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by guessbest 4y ago
It looks like windows got rid of the shaft of the arrow with the change from win 3.0 to win 95. https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/1/20943552/scroll-bar-visua...
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by guessbest 4y ago
One bitten. Twice shy.
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by guessbest 4y ago
If a killer robot doesn't have practical military application it could be used as a chef in the kitchen, fetching vegetables and meats and cutting them to serve, but it would likely be first used in commercial kitchens before it saw se
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by guessbest 4y ago
They'll have to run it with a 2.2 era kernel. Everything after that ran dog slow on these machines.
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by guessbest 4y ago
Sounds like a midrange system.
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by guessbest 4y ago
Is this keyboard essentially a slave device? For some reason I just imagine a Lisp Machine keyboard as being programmable independent of the host machine. Maybe I'm just different but I still prefer the ergonomics of the split keyboard
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by guessbest 4y ago
There still is, but they don't make it to the top of the grossing charts.
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by guessbest 4y ago
Works here
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by guessbest 4y ago
You are picking the wealthiest people in the world as an example. Most of the population to even wealthy do not have access to this kind of health care, which is going to be exacerbated by health care rationing as populations explode due to
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by guessbest 4y ago
You can't drive with the headset on and public transit is severely lacking.
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by guessbest 4y ago
What does the customized emacs tool do? It sounds interesting.
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by guessbest 4y ago
Probably non-linear video editing and the ability to add somewhat believable CGI gave it much longer shelf life than what would be expected.
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by guessbest 4y ago
XBox Kinect had so much potential but sadly smart phones appeared to eat up the entire market. Even ARKit hasn't really done much. VR just doesn't seem to be much of a market except for things like VRChat.
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by guessbest 4y ago
A lisp tablet would be quiet novel. Instead of parens it might be better to draw half circles around the functions
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by guessbest 4y ago
I pull the layer of fat off the top after I cool down the chicken stock and it looks as rich and creamy as butter but with a slight chicken flavor. Some people call it schmaltz. It makes a great coating for a copper pan when cooking scrambl
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by guessbest 4y ago
Most BASIC distributions did't save state and it didn't have an online help, meaning it wasn't on the system. So, if a user was going to have to look up commands then they were more likely do so through another program, neces
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by guessbest 4y ago
It is more like they lost to smalltalk through self and objective-C
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by guessbest 4y ago
Web 3.0 = Semantic Net Web 3.1 = Virtual Assets backed by cryptography encoding/decoding Web 3.11 = Search for Workgroups built by $2 an hour Kenyan workers > https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/19/openai-paid
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by guessbest 4y ago
man pages don't have screenshots. They typically use a pager, but they can have formatting. Just type 'man man' in the cli without the single quotes. Online used to mean documentation provided on the local system. X11R7.6 Man
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by guessbest 4y ago
Is there a docker image?
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by guessbest 4y ago
Probably because the online culture in 2003 was a lot tighter coupled and now it seems more spread out in different simultaneous directions. It even includes the obligatory Docker container.
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by guessbest 4y ago
Not really sure how this advice is still relevant since Facebook with its own app store model helped save the tech industry in 2007 from the downturn like the one in 2001-3. The next big thing appears to be AI (not VR), but I don't rea
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by guessbest 4y ago
I think that some companies buy up all available talent to deny their competitors hiring pool.
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by guessbest 4y ago
> In a statement, a representative from TikTok said they are disappointed by the news. > "We're disappointed that so many states are jumping on the political bandwagon to enact policies that will do nothing to advance cybers
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by guessbest 4y ago
Finally, something to replace Rust.
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by guessbest 4y ago
The strange UI is GTK and it hasn't been floating windows but instead a MDI (single window for controls and images in tabs) for over a decade. You can find screenshots on the tutorial pages: https://www.gimp.org/tutoria
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by guessbest 4y ago
I like this HN pivot from rust to forth.
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by guessbest 4y ago
I knew a computer reseller through my father and the turbo button was just a glowing button on the front a user could turn on or off without affected the CPU speed. In other words it became a marketing gimmick and I suspect more often than
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by guessbest 4y ago
Computer software was incapable of the completely of modern languages and practices because stack overflow didn't exist. Until windows came along with a time api based on datetime most games just used CPU clock cycles like you identifi
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by guessbest 4y ago
MacOS is doing this.

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