digi_owl

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by digi_owl 8y ago
Reminds me of some desktop toys that could have various creatures drop in from the top of the screen and climb around on the various window edges. Largely inspired by the Lemmings series of games.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Clever. But scrolling any of the images gave my old computer fits...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The best part is perhaps the quote at the end from Ignition!.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
https://github.com/k3b/APhotoManager/wiki
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Perhaps, but it will be closer to banning bank lending (as it is fundamentally different from lending between individuals). "Fractional reserve" is just a convenient scapegoat, as banks, once the rules and numbers are reviewed, do
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I find more often than not that the kernel people are reasonably good with documentation. User space on the other hand seems to treat documentation either like a chore best avoided, or something to bludgeon people with when and API is mangl
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Could have sworn that applies to the articles hitting the front page as well...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
And having sold the "owners" of their products on the idea that owning Apple makes them "special".
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by digi_owl 9y ago
To me making use of _nix but writing their own UI layer suggests that the _nix side was just a convenient way to get the base layer of the OS basically for free. This in much the same way as Linux use used just about everywhere these days,
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Because he was the Barnum of tech basically...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
And then 4th went and slimlined things even further. And what a success that was...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
The Apple II was the Woz Apple. Woz basically has to threaten to walk out, and leave the company without a products, to get Jobs to allow the Apple II to have expansion ports. The Mac etc is what Jobs wanted. A sealed beige box that only di
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Anyone get that Metallica(?) video going through their head, about the soldier?
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Gets me thinking of the prison in Minority Report. What do pre-crime do to someone they grabbed for what they were supposed to do if pre-crime didn't intervene? Put them in a stasis tank while they get to watch their supposed future cr
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Not quite. The setup is that the brains come from people that "broke" the system, and are wired up to look for others that match their kind. They are effectively there much like Neo and Zion are to the Matrix, a way to rebalance t
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by digi_owl 9y ago
That is not being aware, that is the brain making stuff up from noise.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Ugh, that kind of development approach gets my skin crawling for some reason.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
> "fell," for example; compare with Icelandic "fjall. Or the Norwegian "fjell". Another term that stuck out to this Norwegian was "beck", as you find pretty much the same term, "bekk", in Norw
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Careful, the big names running the Linux desktop circus may well go down the same route. And while Mint is a independent-ish distro, they really do not have the manpower to maintain a fully independent desktop stack.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Or "if question mark, assume clickbait".
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Exactly. The omniscient police force fits like a T.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Gonna love seeing the last echos of the RDF finally fade, as there will be no third coming...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
try the trackpoint...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Ideapads, not thinkpads. There were never any evidence of such shenanigans showing up on the thinkpads. Whenever i see someone complain about brand X, it is because hey picked up the cheapest model on offer at some corner store. Buy the bus
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by digi_owl 9y ago
In a sense it has been the "free lunch" of the industry, much like stored energy in hydrocarbons has been for manufacturing in general. But the supposed exponential curve that stock markets loves to salivate about seems to once ag
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by digi_owl 9y ago
One of those books i simply noped out of after the n-th time it diverged into lala-land. Stephenson may know his technical stuff, but it does in no way make him able to write interesting books.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Flash (ab)use this to hide the cache files for streamed videos. They create a temp file, then open it, then delete it. You can however still grab it out of proc...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
One claim about homeownership that i ran into is that "homeowners do not riot". Thus homeownership is pushed as a kind of pacification of the urban population.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
These squabbles are as old as home computing. Just check out the amount of name calling and whatsnot thats put into those cracktros that can be traced at least back to the C64.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Yeah, another interesting aspect of UBI would be how many would quit their existing job and just subsist on UBI. The real fear of most against UBI seems to be that the majority will quit their jobs, resulting in the government losing way mo

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