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by hakfoo 2y ago
This was my last CRT too. I bought mine from the local university's sale of scrap goods, a few months after spending $350 on a 19" LCD which paled in comparison.
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by hakfoo 2y ago
We had a cluster of about 8 X-terminals which were connected to a HP-UX box of some sort at my university. My "running Linux since 10th grade" ass had a fast-pass when everyone else had to queue on one side of the hall for a Wind
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by hakfoo 2y ago
They've gotten at least one thing right: they recognized that the current dominant Western institutions have left the Global South with a bad taste. Western powers have burnt a lot of bridges there over the years. There's been 7
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The PC gaming market doesn't seem to track that well with the console market, though. I was always surprised by this-- you'd think that all the optimization skills and tricks they learned to get the most out of console APUs would
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by hakfoo 2y ago
As someone who voted my 180 shares against the package, I'm wondering what the appeal was. As I see it, at this point, Elon has become toxic to the Tesla brand. Nobody has a "I bought it before I knew the CEO was a dick" bum
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I think this is the original announcement from the Ministry of Finance, with pictures down the page. https://www.mof.go.jp/policy/currency/bill/20190409.html
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by hakfoo 2y ago
If you go in the back near the bathrooms, there's usually a wall of photos marked "25 years long service", and I noticed more recently one "40 years long service" (although a few of them had "retired now!"
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I wonder if the lack of a "consumer GPU vision" is sort of a forced conclusion. With ~15% of the market, it's going to be very difficult to pull the market in a direction you want, so you're forced to say "I can off
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by hakfoo 2y ago
For me, the decline of malls was when they drifted away from a wide diversity of stores for different interests-- the Radio Shacks, the toy stores, the fancy hi-fi retailer, even the chain bookstore and the department stores that still had
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by hakfoo 2y ago
This always seemed the right answer. Prompt the user "App Foo wants to use calendar/pictures/location" and then you have options like "Allow", "Deny", "Allow with filtered data" (i. e. selec
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The value of the public ISA then is that you can implement your own conformant version if you're super paranoid. If the US is terrified that Chinese RISC-V processors have backdoors, they're free to manufacture their own version
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Another option in this space is Modern DOS - https://notabug.org/HarvettFox96/ttf-moderndos I like it for its even-more-permissive license and the slashed instead of dotted zero.
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by hakfoo 2y ago
They offer some fairly usable example reference code for a lot of the on-chip functionality-- including USB peripherals. I was able to turn their CH32v3xx examples into a pretty capable custom-keyboard firmware.
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by hakfoo 2y ago
It feels like the particular corner of the universe I reside on did not migrate to Wayland well. Perhaps it would less bother me if I didn't feel like I was being forced to accept KDE or GNOME or deal with a second-best experience. Ha
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Aren't all three of those tiling compositors?
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Here's my problem: I don't want tiling windows. I want title bars. I don't want to run KDE or GNOME. I want desktop computing like it was in 1994. In the X11 universe, there's a galaxy of decent full featured window
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by hakfoo 2y ago
General Purpose Register?
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by hakfoo 2y ago
We basically need the concept of quicksave and discrete save slots from video games. The system should regularly quicksave, but when I want to make a conscious checkpoint, let me do so. Perhaps use a VMS-style versioned-file system if you
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by hakfoo 2y ago
This entire duct-tape-and-baling wire ecosystem is due to a complete regulatory failure. If regulators had been demanding interoperable banking APIs since, well, 2000 or so when it was obviously the open-Internet was going to be a thing, th
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by hakfoo 2y ago
My firm introduced Scrum in 2023 and it's so clearly about #2. * The sector of the business I'm in is 90% about integration with third-party services. How many sprints does it take to walk through their certification process? De
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I found the pacing a bit difficult, like they got 500 pages in and realized "okay, we've gotta wrap this up in a hurry".
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The taskbar change is a symbolic thing. The company that spent decades pushing "we don't break the customer's workflow" has decided that's no longer a high priority. They are playing at a unique scale: even a &quot
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by hakfoo 2y ago
What answers do we get if "market" isn't part of the platform? If we start with the question "how do we affordably house the most people possible", I'd think we end up with something like "the state owns t
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I feel like this is going to blow up on users who set the rules wrong, or forget them, and suddenly their intentions of using a 0%-for-six-months credit card promo accidentally gets assigned to the debit component and drains their everyday
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by hakfoo 2y ago
You'd think that the secret sauce American manufacturers SHOULD have is a deep understanding of the very specific needs and tastes of the US market. Range anxiety is a much bigger deal in the US than markets with shorter average commut
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I think what would make LLMs much more viable is if they had more of a sense of credibility. They've developed a reputation of being very confident generators of bullshit, and that's completely fatal in compliance-oriented enviro
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I always assumed that was the reason too, but it feels like there was really only a narrow window when there was a significant crossover between monitor panels and TV panels. Most all new TVs are 32" or larger, so that's not going
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Notes prior to 1996, and $1 and $2 notes, use only a 10-digit serial number so there's repeats in new series.
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I got a message regarding that too, and I just have cheapo Nokia devices. I found it very confusing trying to use the opt-out link... it takes you to a page with a map asking you to opt-in or "no thanks", and if you click the lat
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Do we ever discuss this from first principles? What exactly is the benefit of private ownership of rental properties? Do private landlords do anything better than a state-run housing agency would? If our goal as a civilization is to ensur

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