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by lbourdages 2y ago
I have very fond memories of that software. I believe it came bundled with the iMac G3 my parents bought. That version of Kid Pix had animations and sounds and whatnot, it was really fun to just play with it for hours.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
Probably caused by the relatively small amount of carbs in their diet?
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by lbourdages 2y ago
Probably as a "bait" to get users into the Apple ecosystem? They can't run Logic on PC so they have to buy an expensive Mac.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
Klein bikes of that era had the best paint jobs I have ever seen. I was way too young to even know about these bikes back then, which is a shame, as they are pretty much at the very top of what constitutes bike porn for me.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
;; ANSWER SECTION: www.verbeeld.be. 300 IN A 205.196.210.242 EDIT: I'm really confused because it's the same IP I get from various "online dig" services. When the page loads, I get an HTTP 301 that redirects to that susp
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by lbourdages 2y ago
Does the link lead to a completely different website for anyone else? The page does not load but the domain is completely different.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
Java 8 -> 11 upgrade was kind of a pain, and so was 11 -> 17. After that though, it's smooth sailing. I think breaking changes for the module system are over.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
I'd much prefer a display underneath the trackpad. It would be so much more flexible in terms of which UI you can implement, and it would not necessitate any extra real estate.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
Well, iMacs used to be fairly common in music/video production. Given the move towards more casual use-cases by Apple, I would say there aren't many anymore, but if they were to put pro chips in there, I'm sure there would be
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by lbourdages 2y ago
I might get away with 48GB (don't know, I have 64 now on my work machine) but I had a lot of swap usage when I was running on 32GB. Some of us do need a lot of ram.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
I'm sure corporate has done the math and concluded that whatever money the machine provider pays them is higher than any expected losses in franchise revenue due to franchise owners quitting due to poor ice cream sales.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
Yep, same in Canada. A phone contract shows up on your credit report (since you pay at the end of the month for the service received during the month) and if you were to not pay the penalty, the outstanding debt would show up there.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
Fishman has been doing these with guitar pickups for several years now. It's supposed to allow for greater consistency and also make it possible to do some stuff that couldn't be done with an actual coil of wire.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
I believe .bps allow you to you essentially what you describe. Spec here: https://github.com/blakesmith/rombp/blob/master/docs/bps_spe...
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by lbourdages 2y ago
I would assume that the less vanilla a given hack is, the likelier it is that the patch is actually a full fledged ROM. If all of the code, textures and music have been replaced, there isn't anything left.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
Nintendo has shut down a bunch of fan games in the past (e.g. Pokemon Uranium) but I have never heard of any DMCA request on Mario rom hacks. I think it speaks for itself here.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
Mario rom hacks are perfectly legal since the only thing that gets distributed is a patch file - the original ROM has to be provided by the user. Sites like SMW Central[1] contain thousands of hacks and Nintendo hasn't done anything ab
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by lbourdages 2y ago
That is how it works in Canada now. If you cancel your contract, you have to pay the remaining balance immediately. No fees, just the remainder.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
I made a big scratch on my SE by accidentally rubbing it against the corner of a quartz countertop. Of course, this was not covered by AppleCare, because the display still works and is not cracked. I'd have loved to have this not happe
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by lbourdages 2y ago
It's definitely not new technology, having been in use since the 1980s, mostly for flu.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
Same for me. I have an account with zero karma on it. When I created it I was a total programming novice fresh out of uni and could not really contribute. As time went on, I could definitely have started contributing, but not having any kar
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by lbourdages 2y ago
China is the worst offender. It must be terrible during winter when you live on the far western side of the country, and the sun rises at noon or something :/
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by lbourdages 2y ago
What's their way out then? Pray that AMD messes up and stops making competitive chips?
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by lbourdages 2y ago
I agree it doesn't prevent them, but if they were to join the ARM train, I don't think they would have sold. Does Intel have a competitive microarchitecture in Pc chips at the moment? Arguably, no, they stay afloat with brand reco
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by lbourdages 2y ago
I feel like this is the exact opposite of what they should be doing. They should start producing ARM chips. They could finally get a piece of the smartphone market, which would not cannibalize their x86 sales (which I assume is the reason w
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by lbourdages 2y ago
In large events (100k+ people within a square km or so) cell phone networks often get saturated to the point of not working anymore. You can have 5 bars but not be able to download anything because the cell site is overloaded.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
Is this weird USB boot signal thing the reason why Apple keyboards used to ship with nonstandard USB connectors that would fit their nonstandard USB extension cord? That would explain it, I have been wondering for years...
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by lbourdages 2y ago
Interesting. Would that be doable at a VLSI scale? I imagine that for large scale analog computers (like, neural networks) all these trimpots would become a challenge...
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by lbourdages 2y ago
I suspect a lot of the hype comes from people who have never tinkered with electronics. Noise is always a problem. Just trying to measure a small signal is a problem since your instruments (which are not perfect) can influence the circuit.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
The article talks about the loss of seasonality in the taste of our foods, which is something I can directly relate to even though I am not that old. When I was a kid (in the 90s), we got our milk from a local dairy. I distinctly remember t

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