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by fredsanford 7y ago
>> What happens after prisoners become accountants / lawy... Or Senators, congresscritters or Presidents? Seen the TV news lately?
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by fredsanford 7y ago
Give Lean On Me[0] a shot. This is not the Bill Withers song. It was pretty popular and something I remember from my radio listening days. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfFJ2OC0Cpw
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by fredsanford 7y ago
>> cold crystalline overdubs I do not mean this to be harsh or nasty, but there are no goosebumps. Needs some grease from Stax or some touches of Motown. Booker T and the MGs, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, something... is
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by fredsanford 7y ago
No mention of Michael Abrash? He was a truly original thinker and one of the best with optimization. Icer Addis of Bloodlust Software had a pretty spectacular run in the '90s with at least 3 high quality emulators. As for current tim
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by fredsanford 7y ago
Maybe she should talk to John Fogerty...
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by fredsanford 7y ago
>> "I plan to rewrite Linux in Rust - Linus Torvalds" << Maybe it's sohpisticated because Linus is going to RIIR?
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by fredsanford 7y ago
After reading the comments here, I've started to wonder... Does elitist mean "Doesn't like the same things I do?" --- While I wouldn't phrase it the way Scorcese did, I sort of share his opinion. Super hero movies
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by fredsanford 7y ago
Hypothesis: Rust is a religion. The only times I've seen this amount of proselytization have been Rust and church.
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by fredsanford 7y ago
I'd guess... Make enough money to cure baldness and disdain for working people. Only half sarcastic...
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by fredsanford 7y ago
I hate lootboxes but I'm on the fence about making regulations around random prizes. Are Happy Meals gambling? Crackerjacks? Baseball cards? You receive 1 out of n items, most undesirable but a few rare things that kids want. In hind
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by fredsanford 7y ago
Doesn't yahoo use bing for searches? I'd swear it did at one point.
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by fredsanford 7y ago
Use !mill to filter DDG searches through millionshort.com. You can also go directly there. [1] Change the 1000000 to however many results you want to remove from the top of the results list. 1: https://millionshort.com/searc
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by fredsanford 7y ago
And also the day every browser will turn into IE 5.x
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by fredsanford 7y ago
>> WRT the "don't say god bless you" thing, I'm not really sure how that fits into what I'm saying, and that feels kind of like a straw man -- likewise with the "one guy" and their pronoun -- most qu
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by fredsanford 7y ago
Just a few thoughts from and old guy who's baffled by some things in modern times... I struggle with names at times... And now pronouns? Uhhhh, I bet I screw it up more than 50% of the time. The differences in people (don't say
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by fredsanford 7y ago
The PTSD thing was at best rude, so that leaves me wondering... Which advertising relaated business are you in?
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by fredsanford 7y ago
Gimpel Software [0] (PC Lint) has been around since 1984 or so they claim. Lugaru Software [1] (Epsilon Editor) has been around since 1984 There are more but... [0] https://www.gimpel.com/ [1] https://lugaru.com&
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by fredsanford 7y ago
I bought Office 2007 around the time of its release because a client didn't like whatever word processor I was using. I've used Office 2007 ever since and absolutely have no need for any feature additions. And there were no bugs
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by fredsanford 7y ago
The headline feels like a teaser ad for an episode of Gilligan's Island.
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by fredsanford 7y ago
Loading walmart.com on most of my machines reminds me of loading image heavy sites in the early '90s over a 9600bd modem... I am unsure how they reach this "achievement." I didn't think any close to modern website could
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by fredsanford 7y ago
This still happens in a way in current OS's... When marking text to copy and making it scroll, moving the mouse left and right will speed up the scrolling sometimes. Try it in a long Word doc or in Firefox.
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by fredsanford 7y ago
>> Ironic that content moderation is annoyingly aggressive, but ad moderation is annoyingly permissive. It's not ironic at all if you think about it a bit. >>annoyingly aggressive, Volunteer labor from nerds who expect you
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by fredsanford 7y ago
This smells very much like a sockpuppet...
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by fredsanford 7y ago
Because of the Joe Pesci observation? Everyone that can scrambles to take their "commission" from every project they're able to block. I call it the Joe Pesci observation because of a quote from, I think, the movie Goodfellas
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by fredsanford 7y ago
This is a service I've been looking for! But... Why do you need a shitton of javascript to load your main page? I cannot see the main page with ublock origin + umatrix blocking 3rd party and firefox finger print resistant options turne
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by fredsanford 7y ago
1926 would like to introduce you to the National Enquirer. [0] Not the first, but the first that came to my mind... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Enquirer
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by fredsanford 7y ago
Between your post calling the military stupid when it was just as likely a political decision (money?, who knows.) and the top level parent expecting people in the '40s and '50s to have the knowledge we do in 2019 I'm not sur
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by fredsanford 7y ago
I dunno about this. Many medical professionals encourage heart and high blood pressure patient to drastically limit salt intake because salt causes you to retain water. What does this mixture of himalayan salt and lemon do that causes the
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by fredsanford 7y ago
Judging by the pharma people that visit my MD's and cardiologist's office, they're all miss america candidates less than roughly 30 years old... MCI did the same shit back in their day. A sales visit from MCI almost always c
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by fredsanford 7y ago
I guess I have to use weasel words in every post now. Let's pretend my previous post started with "In most cases, "

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