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by flomo 3y ago
fyi, your link is broken
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by flomo 3y ago
Similar experience. Fortunately there is an activity log link, showing that Dropbox uploaded something which looks like a CD cover there once in 2011. important notice.
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by flomo 3y ago
Not a substantive comment, but I hope Caro will be able to finish his book.
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by flomo 3y ago
Just to be endlessly contrarian: "HN" has always loved reddit. Even during the protests, there was a lot of talk about how wonderful reddit is. If this sort of thing becomes more widespread, their karma points might be seriously d
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by flomo 3y ago
> I’ve seen entire comment chains on a repost that were re-created verbatim from an older post. I have seen this happen on one of those (former) small niche cozy subs, where it is small enough that people notice their content being recyc
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by flomo 3y ago
> Forums before the mid-2000s were pretty cool. Largely because the internet before the mid-2000s was a fairly decent place to be. Some of those old forums are still running, and are still way more intelligent than reddit. But I would gu
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by flomo 3y ago
Reminds me when I drove a cab in my early 20s. I had a psychological bead on other drivers, I knew what they were going to do before they knew it. (And to some extent I still do, I just try not to be a dick about it.) AI will probably event
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by flomo 3y ago
NYT: https://archive.is/gQjIn
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by flomo 3y ago
Yep, and 19th century American cities tend to have very wide streets due to horseshit. This is often misattributed to cars.
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by flomo 3y ago
If you want to go fishing on this, one hole is Apple's old low-end printer line. The printer disks had expanded versions of the 'city' fonts which never shipped with the OS.
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by flomo 3y ago
Yep, one of the features of VB was you could call into Win32 fairly easily. I once worked with a guy who was a VB savant. He had reverse-engineered the DOC and PST formats in Visual Basic and was comfortable bit-bashing stuff in that enviro
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by flomo 3y ago
As of a few years ago, this was not the case. The facebook conversion "pixel" would capture raw form data and upload it to facebook.
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by flomo 3y ago
One take I heard is Digg was actively combating vote manipulation, while on Reddit it was easy to get RonPaul/etc content onto the homepage. So the migration was memed to some extent.
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by flomo 3y ago
A cousin had a small Samsonite suitcase with the Lego logo on it, I was jealous.
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by flomo 4y ago
Not unforeseen nor FUD. There was a very real patent lawsuit between NetApp and Sun/Oracle related to ZFS. https://www.theregister.com/2010/09/09/oracle_netapp_zfs_dis...
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by flomo 4y ago
Windows too with NTFS attributes. The answer is baseline FAT compatibility. But at the very least, they could set the FAT hidden attribute on this stuff. It must be some mentality like "Well, I'm not littering in my own yard?&quot
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by flomo 4y ago
Yeah, old versions of Apple Mail used some weird 'RTF' format and IIRC security issues around attachments. I use the modern version, but NextMail was a different thing and legacy bits hung around for a while.
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by flomo 4y ago
The real issue with DIVX wasn't the rental/PPV model, it was certain studios who were boycotting DVD, due to poor DRM security. (Which they eventually 'patched' legally.) So it was imperative that DIVX failed to avoid a
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by flomo 4y ago
University site licenses for UNIX were very inexpensive. UNIX/C was way more accessible than most competitors, and students took that experience out to the real world.
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by flomo 4y ago
I'm familiar with SimCity and Raymond Chen. So familiar to know that SimCity was one of the top-selling Windows (not DOS) games. So while you and I and everyone loved SimCity, Microsoft had the economic motivation to make it work. They
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by flomo 4y ago
SimCity games had long shelf-lives and were on the sales charts for years. It could be it wasn't individually special and it was just "make sure the top 20 windows games work".
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by flomo 4y ago
Replying to say that I just noticed this today, and decided it was a negative tendency. I was reading a history article on The Athletic and was wondering about some things. Only after mulling a bit, I noticed they were links to some good yo
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by flomo 4y ago
People like me learned how to spot car models, because as the parent says, they looked mostly similar. So parking lot images get shared in places where older folks can test their knowledge. For example: https://www.hemmings.com&#
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by flomo 4y ago
Yeah, Apple killed all "legacy" 32-bit support, so one would think there's not much software which is both x86-64 and not being actively developed.
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by flomo 4y ago
Only certain operations were sped up by the vector extensions. People on PC forums would post their "jobsmarks" showing they beat Apple, the G4 was sorta a disaster. The replies are ranting about general software bloat, but I&#x27
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by flomo 4y ago
Agreed, to some extent. Perhaps I should have said Voyager style technobabble, as to some extent the later shows 'ruined' TNG for me.
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by flomo 4y ago
> However, learning simpler Unix tools - i.e. grep, sed and awk - is worth the trouble The deeper issue is .. maybe not. I never have any interesting data lying around in text files, it's all in SQL databases or behind JSON APIs or
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by flomo 4y ago
Eh, the bigger issue was Roddenberry was a Weinstein-type producer who hired women who he was sleeping with. "Free Love" guy who signed the checks. He's describing a particular actress who has been open with the star trek com
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by flomo 4y ago
Maybe you are assuming it would be actually "scientific". IMO, TNG Technobabble was one of the worst elements of the later shows and inspired a legion of lukewarm nerd bullshit.
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by flomo 4y ago
I was going to respond they rebranded as FileMaker. But wikipedia says they went back to Claris in 2019.

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