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by sneakernets 7y ago
I'll admit I'm a very fringe case, but I loved the ability to play the original Microsoft Entertainment Packs on my Mac using WINE. There's just something about how simple and clean those games are, and people actually like t
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by sneakernets 7y ago
Almost every single feature BonziBuddy ever "offered" was already included in Windows, but no one ever used the Windows components, or even knew they existed. So you could whip up a "buddy" using stuff already in the OS,
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by sneakernets 7y ago
>It is no one’s responsibility other than the parent Yes, but you _must_ understand that most (no, ALL) of the millennial generation grew up with public content over the airwaves that was curated and had to pass certain guidelines. So ma
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by sneakernets 7y ago
In addition to this, seeing content creators being slaves to the algorithm is an eye-opening experience. Especially when it comes to the children's videos. It's all computer generated garbage powered by responses to changes in alg
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by sneakernets 7y ago
I'm glad to see anti-union rhetoric hasn't really evolved in 40 years. Strikes didn't "force" automation, the market did. Consumers did. The reason why the US car industry really died is that the US car industry re
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by sneakernets 7y ago
I had written (in college) a small story about an "RIAA Task Force" collaborating with the FBI to raid small brick-and-mortar businesses with occupants above some fabled "listener limit" that dared to have an FM Radio or
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by sneakernets 7y ago
Pff, everyone knows all you need is an old IBM computer, a hot pocket, and a circuit-bent microwave to outsmart CERN.
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by sneakernets 7y ago
"Bridging is still, mostly, hardware based and defined by IEEE, the people who control the Ethernet standards. Routing is still, mostly, software based and defined by the IETF, the people who control the Internet standards. Both groups
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by sneakernets 7y ago
Trying to cater to the generation who were kicked in the teeth the hardest by your blatant mortgage fraud by slinging emojis in an app? Yeah, that didn't work, huh? Sucks.
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by sneakernets 7y ago
IME, every time I go to buy a new PC (haven't bought a new PC since 2006!) I'm told to "wait" until the next, better buttkicker or core i13 comes out. I end up not buying anything.
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by sneakernets 7y ago
Makes sense. I can stumble through a Scandinavian text way easier than I can anything German.
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by sneakernets 7y ago
AFAIK, Honeycomb was primarily for tablets due to the (then current) UI scaling terribly and primarily being for portrait orientation. This was the era of 320x240 screens, after all, so there was bound to be some issues when scaling that up
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by sneakernets 7y ago
They do not. iPad could have had a graphing calculator app at this point, given the surface area, but apple has yet to do so.
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by sneakernets 7y ago
When propagandists discovered you can turn enough of the populace against the press (specifically the free press) as a whole, you don't even need to censor anymore. China could start unblocking all evidence of the massacre happening, b
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by sneakernets 7y ago
I think a smaller list would be where it isn't happening. mostly in small towns where independent journalism in independent newspapers still has an impact due to trusted local people working in them, although the death of print is ra
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by sneakernets 7y ago
It's like someone took Icelandic and English and threw them into a blender. I dig it.
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by sneakernets 7y ago
Remember that Patton Oswalt bit on the KFC Famous Bowls and Double Down sandwiches? Remember when we naive souls thought it couldn't get any worse?
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by sneakernets 7y ago
"2 dozen people were killed in a Freedom Gas explosion last night..."
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by sneakernets 7y ago
Honestly, I can't recommend the GBASP enough. It's small, it has a lot of power for a handheld of that era (enough to pull off texture-mapped polygonal graphics at an acceptable frame rate) and the addressable ROM size is practica
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by sneakernets 7y ago
Zork and related games were so good at making your imagination create scenery that I caught myself looking for screenshots of a game that was actually a text adventure.
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by sneakernets 7y ago
I was extremely lucky to have learned ICs from a very special man who helped design/refine the concepts at PARC. Thanks to that, he was able to explain the entire course from a perspective of an "inventor". This is _very_ sim
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by sneakernets 7y ago
When I was a child, I was told by my 1st grade teacher that math was important because when I'm a mother with a wonderful husband, I would know how to do fractions and measurements to prepare cakes easier. I would have loved to hear st
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by sneakernets 7y ago
This is very simple: One side wanted a more agrarian nation with hard manual labor (The Protestant work ethic)to prove self worth, while the other side wanted a more industrial nation with all the automation and efficiency that went with it
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by sneakernets 7y ago
Definitely picking up a copy of this when I get the time.
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by sneakernets 7y ago
Unfortunately this is a no-go for so many people that do not have concept of "respecting the zone". People get angry at me for not being available at the drop of a pin these days, and when I cut off my email clients I miss importa
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by sneakernets 7y ago
Why hasn't there been a backlash yet? Everyone hates the seas of desks layout.
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by sneakernets 7y ago
>San Francisco has seen rental prices skyrocket Add deinstitutionalization on top of that, The Opioid epidemic, And that the majority of the population still think in bootstraps, You're going to see it only get worse. Remember, you
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by sneakernets 7y ago
The main problem is that the consequences of climate change are affecting areas that either aren't developed enough, or far enough away that the average joe won't be bothered. So what if an ice sheet falls? it snowed last week. It
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by sneakernets 7y ago
And yet, the average American will never be able to use cloud gaming comfortably.
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by sneakernets 7y ago
We've gone from "Linux is a cancer" to "This is an exciting day for all of us on the Linux team at Microsoft" in just one generation. Good. I hope this trend continues.

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