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by digi_owl 8y ago
And his disciples going around yakking about throwing away crutches by playing their oh so fancy narrativist games. More like throwing the baby, the role, out with the bathwater. All because Ron got pissed because the marketing blurb on the
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by digi_owl 8y ago
oh, dear. Not this tar pit...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Over the years i have come to think that the brain can be better likened to a de-duplicating storage system, but with some nasty flaws that all too often result in mixed data on reading. Meaning that experiences that are similar enough gets
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I ran into an article recently that hinted that memory erasure may well be possible in the near future...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
While not a crime, i had some friends be very pissed off when i awoke from being blacked out drunk. To this day i do not know what faux pas i did...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I recall a cyberpunk RPG had an implant that did something similar. It blocked the transfer between short and long term memory.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Looking Glass is all over the tech field. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Glass_Studios
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The big holdup with UWP, IMO, is that they strictly limit access to the file system. And if you want to give an UWP program access, up comes the age old win32 picker dialog. If MS really wanted UWP to take off, they should have bundled a UW
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by digi_owl 8y ago
It did/does, but it is meh at best. And every MS attempt at pushing a Windows version that can only run UWP has bombed.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Well coordinated? Nah, it was a 10 year old policy that was enacted back when Think was the height of electric cars. This allowed all electric cars to travel in bus lanes and pay no tolls. Something that blew up when the rich people got a n
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I find it interesting how similar the Altair and the PC ended up being, at least conceptually. Hell, the S100 bus may have been even more successful for a time than the Altair itself...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I seem to recall reading that MS only started doing the activation thing in XP because the BSA threatened to throw them out. Frankly MS has held that it is better, for them, that the public pirate MS software than switch to alternatives. Al
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by digi_owl 8y ago
My guess, he was a money man appointed by a board filled with money men.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Makes a guy wonder what kind of world we have before us...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Drivers for the most part...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
> - Finland has 45 firearms per 100 people (3rd highest in the world) yet is was ranked the safest country in the world. I wonder what the ratio between hunting and handguns are...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Except that MS of all companies kept burning compatibility bridges. For all its warts, Android can still run apps that have not been updated in years (how smart it is to do so is a whole different debate). One would have thought MS would un
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Possibly never. I recall some tech bloggers voicing puzzlement when early Android tablets didn't ship with Marketplace installed. Thing is that at the time Google insisted that all Android devices had to be fitted with a mobile network
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Thankfully those are most often bundled as stubs that take barely any space. roll back the updates and then disable. Did that to Chrome for the longest time as i was using Firefox on my Android device (before Mozilla went nuts. Now i am fli
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by digi_owl 8y ago
OEMs and carriers often put "their" (the Facebook app bundled on some Samsung phones can't be deleted, only disabled) apps on the system side of the fence...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I found myself thinking of teletype wire signals, probably because CuriousMarc have been uploading videos on them refurbishing a naval version recently.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Mostly it is the realization that breaking backwards compatibility is bad for business. If corporations risk having to toss their bespoke stack over some MS internal decision, said corporations may decide to go with some alternative in the
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Not sure where i ran into the claim (may have been the Oliver Stones series), but it went something like this: While on patrol one of the soldiers shoots a elderly woman holding a bicycle in a village. By the time the report reached the DC
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I seem to recall running into a claim that the original idea of the republicans was that the government would be a check against coercion, be it physical, emotional, economic, or otherwise.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I think that time is long gone, as so much of the web today is simply bespoke remote UIs for black box databases rater than static documents.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
.Z is compress/uncompress, no?
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The opening joke in hitchhikers about the highway plans being behind the "beware of tiger" door in the basement comes to mind...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
If you want a universal format, you have a compressed source tar-ball. Anything else will run into the whims (and on the ground circumstances) of maintainers and admins.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
An informed citizenry is the bedrock of democracy?
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I seem to recall that Openmoko was built this way.

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