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by digi_owl 9y ago
I can't help wonder if Google discovered that the banking and legal fees involved with paying channels that are below said threshold were eating their profits.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
The family (CRT) TV in the 80s came with a fold out schematic tucked in a pocket on the inside of the back cover. And a CRT is not something to take lightly, as there is a sizable transformer in there to drive the electron gun and the magne
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I would not say there is a pleasure chemical, more that it is a contentment chemical. It is more of a signal that the situation is so good that there is no point in trying to improve it. In a sense they are antagonists. The compulsion is dr
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by digi_owl 9y ago
hmm, i think i spotted a certain Wendigo during the credits sequence...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
What we get for being 3+ layers removed from the hardware used.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
And now i am old...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Whenever this comes up i wonder what the outcome would have been had Gorbachev been allowed to complete his reforms.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Gets me thinking of my musician friend that had a few soviet made vacuum tubes laying around for his guitar amp.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
As an outsider looking in i can't help wonder if it lost something on the way. The impression i had of Netflix from back when was that it had all this weird and wacky stuff reaching back to the straight-to-VHS rental era. This because
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by digi_owl 9y ago
As a user i wish more sites were "posters with download buttons". Hell the very article linked to irks me because of the persistent bars (so typical of Medium.com derived sites) that cramp the actual article area. But even worse i
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Actually the mini-USB put the parts that were likely to wear in the plug...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
To call the /. system more primitive seems weird. After all, you don't simply up or down vote, you are given a small number of votes, and you can pick between various terms (with attached values) to use on each vote. But the big d
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by digi_owl 9y ago
When i think web-brutalism i do not think of anything illustrated in this article. I think of (old) Reddit, Craigslist, this very "forum", and similar ones that are mostly text with minimal/no JS or graphics.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
And these days i think Google builds their storage solutions from the board up. And i seem to recall reading about Facebook doing something similar (including experimenting with cold storage on burned blu-ray).
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I find the new design noisy and distracting.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I go with Redreader. It may lack some niceties, but i find it gets the job done and is open source (and was originally built to cache sub-reddits).
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Funny because at least over in the Linux world i feel the complexity has come as people had started hunting for "perfection". Where before you had a GUI part talk to a CLI part via pipes, now you have them talking to each other vi
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Especially now that every damned language comes with their own custom package manager, with node.js as the posterboy: https://medium.com/@caspervonb/the-internet-is-at-the-mercy-...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Whenever i see people talk about languages (and CPU assembly is a language, each CPU arch has its own dialect), what it comes down to seems to be how "verbose" the programmer has to be about things. Meaning that if they have to ca
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Last time i read anything about that, those computers were still largely self-managed (though with a in-office wiki for collected solutions).
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Frankly i think consumers value backwards compatibility as much, if not more, as companies. At least as one gets older and just want to get that thing done that they always have (a certain big name author still writes using WordStar in DOS
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I suspect one maybe still can, but that the result will be blank screen rather than a alternate feed.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Very much the latter, if we do not keep ourselves to higher standards.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Yep, when divx hit the net and could compress (mangle?) a full length movie to fit on a single CD was a big deal. Before then there was VCD that used MPEG to split a movie across multiple CDs, iirc.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Ugh, that reminds me of some cover CDs that used some fancy/horrible macromedia based menu if you didn't kill the autoplay "feature" with fire.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I recall running into a caddie drive once. Effectively it was used like a tray drive, with a removable tray...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I wonder if i still have the stack of cover CDs i accumulated during a lonely student year (resulted in a deep seated appreciation for the flexibility of Quake1's Quake-C). I also recall that i developed a habit of making my own utilit
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Funny thing about ATAPI is that it is basically SCSI wrapped by ATA (IDE). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA_Packet_Interface BTW, anyone old enough to remember wrestling with IDE cables without notches? Meaning you ha
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by digi_owl 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA_Packet_Interface
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Because he brings that game up at length in the very next article.

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