glhaynes

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by glhaynes 3y ago
Shift-click is for making selections across a range whereas command-click is for individual item selection. Both work as they should.
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by glhaynes 3y ago
I got tired of my job that involved 95% meetings and 5% coding so I quit in August 2022 and decided to figure out what's next. But, since I'd spent a few years not doing as much coding as I'd have liked, I felt rusty. I proba
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by glhaynes 3y ago
Always glad to see Sharopolis get mentioned, his videos about old game tricks are interesting and tend to be more accurate IMO than a lot of others. He breaks it down and actually investigates in emulators rather than just regurgitating Wik
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by glhaynes 3y ago
The earlier post was referring to "a typical REST server" in a context of the claim that memory bandwidth "is becoming the ultimate spec". simdjson (impressive as it may be) existing as an interesting project seems likel
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by glhaynes 3y ago
My first guess would've been that JSON encode/decode wouldn't be memory bandwith-bound because it involves so many operations on single bytes at a time, most of which would be in the cache after the page has been brought in
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by glhaynes 3y ago
I've seen quite a bit of USA stuff from ~the 1940s–1950s (maybe even some of the 1960s?) use the term "electronic brain" interchangeably with "computer".
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by glhaynes 3y ago
I enjoyed this, thanks for sharing. That's sad about the 15 year friend disappearing.
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by glhaynes 3y ago
Looking at The Black Cauldron, which I'm very familiar with, it's stretched and manually resizing to 4:3 looks right. I think the thing is, the rendered image isn't being stretched, but the problem is that it _should_ be: bec
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by glhaynes 3y ago
I picked up an IBM WorkPad z50[1] in ~2000 at a fire sale price. It felt in many ways like good laptops do today: small, light, quiet (no fan nor spinning disk), instant-on, long battery life, reliable. I can see why people didn't buy
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by glhaynes 3y ago
At the time, Windows NT was lauded for having better security than its competitors. I remember “Department of Defense C2 level security” being invoked often. It was a major selling point, though one that didn’t feel relevant for most users
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by glhaynes 3y ago
I believe you’re right, thank you!
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by glhaynes 3y ago
...so while all this is going on, the Office org came up with its own in-house GPU-accelerated UI introduced in Office 2013 which we can all agree is slow, bloated, glitchy (y'ever used Excel with a 500Hz mouse?), but also proprietary
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by glhaynes 3y ago
Additionally, until very recently, there was no (practical) way to reach the performance potential of manual memory management in pure Swift: all heap management was done via Automatic Reference Counting (ARC). A series of "ownership&q
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by glhaynes 3y ago
Oh, very cool. I’d missed that somehow. Thanks for the link!
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by glhaynes 3y ago
I don't believe the new Foundation is shipping with any released versions yet, is it?
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by glhaynes 3y ago
Objective-C programmers say this, but I note that I've never once heard a Swift developer complain that it's too hard to discover API interface or keep things non-`public`.
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by glhaynes 3y ago
Isn't this just arguing for giving it more text to do text generation from?
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by glhaynes 3y ago
Yes. It doesn't surprise me that some organizations want to spy on their users, but I'm thankful Apple is making it harder for them to do so without making it transparent to the end users what's going on.
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by glhaynes 3y ago
I remember! My dad had an extra 3090 metal badge (maybe 2–3× the size of the ones on PCs) that we had glued over our XT's badge for a while lol
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by glhaynes 3y ago
Did anyone call them by their numbers back in the day? I grew up the child of an IBMer and only recall hearing "PC", "XT", "AT". There were some big IBM machines and displays that would be referred to by number
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by glhaynes 3y ago
>Bill Gates was seriously arguing for having no virtual memory on this OS! That’d surprise me. This was a time when one of the major limiting factors to NT adoption was it needing “a lot” of RAM. And he’d had plenty of experience with vi
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by glhaynes 3y ago
What about a 17th century dueling pistol?
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by glhaynes 3y ago
If I buy a WWI-era pistol, they’ll fire it before I fork over the cash? Surely not, right?
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by glhaynes 3y ago
A lot of those same people seem to treat indigenous people as outside of being touched by the "original sin" that the rest of us are.
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by glhaynes 3y ago
Some of the most unreligious people I know are also the most bought-into the idea of a nature/humans dichotomy.
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by glhaynes 3y ago
Wow it really needs a Window > UTM (⌘O) menu. But in the meantime, try File > New… or Open… to get back to the "main" window.
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by glhaynes 3y ago
I feel like git culture is one of the worst about these sorts of things. I've run into people that think you're a loser if you don't use it from the command line, but my commits using a GUI client are much cleaner and I seem
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by glhaynes 3y ago
Every time anything breaks in macOS, people come out to claim that the Mac is dying and Snow Leopard [which shipped with a bug that deleted lots of users' home folders] was the one true version. This wouldn't have happened if Stev
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by glhaynes 3y ago
For a while there it was off by default, but I'm fairly sure it's back to being on out of the box on current machines. It's also now exposed through the UI: Settings > Sound > Play sound on startup.
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by glhaynes 3y ago
I've never worked inside a CRT (but may need to soon) and am not great at electronics repair, but I'm a little surprised you describe yourself as having a lot of skill but still tend to avoid them. From my understanding, it&#x27

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