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by samplatt 5y ago
The rest of the article is a schizophrenic compilation of often single-sentence paragraphs barely relating to each other. Regardless, having your articles' title and opening sentence to mean the opposite of what you intend is pretty ba
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by samplatt 5y ago
Maybe my reading comprehension failed me, but my takeaway was that the article was very much not in support of it. "Why does the New menu even exist for creating new empty files? What’s the point of having a New menu anyway?" Supp
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by samplatt 5y ago
The introduction of win+"stub" in Win8 was pretty great, but with Win10 this has been polluted by "search the web for my program" appearing just a fraction of a second before the program itself. Sometimes it even brings
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by samplatt 5y ago
What a weird hill to die on. I gave up trying to navigate the Start Menu to launch programs around Win7 in disgust of Windows' continued "helpful" reorganisation of it. My main way to create new files is DEFINITELY "righ
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by samplatt 5y ago
Coming from a rural Aussie upbringing, I arrived on the scene slightly too late it incorporate that into a career. +++ath0 was still fun though. And the AT set is still used (with extensions) in GSM modems! It's still relevant!
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by samplatt 5y ago
I could tell what boot phase my 386 + 486 desktops were at by listening to the ticking of the HDD heads. When I installed Win95 on the 486 (the poor thing), the time until the o/s was finished with the drive quadrupled.
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by samplatt 5y ago
I appreciate that the "to"/"too" typo could be part of the joke but know that it's still like sandpaper on the brain regardless.
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by samplatt 5y ago
A BIG portion of the "point" of the Ghost in the Shell franchise (beyond the original first movie) was the "line" between human and machine was already blurred beyond usefulness as soon as they started relying on fire an
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by samplatt 5y ago
That's fine. There just seemed to be an unnecessarily large amount of tugging of Apple's dick in the top of the thread, and I wanted to suggest an alternative.
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by samplatt 5y ago
An alternative to giving your money to one of the largest tax-dodgers on the planet is a $30 raspberry pi with "pi-hole" installed. Browsing on my phone at home with all those ad networks blocked okay... until you go outside your
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by samplatt 5y ago
>It'd be able to enter warp once. ...why once? Are you assuming all matter+antimatter is destroyed in the single trip? If you have x amount of critical material, could you not warp for half the distance of the "fuel" in yo
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by samplatt 5y ago
Nope.
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by samplatt 5y ago
>“Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice, makes perfect.” That's word-for-word what my sensei says about karate.
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by samplatt 5y ago
I'd disagree with the "solution in search of a problem" posit. The problem (that the current "Internet" as a whole was becoming dominated by human-hostile entities) was universally recognised but difficult to define
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by samplatt 5y ago
I gave it one star and left a scathing review. What are they going to do, not include a calculator in the next Windows?
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by samplatt 5y ago
>Sometimes I look at macOS, Windows 10. Apart from some UI facelift I dont even remember a single user feature The user "feature" that comes quickest to mind for Windows 10 was the first run of calc.exe showing a popup notifica
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by samplatt 5y ago
Only ever read about BeOS and haven't never heard of Haiku :O
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by samplatt 5y ago
To be fair, 3.1 was snappy because it didn't have the layers of security and anti-crashing catches that we now rely on.
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by samplatt 5y ago
>almost innavigable for someone with quick reflexes My few short years with Windows 3.1+ spoiled me for all future versions of windows. Instant closing, instant alt-tabbing, double-clicking the top-left corner icon to close, (nearly) ins
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by samplatt 5y ago
YourSQL = MySQL. It's so simple but it made me chuckle for a sold five seconds.
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by samplatt 5y ago
I'm deaf on one side, so issues like this tend to be topics that I've already given a lot of thought to. A counter I employ to the cocktail-party effect is to pitch my voice very low. Sometimes the person I'm talking to picks
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by samplatt 5y ago
JDS Labs are the very definition of bullshit-free top-tier stuff. You chose well.
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by samplatt 5y ago
I'm going to confine myself to DAC+ Amp devices here. The main trick to suss out audiophile-snakeoil is checking the specs to see what the Total Harmonic Distortion is when the volume is maxed out (ie, before the signal starts clipping
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by samplatt 5y ago
The HD58X uses 150-ohm drivers. These can be used without an amplifier just fine, but detail will be lost and they'll be quieter. My general rule is anything 80ohm and over will want an amp... You DEFINITELY want an external DAC+amp fo
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by samplatt 5y ago
>you will basically always see the blocking artifacts and chroma aberration in compressed video Netflix is AMAZINGLY low quality, even on the higher-quality tiers, and working with compressed video was one of the factors that ultimately
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by samplatt 5y ago
Fuck, I was wondering about that. No wonder Coldplay are so inexplicably popular...
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by samplatt 5y ago
The Silurians were from Earth, IIRC - in the deep past. The end product of the Mesozoic era - intelligent reptiles.
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by samplatt 5y ago
Considering it's a pretty lazy way to do it anyway, Hanlon's razor probably applies, rather than any actual or attempted target-audience-appeasement.
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by samplatt 5y ago
Awesome, thanks.
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by samplatt 5y ago
How are the Nuraphone cans with sound leakage? I've had hearing issues since childhood and tend to turn the volume WAY up. Nuraphone has been on my radar for a while, but I exclusively buy headphones with as near-to-zero external leaka

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