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by jonhohle 1y ago
It’s so bizarre. I wanted to use it for a menu extra and something as simple as animating the icon couldn’t be done. There are several of Apple’s own apps that use animated Menu extra icons and they’re probably doing the same hybrid AppKit&
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by jonhohle 1y ago
Those two commands required earlier commands to install node and npm.
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by jonhohle 1y ago
I had a Canon scan cartridge around 1999. It was slow, but worse, it was very finicky about the printer cable being used - which at the time could be very expensive and were not included. It worked, but there was a clear linear pattern acro
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by jonhohle 1y ago
Some of us do care. Devs should respect users systems more than their own instead of crapping all over them with Electron. I’d almost go as far as to say that it’s evil. Wasting resources, energy, people’s time, and money.
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by jonhohle 1y ago
Yeah, that’s a really odd take. Git is completely usable apart from GitHub and I would wager that the majority of Git usage happens without GitHub. I personally have far more personal repos hosted on a NAS than anything in GitHub, and while
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by jonhohle 1y ago
It’s possible, and some exist, it’s just less common now. Previously each preference category would take over the whole window. Now it gets a vertically oriented list. Previously all content fit within the window. Now all of the categories
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by jonhohle 1y ago
I’ve been a Mac user for >20 years, Linux before that, and lots of FreeBSD on the side. The rewrite from System Preferences to System Settings was one of the worst changes I’ve seen. Preference panes used to be customized for each functi
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by jonhohle 1y ago
> functionally equivalent Who confirms what is functionally equivalent?
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I didn’t read it that way. Algorithms select for optimizing engagement. People whose brains have not fully developed are incapable of reliably distinguishing fiction presented as fact vs reality, especially when there is intentional decept
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I’m going to wager that the cutscenes are all XA audio/video DMA’d from the disc. Opening the disc kills the DMA and the error recovery is just to end the cutscene and continue. The program is in RAM, so a little interruption on readin
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by jonhohle 1y ago
I think many games were that way. SotN definitely has a global timer. On a native 32-bit system it makes sense, especially when the life of a game was a few months to a few years on the retail shelf. No player is going to leave their system
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That seems much closer than it did in y2k.
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Maybe NPM should hand pick popular packages and we should get away from this idea of every platform should always let everyone publish. Curation is expensive, but it may be worthwhile for mature platforms.
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I don’t mind using a debugger, but one of the advantages to printed debugging is that it is universal. I work on a project with code in five languages (6 if you count the build system, 7 if you add shell scripts). Two of them I know the deb
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by jonhohle 1y ago
Nearly every email link now goes through an analytics domain that looks like a jumble of random characters. In the best case they end up at the expected site, but a significant number go to B2B service provider of the week’s domain. There a
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by jonhohle 1y ago
Thr reason to use a password manager should be because passwords now need to be unique per login. Domain binding is a close second. Unfortunately, as bad as phishing is, service providers have leaked more plain text passwords than a phisher
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by jonhohle 1y ago
Why did something like this take so long to exist? I’ve always wanted swap or tmpfs available on old RAM I have lying around.
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It’s cyclical. People will stop seeing movies because they’re repetitive and dull. Who really wants to see the avengers again? Then some unexpected hit will pop up out of nowhere and make a ton of money and studios will fund all kinds of of
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by jonhohle 1y ago
> So I come to the same conclusion, repetitive low-effort stuff repels people. That’s really it. The medium is just a medium and not why people show up. Anyone who says this method or that method are superior are missing the point. Human
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by jonhohle 1y ago
In the US there was the Sega Channel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Channel which worked over cable.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_Interactor
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by jonhohle 1y ago
Pioneer provided fixes to some things, but for such a niche system there is virtually no way to get them now. A few years ago I made a support to avoid board sag - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5993459 These are actuall
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by jonhohle 1y ago
Love seeing a post from OSnews. Brings back so many good memories
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Radiohead Is Back on the Hot 100 with This 28-Year-Old Song(billboard.substack.com)
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The world where every child from kindergarten on used gmail and Google classroom.
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by jonhohle 1y ago
Also a baby GenX and also not thrilled with the name. It could be great, but am I going to use it on my elementary aged child’s devices. I’ve long thought the casualness of everything is our (GenX collective) fault, however. I see this as a
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by jonhohle 1y ago
I’m not sure which rom hacks were being flagged, but most consoles use CPUs that were also at one point used in computers or phones as well. Is it likely that a virus scanner is going to flag a MIPS binary (PS1, PS2, N64)? Probably not. But
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by jonhohle 1y ago
It’s probably too long form and stream of consciousness, but a few weeks ago I looked at GameShark “codes” and what they look like in when we having matching decompiled code and can we decompile a GameShark modded function. https:/&#x
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by jonhohle 1y ago
The first time I came across his channel I felt similarly, but coupled with the dry humor, passive aggressive offhand comments, and intentionally long pauses waiting for the joke to land, I began to feel like it went with the tone of the co
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by jonhohle 1y ago
I have been profiling and it’s really just python being slow.The first ⅓ of the run of 12 cores is all python. Fortunately these are mostly independent so there is currently no blocking, but there eventually will be.

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