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by reaperducer 1mo ago
Did that actually happen as something that appears on maps or did it just get ignored as senile rambling? Both Google Maps and Apple Maps changed it for users in the United States. MapQuest publicly refused, causing literally dozens of pe
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by reaperducer 1mo ago
Calling each new high "record-breaking" is a bit meaningless. Like how Hollywood is constantly saying each week's ticket sales are record-breaking, because they don't factor for inflation or population growth.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
Wait till the AI bots start using it to leave messages for one another.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
It's been extended to include connecting SSH sessions. It's been a few years, but it's something like ATDS"username:password@host:port"
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
Well, it does appear to be made out of sand, one of the world's most porous substances.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
Every static HTML pages built this way with ai is another WordPress site that wont get built by contractors just to be neglected, compromised, and used to launch phishing and ransomware attacks. You mean the very web sites that the "
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
I don't think it's hyperbole as much as it is just regular ordinary everyday slang. "I have a hundred things to do today" doesn't mean that a person has 100 things on their list for that day. Outside of tech bubbles
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
When I moved to a new apartment in 2021, I did a tally and there was something like 17 new apps associated with it. Off the top of my head: - Rent payment/contracts app - Rent deposit app (for some reason a different app) - Ma
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
When hospitals routinely operate at 120% and a major crisis doubles what we ask of them, people don't get the treatment they need. A lot of people don't realize how stretched hospitals are these days. The newspapers in Britain r
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
You vastly overestimate the budget and abilities of most software houses of the day. For every Atari or Epyx, there were many dozens of very significant publishers who did their work on consumer-grade hardware. Except for Atari and less tha
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
14"? Luxury! My C-64 was hooked up to a nine-inch Panasonic. Though it was color, so I guess you still win.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
The publishing company often deleted it after the game shipped, thinking it just took up space. Floppy disks were not cheap, expensive, easy to get, or reliable. It sucked. Even on the U.S. east coast, I remember having to travel over an
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
A pelican wouldn't/couldn't pedal with its ankles. It doesn't make any more physiological sense than a human doing that.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
Is there a reason these pelicans always have roughly the same composition Because they're computers. They don't have an imagination and the ability to create things from whole cloth the way humans do. Much like a mother pelican
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
"Avoid generic tangents" / "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances." That's pretty much 90% of HN these days. Apple releases a new iPhone? Here comes the flood of decade-old complaints about
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
If they don't want to print and ship a manual, offer a PDF online for curious people to download. Problem solved. Or, do what my car from 2014 did: The manual came on a USB stick. The problem isn't distribution, it's lazines
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
Is there a credible source other than the book that the article refers to? Plenty of computer magazines from that era on archive.org. Try Byte or Compute!.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
SYS64738
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
deep, hard to obtain hardware knowledge It came with a very detailed book. And Commodore sold another even-more-detailed-yet-still-cheap book that was so complete that it even included a big fold-out schematic diagram of the motherboard.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
a modem hand cut from copper clad, plugged into the user port, and hooked up to pirate radio, that connected to another country. Whenever I see people on HN talking about the insane levels of abstraction and indirection the tech industry
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
A pelican is a bird, not a person. The knees bend the other way.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
If they could, they would ship an apple version of the internet only available to apple devices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleLink
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
This map seems to really skew post-2000, with a few before then sprinkled in. None of the places I know about made it onto the map, but they're all 1970's.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
The things at the bottom of the barrel in advertising are often literally malware. So… Google, then? It's not like it hasn't been repeatedly documented that malware is pushed through Google Ads and other properties.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
I think Cory would be surprised to see how many Mapquest referrers show up in the referrer logs of brick-and-mortar businesses.
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Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again(washingtonpost.com)
122 points by reaperducer 2mo ago|81 comments
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
I have a genuine fear that someone will stop me in the street one day, grab me by the shoulders and say Kenneth! What's the frequency? What's the frequency, Kenneth!
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
it’s a well known secret that Apple has real rack mount servers for their internal processes Only if by "secret" you mean "announced in multiple press releases and a public event with federal, state, and local officials at
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
Isn’t a Mac mini annoying to use as an HTPC? You have to deal with a remote, software, and a full OS, compared with an Apple TV, which has a good remote and is optimized for TV use. I've been using one for about a decade as a media s
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
"Tanning invitation" /Ob Real Genius

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