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by floren 3y ago
Or if you have a Mac of that vintage and want to use its mouse on your modern PC, you can use my adapter: https://jfloren.net/b/2022/7/8/0 (I recommend against doing this except as a party trick, because
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by floren 3y ago
Driving 101 through the peninsula, it's shocking how many billboards are advertising AI <something>. I think the article correctly diagnoses it as a desperate attempt to tap VC money that's getting scarcer and scarcer.
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by floren 3y ago
Give me money or you're a murderer.
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by floren 3y ago
It was never 1D, they just mean that the river went all the way across the map and the only way to cross was by bridging it.
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by floren 3y ago
Some day I'll do something useful with the debugger in SLIME but so far it's mostly "look at the error message, find the one frame in the stack that tells me something useful, hit either continue or abort"
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by floren 3y ago
For at least a decade.
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by floren 3y ago
It was originally all on a single Z-level. You would dig sideways into the mountain, but you couldn't go up or down. I'm pretty sure it was 3d by 2010 or so, though.
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by floren 3y ago
Aside from the song as others have pointed out, it's also easy to enter because you press keys in a diagonal pattern, wrapping around the keypad... hard to explain, just look at a phone and you'll get it.
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by floren 3y ago
I always enter (local area code)+8675309 when prompted, because at stores like Safeway you're gonna pay more unless you enter something . Bonus, you can then use that same number at gas stations that do grocery rewards, and you'l
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by floren 3y ago
This is a nonsense take; look at historical scripts like uncial or Carolingian miniscule, which were written with quills and definitely involve lifting the pen, often multiple times per letter.
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by floren 3y ago
The number of times I look over and see the driver of the next car watching a goddamn video on their goddamn phone... Mind blowing.
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by floren 3y ago
> It would definitely make it easy for beginners to learn how each piece moves. Which is more or less the easiest part of the game to learn, and one which pretty much anybody will have down after one or maybe two games. It's a cleve
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by floren 3y ago
The headlights are too goddamn bright anymore, and too white. The older yellow bulbs felt a lot gentler on the eyes. Oh, and god help you if you're in a normal sedan, because every pickup, SUV, and "crossover" (mini-SUV) is s
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by floren 3y ago
I just wish McCLIM was a little more... ready. I've had some success writing a McCLIM application that works on Linux, but they only support the X backend for now meaning anyone on Windows would have to install an X server. It's a
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by floren 3y ago
Also, the "ebikes" that are just electric motorcycles with a couple fig-leaf pedals attached...
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by floren 3y ago
Well, this is the flag of true China: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_Chin...
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by floren 3y ago
I kinda make a point of asking the waiter for a physical menu anymore, and they usually give a very understanding smile and go grab one for me. I hope if enough people ask (in a non-shitty way) for paper menus that restaurant owners might g
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by floren 3y ago
So has anyone tried this lately? I'm on an up-to-date Debian Stable running X and FVWM, and when I try to run it I see https://pastebin.com/7bJk7Mr4 (acts like it can't find the x server)
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by floren 3y ago
I'm a bit surprised to read that one-pedal driving actually saves energy; I've always assume that having once converted electricity to motion, it's far more efficient to just coast when you take your foot off the pedal than t
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by floren 3y ago
Hah, I ran across that site a while ago when looking for information about a Primus song. It had the most completely nonsensical interpretation of that song, too.
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by floren 3y ago
On the Something Awful forums, you can buy custom avatars for yourself or for others. Buying for yourself costs $5, for somebody else it's $10. Multiple posters have purchased hateful / doxxing avatars for themselves in order to
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by floren 3y ago
When too many OOOOLOOO brand toasters start fires, they just close their Amazon profile and create a new one selling FOLGARP brand toasters. You can't have quite that level of untouchability as a US manufacturer, so you have to do it r
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by floren 3y ago
A terminal is a device for remotely accessing a computer. A TTY is a Teletype, a kind of printing terminal; it takes input one character at a time and outputs one character at a time. A shell is the program that reads what commands the user
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by floren 3y ago
The $1 menu which is now of course the $1-$2-$3 menu... and I think the only thing that's still close to $1 is soda.
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by floren 3y ago
The McDouble used to be a good deal for a quick bite on a road trip... I think it was about $1.40 when it first showed up? It'll now run $4 at some Bay Area locations. Just like the high prices of soda ($2.50 for a 20oz bottle?) it&#x2
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by floren 3y ago
Or the many cases where you want to specify an input file and an output file.
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by floren 3y ago
I have briefly told ChatGPT 3.5 about the syntax of a CLI tool I wrote, then asked it to perform a few operations. It did a surprisingly good job, even when I said "and format the result as JSON with fields named Command and Descriptio
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by floren 3y ago
When you use 'go get' to add a package to your Go project, it actually fetches the code through a Google proxy which saves a snapshot of the commit in question. Even if the original source goes away, they should have a copy of eve
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by floren 3y ago
Depends if you believed the rumors or not...
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by floren 3y ago
Well I started in '05 and my freshman dorm floor lost 1 guy to World of Warcraft and 1 guy to weed... I don't remember anything but maybe orientation could have been improved with a quick "don't forget to go to class occ

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