k_roy

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by k_roy 3y ago
> . Never in computing history has a walled garden like Apple's existed until the iPhone. wot... How was playing that Super Mario Bros with on your Sega Master System back in the day? I don't remember Sega having the 10NES sub
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by k_roy 3y ago
Seven. Exactly 7%
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by k_roy 3y ago
An example? https://www.belkin.com/magnetic-portable-wireless-charger-pa... The offending LED is the black spot in this picture: https://www.belkin.com/dw/image/v2/BGBH_PRD/on/demand
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by k_roy 3y ago
and tape falls off, can impede functionality depending on the device, etc
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by k_roy 3y ago
Oh absolutely. I think that's really the most fascinating part about it. We know scientifically that reducing sodium intake, for a number of people, can reduce blood pressure, which is a positive outcome. But that's a single facto
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by k_roy 3y ago
Mostly just because of how it's used, most people can't tell the difference. And it's less sodium, which is generally considered healthier.
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by k_roy 3y ago
> FWIW no one has ever noticed my use of 50% NaCl/50% KCl mixture ("Lite Salt") in place of NaCl. Hopefully you've mentioned this when you've done it. This can be very very damaging and dangerous for some people
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by k_roy 3y ago
In the age of containers/vms/distrobox, running a specific distro shouldn't really a factor anymore
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by k_roy 3y ago
Leeloo Dallas Multipass
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by k_roy 3y ago
You can also do the same thing just with homebrew. I regularly replace a number of CLI utils because the BSD alternatives often have silly defaults/incompatible changes No gsed, just sed.
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by k_roy 3y ago
> but I don't see apple really supporting you writing code. I'm sorry. There is no part of this that I can call intellectually honest. I guarantee there are more members of the Fortune 100 that are developing on Apple hardware
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by k_roy 3y ago
I think ultimately the point still stands. On most OSes you have more interpreters/compilers than you could hope to be competent with installed by default. Full stop. Casual coding by whatever standards you want, it's more approac
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by k_roy 3y ago
I'm not really sure what you are strongly disagreeing about. The cat is out of the bag. Don't want to use python? You've got perl. PHP. And those are just the ones installed by default. Don't like that? You've go
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by k_roy 3y ago
This is a weird take to me. > In the 1980s, the home computer industry was so new that most computers came with a programming environment that was easily accessible to the end-user. There was so little software out there, users were expe
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by k_roy 3y ago
"good faith" == "continued future income". There isn't any measure of morality or honor involved like you are suggesting.
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by k_roy 3y ago
> I'm always wishing there were more AAA games I could play natively on aarch64 linux. Porting it might not be the easiest thing in the world, but a source leak opens the door for it. Except a source code leak is basically the worst
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by k_roy 3y ago
> I don't even know why Catholic leadership even bothers keeping this up. We completely ignore most of our holy text anyway and plenty of Catholic priests will perform gay marriages against the will of the Vatican. Gonna need a cita
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by k_roy 3y ago
I used it for years, but it's been a while. I mainly used it because it brought some sanity to the whole Javascript landscape, especially at the time where many frontend libraries were pretty immature. Never really used it for anything
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by k_roy 3y ago
how dare you suggest something so pedestrian.
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by k_roy 3y ago
wait what???? lol. I didn't know that was even impossible right now. But I quit playing with VMWare a few years back.
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by k_roy 3y ago
out of everything here, I think it's this line that bugged me the most: "in a book (or movie or tv show) the reader can either keep reading, or stop. that's it. that's as far as their agency can go." At best, this i
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by k_roy 3y ago
My only real problem with it is that even now, it's not complete for advanced configurations
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by k_roy 3y ago
> Tbf on one hand, 3rd party controllers are often absolute crap for all platforms, cheap shitty stuff. I don't think we are talking about the MadCatz controllers you gave your younger sibling. This is 2023. There are many third par
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by k_roy 3y ago
the fact that I have to edit/provide CSS to make dark mode work right makes it a bit of a hard pass for me.
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by k_roy 3y ago
and there are TENS of us!! Just saying. Him waxing poetic about it during a time when the watercooler topic was what happened last night on GoT is the reason that anybody else even recognizes the name.
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by k_roy 3y ago
three days later. Crickets.....
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by k_roy 3y ago
lol.. Congrats on trying to make a 35+ year old reference apply to remote work now.
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by k_roy 3y ago
Curious what you do for the people on less-than-good internet connections? Or is everybody just onsite with a business-class SLA?
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by k_roy 3y ago
and this is probably the reason anybody even remembers it. Because when he actually WAS writing, you had a whole new generation of up-and-coming writers listening to him wax poetic about the great WordStar
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by k_roy 3y ago
No projection here: "Love it-- but since I'm not using systemd, it's a no-go. Would love to see it support more diverse systems" That poor lack of diversity.

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