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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
Oh, there are limits to my tolerance of Shift modifiers, though, and they are small. Something truly revolutionary, imho, would just be a row of about 32 Mod-wheels, all lined up along the back edge, some screens underneath, and nothing but
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
We see this, time and again, in the synthesizer world: menu-diving. Its such a dreadful, awful paradigm - to scroll endlessly through some misguided attempt at 'user interface', only to be deflated and demotivated within minutes.
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
In the US, in the 90's, there were many, many other cottage-shop PC builders, setting up shop. So yeah - your catalog Tandy has a 'competitive' price, but you could - in those days - take such a catalog into "Joe's
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
I was 22 years old, hacking away in Progress 4GL, maintaining data centers across the country using a combination of Quarterdesk DesqView and "Remote Control", which gave a way to control a keyboard/mouse/monitor over a
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
I live in Vienna, Austria, and I have a fascination with the typography of the signage all over the city. There are very distinct examples of different era, with 19th-century, 20th-century, and 21st-century periods in full splendour. This
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
Yes, the logical next step for this site is to add escrow. When that happens, I'll re-consider signing up for it. At the moment, I can't justify $30 for access to what could be, admittedly, a lot of pie in the sky.
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
As an 8-bit hobbyist, I have tons and tons of cassette tapes containing all kinds of wild and woolly things. Over the 40 years since I started this hobby I've collected commercial titles, as well as a large number of "personal ar
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
I used to host 3,000 active daily users from a 33mhz 486 with a 56k modem. Thousands and thousands of lines of quality conversation, interaction, humanity. To be honest, I kind of miss those days. I love to think that the web of the future
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
A few years ago I had to build a custom embedded image for a high-quality scientific instrument that was going into production, and I made a pass at Yocto - but ultimately decided it wasn't worth the heavy load to get everything in pl
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
Anyone who had hope that Trump would avert the catastrophe was clearly ignorant of the facts of his subservience to the greater Israel plan. Meanwhile, while Palestinians are eating cats, we are free to refer to Monty Python all we like. Ju
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
The requirement for all members of the target group to die in order for it to be called genocide is fallacious and not historically acccurate. Was it genocide of the Native Americans, since 'they survived'? Was it genocide in Aus
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
>GPL DJ Software Its kind of a nuisance that, as a requirement to build Mixxx on MacOS, ones has to use foreign binaries, disable Gatekeeper, run a 'first build', and from that point on .. can treat the project as a regular CMa
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
>Not everyone wants the software/OSes we run to automatically send data elsewhere. I personally find it offensive when a mega-corp makes the assumption that my connection to the Internet is available for them to build for-profit ser
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
Enschede is serviced by German rail operators though, so that might be a reason. In fact a lot of trains in this region of the world are operated by neighboring countries ..
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
I've found different ways .. if its a simple Lua situation, where you just want to debug pure Lua code, Zerobraine Studio is a pretty good environment to do it and comes with a debugger. I've tried various other Lua debuggers over
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
I was infected by the Lua mind virus 15 years ago and I have not recovered. I simply don't see any reason not to use it .. for everything . I've built games with it. I've built GUI's with it. I've built scientifi
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
> There is a thriving "FPV" ecosystem of drones that can be DIYed. As someone who has for decades built flying things which could be drone'ified any day of the week, it is sort of also necessary to point out that even befo
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
It is a very, very important lesson to learn: how to understand and acknowledge ones failings. The impulse is to defend, as failings are weakness and represent instances of unattained agency. In this day and age, agency is all you've
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
When I can engage in conversatons with a wide variety of different viewpoints, without any of those viewpoints being repressed through some censorship mechanism, then I'll agree that the platform has 'won'. But Bluesky is alr
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
Amazing days ahead of us - if we can avoid blowing ourselves up over pathetic patches of land, we could have the entire solar system under our feet...
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
Misnomer? I don't agree. Its definitely "a big pointy tooth dominating the mouth" kind of feature. Could also have been called a snaggle-tooth salmon, I guess .. In any case, definitely an interesting fish.
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
German is not that easy, either, though. Das/Der/Die is a constant source of frustration. Its never easy to remember.
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
I have one. What would you consider a reasonable price?
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
Some folks I know did something similar - for fun: an artificial museum which shows you a VR space based on location: https://artificialmuseum.com/#2/52.49/13.37 Its pretty fun to see what virtual things have been
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
I'm quite enamoured by the uConsole [0] .. I've had it for a few weeks and find myself reaching for it more and more, having set it up with the close family/friends Discord channels .. its nice having a machine just for the t
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
Except the balloon is a metaphor and the ink is hubris.
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
I truly hope there will be more work done on understanding megalithic pre-history. It is really, really fascinating - from Gobekli Tepe to Narwala Gabarnmang and beyond, the whole subject is rich in intriguing questions about what humans w
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
"Stoked" implies there was already a fire - indeed, an animal was attacking and killing villagers - it doesn't mean 'created entirely out of nothingness' ... You stoke a fire to get it going, and you can do that wit
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by helpfulContrib 2y ago
Australian here, spent my youth in the deep West. I found your description inspiring. I remember feeling, once, that night time was when everything in the universe could be seen, and daytime was when we slept in the shade of the sun, away f

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