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by einr 7y ago
After installing ICQ for the first time, I distinctly remember thinking that ICQ straight up copied the sound from WS_FTP, which I had already been using for a while and where it was used as an error sound. They are definitely the exact sam
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by einr 7y ago
The entity being sued here is the same one that commissioned the design work. If you're not in the loop, do note that the "Atari VCS" referenced in the article is not the original 70's console but a recent, crowdfunded c
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by einr 7y ago
Speaking of hard facts, I'm sure that before you decided to call my claim a "poorly substantiated conspiracy theory" you have verified that Google does not alter search results based on user-agent, i.e. by doing the same sear
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by einr 7y ago
Nor are user-agents in any way reliable. Reliable enough to constantly break, penalize and nag me for using Firefox in other ways, apparently. This happens and is well-documented, not a conspiracy theory.
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by einr 7y ago
Another thing: every single time I use Google to search for a Firefox extension such as uBlock Origin or anything else that is available on both browsers, the equivalent Chrome extension is consistently the first result. It knows my user
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by einr 7y ago
Thank you, this is very useful. Got a highly anticipated vacation in Tokyo and Kyoto coming up on the 8th and I'm trying to stay calm and reasonable about the risks. Cold, hard data in an easy to read format helps.
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by einr 7y ago
Even if you just bought the Commodore cassette deck and connected the computer up to your existing television, you were looking at $200 for a usable configuration. Yes, that would be a basic configuration. Disk drives and color monitors
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by einr 7y ago
Yes, and the new Mac Pro is $6000 ;)
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by einr 7y ago
Other machines on the market such as the Atari 800 cost $899 Not in 1985, it didn't. The 800 is a machine from 1979. In 1985 a contemporary machine would be the Atari 65XE for $120. Yes, it's true that home computers were subj
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by einr 7y ago
A basic computer was quite expensive in 1985 and took quite some time of diligent saving to afford if at all possible. A C64 was $149 in 1985.
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by einr 7y ago
Pro tip: https://stevemiller.net/puretext/
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by einr 7y ago
Regular people aren't compiling kernels, they're installing something like Ubuntu Studio ( https://ubuntustudio.org/ ) that comes with everything you need preconfigured out of the box.
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by einr 7y ago
But having a garbage site makes me think it's a garbage phone. These things matter.
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by einr 7y ago
Many compilers/IDEs were commercial and too expensive for kids who just wanted to try out programming This is true, but on the other hand, every installation of MS-DOS came with some version of BASIC, so there was really no friction,
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by einr 7y ago
Also recommended: 8-bit Music Theory (theory & analysis of video game music in an easy to digest format) 12-tone (all over the place but always interesting, dissects popular songs sometimes and also gets into some very weird fringes)
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by einr 7y ago
Because browser PDF viewers are very basic quick-and-dirty preview tools and lack a lot of features. The most glaring omission is fillable form support but there is a lot of other stuff that's missing or renders plain wrong.
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by einr 7y ago
That's not an app, and it would be trivial to hardcode a device to send its true GPS location when an emergency number is dialled. Your phone already knows the distinction between emergency numbers and normal ones.
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by einr 7y ago
There is an interesting book discussing this approach: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/obfuscation
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by einr 7y ago
I'm sure Apple Incorporated, the most profitable tech company in the world, market cap $1 trillion, can manage to hire a few competent developers that want to fix bugs.
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by einr 7y ago
I think he's talking about Y when used as a consonant at the start of English words. Y exists in Swedish as a distinct vowel sound but is not used as a consonant like in English. Swedes tend to pronounce English "yes" and &qu
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by einr 7y ago
It also has words that are pronounced the same despite of context, cf. Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo ;) Ever-relevant poem: http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html English is kind of a hot mess.
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by einr 7y ago
In which case it's probably better to say it has an animate/inanimate distinction. No, this is not accurate, neither historically nor according to modern usage. Animate objects tend towards utrum but plenty of inanimate object
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by einr 7y ago
There are, however, remnants of the masculine/feminine distinction left: e.g. klockan is ofter referred to as feminine (hon), and the "-e" in "storebror" (as opposed to "-a" which is used for utrum today
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by einr 7y ago
but feel I must speak in favour of the Facebook groups function, which, yes, even though it exists on Facebook, seems to have allowed all kinds of weird communities to spring up in a way they might not have otherwise. But they probably w
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by einr 7y ago
The C128 is a lot more convenient to develop for. It has a built-in sprite editor and monitor in ROM, has really useful BASIC with graphics and sound commands instead of having to use obscure POKEs for everything (it's Microsoft BASIC
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by einr 7y ago
The Raspberry Pi, despite its physical size, is a full-blown general purpose personal computer. There is nothing about a Pi that is fundamentally different from a desktop PC or, indeed, a C64.
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by einr 7y ago
Just talking case designs, there's the bog-standard C64, the C64C, the C64G, the SX64, the PET64/Educator 64/4064 and the C64GS. At least. I would argue that they're for all intents and purposes the same computer, just
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by einr 7y ago
Of course, Commodore being Commodore (notorious for not sticking to spec and instead frequently just using whatever parts they had in stock or could get a good deal on), there are C64C's with "breadbin" motherboards and brea
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by einr 7y ago
Apple alone sells more devices running macOS variants than all Windows PC makers combined. Where did you find those numbers? https://www.macrumors.com/2019/01/10/apple-mac-sales-drop-q4... In Q4 of 2018, Ap
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by einr 7y ago
I use the extension "Don't track me Google" to circumvent this. Converts all links to the direct URL on Google search pages. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-track-me...

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