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by fifticon 9mo ago
Well, moving/dragging windows on windows 11 (earlier?) is no picnic either, with the scrollbar nazis having decided, that windows title bars must be the next to die. Apparently this is all intentional, and app developers are encourag
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by fifticon 9mo ago
it would probably be like ouerto rico yes. Favors would go in one direction only.
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by fifticon 9mo ago
can you clarify on what grounds it is irrelevant? As I see it, most things in the world are arranged in their current way for 'hysterical raisins', so I don't quite follow? There are approximately 200 countries that could car
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by fifticon 9mo ago
..yet
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by fifticon 9mo ago
windows 11 was a disaster for 2025, IMHO.
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by fifticon 9mo ago
this has been solved in alternate reality for c64. some parts of town are dangerous, you may get mugged, others are safe.
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by fifticon 9mo ago
but where has that hand BEEN? And we are back at -anus again.
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by fifticon 9mo ago
25%
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by fifticon 10mo ago
as history has proceeded these past 10 years, I am pretty confident american voters will have forgotten all about in 2028, assuming they still get to vote by then. Right now, I don't have faith in them to remember the purpose when they
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by fifticon 10mo ago
you created .. The Registry?!
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by fifticon 10mo ago
above all, I believe he cared about getting the next draft ready for each week / before deadline, and then about keeping the cliffhanger suspense high, to keep his fish on their hooks.
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by fifticon 10mo ago
That is awesome. I'm currently down a similar rabbit hole, having found Eightyone zx81 emulator, and z88dk c compiler dev kit for Z80. Trying to make interesting programs that run acceptably fast/slow on those old computers, has a
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by fifticon 11mo ago
if you rearrange the letters, you get the Linos OS.
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by fifticon 11mo ago
mandatory mention: It is tradition to refer to this argument as 'for hysterical raisins', when something kept being done in a certain way, only because of some initial irrational arbitrary choice, is mandated with this argument.
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by fifticon 11mo ago
internet relay chat? what do you mean?
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by fifticon 11mo ago
We are legion,I am sorry to say. I can recognise co-sufferers, but not necessarily help them. In older parlance, we would typically just be described as 'a bore', but there is something a lot more specific going on. I am old n
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by fifticon 11mo ago
For better or worse, it was probably the main driver. Since time immemorial, people have been competing for mates and resources in a social hierarchy.
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by fifticon 11mo ago
now ahow me how rust can protect us against tech giants doing sauron moves on our software ecosystems?
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by fifticon 11mo ago
To add to this fire. I recently left my 'recently bought by private equity' workplace of 8 years to work somewhere else not-yet-ruined-by-PE (yet..) A major part of my decision to quit was this communication pattern. The whole o
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by fifticon 11mo ago
Jack Welch is very well-deservedly not receiving love. If you had to say something positive about him, it would be something like "well if he hadn't done it, someone else would have". That is not a high bar. You can give
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by fifticon 11mo ago
forth and lisp?
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by fifticon 11mo ago
these holes will be closed and turning into flaming jumping hoops, so this is not viable. fight the people designing the game.
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by fifticon 11mo ago
There is a different problem at play behind this. There are strong lobbying efforts that want this tech/system, for their own reasons which are not being advocated to the public. At the same time, the lobbying forces behind this are
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by fifticon 11mo ago
I regularly (try to) check these kinds of news, to get a feeling for where we are at (with accountability, or whatever you might term it.) But whenever I try to read and parse one of these 'what is the current level of popularity of wh
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by fifticon 1y ago
this is disturbingly similar to the comment just above it :-). Congratulations.. If you by accident demonstrate desirable attributes or qualities while being observed by another sex, you run the risk of attracting them :-) (apologies in adv
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by fifticon 1y ago
well,yes, already that description is sinister; I might be getting too old.
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by fifticon 1y ago
but who takes responsiblility for hiring those 'bad' people in the first place.. I am not saying you should't get rid of them, but the issue makes me think of that kind of people, who for some reason always think that it
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by fifticon 1y ago
points for'a perfectly spherical chicken'.
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by fifticon 1y ago
as others have warned.. a scary counterexample is the npm ecosystem, where people are gaming it with questionable npm package spam, to get the 'astroturf footprint' of being the author of widely installed packages. (which get thei
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by fifticon 1y ago
I know this is not a highquality comment, but this must be the ideal language to run on a raspberry Pi. I'll see myself out; I also do Bar Mitzwahs.

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