krige

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   by krige 1y ago

   > whatever, we'll just compile from source or use alternative means of distribution. google is clamping on this already so yeah
2. 242.▲
   by krige 1y ago

   Well shucks that's simple you just gotta go where you want the slowdown and do something like for i = 1 to 100 sleep 1 next of course with modern cpus you gotta adjust your i to be something more reasonable, like for i = 1 to 1
3. 243.▲
   by krige 1y ago

   How do you do, fellow europeans?
4. 244.▲
   by krige 1y ago

   Microsoft tried and then pulled a google i.e. they randomly gave up on something people were actively using.
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   by krige 1y ago

   FWIW second and third iteration of AmigaOS didn't have "Guru Meditation"; instead it bluntly labeled the numbers as error and task.
6. 246.▲
   by krige 1y ago

   There's also a cool effect where incrementing columns by one has the dots align diagonally, and then vertically multiple times.
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   by krige 1y ago

   Absolutely loathed moving from 98 to XP. The stability wasn't much better, the resources were hogged more, and the default toys-r-us theme was an incredible eyesore (thank god for UX hacks). It was overall so much pain but Vista was ev
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   by krige 1y ago

   As always, I can't recommend enough a very thourough dig into the system and its history that was posted in multiple parts on ars technica. Really well put together. https://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-am
9. 249.▲
   by krige 1y ago

   I think it's recent. Yeah it's goddamn Gemini.
10. 250.▲
    by krige 1y ago

    Tried a ruler and a measuring tape with my desktop LCD display it was off by 2/30 in both cases, in the same direction. Tried phone - was off by 8/20. Nope, thanks.
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    by krige 1y ago

    > Linux users used to display symptoms very frequently before Linux started winning this made me laugh, good stuff
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    by krige 1y ago

    I'd heard Vampire's compatibility can be spotty and you can obviously see why. My own 1200 is kept very barebones by design (just a spot of fast ram and a CF drive) to keep max compatibility with the software I do want to run ther
13. 253.▲
    by krige 1y ago

    Can't prove the negative. Prove that it does instead.
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    by krige 1y ago

    At a time like this I can't help but recall a Lem story - yeah I know there's a Lem story for any occasion - about Doctor Diagoras, especially his rant about a character from an earlier Tichy story, who made human-like AIs. The ra
15. 255.▲
    by krige 1y ago

    Yeah, it works as of ~3 months ago until now. t. user
16. 256.▲
    by krige 1y ago

    Now that's distributed systems
17. 257.▲
    by krige 1y ago

    At the same time the admin has undercut and gutted many climate tracking projects [0] so it's really not hard to see the underlying intentions. [0] for instance https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-as
18. 258.▲
    by krige 1y ago

    Thirtysomething here too. I see a diaeresis in naïve often enough to remember that it happens yet uncommon enough to be taken by surprise anyway.
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    by krige 1y ago

    My favourite piece of DM dickery that is a perfect yin to railgun's yang is the Immovable Rod story. In short, out of sheer malice a DM decided that the rod is indeed immovable, but not in relation to the ground, but to some point in t
20. 260.▲
    by krige 1y ago

    Man, remember a few year backs some magic microbes that eat plastic were making the rounds in news? Whatever happened to those, did not work out, are still worked on, lack of funding...?
21. 261.▲
    by krige 1y ago

    Yeah except Feeling Lucky is the only button you can press and people blame you if they got lucky
22. 262.▲
    by krige 1y ago

    Yeah, what about Windows Phone? From a user's perspective it felt like it was good, very good even, but MS kind of... gave up on it suddenly? Like they pulled a google on it.
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    by krige 1y ago

    It is a very zen state of mind.
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    by krige 1y ago

    ads, on paid, youtube, premium, lite, what a fantastic word construct, a veritable babel of corporate policies we suffer. If we could only shove "AI generated" in front of "ads", it would be the supreme capture of the cu
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    by krige 1y ago

    People forget that Polonius, the source of this quote, used seven lines, the above included, to say that Hamlet is mad. It was meant to be ironic, or a joke.
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    by krige 1y ago

    In one amusing juncture of really bad port and emulation/hardware speed, Sim City 2000 was reported to run better as Shapeshifter-emulated Mac version, than the Amiga native version, as long as you could meet the hardware requirements.
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    by krige 1y ago

    As the saying went, the best Mac you could get was an Amiga with Shapeshifter running.
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    by krige 1y ago

    I cannot stress enough how artful, imaginative and incredibly fun Arcane Dimensions is - while still being very much Quake 1.
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    by krige 1y ago

    The Commodore Amigas had their 68k clock speed differ based on region due to carrier frequency difference (more specifically, 2x freq for NTSC, 1.6x for PAL, which resulted in almost the same, but not quite, clock speed). It's intere
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    by krige 1y ago

    I'm not interested in navel gazing. I'm interested in getting my taxes done properly.