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by jasomill 6mo ago
Nice to know my arbitrary choice of a serial mouse over a bus mouse would have finally paid off, had I not lost the mouse to a fire in the early '90s.
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by jasomill 6mo ago
Sure, but taking your video editor example, what advantages does an in-browser app provide over a native application like DaVinci Resolve, other than portability and not needing to install the application, in exchange for reduced performanc
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by jasomill 6mo ago
It was a more complicated chip than the 8086 and 8088[1], that would have had a much lower projected sales volume, so no special sauce is really necessary to justify a price premium over the the 8086. While I'm struggling to find early
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by jasomill 6mo ago
VESA BIOS Extensions support direct framebuffer access in protected mode, and I don't imagine the lack of accelerated 2D operations would be a practical bottleneck when implementing NES-style graphics on modern PCs. UEFI GOP additional
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by jasomill 6mo ago
For the package management, it depends on the package manager, but most have some mechanism for installing into a root other than the currently running system. Even without explicit support in the pacakage manager, you could also roll your
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by jasomill 6mo ago
I occasionally use a few obscure Acrobat Pro features, mostly in the preflight tool with a UI that looks as though it hasn't been updated since the Clinton administration. And I occasionally use Acrobat Distiller to convert old PostScr
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by jasomill 6mo ago
Reminds me of a fun weekend I spent ~5 years ago building the newest version of every GNU program I could get to build on NEXTSTEP 3.3 (running on 68k NeXT hardware) without major changes.
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by jasomill 6mo ago
Sure, or older 32-bit versions of Windows for that matter, or for building software that hasn't been ported to UCRT. I can certainly relate to this: I'm currently sitting on a request for an enhancement to a product (currently run
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by jasomill 6mo ago
And just to add insult to injury, you probably don't want MINGW64 either, as it relies on the ancient MSVCRT.DLL C runtime library that lacks support for "new" features like C99 compatibility and the UTF-8 locale, and that Mi
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by jasomill 6mo ago
On your own system, sure. As a dependency of a shipping Windows application that needs to cleanly coexist side-by-side with existing Cygwin installations and optionally support silent install/upgrade/uninstall through mechanisms l
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by jasomill 6mo ago
If future generations want to smoke, they can change the law as easily as yours passed it. Running government budgets further and further into deficit, believing that, as a result, your children will, some day, be in a stronger financial po
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by jasomill 6mo ago
This roughly describes several research projects my late sister-in-law was involved in. In her case I believe she was friends with the head of a university lab who recruited her out of her PhD program.
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by jasomill 6mo ago
Vinum debet esse naturale de genimine vitis et non corruptum. [1] IANACL, but I don't see why infusing wine with coca leaves to produce cocaine would be considered any less natural than infusing grape juice with yeast to produce alco
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by jasomill 6mo ago
This brings back bad memories of the old ActiveX "safe for scripting" mechanism.
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by jasomill 6mo ago
This, more than ideology or security, is one of the main reasons I don't want WebUSB: fear that many hardware vendors will only support updates and configuration through a web app, that isn't guaranteed to remain online forever,
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by jasomill 6mo ago
The notion that the work done by "the engineering elite" at tech companies and research organizations aren't contributing to the national defense unless they're pressed into military service or working directly on weapon
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by jasomill 6mo ago
Soldiers on the same side deliberately killing one another.
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by jasomill 6mo ago
At best future-resistant. True future-proofing would require representing address length as an arbitrary-precision nonzero unsigned integer. Since allowing a zero-length network address format would serve no purpose other than to pointlessl
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by jasomill 6mo ago
I like your list better, mostly because of the inclusion of SNOBOL, which I never used, but was one of the first programming languages I read about as a young child after a book about it caught my attention at a public library book sale bec
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by jasomill 6mo ago
SyQuest and Iomega were both founded in the early '80s and introduced their first removable disk products in 1982, and both introduced cost-reduced consumer-oriented drives in 1995 (EZ135 and Zip, respectively). IIRC, Iomega captured t
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by jasomill 6mo ago
While I owned and used several Zip drives back in the day, the first thing that came to mind when I saw this post was the final scene of Zoolander , where a Zip disk backup of incriminating files saves the day. https://www.youtu
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by jasomill 6mo ago
I switched to Capture One, which at least offers perpetual licensing, but their pricing has become sufficiently annoying that I plan to look very closely at DaVinci Resolve's new photography features as soon as I have time (I already u
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by jasomill 6mo ago
Inertia, wide use across various industries, and specific features not available in other products. Basically, it's the Microsoft Office of print and visual media.
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by jasomill 6mo ago
I agree. It's up there with prices as high as $100 being described as "less than the price of a good meal".
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by jasomill 6mo ago
$120/year is cheap, but note that most of the other individual application plans cost at least as much as the $240 Lightroom/Photoshop bundle ($240/year for Acrobat Pro, $264/year each for Illustrator, After Effects, Pre
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by jasomill 6mo ago
That's putting a lot of trust in the LLM to avoid transcription errors, especially in books that include equations and similar complicated formatting, books in languages not well-represented in the LLM's training set, etc. To say
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by jasomill 6mo ago
Given how quickly full-quality releases of movies and TV shows appear after they're first streamed, this is surprising to me, at least so long as the PC and/or Android Kindle apps continue to exist.
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by jasomill 6mo ago
This reminds me of college, where I used to take my textbooks to the local copy shop to get the pages sliced out and three-hole punched so I only had to carry around currently relevant chapters rather than 30 lbs of books. As for e-books, l
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by jasomill 6mo ago
Curiousity got the better of me, and I just tested it in Infinite Mac. The HyperTalk editor is indeed limited to 32 kB. It's certainly possible that this limit only applies to editing scripts, as it's unlikely TextEdit was used in
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by jasomill 6mo ago
Would that overcome the size limit? Does HyperCard implement its on text handling for the HyperTalk editor that doesn't rely on the TextEdit toolbox service (which IIRC is the source of SimpleText's 32 kB limit)?

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