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by doodpants 3y ago
Every computer is general purpose at its core. But some computers ship with software/firmware that restricts the purposes accessible by the end user.
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by doodpants 3y ago
I downloaded it just fine using Firefox. However, when I unzipped it, and then opened the resulting folder, there were no .exe files inside. A moment later, Norton reassured me that it had automatically deleted the malicious .exe files, and
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by doodpants 3y ago
Neat effort, but my one complaint is how much whitespace there is between and around various UI elements, especially in item lists such as in the Start menu and the sidebar of various configuration dialogs. Actual Windows XP hails from an e
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by doodpants 3y ago
"On an up-to-date Windows PC with Copilot enabled, you can currently do the same thing by pressing Windows + C. For PCs without Copilot enabled, including those that aren't signed into Microsoft accounts, the Copilot key will open
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by doodpants 3y ago
Plus, driving Twitter into the ground is better than driving it into pedestrians.
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by doodpants 3y ago
Makes as much sense as QWERTY for thumb typing. In either case you're not touch-typing, so the only advantage is visual familiarity of layout. (As a Dvorak user, I prefer desktop keyboards in which it's possible to pry off and rea
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by doodpants 3y ago
Suppose I "buy" a piece of digital media, which let's agree for the sake of argument actually means "bought a license for". Suppose I also then torrent a copy of that same media for the purpose of backup and/or
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by doodpants 3y ago
I grew up playing Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and the like. For me, the whole point of a video game is the gameplay, not some story that the creator wants to tell. I barely tolerate narrative in video games, and mercilessly skip cutscenes when
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by doodpants 3y ago
Thanks for the inform.
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by doodpants 3y ago
Re: y2k; Yeah, who knew that year numbers were going to keep increasing? No one could have predicted that. /s
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by doodpants 3y ago
Based on a lot of the responses here, I feel compelled to say: saying "Copying is not theft" is not the same thing as saying "People should violate copyright law". I feel that "copying is not theft" is a truth
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by doodpants 3y ago
What do you mean "old enough"? They still don't ship parallel cables with printers. :D
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by doodpants 3y ago
People try to build all new, better software tech all the time! But doing so breaks backwards compatibility with existing stuff, which greatly hinders adoption. So it mostly remains relegated to experimental research projects, and if you&#x
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by doodpants 3y ago
Yeah, it's just like Python, which was named after Monty Python, but for some reason their logo is a pair of snakes. What does that have to do with a British comedy troupe?
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by doodpants 3y ago
You might be the only person in the world who writes bug-free code on the first try.
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by doodpants 3y ago
> Vanilla, being the most popular flavor, was in a separate case at the front of the store for quick pickup. Vanilla is the most popular flavor? That makes me skeptical of the whole story. ;-)
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by doodpants 3y ago
The Amazon links at the bottom of the post go to the first edition of the book; the second edition seems to not be listed on Amazon yet.
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by doodpants 3y ago
Have you looked at the CppFront[1] project by Herb Sutter? It's less of a completely new language like Carbon. It's meant to be C++ with a "nicer" syntax, while providing 100% linking compatibility, and with 100% source
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by doodpants 3y ago
So, you think the website would be better if it: - had low contrast text in a thin font - had pointless animations of content fading in as you scroll down - had a GDPR cookie consent popup - popped up an interstitial form asking for your em
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by doodpants 3y ago
This video is amusing and all, but is the author's point that enshittification isn't a thing, or that it's not a legitimate reason to go elsewhere? If so, I must disagree. What's the alternative? To just continue sitting
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by doodpants 3y ago
I enjoyed the article, but if I may express a peeve of mine... In the code listings, can we please not use a syntax coloring scheme that makes the comments nearly unreadable? Especially in blog posts like this, where the code deliberately c
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by doodpants 3y ago
> That't literally the only place where operator overloading makes any sense. That may be true for C++ (I'll take your word for it), but not for all programming languages in general. For example, in C# it's fairly common t
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by doodpants 3y ago
Is that what that was? I thought my mouse wheel was being wonky.
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by doodpants 3y ago
I use the "Disable JavaScript" extension in Firefox, and created a rule which disables JavaScript for the entire substack.com domain so as to avoid this nonsense. Unfortunately, some sites such as this one use their own domain nam
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by doodpants 3y ago
There used to be a Tetris clone for Mac called Quinn. The web site for the game said: "Quinn is an implementation of a popular falling-blocks game which, according to the Tetris Company, must not be named here."
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by doodpants 3y ago
Don't know about anyone else, but the reason I never bought Super Mario Run was because it required a constant internet connection, AND you had to create an account with Nintendo. (At the time, I had an iPod Touch rather than a phone w
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by doodpants 3y ago
Which at the time was a sci-fi game set in the future.
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by doodpants 4y ago
There's a well-known phenomenon where a person who has just learned a programming language will tend to write code that resembles the idioms of a different language that they have more exprience with, until they learn to write properly
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by doodpants 4y ago
Penn Jillette famously lost weight using an all-potato diet several years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NelIXCuuSZ0
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by doodpants 4y ago
> Babylon 5 went even further than most shows today. It had one giant narrative arc over the entire series... I don't think I've ever seen another show that did quite what B5 did. I would say _Avatar: The Last Airbender_ did th

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