memetomancer

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by memetomancer 4y ago
To be clear, I am saying that this one feature is done better in Finder. Explorer has many cool features, but in this case it's not up to par. Both examples present us a line of breadcrumbs. Both allow you to interact with the breadcru
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by memetomancer 4y ago
> especially Finder, copying a filepath... So, this might be down to discoverability being such a challenge, but it's actually very easy to copy a filepath in Finder - with great precision too. There is an element called 'Path
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by memetomancer 4y ago
Consider a hypothetical analogous argument against supporting fundamental science made in 1900: What they are working on is completely useless for humanity and doesn't help solve everyday problems... the "and so what?" about
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by memetomancer 4y ago
Can you maybe explain what you mean here? I can hardly understand your point about Intel, and don't seem to get what you are implying about "marketing-ese". The M1 is a spectacular chip. The M2 seems like a fine iteration.
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by memetomancer 4y ago
> "And anyone I know who's seriously into movies, meaning they watch stuff far beyond the Follywood mainstream..." This sounds pretty dreadful - "Follywood" is hardly clever I'm afraid to say. Especially whe
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by memetomancer 4y ago
Thanks, I gave up after the student package referral... which I guess worked as designed! Maybe now I will get some genuine hardware and take another shot.
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by memetomancer 4y ago
I was considering getting a Vax station 3100, but otherwise planned to run it on SIMH (emulator).
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by memetomancer 4y ago
I am an enthusiastic fan of VMS - my first job was tending to a small VAX cluster. I sat down and read the entire hardcopy documentation, which was maybe as many as twenty 3" binders. After learning about the OpenVMS community license
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by memetomancer 4y ago
Apple will have to support Intel Macs until at least 2026? 2027? Beyond? ...so I would assume there is plenty of maintenance being done on x86 macOS.
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by memetomancer 4y ago
"Lusers are stoopid" is no mantra, it is childish nonsense.
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by memetomancer 4y ago
because Netflix data is measure in GB / week, while Youtube is measure in TB / second.
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by memetomancer 4y ago
In >my< opinion, it sounds kinda like you didn't read the Letter from the Carnation Company, or at least didn't quite grasp the point prior to rushing out your simplistic take and weird analogy about horses. Apple has surely
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by memetomancer 5y ago
There is a world of difference between your inability to see the appeal/utility of a thing and that thing being actually worthless, as you are so stridently insisting here. For a mental exercise, just to prove it to yourself, why don&#
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by memetomancer 5y ago
you have a very weird mix of arrogance and blinders going on here. looking back through the thread, your one consistent argument is people are being 'duped' thinking they'll be 'wizards' by all these earnest, helpfu
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by memetomancer 5y ago
> I use tags extensively on my Mac... In other words, you have developed a disciplined habit of tagging your files. If I had a penny...
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by memetomancer 5y ago
Reading this article left me wondering just where the 200 million tags this guy needs are supposed to come from. Manual curation?! Automatically derived by file extension? file headers? what is the cost of opening a file, parsing its filety
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by memetomancer 5y ago
Did you just relentlessly pick apart OPs post over the incidentals, apparently in order to sideline the message "be more nice"? You are very smart, that is a clever way to illustrate the point.
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by memetomancer 5y ago
As you can see by the results of the survey, you are indeed in the minority here. It is a hard-G. Anachronisms and appeals to authority (the originator's preference) bear little weight here - a word is added to a language on consensus,
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by memetomancer 5y ago
I really wouldn't know... wasn't advocating anything - just clarifying the deal with that software.
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by memetomancer 5y ago
The _demo_ limits the user with a maximum of allowed sessions. The unrestricted software has a modest licensing fee. Entirely reasonable considering the target audience.
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by memetomancer 5y ago
Maybe this won't be a popular opinion, but there are some non-CS-specific works that really helped cement some underlying principles. Namely, the fun stuff like "Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games" articles, "Gödel
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by memetomancer 5y ago
I've discovered most good new stuff through deep diving on allmusic.com, usually while listening to something familiar. I'm not sure how that fits in your list... maybe a variation of reading liner notes?
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by memetomancer 5y ago
I quit my job due to stress-related flame out a few years ago, abruptly and with no plan at all (mentioned here[0]). I am a single father with no support network. It was a ridiculously stupid move in retrospect, but at the time I really cou
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by memetomancer 5y ago
I'm somewhat taken aback by the number of references to r/sysadmin in this thread. Honestly, I come to HN to escape the hole of suck that is reddit(imho), and have been idly hoping to find other communities like HN. I was excited
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by memetomancer 5y ago
May I ask what is the alternative? Creating an entire application for a single use? designing a generalized case and making a monolithic application with lots of obscure options? What about setting up the project for the application, settin
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by memetomancer 5y ago
This is a good thing to recognize, however I think in this case it's more along the lines of Munger having a novel vision for a specific dorm layout, and saying to the university "Hi. I got this idea for a dorm, I will foot the bi
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by memetomancer 5y ago
Your guess about 'forcing them outside' seems wildly off base. The article pretty clearly points out that the goal is to remove the practice of bunking freshmen with strangers.
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by memetomancer 5y ago
Needs pointing out: You are asserting stuff like "This dorm really is an abomination" and "Common areas, such as they are, with this many students will undoubtedly turn feral almost immediately" with out actually seeming
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by memetomancer 5y ago
With all due respect, you seem to be saying that this 'introductory text' is insufficiently sophisticated, and proceed to dump a high density rebuttal in stilted, academic style. You may be extra smart in the sense of understandin
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by memetomancer 5y ago
Yours is a vague and disrespectful response that does not really contribute to the conversation. You suggest that I'm uninformed, yet do not specify what I've missed or provide any sources. You've spoken down to me and offere

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