joblessjunkie

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by joblessjunkie 3mo ago
Really enjoyed this. But I believe the goal isn’t a place - some absolute location to the right. The goal is an action: to always be in the state of holding the right d-pad button down, or taking some intermediate action so we can go back t
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by joblessjunkie 4mo ago
BASIC had been aggressively trimmed down to fit into an 8K ROM on the first machines, and there just wasn’t room for much more than crude SAVE and LOAD commands unless we gave up something else. Expanded “disk basic” variants came later, bu
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by joblessjunkie 4mo ago
We are in an era of extreme demand for GPU and limited supply. Every inference we push to the edge frees cloud resources for other tasks. Every efficiency gain increases what we can achieve with existing resources. If images can be rendered
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by joblessjunkie 5mo ago
Laughing agreement. I’m very sentimental for BASIC. By the standard of getting kids started it’s an amazing and wildly successful language. By any other standard, it is absolutely terrible! It commits every famous programming sin! Stay aw
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by joblessjunkie 6mo ago
I’m a greybeard, I played Oregon trail on the II and remember the first Mac. IMO Apple (well, Jobs) was always trying to create a sealed, perfect appliance for regular people, even in the very early days. Apple worked very hard to hide all
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by joblessjunkie 1y ago
Reminds me quite a bit of Asimov’s “The Last Question”, which mines the same “computer-as-God” vein, is also very short, and has a suspiciously related title. Asimov’s story appeared in 1956, just two years later.
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by joblessjunkie 2y ago
GDPR states that consent must be freely given. If there are financial incentives, the consent may be invalid.
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by joblessjunkie 3y ago
Bandcamp workers voted to unionize five months ago. Is this a bust?
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by joblessjunkie 3y ago
As an old fart who actually used a typewriter, I must point out that the bell does not ring when you press the carriage return. The bell rings when you are nearing the end of the line to warn you that you are bout to run out of paper. On ca
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by joblessjunkie 3y ago
I agree, "legitimate" companies usually want to comply and to do right by their users. That's why I get hired. But currently the entire online analytics and advertising industries are hanging by this thread.
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by joblessjunkie 3y ago
I am not a lawyer, but my full-time work involves reviewing codebases for GDPR and CCPA compliance. I do not believe this strategy will achieve what OP is hoping. In response to a deletion request, Reddit instead seeks to anonymize the data
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by joblessjunkie 4y ago
There are many correct answers here, but I recommend the Pentax K1000. It is possibly the world's #1 most-manufactured camera, and was the standard camera for beginner photography classes throughout the 80s and 90s. There are vendors o
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by joblessjunkie 7y ago
Under CCPA, businesses do not "demand" data because there is no restriction on its collection. Businesses simply need to provide notice of what they collect. Consumers cannot opt out of this collection. Consumers do have the opt
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by joblessjunkie 7y ago
I appreciated this article. I agree that "Microsoft was never in it for the history." Not to sound cynical, but I believe MSFT wasn't trying to sell encyclopedias, they were trying to sell CD-ROM drives. The upcoming Windows
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by joblessjunkie 7y ago
You are of course correct; mea culpa. We had internet; what we didn't yet have was HTTP.
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by joblessjunkie 7y ago
One product design goal was to run on the mass market 386 PCs of the time. It wasn't so much about oomph as it was about buggy device drivers that would inevitably blue screen at some point, or flaky CD-ROM drives that just never seeme
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by joblessjunkie 7y ago
It was in fact exactly that. The WinHelp team got folded into our group, and then WinHelp became something of an orphaned project for a while (or maybe forever?).
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by joblessjunkie 7y ago
Encarta was part of my first job out of university. I worked in Microsoft's Multimedia Division, tasked with creating the first video and audio drivers for Windows. IIRC the BMP, WAV, and AVI file formats all came from this team at abo
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by joblessjunkie 9y ago
My reading is that levels were once randomly generated, but the updates ends this. The update provides a fixed series of 10k hand-checked levels for everyone to play, regardless of their existing game state, so your game will end after hole
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by joblessjunkie 10y ago
GeekWire recently ran a profile with some more background: http://www.geekwire.com/2017/feedme-food-delivery-aggregator...
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by joblessjunkie 10y ago
I do not believe it was a mockumentary or wheels-within-wheels meta-commentary. I was just struck by the irony that all the accusations leveled by the filmmaker at the media and our government also apply to this film itself.
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by joblessjunkie 10y ago
I also spent a lot of my time watching the film trying to sort out how much is truth, and how much is propaganda or deliberate misinformation. However, I think this also exactly the point this film is making about our modern media and polit
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by joblessjunkie 10y ago
I found a plausible explanation here: http://www.network54.com/Forum/27140/message/1296951241/More... . tl;dr: The BBC reference pitch was generated by dividing and multiplying a 1MHz crystal oscillator.
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by joblessjunkie 10y ago
It makes it seem like the "journalist" doesn't believe his own "reporting".
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by joblessjunkie 10y ago
It sounds like you actually worry about his kind of thing a great deal, considering the amount of effort you put in.
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by joblessjunkie 10y ago
Why not simply treat every search that returns zero results as a request, and dump the UI entirely?
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by joblessjunkie 11y ago
Did the f.lux team just seriously imply that dimming your monitor at night can prevent cancer?
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by joblessjunkie 11y ago
It would be nice if this link also appeared when you are not logged in.
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by joblessjunkie 11y ago
> You have to teach the user what the icon means Who's in charge here? The software works for me, not the other way around. I don't want to be learning your glorious new UI, I want to be using its essential feature and getting
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by joblessjunkie 11y ago
f.lux wants to modify how the screen appears when other apps are running. In general, this is not the sort of thing you want sandboxed applications to be doing. You can imagine the problems that a bad actor could create with this capability

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