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by mwcremer 5y ago
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/development-tools
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by mwcremer 5y ago
It's not just a question of what the new version fixes, there is also the question of what it breaks. Sometimes new versions trigger latent bugs no one knew about that luckily happened to work fine on the old tools. Finding and fixing
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by mwcremer 5y ago
Skia was the graphics part. The printing part was “El Kabong” (Quick Draw McGraw’s alter ego.)
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by mwcremer 5y ago
From The Fine Article: Back when Final Fantasy VI (Final Fantasy III US) was released the game was heavily toned down, censoring graphics and the like. When it was re-released for the Playstation, the graphics were uncensored but toned dow
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by mwcremer 5y ago
Bigger scale: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helms_Pumped_Storage_Plant
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by mwcremer 5y ago
I had never heard of the "webster" protocol, and my DDG-fu has failed me. Can anyone point me to details?
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by mwcremer 5y ago
Reminds me of the apocryphal story of the visibly nervous PhD student who walks into their thesis oral defense and sets down an expensive bottle of aged single malt whisky. The chair asks, "Before we begin, I am curious why you brought
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by mwcremer 5y ago
You are thinking of Abraham Wald: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Wald
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by mwcremer 5y ago
This might save you some time: "According to the philosophy of Utilitarianism, the morally right thing to do is to choose the action that produces the most good. I think the most good I can do is to focus on the Utility I offer to User
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by mwcremer 5y ago
ZOOM Z double-oh M box 3 5 0 Boston Mass 0 2 1 3 4... send it to ZOOM! And Schoolhouse Rock: Ready or Not, Here I Come; Conjunction Junction; I'm Just a Bill; The Preamble
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by mwcremer 5y ago
>Their feature requests are often a proxy for something else they aren't able to articulate. Our usual answer for this is: What are you trying to do?™
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by mwcremer 5y ago
> Any suggestions which distro takes security serious? OpenBSD.
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by mwcremer 5y ago
I suppose that depends on whether the courts agree that "flagging" is a form of original content, and is defamatory.
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by mwcremer 5y ago
FTFA: To be a bit more explicit: at no point in any court case regarding Section 230 is there a need to determine whether or not a particular website is a "platform" or a "publisher." What matters is solely the content
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by mwcremer 5y ago
Apparently not? See 'If you said "Once a company like that starts moderating content, it's no longer a platform, but a publisher"' here: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/233254446
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by mwcremer 5y ago
I understand the TRS-80 Model 100[1] is (still) a hot seller in this market. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100
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by mwcremer 5y ago
The README states the source came from https://github.com/historicalsource/defender . "A collection of historical source files, for education and perusal." Which begs the question, where did Historical Source
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by mwcremer 5y ago
Asimov had a thought about machines battling for supremacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power
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by mwcremer 5y ago
https://www.folklore.org/html/about.html "Originally, I planned to host a variety of histories on Folklore, but we never got traction with other subjects."
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by mwcremer 5y ago
Its definately a loosing battle.
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by mwcremer 5y ago
> Why can't you [play lawn darts] in your country? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_darts#Safety_and_bans_in_...
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by mwcremer 6y ago
On the U.S.S. Hornet ( https://uss-hornet.org ), each group is expected to provide a Fire Watch in two-hour shifts.
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by mwcremer 6y ago
Yes. They dated in the 80's.
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by mwcremer 6y ago
My wife uses Excel almost exclusively as a text layout tool. To the extent that while building an event plan in Excel she asked me, “What is 29 + 17?”
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by mwcremer 6y ago
Most of Infocom classics can be found at e.g. https://github.com/historicalsource/zork1
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by mwcremer 6y ago
Edmund Hoyle wrote a set of rules for the card game whist. His name was used in subsequent collections of rules for all sort of games. "According to Hoyle" has become idiomatic for "according to the rules."
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by mwcremer 6y ago
To be fair, it says "1000 auto-generated," not "1000 unique autogenerated." I imagine there is some procedural difference in how they are generated that just happens to result in the same visible arrangement.
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by mwcremer 6y ago
Au contraire: https://garfieldminusgarfield.net (Although I suppose a case could be made for it still being "empty.")
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by mwcremer 6y ago
Not sure that will fly. The Supreme Court was not convinced last time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereo
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by mwcremer 6y ago
No discussion of Robotron is complete without Christian Gingras' brilliant reverse engineering. He even submitted patches! http://www.robotron2084guidebook.com/technical/christianging...

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