smackeyacky

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by smackeyacky 2mo ago
I haven’t looked at the code but the collision detection was buggy even back in the day. You have to switch lanes while there is nothing or a donkey in front of you. If the donkey is in the other lane it registers a hit even if it looks l
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by smackeyacky 2mo ago
Amazing how they appear when money is involved. Let’s talk bout AI intellectual property theft on a scale never seen before in human history, or Uber operating illegally until they were able to coerce permission, or the open collusion of r
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by smackeyacky 2mo ago
Behind every great fortune is a great crime
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by smackeyacky 2mo ago
Gemini has been a hilarious companion to my while I fixed the balance shaft chain guides in my old Mitsubishi triton (mighty max for US readers). First it told me I could just remove said balance shaft chain as an emergency repair. Sorry G
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by smackeyacky 2mo ago
This is the way. You can jump in and out at any time and let everybody else wear the pain of working it out.
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
Time to revive the Sopwith Camel
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
Indian companies just don’t have the contacts and background to access capital in the way that “yeh we went to school together” that opens more doors. It often seems like VC is designed to keep the idiot sons of the aristocracy occupied ra
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
The old HTC One M8 used to fill this niche but they might be too old to use on the daily any more. I’ve been thinking of digging mine out, the headphone output was great
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
I assume there are shortcuts like extending the service life of particular consumables and whatnot. Even something like a Gripen, designed to be run from makeshift airfields needs 10 hours of maintenance per hour of flight. Maybe it’s just
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
This is a fundamental misreading of self described “conservatives”. They only pay lip service to economic liberalism because it gives them something to rally around. It’s always been more about prejudice and punishment. If you want proof,
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
Still, the F16 is 16 hours of maintenance per hour of flight or something close to that. Which probably isn’t terrible compared to other aircraft but doesn’t seem sensible for something without aircrew
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
Not when you consider the cost per hour of flight. You want a wingman you’re better off with cheap, cheap to run and disposable
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
The technique of putting machine code behind a REM was common in the Microbee (another Z80 machine). Often used for sound effects in games as the standard PLAY basic statement only did tones.
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
He set the style of being confidently incorrect. At least he was entertaining.
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
LG monitors not TVs
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
Entra is their lock in. They have little need for office other than customers expect it but if you look at the direction where they wholesale throw out Outlook for it’s worse web version you can see where they are headed
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
I don’t think it matters in a practical sense. Our streaming overlords have already shown that by crippling the effective color space of supposedly 4K video they care little for quality of broadcast. Crushed blacks and smeared video are a
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
There are other solutions that require mass coordination and possible violence that would be a lot easier than gambling on phytoplankton
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
I haven’t used print for debugging for ages. Now it’s all trace on azure and hope your bug ends up in the sampled data in whatever that stupid thing is called. App insights or some rubbish. Apparently a good old log file just isn’t good
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
I think I’d like to see a site where people posted their chat results that ended in a successful resolution. Just for isolated bugs or library use questions. Would not be useful for a lot of the internal work I do but maybe saving those i
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
The heart of the mighty Australian Microbee. I still have the Rodney Zak’s book somewhere although I’ll admit doing anything fancy with assembler back then was a bit beyond me
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
My account is only there so nobody is tempted to squat there on my behalf. Perhaps a minor issue overall but worth considering
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
I think it was clear that the poster was distracted by all the useless bongs and beeps and that was what caused the extra distracted driving bong or beep
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
Communist Sydney trains are awful too
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
This is something git shares with pretty much every source code management system. Of the ones I’ve used over the years including SVN, PVCS, whatever that janky little Microsoft one was called and even sccs in the old days, they all sucked
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
Time window is roughly to a non US citizen from when civil rights and women’s rights were ascending there. The last 20 odd years show a marked decline in both. I often wonder when segregation in the US will be introduced.
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
It is easy to forget US history as the vast majority of us have only been exposed to the 1960s to 2000s era which in retrospect seem like an anomaly.
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
I think it’s the demographic that has changed most markedly but even then discourse still rhymed with today’s dumpster fire. Sure, that monoculture of geeks had a veneer of community but that’s all it was. Spam and bots showed up early eno
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
I remember a lot of bad natured Usenet flame wars. I don’t think it’s worse now it’s just the volume got louder and things like reddit amplifying stupid to new lows. Easy enough to avoid. Facebook and LinkedIn I would consider novel compar
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by smackeyacky 3mo ago
Most of the movies I would rent I just wait until they’re part of the included movies. Nobody is going to worry about waiting 3 months for that.

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