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by criddell 1y ago
> it feels like a serious downgrade What kinds of things are you talking about? These days I feel like all of the major desktop environments are good enough. 95% of what I do with them is launch applications and move or resize windows an
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by criddell 1y ago
It's not that computers like the PCjr were big deals (less than 300,000 of them were sold), it's that they were interesting. People talked about them.
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by criddell 1y ago
I think Mondo 2000 is the spiritual predecessor of Wired. So much weird stuff in there. I used to flip through articles about smart drugs wondering if they really worked. The caveat was always that the long term consequences aren't kno
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by criddell 1y ago
Computers used to be fun. IBM launched the PCjr and it was a cover story. When's the last time anybody wrote about a new desktop? I guess Apple and Framework do something interesting occasionally. Does anybody else?
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by criddell 1y ago
I think they do that to make it more difficult for one person to open multiple accounts. You can still do it, you just need another phone.
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by criddell 1y ago
What are the most common felonies committed by average people going about their lives?
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by criddell 1y ago
Same here. First read through I picked up a little bit but finished mostly confused. I basically powered through the last half of the book. Then I read the plot summary on Wikipedia and realized how much I missed or misunderstood. After tha
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by criddell 1y ago
> the only options left There are lots of options left. The big one would be to vote and to help others vote. In 2024, only 42% of young people cast a ballot.
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by criddell 1y ago
Couldn't agree more. Blocking SOPA / PIPA a decade or so ago was a nice reminder that when enough people speak up, bad laws can be avoided.
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by criddell 1y ago
If I open my text editor and type: C:\> I can make my editor look like an operating system.
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by criddell 1y ago
> OSes are the one area where reinventing the wheel leads to a lot of innovation To me, it seems like the opposite is true. Operating systems feel like a solved problem. What are some of the big innovations of recent times?
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by criddell 1y ago
The last time the NRA fought for gun control (AFAIK) is in response to Black Panther open carrying back in the 1960’s.
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by criddell 1y ago
I have sympathy for people living in a place where FEMA redraws the flood plain maps. They bought a home outside of the flood zone and with the stroke of a pen, their home is now inside the zone and can no longer afford to live there. A gro
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by criddell 1y ago
Apple sold more than 5 million iPhones 13 Mini in 2022. If the phone had come from any other manufacturer it would be considered a hit.
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by criddell 1y ago
I don't think that's the case. The article specifically mentions multi-family units: > Austin, TX presents the clearest example of this trend. From 2021 to 2023, an average of 9.9 multifamily units were permitted for every 1,00
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by criddell 1y ago
Definitely! A story mode in a game lets everybody play through the same way that a braille or audio edition of Ulysses makes the text of Joyce's book available to people who can't see.
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by criddell 1y ago
Oklahoma has had free pre-K for years now. If a red state like Oklahoma can figure out how to fund child care, it should be easy for New Mexico to do something similar.
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by criddell 1y ago
Are you open to the idea that spending every possible moment with your young child may not be the best thing for the kid?
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by criddell 1y ago
I want either an easy mode or just let me skip a boss battle after a few tries. There’s also an accessibility aspect to it. Accommodation for players who may have different physical capabilities is just the right thing to do.
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by criddell 1y ago
NFTs? They didn’t really solve a problem other than providing something else to gamble with. Nobody bought a low-res pixelated ape image because it stirred something deep in their soul.
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by criddell 1y ago
If you are working 9-9 x 6 to build a $10 billion company, why not double your head count and halve the hours? If you build that mega unicorn, there will be plenty of money to share and still have more than you will ever need. Or do the 996
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by criddell 1y ago
My first thought was 9 hour days, 9 days in a row, then 6 days off. At first it sounds nice, but I know out of those 9 hours there would be 4-5 truly great hours and the rest would be meh.
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by criddell 1y ago
I think what a lot of people missed when they were talking about shared cars a few years ago is that people seem to mostly like their cars. They spend far more on them than they need to. The average price for a new car is almost $50k now
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by criddell 1y ago
Atari ST support wasn’t added to GNU C until 1993 with Multi TOS. It was largely the work of Eric Smith. You might be thinking of basic Motorola 68000 support which GNU C did have in the late 80’s but you couldn’t build a set of GNU tools t
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by criddell 1y ago
It's still there though. Why not use it?
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by criddell 1y ago
> in practice we currently have exponentially less real-world data for an exponentially harder problem Is that where learning comes in? Any actual AGI machine will be able to learn. We should be able to buy a robot that comes ready to le
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by criddell 1y ago
> the whole notion of putting one room of your apartment full with random electronics just to cook a meal once in a blue moon is deeply inefficient You don't use your kitchen? After the rooms we sleep in, the kitchen is probably the
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by criddell 1y ago
The original IBM PC came with a technical reference book that had full schematics and BIOS source code!
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by criddell 1y ago
It definitely democratized programming. There were a lot of us buying home computers and writing little programs that nobody ever saw. Nothing commercial ever came of the little utilities or games we made. Before we got our home computer, t
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by criddell 1y ago
Chances are the tape is no longer readable.

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