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by flenserboy 1y ago
here's a guess: text was sharp on an Apple II with a decent monitor. font shapes were good. no matter how good graphics were on the C64 & Ataris, in comparison, text was always blocky & amateur looking. Tandy did better on this
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by flenserboy 2y ago
the guardrails are probably going to end up being way too close together when the dust settles — imagine if something as simple as "young wizard" would be enough to trip the warnings. someone could be looking to do an image from F
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by flenserboy 2y ago
that would torque me off so bad...
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by flenserboy 2y ago
Interesting that you think that of 7.5.3 — it worked , sure, but it could be painfully slow. System 6 was preferable as an OS — MultiFinder was better than 7, at least in the first couple iterations — but much of the software I needed dema
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by flenserboy 2y ago
life expands to fit the space it's given. pretty much every habitable niche on Earth has something living there, extending even well down into the planet. we probably should be helping things along by sending craft filled with various
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by flenserboy 2y ago
baseball bats
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by flenserboy 2y ago
So long as they don't build the models to rely on earlier papers, it might work. Fraudulent or mistaken earlier work, taken as correct, could easily lead to newer papers which disagree or don't use the older data as wrong/mis
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by flenserboy 2y ago
I'd put a dollar on it being due to tracking mouse behavior — if they want to cheaply track clicks & movement for the sake of advertisers, their surveillance needs to be as low-powered as possible.
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by flenserboy 2y ago
This seems like a much better deal than a blinged-out Mini. Interesting choices this generation.
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by flenserboy 2y ago
if the voters can't keep someone they like in office, there must also be strong restrictions on time served as congressional / governmental aides, or else those people will become even more powerful than they already are. far too
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by flenserboy 2y ago
The origin of TeX!
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by flenserboy 2y ago
Apple could be the first modern corporation to declare war on a nation-state. They have the resources to set the internet hounds on them & make them absolutely miserable. Looks like the Heinlein/Snowcrash/Stross corporate futu
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by flenserboy 2y ago
Why not? WoW, for instance, could be a fantastic environment for online meetings & as a help desk/corporate hot spot. For example, a dungeon instance could be the place where all the attendees for a meeting could be allowed in &amp
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by flenserboy 2y ago
This is only to repeat what has been said by many, numerous times, but — 1. The point of search was no longer to provide requested data, but to generate clicks for Google's ad service. 2. Generating clicks for Google's ad service
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by flenserboy 2y ago
Compact — SE/30. Amazingly expandable & powerful, while at the same time almost being portable given its size. Perhaps an era equivalent, except for having a monitor, for the new Minis. Desktop — IIci. Probably the best-looking of
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by flenserboy 2y ago
Interesting, & not necessarily in a good way. This method could well presage unprecedented numbers of attempts at eminent domain takings or other means of forcing people out of their properties.
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by flenserboy 2y ago
Give his Glass Bead Game a try; it is dense, delightful, & its content would appeal much to the denizens of this site.
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by flenserboy 2y ago
that ship sailed a long time ago
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by flenserboy 2y ago
in addition to this, ever since the sequoia update I've been getting security failure errors on reddit which sometimes, & sometimes do not, go away with a page reload
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by flenserboy 2y ago
"On The Tastes of Women in the Hamburger Kingdom: Doc as the Personification of Female Desire"
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by flenserboy 2y ago
I got use that, or some near version of it, back in the day. Cool to see here.
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by flenserboy 2y ago
Tax law would also have to change: https://pro.bloombergtax.com/insights/federal-tax/rd-tax-cre... .
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by flenserboy 2y ago
That's because the US is a profit farm for US corporations (& a tax farm for those making bank on US foreign policy) so they can subsidize the rest of the world. Food, medicine, you name it — bottom-of-the-barrel service & qual
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by flenserboy 2y ago
It's great for those who want it, but I really hope it can be turned off just as with most of their recent UI additions, such as Stage Manager.
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by flenserboy 2y ago
This is good reason for why applications should be containerized. The Old OS X way of simply putting a bundle into the Applications directory was a good start.
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by flenserboy 2y ago
I don't think that's the only factor. There is a strong impetus toward obfuscation, both from the direction of a search engine (more clicks, more "interaction"), and from corporate & govt interests (the less people k
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by flenserboy 2y ago
It is dangerous to allow groups of any sort to be excluded from licensing. This sort of behavior is far too easily weaponized against minority political, opinion, & affinity groups. While I'm not keen on the police having these too
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by flenserboy 2y ago
Think also about all the finished stand-alone applications which have been discarded because of replacement APIs, or because they were written in assembly. We had near-perfect (limited feature-wise from a 3-decade view, of course) word proc
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by flenserboy 2y ago
At the beginning of that Fall term one of my classmates pulled up next to me while I was working on a NeXT box in our lab. He had me pull up an app he'd had a hand in working on over his summer in Switzerland. "Check it out — this
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by flenserboy 2y ago
Meat is the best food for humans — ruminants, especially, are great at processing out the various anti-nutrients plants produce to ward off being eaten & then processing it into pretty much exactly the food humans need for optimal healt

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