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by rvense 2y ago
Apple used 8-pin mini DIN connectors for serial. The author might not have had the right cable.
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by rvense 2y ago
Cool! I'd pick up my kids earlier and maybe learn to weld or sew.
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by rvense 2y ago
Get them out now before they find out the truth about academia...
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by rvense 2y ago
Maybe compare to second year students of a very foreign language... (Though I have to say, I'm a self-taught programmer with an academic background in theoretical linguistics as well as university-level experience of several languages
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by rvense 2y ago
You're hateful towards it? Personally I'd probably interpret "to medal" as "to meddle" and misunderstand completely.
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by rvense 2y ago
Personally I crop screenshots with GIMP twice a year and it's absolutely fine for that. Not sure what your problem is.
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by rvense 2y ago
It kind of was, I think. The case design is what made the iMac so striking, it didn't really contain anything much new. On a technical level, what set it apart was a newer processor, the G3, (which debuted in the Power Macintosh line i
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by rvense 2y ago
Build products with them. I know of a few musical instruments with CM3s, for instance.
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by rvense 2y ago
Well, it was, but that's probably more because that's what seemed like the reasonable way to do it at the time.
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by rvense 2y ago
Rebellion can't be bought, but in the 1980's I think it was still an open question whether computers would ever be something that non-nerds wanted. In hindsight, it seems inevitable that general purpose, user friendly computers wo
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by rvense 2y ago
Yeah, why learn to play an instrument with your caveman hands when you can rent an iPad and make something that sounds the same with the AI in Garageband!
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by rvense 2y ago
Eh, I only just realized that this idea is basically the character Dixie Flatline from Neuromancer.
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by rvense 2y ago
Hey! You're not developing Notes anymore, then? I use it every day and I'm very grateful for it. Plume looks great, good luck with it.
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by rvense 2y ago
Not sure I see how it's different to protecting it from hostile applications? We'd be sandboxing components somehow rather than apps.
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by rvense 2y ago
You're so obviously correct in this. TBH I think the only reason the term "users" come up when it comes to isolating programmes from one another is because that was the only hammer Unix had, so it was coopted. The original po
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by rvense 2y ago
At my work "It'll take half a day" has become slang for "I have no idea"
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by rvense 2y ago
We should call them fairy tale points.
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by rvense 2y ago
But if you're sandboxing and running all applications in a separate space, is it really correct to refer to it as "users" anymore?
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by rvense 2y ago
That's wild. A Pentium III would still be useful in a pinch. How big was a P3 die, though?
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by rvense 2y ago
> The only difference now is that “preventing” climate change is a huge industry. Eh, causing it is in fact a much, much bigger industry.
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by rvense 2y ago
Games on cartridge were quite expensive, I think.
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by rvense 3y ago
Ah, but is it so different to other HN threads? Tribalism, misunderstanding, attempted witticisms...
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by rvense 3y ago
The amusing thing is that these quick dismissals of philosophy are all instances of philosophical thought. Usually neither good, nor consistent, nor original thought, but nevertheless.
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by rvense 3y ago
Erh, where in the world?
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by rvense 3y ago
If we described tense as something like the grammaticalization of the temporal relationship between the state of affairs described in the utterance and the time of the utterance itself, then it is my understanding that this isn't reall
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by rvense 3y ago
There are roughly 6,000 languages in the world. My own first language, Danish, has about 6 million native speakers, and it is something like the 50th most spoken language in the world. The world is a big place. Did you know that there are l
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by rvense 3y ago
> But learning a language isn’t particularly hard Actually, it is probably one of the hardest things you can attempt. You can speak a language every day for 30 years, but if you start after you're maybe 14, native speakers will be a
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by rvense 3y ago
I always joke that I'm from an in-between generation in that I'm quite digital but still attached to stuff... I do genuinely cherish the bad AVI rips of the Simpsons and X-Files I got off Pirate Bay in 2008.
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by rvense 3y ago
The latter, an upgrade gone awry and I couldn't be bothered to fix it. I use Arch on my work laptop (a concession to modernity and having easy access to whatever), so it was simple to move my primary Good Screen to it as well.
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by rvense 3y ago
FWIW I recently reverted to Arch after five years because Void broke itself completely, but it was otherwise a decent OS.

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