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by criddell 3mo ago
I’m guessing there’s some way for a Lisp program to load a DLL and call a function in it so writing a Windows application using the Windows App SDK is likely possible. The one part I can’t imagine is how do you pass a Lisp function as a cal
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by criddell 3mo ago
I wonder if that's what electricity producers do? If you are selling 50 or 60 Hz service, an extra second here or there must really mess things up.
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by criddell 3mo ago
Maybe the game should limit the number of tries per word?
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by criddell 3mo ago
The timer kills this for me too. Maybe if it counted up I would be less annoyed by it. I like how the NYT does it with their crossword app. If you complete it under some threshold you get a gold star but there's no upper limit on the t
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by criddell 3mo ago
Judging by what I've seen on Reddit lately, lots and lots of people have stopped caring about their personal impact on the environment. Why should we set the AC to 80 or be diligent about turning off lights when billionaires are flying
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by criddell 3mo ago
Is there an easier way to get a green hat?
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by criddell 3mo ago
> good luck navigating through life without knowing how to read Literacy isn't usually evaluated as a binary thing. Here's how one organization ranks reading levels: https://nces.ed.gov/naal/perf_levels.asp
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by criddell 3mo ago
I think the point is that the design of the SAT influences what is taught in schools. If the SAT stops testing the ability to deal with multi-paragraph text, then schools will spend less time teaching those skills.
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by criddell 3mo ago
Part of that might be your book choice. I found that when trying to rekindle my reading habit, book choice had a big effect. Some books are like vegetables you know you should eat but really don't want to and other books are junk food.
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by criddell 3mo ago
It would probably be quicker to type it in than figure out how to OCR it. It would be like typing in a game from a COMPUTE! magazine 45 years go. https://archive.org/details/1983-01-compute-magazine/page/96...
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by criddell 3mo ago
While Germany and some other Western countries were going along with the IMF and their austerity policies, Japan just kept printing money. Where would you rather live today? (I've been to Japan (Tokyo) but never Germany, so I have no o
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by criddell 3mo ago
Or maybe the AliExpress experience.
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by criddell 3mo ago
Thinking about some of the business practices of our ancestors, shipping bits of plastic seems like a great improvement. Our great-great-grandchildren will probably be getting their gadgets via some kind of Star Trek replicator rather than
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by criddell 3mo ago
If they drop support of Firefox, does that mean they would actively block Firefox?
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by criddell 3mo ago
I would guess the person you are responding to is thinking about more mundane books that are or have been banned in public and private schools in recent history. Harry Potter, for example.
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by criddell 3mo ago
Wouldn't something like a book of child pornography be banned in the EU?
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by criddell 3mo ago
When somebody says a book is banned, there's usually some context that provides details on the scope of the ban. For example, North Korea has banned most western books so my local Barnes and Nobles is pretty much a banned book store.
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by criddell 3mo ago
I'm not a fan of mechanical keyboards so I was going to post a link to my favorite keyboard (Lenovo ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II) and just found out it's discontinued. I'm so bummed out because it's such a great keybo
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by criddell 3mo ago
The best way to win at gambling is to be the house.
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by criddell 3mo ago
> A college degree is no longer a guaranteed path to a stable, well paying job. College never guaranteed anything. A college education may still be (statistically) a good investment: https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.o
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by criddell 4mo ago
Always? Maybe for the past 15-20 years but for the 50 years before that there wasn't much investment or interest from executives. AI was mostly about research and niche applications.
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by criddell 4mo ago
You're right and they are so boring to look at. I love the look of so many 70's-90's home computers. I'd love to be able to buy something like a Commodore PET or ICON for my kitchen. The ICON with it's trackball wou
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by criddell 4mo ago
The best versions of Tetris are random in sets of 7. There's a "bag" of all 7 shapes and the next piece is picked from that bag until the bag is empty and then it refills.
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by criddell 4mo ago
What computers available today look interesting enough that they will show up in movies next year? Clicking through random computers I think the 80’s had a lot of really beautiful hardware. I think it might be fun to buy an IBM PS/2 ca
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by criddell 4mo ago
You can play them, but the license gives you no right to transfer ownership. This feels like a huge problem to me, especially with ebooks. I’d love to see regulation around guaranteeing consumers the ability to transfer ownership of digital
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by criddell 4mo ago
If you include mobile gaming, things look a lot better.
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by criddell 4mo ago
And a lot of starlink customers agree. How can this be resolved?
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by criddell 4mo ago
There doesn’t have to be a big screen. Porsche sells head units with car play for their cars going back to the 1960’s. I think they look great. https://vehicle-accessories.porsche.com/prod/pag/Vehicle/Acc...
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by criddell 4mo ago
Be careful what you wish for. Creating companies out of Android and Chrome seems like a way to quickly and maximally enshittify those technologies.
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by criddell 4mo ago
I'm guessing you know this already, but I thought it's worth saying - some Switch 2 carts only contain a game key and not the actual game. https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/

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