ndiddy

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by ndiddy 2y ago
It's brought up, but the main point of the video is that RollerCoaster Tycoon was one of the last major retail games made by a handful of people (Chris Sawyer for design and programming, Simon Foster for graphics, Allister Brimble for
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Where I live it's illegal to use a camera within 100 feet of a voting booth to protect the privacy of people's votes. If you tried to take a photo of your ballot, you'd likely get asked by a poll worker to put the camera away
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by ndiddy 2y ago
What country are you looking in? Everything I’ve seen (US) is like the linked post describes. There’s a fair amount of C or C++ jobs, while the Rust ones are all either crypto startups or extremely specialized (5 years professional rust exp
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Microsoft Faces Broad Antitrust Investigation from US FTC(bloomberg.com)
78 points by ndiddy 2y ago|67 comments
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The context from the article the parent comment linked is that Mac webcams made prior to 2008 both had the camera LED controlled in firmware and didn't verify the camera firmware blob when it was downloaded into the camera's RAM.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
There's a somewhat active Super Cassette Vision homebrew scene in Japan that's been able to achieve pretty impressive results with the machine's unorthodox graphics hardware. The best looking ones are probably the ports of Ch
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The only protection that the "public benefit corporation" status provides is that investors can't sue the company for failing to maximize shareholder value. There's lots of other avenues they can take to make the company
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The article you're commenting on mentions that FedEx didn't deliver the pallets of handhelds to the warehouse, but instead left them at an unrelated construction site next door. This is clearly FedEx's fault, they didn't
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by ndiddy 2y ago
I think cash strapped offices won't be willing to pay $41/user/month for access to a dual-core system with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/business&#x2F
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Windows 3.1 is basically 95% of an OS. When you're booted into Windows 3.1, MS-DOS is only used to run MS-DOS software and to handle filesystem access. Windows 3.1 controls the processes, memory, video card, system timer, keyboard, mou
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The article title is somewhat misleading. The "15 terabyte" figure refers to the amount of bandwidth used, not the amount of video being stored (it's closer to 145 GB).
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Another similar incident happened around a week after that one: https://www.channel3000.com/news/dane-county-sheriffs-office... . One thing to note is that the car doors in Teslas are electrically controlled and a diff
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by ndiddy 2y ago
I'm glad our government has introduced the H1B program to help out employers like you who are dealing with a shortage of tech workers (who will work for 2/3 market and will do anything you say because if they get fired they'l
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by ndiddy 2y ago
AFAIK all the "public benefit" aspect does is remove the ability for investors to sue the company for failing to maximize shareholder value. Given sufficient share ownership, it's still possible for VCs to force Bluesky to do
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Given that Bluesky is VC funded, I imagine it'll just be a matter of time until the monetization, ads, and growth hacking start. Enjoy it while you can, I suppose.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
You're absolutely right, even in this thread there's a ton of "I was able to teach myself, so clearly everyone would be geniuses if only the system didn't hold them back" posts. It's the same thing that led t
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by ndiddy 2y ago
> I feel the opposite - so many people prefer KDE, what the hell am I missing? Many people use their computer for a use case that's not "single application taking up the entire screen.", and KDE works better for them than
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by ndiddy 2y ago
After Visual Studio 2008, they rewrote the UI in WPF and started writing large components of the program in C#. This dramatically regressed performance, especially on a cold start (it runs decently if you've had the program open for a
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Sure but after a few decades of packing we'd eventually end up with a direct democracy where every adult citizen is a Supreme Court justice and the legislative branch would be sidestepped entirely. Seems better than our current system
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by ndiddy 2y ago
> I used 'assembler' back in high school, when I was learning about the 80x86. I remember because I was 'corrected' by fellow student who had never touched assembler, assembly language, machine code mnemonics, or what
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The author didn't link to the actual PR so I can't see the full context, but I don't see the point in setting up a bot to make contributors agree to copyright terms if the maintainers just ignore it when someone does a PR and
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Mechanical punch-card voting machines fell out of use after the 2000 election showed that they're more error-prone than either electronic voting machines or paper ballots.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
I'm not sure how the laws are in all states, but where I am it's illegal to use a camera or cell phone within 100 feet of a voting booth so if you tried to take a picture of your ballot, you'd likely get asked to put the came
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by ndiddy 2y ago
It's fairly similar, but the Gameboy CPU supports a few opcodes that the E-Reader doesn't (DAA, HALT, DI, EI) and the E-Reader has a few custom opcodes (there's a couple for waiting a specified number of frames, and a couple
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Great article! I think the tiny size of the cards, the Z80 VM, and the high-ish level "scripting" API make the E-Reader a really interesting platform. I might try writing something for it if I ever get around to it.
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Live Nation decision will force companies to rethink consumer arbitration rules(reuters.com)
3 points by ndiddy 2y ago|0 comments
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by ndiddy 2y ago
How was editing the source code on such a small screen? I think it was 40x8 or something.
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by ndiddy 2y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about, gun companies get sued all the time as a result of gun violence. The biggest recent example I'm aware of is the Sandy Hook families getting a $73 million settlement from Remington in 20
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by ndiddy 2y ago
The harm is that third-party developers aren't allowed to publish extensions that use "proposed APIs", but Copilot doesn't have to follow these rules because Microsoft both develops the extension and runs the Extension M
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by ndiddy 2y ago
Llama Group laid off the team who had been working on Winamp and then released the source code under a license that bans users from distributing modified versions of the code themselves and assigns copyright on any contributions to Llama Gr

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