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by rezmason 2y ago
In case it bears mentioning, the rationale behind this was that the migration from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X was complex, and needed to be justified. Establishing OS X as more stable than Mac OS 9 was an important argument for that push. "M
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(or in my case, a variety of wide heads)
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I'd pair a pair of Halliday glasses like these with a pair of bone induction headphones. That oughta do it. Wireless connectivity/latency issues aside, we're probably better off with them being two separate "cranium acce
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There's a fascinating story about ego in science buried here. William Henry Preece was Engineer-In-Chief at the British Post Office in the late 19th Century (basically heading their telegraphy efforts) and controversially stuck to Thom
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This reminds me of the early work of the structuralists in psychology. Measuring the time it takes for a person (or in this case Wayland) to react to a sensation.
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Usually that galaxy is moving over 4,000 miles per hour. With this photo evidence, we can now issue them a speeding ticket, we've got 'em dead to rights
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Physically Based Reading
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Disclaimer: I'm not an allergist or nutritionist, I only know my personal experience. I would consider myself over my allergy. I'd say it lasted seven years, gradually diminishing in severity over time. For the first couple years
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Breaking out in hives, mostly. Throwing up a couple times. I forget how we determined it was maltodextrin, but for the first year I was also off wheat and milk while they worked it out.
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I was raised with an allergy to this stuff. Now I eat it for breakfast and observe its birefringence between two polarizers.
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Let's use the clickbait title as a brainstorming prompt: what do other folks think is a better candidate for the biggest flop [in tech] of the 1990s? Also, I kind of wish Microsoft Bob failed a little harder— the agentic stuff I'm
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Does anyone know of a paradigm original to Microsoft Bob that survived? Other than Rover the Windows XP search dog.
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Thanks, and nice werk masswerk!
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That's the one! That and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quB60FmzHKQ&t=20s Thanks for linking, I'll be reaching out to and crediting Posy, once I'm closer to complete :D The onscreen graphics I currently
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96x32 pixels? A kindred spirit! I'm using WebGL to emulate a unique Casio LCD that hue-shifts pixels into the right color, and its display is 95x32 and typically its bit depth is two. (The hardware is 96x32, I'm honestly not sure
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I bet there's an online college credit transfer program that'll accept this as a doctoral defense. Depending on how Nagle's finagled.
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"Hey look! It didn't crash!" "I guess Toonces can write a driver!" "Yeah! Just not very well!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fvsItXYgzk
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He succeeded! He arrived on Sunday. https://therunningchannel.com/deo-kato-completes-run-from-ca... Does anyone know how he ran from continental Europe to England?
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Some say the world should take cyanocobalamin, Some say methylcobalamin. From what I’ve tasted of each vitamin I hold with those who favor cyanocobalamin. But if my supplement could have a twin, I think I know enough of niacin To say that f
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For years I've wondered what the first, earliest color lookup table was. Like any mapping from an index to a color value. Like a design for a Roman mosaic that indexes tesserae, or a declaration of which parts of a statue or mural woul
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Good points! I think I'm just coming to terms (in a public forum) with the bleak fates of animals that humans transport, ie. to the ends of the Earth.
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So it was practical at one point to dogsled around Antarctica, and it was practical to leave there any dogs who perished. Did this apply to both polar regions? Is the Arctic one enormous, 35,000-year-old frozen pet cemetery? Edit: come to t
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We're two comments in and this is, so far, the most extensive conversation about a good Borges story I've had in my life, so kudos for that :)
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I think a more apt Borges story is 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius'— where a clandestine guild creates artifacts from a fictional world with the intent to deceive. The artifacts and the world they allude to carry such appeal to the ma
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> You'll find people on HN arguing No I won't!! Sorry.
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I don't think the goal of Rust has to be to unseat C++, just like the goal of Macs is no longer to unseat Windows. Here are some nobler goals: * be a language that users and non-users believe is better * be a language that people learn
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Great post, OWL! I love a good mathematical diversion with cultural context wrapped around it, it's like a beef wellington for the analytical mind. Codepen is great for discourse like this but I want to put the conventional Genji-mon i
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A couple years ago I made a codepen to generate arbitrarily long Genji-mon from a ruleset, and managed to write a rule that reduces the number of required special cases to one. However, these rules are very fragile, and "break" wi
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As others mentioned, there are Discord and IRC pockets. I'm in a Fediverse community with a bunch of nerds, and many of us just met in person at this week's Handmade conference. You can watch the entire conference here. I want to
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Nerds needed support in the nineties, and they need support today. Our error was in accepting the success and fame of a few representative nerds as evidence that nerds were overcoming these challenges collectively. We allowed in people who

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