume hit zero. It had an analog volume dial. I had the impression the problem was physical limitations with the
574.
by cout 6y ago
Are you saying there is still a use case for going straight to ALSA without something in the middle?
575.
by cout 6y ago
Where was that claim made (for pulseaudio vs Android)? Hearing any claim that pulseaudio uses less cpu than some alternative makes me blink. For years I could not use pulseaudio while playing games, because it would eat 99% cpu and I only
576.
by cout 6y ago
Latency on calls over cellular networks is already very high (my subjective experience). But we humans are good at working around it when it's just two people - wait for the other person to finish speaking before you speak, and the ot
577.
by cout 6y ago
I would be happy if something could be done to prevent audio latency for all devices on my system from permanently increasing if I ever connect a bluetooth audio device. On Linux, I have to restart pulseaudio after using Bluetooth audio, ot
578.
by cout 6y ago
My wife and I still call each other boyfriend/girlfriend, but we are old fashioned. We like it because we are an dating (each other), even though we are married. One argument in favor of using partner is that boyfriend/girlfriend
579.
by cout 6y ago
The problem I have with the word "partner" is that it is ambiguous -- it could mean life partner, sexual partner, or business partner. Honestly I wish there were another commonly accepted word I could use to avoid the ambiguity.
580.
by cout 6y ago
You'uns is a viable alternative as well.
581.
by cout 6y ago
If it's Amazon brand (e.g. Kindle), I'd be surprised to get a counterfeit. I also trust less popular brands to not be counterfeit, though I expect that to change in the future.
582.
by cout 6y ago
Vue is the lean alternative to Angular.
583.
by cout 6y ago
I had a similar internal response when I read that sentence. I could easily interpret it as claiming that people are pulling down Confederate statues because they are a little sick of them rather than because of what the statues represent.
584.
by cout 6y ago
Yes, I can imagine that! I was part of a mentoring program in 1993 where I was a shadow at the local hospital's IT department. They were able to purchase an Indigo for some sort of research and allowed me to explore it. My home compu
585.
by cout 6y ago
I assume you are writing about 1991? Quattro Pro had come out a few years prior and blew the doors off 1-2-3. Visual BASIC 1.0 for DOS was a year away, a little sluggish and too late to change the world, but still amazing for those of us wh
586.
by cout 6y ago
I did the same. My 25MHz 386SX boots to a usable screen faster than any Windows or Linux machine I own, despite promises from certain prominent programmers. I could park my hard drive and shut my computer down every night and think twice a
587.
by cout 6y ago
Even comparing recent versions of Word to the older ones is facepalm-inducing. I still don't understand what the designer was thinking with the ribbon. Compare to the DOS days where every major program (wordperfect, lotus 1-2-3, etc)
588.
by cout 6y ago
> Keypresses don't get dropped from the buffer even while the application is thinking. This annoys me to no end. Some applications (Firefox) even reorder keystrokes! I'm beginning to think we've been using the wrong progr
589.
by cout 6y ago
Can you explain how chunky graphics differs from non-chunky graphics? I'm not familiar with this term.
590.
by cout 6y ago
Sounds like bliss! Twenty years ago I was working on a project that received financial data through a Y-cable connected to a printer port. One day, we stopped getting data and could not figure out why. Turns out the printer had run out o
591.
by cout 6y ago
I think the reason JSON caught on outside of the javascript community is because it provided a succinct way to represent tree structures of common types (numbers, strings, dictionaries, and lists), using a syntax familiar to anyone who has
592.
by cout 6y ago
I wonder if the tax could be reduced with huge pages. Much of the cost of COW is the large number of page faults, but with huge pages you could reduce the number of faults to 1.
593.
by cout 6y ago
I was surprised to learn that this isn't how linkers work. Apparently one of the reasons c++ template code is so slow to link is long symbol names.
594.
by cout 6y ago
Black holes are how I remember which one is which. But I would rather not have to think about it.
595.
by cout 6y ago
Wonderful use of the word venerable.
596.
by cout 8y ago
In my experience, for the best balance between compression speed and compression ratio, nothing beats 7zip with the right options: -mmt=$(nproc) # use all available cores -ms=off # disable solid archives (compress each file sepa
597.
by cout 8y ago
I agree that on Linux-based systems, SIGHUP is a reasonable mechanism for killing processes when a user closes an ssh session, and that ignoring SIGHUP is a reasonable way to avoid getting terminated. I disagree that POSIX says that process