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by octorian 9y ago
> Mankind has done perfectly well without a "right to be forgotten" for hundreds of thousands of years. Because mankind had a de-facto "right to be forgotten" that could be exercised by simply moving to a different co
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by octorian 9y ago
And once Mark rebuilds trust with company A, all is good. Until, that is, Mark decides to get a new job. Once Mark goes to company B, they find the cookie monster article and make Mark completely rebuild trust from scratch. Then Mark has to
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by octorian 9y ago
My own personal story with the NES didn't last that long, because I was a kid without money, terrible at platformers, and my parents wouldn't buy me a lot of games. You can only play Super Mario Bros so many times before you'
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by octorian 9y ago
As someone who drives this exact stretch of road every day, in a Tesla, I agree. This lane is the end of a long stretch of road with either zero or minimal shoulder, where even the slightest glitch could cause a scrape on the side of yo
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by octorian 9y ago
I remember when this event was an active news story. At the time, it seemed like you'd learn something new every time you refreshed the page, and get a different ambiguous take on events depending on which news source you were reading,
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by octorian 9y ago
But you get to play with lots of cool fancy equipment do to that debugging! (Okay, that equipment is also kinda expensive, and retains its value far longer than old computers... But even new stuff has gotten a lot cheaper than it used to be
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by octorian 9y ago
I think its really just that with hardware, you're building something "tangible" that feels like it actually exists in the real world. Meanwhile, with software, all your hard work exists entirely within a virtual space that y
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by octorian 9y ago
This actually makes me think of a project I'm currently neck-deep in working on... Taking captured audio hardware register writes (in the form of a VGM file) and having a modern microcontroller actually replay them on an actual NES CP
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by octorian 9y ago
While the official story is that it was a political issue (or "licensing hissy-fit" depending on your point of view), I often can't help but wonder if that was really somewhat of a cover for a bunch of stuck up C developers w
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by octorian 9y ago
Back when I started college, my SSN was my student ID number. It felt weird, of course. I think there was a change in the law soon after I started college, because it did soon get changed into a different number of the same length. Later on
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by octorian 9y ago
> Maybe Firefox is slow on Linux but on Windows I don't notice a difference between it and Chrome. I really think this is a big part of the discrepancy in opinions of performance here. In my own experience, Firefox on Linux just has
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by octorian 10y ago
I never did, but I often wonder if it was due more to a lack of exposure than anything else. Back then, one's exploration was somewhat limited to what resources the surrounding adults provided you with. And when none of those surroundi
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by octorian 10y ago
From what I can understand, all the arguments seem to derive from some grumpy old curmudgeon who took a passing glance at Qt 15 years ago, without actually understanding what it is or does, and said "Why do I need this thing? I don&#x2
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by octorian 11y ago
Most likely, it means they can finally afford to buy a house. (Seriously, a house a normal person could afford anywhere else would kinda require a windfall to afford out here.)
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by octorian 11y ago
A good chunk of my time at my first real "professional" job was like this. After a while, you kinda get used to the boredom and it becomes less boring. But what terrified me the most, was pissing away my hard-earned education and
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by octorian 11y ago
> I know perceptive high-achievers haunted by revenge fantasies where they humiliate those who laughed at them for being in the remedial track. Ahh yes, every time I manage another great achievement, my parents joke about how to best rub
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by octorian 12y ago
One J2ME platform often forgotten about, or outright ignored by the J2ME community, is the old BlackBerry OS. They took a J2ME base, and added a ton of BB-specific APIs on top of it to make the platform actually useful. Early on, this led d