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by sjm-lbm 7y ago
Cyan (the original devs) actually helped get ScummVM/ResdiualVM updated to support their games via a Kickstarter a couple of years ago. FWIW, if tech issues stopped you from playing Riven in the 90s, I really can't suggest giving
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by sjm-lbm 7y ago
I'm not sure the UK nationalizing car companies is a great example that we should be looking at - via British Leyland, they nationalized a lot of brands that never really recovered (Rover, Triumph, Austin, etc.).
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by sjm-lbm 7y ago
This is correct - Top Gear did a test years ago where they put a very good sim racer in a real race car ( https://www.topgear.com/car-news/gaming/geek-rebooted ). TLDR: he did OK, but was nowhere up to the physical
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by sjm-lbm 7y ago
Smaller than the other leagues, but MLS has announced they are suspending as well ( https://twitter.com/MLS/status/1238128176502628353 )
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by sjm-lbm 7y ago
Not OP, but I've been using an older version of this monitor for about two years now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K3P7ZBS/ref=psdc_1292115011_t1_... There's quite a few choices at that price point, thou
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by sjm-lbm 7y ago
This seems overly paranoid to me - wouldn't we want people with experience in the civics tech space to be leaders at a company working in the civics tech space? Besides, wouldn't most of the good Bernie tech people... go back to w
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by sjm-lbm 7y ago
To be fair, that's ~1700 requests over the course of an hour or more - it's not like every precinct finished at the exact same time.
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by sjm-lbm 7y ago
They have a single-digit share of the market, though (lots of sources say that, but here's one: https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/cloud-market-share-q4-2018-... ). As someone who was using them until recently, I th
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
Honestly, it goes even further than that. The generally accepted theory in the Lion Air incident is that a system caused MCAS might be one of the major causes of the accident. Basically, the larger/more powerful/further forward en
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
It's been a few years, but Nikon did try exactly this: https://www.nikonusa.com/en/nikon-products/product-archive/c... . I'm going to guess that the market reception was at least a little chilly; it&
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
There's actually some precedent for this happening: AA flight 191, a DC-10 that crashed in 1979, wasn't equipped with two stick shakers (a stall warning device) - a paid option at the time. The series of events that caused the acc
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
I have a (pretty old) TiVo that lets you do something similar to this - there's some button on the remote (I honestly can't remember what it is called) that lets you cycle between the tuners. It works pretty much like you describe
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
Texan here. The funny thing is that, when we go to a polling place on election day, we will almost always get a paper ballot to be used with an optical scan reader. This system actually hits me as an ideal: the electronic reader can be simp
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
Not only Singapore Airlines, but US-based Braniff International Airlines briefly operated Concordes (sort of) around 1980. https://airwaysmag.com/uncategorized/concorde-airlines-brani... is an article I found that matc
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
I've been told by people that have been involved with lobbying that it's way cheaper than you'd expect. Almost a million in the right congressional races can buy you a lot of stalling in congress. Also, IMHO, few people hav
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
Furthermore, isn't the idea here to put the control into the user's hands? Think of it as a resource manager controlled by you, but with the only interface that the general market will be able to use for something with a fair amou
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
Since you are posting on HN and I'm guessing you are technically minded, you might find this really interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2HmvAXcU0 - it's a video from a documentary about the development
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
Just a guess, but I'd bet they mean "homey".
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
Or even just contract work in general. Lots of code needs to be written.
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
There's also been a lot of discussion and research about how to best interact with autopilot, and when the best times to turn it off and operate the airplane manually are. There is a talk[1] about this that is really popular among pilo
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
This is a fair point, and I wouldn't be surprised if what you are saying is correct. That said, saying "Google's startups-within-a-big-company strategy has driven most users outside of Google's chat ecosystem entirely&qu
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
If we still look at the messaging example, I honestly think this theory (if that really is what Google is doing) is backfiring spectacularly - the fragmented messaging standards mean that most Android users communicate using SMS, which is a
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
IIRC, on the 2016 MBP revision, they included a port to be used for data recovery by authorized repair centers. They appear to have removed that port for this revision.
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
It's more hilarious because his response to that (basically, "this is tax software so there will be a lot of QA when we make that change") is at least sort of legitimate, but only because his accounting software evidently o
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
It's PHP and not Python, but every time I read something like this from a major open source figure, I always think of this old PHP mailing list thread: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50696
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
Not if you're Kodak and making film. Or, at least, the technology might have been obvious (they did have a hand in developing digital cameras), but the idea that they should bet big on the new technology eventually replacing them evide
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
The CFM56 (that failed on the Southwest flight recently) is actually a fairly old engine design - it ran for the first time in the 1970s, and has been in service on the 737 for decades. Based on total run time, it's actually one of the
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
There's also a problem with the Trent 1000, the other engine option on 787s: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rolls-royce-hldg-trent100... Basically, the compressor is not lasting near as long as expected, and,
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
The scandal wasn't near as big, but a similar issue arose during the 2004 US Presidential election. Documents claiming to be from the early 1970s about George W Bush's air national guard service were found to use things like propo
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
I have an LG Smart TV, and I use the build-in apps because I'm not aware any devices provide 12-bit 4k output without some sort of signal processing that I don't want. Admittedly, it's been a while (and a couple of Apple TV 4

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