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by mkr-hn 4y ago
A sizable, possibly plurality cohort of fully adult tech people is young enough to not know about United States v. Microsoft Corp. This would explain a lot of comments I see on this topic. If you don't know Microsoft's history, a
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
I highly recommend looking into the history if this really is new to you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor... .
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
They have a way to change tire inflation to suit the terrain. I wonder if they can change the failsafe direction of the brakes to suit the situation.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
This would, of course, need to be determined in court. Microsoft argued it had plenty of competition when the DOJ came for it over Windows and bundling. Like I said, this isn't unexplored territory for Microsoft. This is the company of
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
The tagline is "Your AI pair programmer" That's the pitch. You're renting a pair programmer. If your pair programmer is stealing code, you're going to have a bad time. This has nothing to do with...whatever you&#x27
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
No one wants to stop what Copilot is being sold as. They want to stop the company selling it from doing what it is famous for doing.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
There's a sizable fully adult cohort in tech who are young enough to, at best, have vague memories of Microsoft's antitrust troubles and not get why this is such a big deal. Tech history education could be better.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
Microsoft has been nailed for this exact kind of thing in the past. This isn't hypothetical.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
There is no permanently dark side of the moon. It's all lit eventually.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
The resolution could be better, but it's still better than what we have of the ocean floor. https://www.google.com/moon/
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
I don't know why I remembered it as win32 from when he wrote about it. Anyway. I remember downloading a save editor from AOL's software center, so the stuff on that page brings back memories. I had a broken 10+ MB save from trying
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
So was Howard Hughes, but it's usually his declining mental health that gets attention because no one helped him.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
I'm not sure which side is getting the worse of this deal.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
It was a short hop from picking up Castle of the Winds II at a dollar store to finding out about resource editors and win32 when I wanted to edit the images. The game itself was from 1993, but this was in the late 90s/early 2000s when
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
It might be an automated thing Substack does. Doesn't answer the question, but they might not have a choice.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
It's an "if you have to ask..." situation. The people who understand the problem likely come from the business world they're trying to sell to and their question would be more specific, or they wouldn't need to ask
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
This is like curb cuts: essential to people who need it, merely useful to people who don't. I can't use an app that won't let me turn off animations or make them user-initiated. There was a long gap where I couldn't use
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
It was a joke about disaster movies. One of them even had tunnels in its plot. There's a disaster movie set in Australia that goofs on the tendency for all asteroids to hit off the coast of New York by having the news come hours before
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
That was going off of memory. I might be wrong about that part.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
I'm a bit dulled to it these days, so that part didn't even register.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
You sure about that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage_of_the_2016_Uni... >> 'A 2018 study found that media coverage of Trump led to increased public support for him during the primaries. The stu
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
The more I understand about biology, the more bizarre it is that people try to beat it down to simple, obvious, narrow, and globally consistent binaries to serve their ideological purposes.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
They might be referring to the signals on the track. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_signalling
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
On the other hand, having a national network of tunnels built and maintained is great for when an asteroid strikes off the coast of New York and you only have a few hours to get people to safety. Handily, they're also full of supplies
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
The same way any human system works: people mostly want to do the right thing, so they do.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
Call it Project Gacklemore
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
Calling your [@ the author, not submitter] belief reality and setting it in opposition to others' experiences sure does seem like ideology. Worse, you've based it entirely on your singular experience. Yes, sometimes people find th
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
The only catch is you have to build five of them.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
You must be one of those folks who struggles to understand other people have a different experience, different priorities, and different knowledge and that you have to actually communicate the thing in your brain if you want other people to
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
Pop-up used to be the norm. That started to change once browsers started having them in little slide down/up things.

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