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by scelerat 2y ago
oh noes! I viewed source and saw the answers
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by scelerat 2y ago
I can’t think of a better acqui-hire than NeXT + Steve Jobs
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by scelerat 2y ago
Curious what you think of intellectual property law in general. Trade dress, trade marks, written words, lyrics, distinctive visual styles, processes, melodies etc are all protected under various IP laws. The laws did not anticipate AI mode
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by scelerat 2y ago
The Seal Team 6 example keeps getting batted around and that's unfortunate because it would be an extreme and obviously outrageous attack which would attract much unwanted attention. Part of the ruling was that conversations between DO
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by scelerat 2y ago
Part of the ruling was that the conversations between the Department of Justice, the main law enforcement arm of the US federal government, and the President -- which are among his "official duties" -- cannot be entered into a cri
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by scelerat 2y ago
> Well, if they don't, it shows how evil they are. Same if it went the other way. See, the problem is some of us don't want to get to the point where we derive petty satisfaction of definitively knowing how evil someone can be.
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by scelerat 2y ago
Despite Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist is still great for most typical local classifieds. Furniture, bicycles, motorcycles, cars, musical instruments, electronics, garage/estate sales, etc. And it's wide open: you don't hav
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by scelerat 2y ago
TLDR, you combine/precede naked accent characters with the backspace character on your output device (probably a printer) to get accented characters.
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by scelerat 2y ago
I had a thunderscan. I spent weeks scanning the entirety of the loose-leaf AD&D 2e Monstrous Compendium and uploaded the 72dpi b&w monster images to my local Hermes bbs as PICTs. I don’t know why. It made sense to me at the time.
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by scelerat 2y ago
I think very few people ever "paid for news" -- the newsroom of most publications have always been highly subsidized by advertising and classifieds, and perhaps newstand sales. Google (and others) and Craigslist (and others) quick
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by scelerat 3y ago
I sense that surf enthusiasts manage to monetize web properties for the surf community more readily than other enthusiast communities. I remember surfline very early on in the life of the public internet, having a pay model sometime in the
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by scelerat 3y ago
I chopped ten years of highly relevant experience off my resume and the response rate to job applications improved vastly.
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by scelerat 3y ago
"Now that I know so many of the legacy brands are French, the fact that French’s is called “French’s” and describes itself as “American flavor in a bottle” is kind of funny (and American)." According to McCormick's (owner of
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by scelerat 3y ago
I like the variation where the note for "hair" is played a half step flat. In the example on the wikipedia page, the implied chords for "shave and a hair- cut" would be (original) G / . C G s
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by scelerat 3y ago
I'm most familiar with Windsor from the Whole Earth Catalog and the Mesa Boogie (specifically "Boogie") guitar amplifier logotype. Was very popular in the late '60s - early '70s, it seems. https://wholeea
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by scelerat 3y ago
Some of this, "get to work; relinquish results; draft demo sketch," reminds me of the Brooksian aphorism "Plan to Throw One Away." Make mistakes quickly, etc. My major hobby is making music, and I feel the best way to wr
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by scelerat 3y ago
Small nit: I'm pretty certain the Mac System software from pre-1.0 up until System 7 had identical UI widgets for things like check boxes, radio buttons, buttons, etc. The screen shot in the article is from the Control Panel desktop ac
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by scelerat 3y ago
I remember a single-panel comic from one of the Mac rags at the time -- MacWorld? MacUser? wasn't there an IT-oriented tabloid-format Mac mag? -- anyway, kind of reminiscent of a New Yorker cartoon, an adult with his arm moderately fle
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by scelerat 3y ago
Between Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and Sesame Street, there was a ton of really good music -- good on its own terms -- for kids growing up in that era.
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by scelerat 3y ago
Grabbing an FM antenna when you've got a weak signal has a similar effect
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by scelerat 3y ago
For someone who is totally clueless, I can see it's faster than chat gpt in responding to the same question. What are some relevant speed metrics? Output tokens per second? How about number of input tokens -- does that matter/how
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by scelerat 3y ago
Simply stated, 'u' in vim undoes every change since the last insert. I suppose for some, "more granular" undo points could be useful, but I'm in such a habit of doing something discrete and then escaping insert mode
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by scelerat 3y ago
extending, perhaps, "from the river to the sea"? How do the most fervent of the people who fight for that ideal feel about tolerance, democracy, pluralism, etc?
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by scelerat 3y ago
It would seem whatever they "toned down" in 2017 has been toned back up in recent months.
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by scelerat 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_river_to_the_sea QUOTE The phrase was popularised in the 1960s as part of a wider call for Palestinian liberation creating a democratic state freeing Palestinians from oppression
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by scelerat 3y ago
What is an alternate solution to the decades-long conflict which is not a "two state solution"?
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by scelerat 3y ago
Growing up in southern California I had some relatives visit and we spent a day at Newport Beach. When the morning marine layer broke and Catalina Island became visible, they asked, "is that Hawaii?"
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by scelerat 3y ago
Huh, I never thought too deeply about it, but I also never thought the equatorial band was "the trench."
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by scelerat 3y ago
Newsom is almost certainly plan B for a variety of 2024 scenarios.
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by scelerat 3y ago
Screenshots include cameo of much-loved (by me anyway) network tank game, Bolo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(1987_video_game)

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