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by drivers99 8mo ago
I have this OST and the Mortal Kombat one as well on CD (mentioned together since they both have the same song, "Halcyon + On + On" on them!). When I went to a 2600 meetings in Seattle in 1999, I listened to the Hacker's soun
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by drivers99 8mo ago
Right before that, he says, "FYI man, alright. You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day." Whenever I rewatch that movie, I think 17 is a tiny number compared to toda
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by drivers99 8mo ago
I ran across a grammar mistake in one of the entries and clicked into the actual wikipedia entry to fix it. That was satisfying. Imagine being able to do that on social media.
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by drivers99 8mo ago
If they are young trees along the side of the road, generally they are broken off at the stump by a car before they can grow, and then you're left with an empty tree well.
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by drivers99 8mo ago
I got one of those MagSafe PopSockets and now I can set the phone on its back and it will be horizontal and doesn't have the camera being on the table.
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by drivers99 8mo ago
The 5150 was just an "IBM PC" not an XT, but still... I think we're talking about the same thing. I still have mine! 4.77 MHz 8088, 8087 math coprocessor, CGA graphics card, 5.25" floppy (360K, double-sided, double-densi
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by drivers99 8mo ago
Between using macOS at work and macOS at home, I really only had my Windows 10 PC for running games in Steam (and I don't even really game very much. I had originally built it with all new parts for Flight Simulator 2020) so its behavi
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by drivers99 8mo ago
I think it's because the Game Cube had a proportional joystick, and using a keyboard is 100% For me, it's not really the same without the monkey yelling when you fall off the level. (example: https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by drivers99 8mo ago
What about doing the thing intently for a week and then realizing later you haven't touched the project in 6 months?
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by drivers99 9mo ago
> but also freeze when confronted with elevator door buttons that look like this: <>/>< Same here! It's especially difficult when you're trying to quickly figure out the button to help someone who is about to m
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by drivers99 9mo ago
There's a funny example of even the "documentation" going wrong. At a local mall, there is a set of doors and they have put the word "PULL" (vertically like: P U L L ) on the window of the door, so from the wrong&
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by drivers99 9mo ago
I picked up an Olivetti Lettera 22 last year. It's quite nice; it won a Compasso d'Oro industrial design award.
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by drivers99 9mo ago
For the record, Scott Adams was unambiguously born in the Baby Boomer years. (So was Bill Maher.)
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by drivers99 9mo ago
> severly degradated performance I have 546 tabs in Firefox (on macOS) at the moment. I've never noticed any degraded performance. On my phone (iPhone) it's 490+ but that's because 500 is the max. I don't think it kee
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by drivers99 9mo ago
I really enjoyed this one as an introduction: https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scrat... It touches on both ray traced and raster graphics. It lets you use whatever language and graphics library you wan
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by drivers99 9mo ago
Went down a short rabbit hole from this comment and they actually are using a condensed serif font like that on www.whitehouse.gov titles at the moment.
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by drivers99 10mo ago
I forgot he was the same person who did that! I was somewhat obsessed with it earlier this year. I had found a version you can type into BASIC that pokes it into a block of memory and jumps to it, since I have access to a C64 at a hackerspa
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by drivers99 10mo ago
Listened to this exact video this morning when it was among the newest videos in my YouTube subscriptions. I've had it stuck in my head since then.
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by drivers99 10mo ago
That was really interesting. > Next time, we’ll talk more about... Alas, there was no next time.
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by drivers99 10mo ago
“The author made this story available to Medium members only.”
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by drivers99 10mo ago
That would be the next level I should do. Maybe not RSS, but just making an html file linking to various channels (similar to bookmarks) organized by category, while removing them from subscriptions (and curate the list even further). Check
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by drivers99 10mo ago
> On further consideration, I think what was happening with the homepage was that it was showing me videos related to channels that I subscribe to I think so too. I turned my history back on and watched part of one video in order to make
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by drivers99 10mo ago
There are 0 videos on my YouTube homepage, just a screen asking me to turn on history. Just the way I like it. Here’s what I did: Go into the YouTube app, settings, manage all history, under the history tab hit Delete -> delete all time.
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by drivers99 11mo ago
> it's important to recognize times when you had a near-miss, and still fix those root causes as well. I mentioned this principal to the traffic engineer when someone almost crashed into me because of a large sign that blocked their
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by drivers99 11mo ago
jmb99 already said the part about cost/price. I just made a PCB for someone’s Halloween costume and it was only the 4th PCB I ever made. (So far I’ve used PCBWay for all 4 but since I’m in the US I also ended up doing a rush order from
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by drivers99 11mo ago
1. yes, just do a search: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44162184
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by drivers99 11mo ago
Which camp is it if you don't even look at or read email unless you know there's something specific you need in it? I have 100,000 unread but that's because I did a concerted cleanup sometime in the last couple years. I even
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by drivers99 11mo ago
> it's out now It's not out, just announced.
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by drivers99 11mo ago
You can if you script the request yourself, or you could have a front end that lets you cut out those paragraphs from the conversation. I only say that because yesterday I followed this guide: https://fly.io/blog/everyo
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by drivers99 1y ago
I loved that you could freely beam apps from one device to another via the infrared port. I remember sharing apps with my friend and my mom at one point, sending and/or receiving.

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