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by dhosek 8mo ago
From all the reviews, those of us who are skeptical of 8GB of RAM are very much wrong (I’m guessing it’s lingering PTSD from being stuck on underperforming systems with too little RAM that makes us buy much more RAM than we actually need).
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Those would be characters set with lead type. Most twentieth century designs would be created using a pantograph to engrave matrices for casting type although traditionally, a type designer would engrave punches which would be essentially t
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by dhosek 8mo ago
What worries me is that we are seeing unprecedented levels of lawlessness and open corruption in the presidency and a guy who has been open about his desire to be a dictator. Given what he did after the 2020 election I don’t see much hope t
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by dhosek 8mo ago
I never used screen back in the day (I was primarily a VMS guy then), but that man page is one of the best-written man pages I’ve come across: informative, friendly and just the right level of detail.
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by dhosek 8mo ago
You’d be surprised at the numbers of people living middle-class lifestyles with negative net worth. Credit card debt, car loans (with a too-small down payment, a car purchase can easily cause one’s net worth to decline the second you take d
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Because any mention of Emacs must bring out the vi people, just as any mention of vi must bring out the Emacs people. Because you people are cracking your eggs from the wrong end!
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by dhosek 8mo ago
The kids really have no idea how tenuous computing in general was back in the olden days. Some of the stability issues in the 20th century translated to modern systems would be akin to black smoke coming out of your computer if you happened
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by dhosek 8mo ago
And this is why I never rose above being a mediocre tubist.
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Instruments which have a non-discrete set of pitches (as well as voices) will tend towards the more harmonious (so to speak) tuning when playing in harmony. You’ll notice this in choirs, for example, where singing a capella, the chords will
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Definitely. I wrote an incomplete z80 disassembler as a high school student back in the 80s, but never got to the 2-byte opcodes. 6502 has none of those so would be much easier to manage.
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by dhosek 8mo ago
And yet Gen X is the demographic that fell hardest for Trump.
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by dhosek 8mo ago
I remember in my literary theory class, one of the theorists made the (deliberately) absurd claim that writing preceded speech. Reading this, and I wonder if he was correct (as an aside, I tend to wander into the weeds in language articles
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Yeah, I was thinking about that, and it occurred to me that even the display is probably pretty efficient since it’s not that much bigger than, say, a large iPad pro. It’s just wild to me how little power this thing uses.
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by dhosek 8mo ago
No one has commented on the charger this thing comes with: It’s 20W! The sort of thing you’d plug a phone or iPad into, which seems crazy. I kind of wonder whether you could charge it with the built-in USB ports that are in newer wall socke
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by dhosek 8mo ago
USB c cables aren’t merely wires and connectors but have some electronics embedded on them.
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by dhosek 8mo ago
My ex-wife’s name is Zapotec and spelled with ll representing a y-sound, something that has caused her continual distress in the roughly three decades she’s lived in the US. In comparison, Alena seems relatively tame (I would be inclined to
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by dhosek 8mo ago
I mean sure more people died than were necessary, but think of the shareholder value that was created!
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by dhosek 8mo ago
I’ve been reading a presidential bio every year (I’m currently up to Monroe and I hope that I’ll be dead or not reading before I’ll be reading the 44th bio¹) and it’s an interesting way to get focused senses of American history and trade be
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by dhosek 8mo ago
I’m very much the inverse of you. I don’t use Android because I don’t want to have to worry about all the fiddly stuff that is involved with Android. I like that it’s not a big deal to migrate to a new phone, that I don’t have to worry abou
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Well, that was a nonsense article. Badly written software has trouble with PDFs, accessibility is an afterthought (which, sadly, is true of most things) and some small group thinks they can invent a better wheel, ignoring the fact that they
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by dhosek 8mo ago
A bit frustrating for someone who doesn’t know Manic Miner so I didn’t know which system this was written for or anything about the game. I hate it when stuff like this gets linked and there’s no broader context to the page.
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by dhosek 8mo ago
If you read John Fante’s Ask the Dust , he has a number of dollar amounts in there for short story sales. Those numbers are better than pretty much every contemporary opportunity without adjusting for inflation . I would say that the 20s
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by dhosek 8mo ago
I’m one of those, although I tend to de-emphasize this fact in most of my social interactions (not just writing related) since people tend to react weirdly to learning that I program computers for a living. Instead, the bio for my writings
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by dhosek 8mo ago
I double checked because I was confused and nowhere in the article is “stop balancing defined”. I think it means reducing stops, but I couldn’t say with certainty. I will say that a simple measure like moving bus stops to the corner after
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Thus my saying, “and actually win”
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Back when SIM cards were relatively new (and credit-card sized) ca 1997 or so, the vision was that you would plug your SIM card into a landline phone to be able to make/receive calls there. I was working for Motorola at the time and I
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Yeah, movies are kind of weird like that. If I steal your idea for a novel (but not your words), you can call me out as an asshole but you don’t have any legal recourse, but if the same thing happens with a movie, apparently it is possible
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by dhosek 8mo ago
In sixth grade language arts class we wrote letters and there were rumors that some companies, if you sent them letters saying you liked their product would send you coupons for free candy/chips/soda/etc.
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Only vaguely related, but the Mars family lived in neighboring River Forest and the factory was just north of me in Galewood (it is shutting down or already shut down and the property is planned for redevelopment, but the neighboring Metra
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by dhosek 8mo ago
I feel like this is a challenge to me now. I will fly to and from your airport and you will lose my bag.

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