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by michrassena 7y ago
Is this just another example of Skeuomorphism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph I can see where this would drive adoption. From the user standpoint, familiarity is a selling point. The more the electric car ca
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by michrassena 7y ago
This is something I've noticed as well. As both a client and as an IT troubleshooter, I try to be keenly aware of this distinction. When I'm at the doctor's office, I relay what I've observed, and try to refrain from any
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by michrassena 7y ago
Apparently more than a few attempts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_refo...
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by michrassena 7y ago
I don't know the reason for that, but like the cursor to mark the progress bar method above, I do this trick to this day. You don't have to highlight first, you can just highlight as you go, wiggle the mouse outside of the bounds
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by michrassena 7y ago
Having used Linux in various roles for nearly 20 years, I have to agree. Supporting Windows is hard enough when you have to tell the customer over the phone to click on the circle or flag thingy in the bottom left corner, because they haven
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by michrassena 7y ago
Microsoft's own tech support forums are filled with this non-advice. Either system restore is brought up, or SFC /scannow which rarely fixes anything. Often it really is more time efficient just to do a system reset or start compl
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by michrassena 7y ago
Thanks for this. When the Multics source was released a few years ago, I really wanted to play around with that environment. It's nice to know there's something a mere mortal can install and use.
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by michrassena 7y ago
I think the settings app is just a poor imitation of the Mac preferences panel. Preferences panel gives the appearance of the major settings, all in one place. You can only have one module, like network, or printers, selected at one time. S
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by michrassena 7y ago
I remember trying it in the mid 90s and then not using it much. I remember it being quite slow. The lack of even rudimentary multi-tasking caused it to hang easily. I could see where it might be useful in a lab with 8086 and 286 machines. B
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by michrassena 7y ago
If nothing else, to the non-expert like myself, at least this claim seems plausible. I've seen a wide range of other claims that seem way off-base. It seems unlikely to be of Meso-American origin, for instance. I kind of hope it remain
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by michrassena 7y ago
It's a ironic to me that the original inspiration for the story was not ceramics, but photography. My main pastime is photography, and I took this advice to heart and started being as prolific as possible, which is something that digit
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by michrassena 7y ago
Say I'm convinced that IDs could possibly leak information, but UUIDs are problematic (e.g. cost of enforcing uniqueness grows with each added row). Would encrypting the ID with some symmetric key plus a salt be sufficient? The client
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by michrassena 7y ago
One small note on your mention of MacOS, and I don't know if this has been fixed. A couple of years ago, the certificates expired on some versions of the OS installer, like El Capitan and could no longer be verified. While there's
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by michrassena 7y ago
I feel like this is on purpose. How could it be a mistake, Apple has legendary design sense? I think it's to discourage people from using the mouse while its charging, and thus undermining what distinguishes the product. Regardless of
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by michrassena 7y ago
I wonder if it's time to re-evaluate the concept of "not invented here". Services that exist at another company's pleasure aren't a platform to build a business on. This is effectively a type a single sourcing. Ther
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by michrassena 7y ago
Early photographic processes were only sensitive to the blue end of the visible spectrum. It took many years after photography was developed for chemists to create dyes sensitive to red and green. Using only the blue channel from a color im
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by michrassena 7y ago
I fully intend to do so. I have the VAX VMS ISO and hobbyist license around somewhere and have spent a little time fooling with it under emulation. I first used it nearly 30 years ago, and have been missing versioning filesystems ever since
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by michrassena 7y ago
I found even a Vaxstation 3100 with the m42 cpu and 12MB of RAM was enough to work with. Sometime within the last five years, I installed NetBSD by netbooting from a Linux mopd server (because I didn't have a working 512-byte block SCS
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by michrassena 8y ago
As someone who buys and enjoys the Costco Parmiagiano-Reggiano (PR) and who has eaten both it and the green can version in the last couple of weeks, I think it's a shame that people would be misled into thinking the green can version i
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by michrassena 8y ago
I think I had that camera or something similar that fits the description. And while it was near worthless, it was my only digital camera. I used it for some clay animation (which is more labor intensive than I realized and I didn't get
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by michrassena 8y ago
One thing the Internet has been good for has been finding people with similar conditions. Knowing that many people can see images on demand alleviates some of my confusion; "Imagine yourself on a beach" to relax never made much se
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by michrassena 8y ago
This is one of the few colorizing algorithms that I've seen which creates desirable output. The images really do look like old colorized images. I wonder how the authors dealt with the differences in spectral sensitivity of their sour
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by michrassena 8y ago
Does this imply that the neuron is more of a power supply, and the properties of sections of dendrites (not the whole dendrite) and their connections is what does the actual computation? If so, that adds a layer of messy complexity which is
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by michrassena 8y ago
Nice project. There are a lot of cool modifications of Instax cameras out there, including those which add large format lenses for full shutter and aperture control. What's special about this project is the manual feed. I haven't
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by michrassena 8y ago
I think they must think it elevates their discourse, as if appealing to emotion at all sullies them. While there is a reassuring sobriety to cold, rational thought, in itself it often doesn't motivate me to care. It's only really
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by michrassena 8y ago
That's a fascinating technique. Did the commodore operating system itself push 6502 code to the floppy drives to move the heads, initiate data transfer, etc?
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by michrassena 8y ago
I agree that working with rather than against people's inclinations to reinforce security protocols is the best method. I'm a bit concerned that it's commonplace that people will route around those protocols in an environmen
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by michrassena 8y ago
That's a personnel problem, not a technical problem.
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by michrassena 8y ago
I don't understand why it's deemed necessary to work with both public and sensitive information on the same device. This might have made sense when computers were much more expensive. Today, why not buy two computers and keep th
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by michrassena 8y ago
That's kind of amazing. How did you communicate between the onboard CPU and the CPU in the floppy drive(s)?

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