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   by sehugg 8y ago

   "Walk without rhythm, and it won't attract the worm" -- possibly the only Dune reference in a Top 40 hit (Fatboy Slim)
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   by sehugg 8y ago

   Depends on your definition of "complete" -- ChromeOS now has Android and Linux container support, so you've got options for command-line apps. Ironically, you have to run Electron apps (based on Chromium) in a Linux VM.
3. 243.▲
   by sehugg 8y ago

   Good idea, they'll get even more data on emerging competitors than they used to get from their traffic-sniffing VPN app before Apple pulled it from the App Store a few months ago: https://techcrunch.com/2018/02&#x2
4. 244.▲
   by sehugg 8y ago

   I use tsc -w with a simple Python web server and use <script> tags to include all of my modules. Yeah, I'm a monster. And watch out for the browser cache.
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   by sehugg 8y ago

   You need a GoPro for a music video? What, are you going waterskiing or something :) I'm no expert, but I'd say just use mobile phone cameras. Go to different places, have someone (or a tripod) film you lip-syncing the entire song
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   by sehugg 8y ago

   Project LOLA, there's a Gizmodo article about it: https://gizmodo.com/project-lola-is-a-bizarre-snapshot-from-...
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   by sehugg 8y ago

   The lyrics to secular Renaissance music wouldn't be too out-of-place today, for example this example from http://www3.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Jacques_Arcadelt : How crazy is this thought, my lady: although yo
8. 248.▲
   by sehugg 8y ago

   Pretty sure that scandal would last no more than a half-day in the current news firehose.
9. 249.▲
   by sehugg 8y ago

   There's still no way to emulate 32-bit iOS apps.
10. 250.▲
    by sehugg 8y ago

    Yes the TI-99/4A was 16 bit, but it only had 256 bytes of (static) RAM connected to the CPU bus! The other 16k of DRAM was behind the video processor, so the CPU had to read/write it sequentially one byte at a time. There was&#x27
11. 251.▲
    by sehugg 8y ago

    Nothing special, just a few tabs and Termux open. 30 ms ping time to gmail.com.
12. 252.▲
    by sehugg 8y ago

    Thanks, that does load a whole lot faster. I feel like I'm using old Yahoo! mail again :P
13. 253.▲
    by sehugg 8y ago

    I can handle the new design, but on my (albeit underpowered) Chromebook, new Gmail takes ~30 seconds from initial page load to starting a reply to a thread. This is not progress.
14. 254.▲
    by sehugg 8y ago

    Reminds me of the Air France Flight 447 crash, where a unexpected manual mode leads to confusion and cognitive overload with no time to recover.
15. 255.▲
    by sehugg 8y ago

    If unaligned access traps are weird, then so is ARM: https://medium.com/@iLevex/the-curious-case-of-unaligned-acc...
16. 256.▲
    by sehugg 8y ago

    Maybe the balloon could condense water in its environment and electrolyze it to refill itself with the produced hydrogen. (Though I'm pretty sure you also need salt.)
17. 257.▲
    by sehugg 8y ago

    It'd be nice if compilers were smarter about using the stack (looking at you, cc65) -- you could have "big" stack frames and little stack frames, pass variables in registers, push values as 8-bit instead of upcast to 16-bit,
18. 258.▲
    by sehugg 8y ago

    In 2002, you could buy a PC motherboard with a sound section amplified by a dual-triode vacuum tube. You can still find them on eBay: http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/aopentube/
19. 259.▲
    by sehugg 8y ago

    Is there an actual crisis, outside the media narrative? This article ends with Facebook's COO testifying before Congress, so I'm going to say yes, there was a crisis.
20. 260.▲
    by sehugg 8y ago

    I've got a cheap (now $149) Samsung Chromebook 3 that I use daily for its long battery life and matte display (seriously, laptop makers! do more matte displays!) My stable channel just got Crostini support, but I found that it takes up
21. 261.▲
    by sehugg 8y ago

    Kindle can be a bit arbitrary on what they accept and what they reject for print. For e-books, too. One of my books was mysteriously blocked without justification, and after several months and attempts at escalation was just as mysterious
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    by sehugg 8y ago

    The U.S. and Russia have been signaling to each other recently that they would be willing to deploy low-yield nukes in a limited regional engagement. Anyway, MAD has very nearly failed on several occasions -- Cuban Missile Crisis, false ala
23. 263.▲
    by sehugg 8y ago

    Follow me at https://twitter.com/8bitworkshop -- I'll be releasing a book soon that you might like.
24. 264.▲
    by sehugg 8y ago

    Is it common to set autopilot below 5,000 feet or so? Seems kind of like setting your cruise control at 25 MPH.
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    by sehugg 8y ago

    This is a good time to link to Apple Disk Server, which supplies audio files that Apple ][s can load with their built-in cassette ROM routines, bootstrapping a program that loads a compressed image, then formats and writes it to floppy disk
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    by sehugg 8y ago

    Reminds me of that episode of "Benson" where they game out a nuclear attack scenario in the basement (bonus: first mention of ARPANET on TV): https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=benson&p=3&
27. 267.▲
    by sehugg 8y ago

    Gosh, there's more depth in that layer of cream cheese than in the entire iOS 7 interface remake.
28. 268.▲
    by sehugg 8y ago

    Not just endorsement of violence, but organizing it: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/08/02/facebooks-fig...
29. 269.▲
    by sehugg 8y ago

    And before Assembly there was VHDL and Verilog, and the eldritch instruments that turn them into baroque patterns of silicon that cannot be contemplated by man (well, not since the 1970s...)
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    by sehugg 8y ago

    There's also TVTropes (warning: abandon all home of productivity): https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RolePlayingGame