sneakernets

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by sneakernets 8y ago
We called those corrupted-looking fonts "Zalgo"
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by sneakernets 8y ago
I'm getting AOL chatroom flashbacks. When do we start using color faders again?
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by sneakernets 8y ago
There's a program/extension somewhere that allows these extra "fonts" in facebook comments sections... One of my family members started typing in some weird math font that broke on my old tablet.
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by sneakernets 8y ago
> How long before people are buying these watches to make post modern 'statements'? I'm sure that's already a thing, sadly.
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by sneakernets 8y ago
How long until all Christmas lights are programmable?
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by sneakernets 8y ago
The simple fact that you can't search in search results or even search through lists... I'm not asking for a million options, I just want to be able to find a video I remember the title of without having to go through a bunch of g
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by sneakernets 8y ago
Ogg remember when tool didn't exist. People lived in moment. Now Ogg see plow tilling field and just shake head. What happened to working together for betterment of society? Now beast pull plow?
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by sneakernets 8y ago
Back in the early 80s, the IBM my father brought into the house was used for production just as much as it was used for consumption. I feel that balance has since been lost.
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by sneakernets 8y ago
It likely is nonsense, given that its symbols' frequencies don't match up with other natural (or constructed, for that matter) language word distributions. Either the manuscript is encrypted and salted, or it's a big fat phon
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by sneakernets 8y ago
I hate to break it to ya, but...
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by sneakernets 8y ago
I could see a system similar to this working into a temp "shadowban" system, where, if a poster starts spamming up a forum or comments section, said banned users' posts can't be seen by anyone else but the poster, and al
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by sneakernets 8y ago
We didn't switch at all. The problem is that people are confusing video cards with digital monitors and RAW image formats.
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by sneakernets 8y ago
Yep. People are still scared of computers or see them as appliances. They never had a chance.
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by sneakernets 8y ago
Oh no doubt that it is, but games artists have made pretty convincing imitations of it for so long now that to see a real difference would require removing all the previously bespoke baked-in details. I'm sure artists are simultaneousl
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by sneakernets 8y ago
Call me Debbie Downer, but I'm still of the opinion that real-time raytracing has yet to prove itself. Most of the examples I've seen achieve effects which have been imitated by faster, more portable techniques for years, and - fo
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by sneakernets 8y ago
Not to be that guy but the doom wiki moved over to its own domain at https://doomwiki.org due to Wikia hijacking the wiki. Anyway, Doom used a special version of Mode X dubbed "Mode Y", which is Abrash's ModeX w
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by sneakernets 8y ago
A modified Doom codebase can run on a Gameboy Advance with an acceptable framerate. Doom's rendering trick wasn't dependent on CPU power as much as it was cache manipulation, memory access speed, and VGA card speed. Everything was
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by sneakernets 8y ago
Given how fast id Software went from concept to finished product, it's a miracle they still have functioning spleens. In other words, don't write a press release that will kill your team.
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by sneakernets 8y ago
Firefox 57 is why I switched to Chrome in the first place. If I'm going to use a butchered UI, I might as well use the original from whom everyone copied. And on top of that accessibility was a nightmare. My grandmother had glaucoma an
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by sneakernets 8y ago
Oh look, it's Windows CE all over again.
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by sneakernets 8y ago
People have been saying that since 2014 at the least. We're still waiting.
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by sneakernets 8y ago
I'm impressed. This article reads like a successful troll post during the golden era of Slashdot.
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by sneakernets 8y ago
This article was passed around in a FinTech slack channel I frequent. The major response to it was "Well, that sounds just like FinTech." tl;dr: Toxic teams come from lack of vision from an equally toxic management. To be precise,
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by sneakernets 8y ago
Don't forget that they give advice they never followed themselves. If a millennial loses a once-profitable career due to sudden market shifts, "that's his fault for not persuing additional skills". But if a Boomer loses
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by sneakernets 8y ago
I'm old enough to see Apple go from selling computers you had to put together yourself in your garage, to selling the most hacker/tinkerer-hostile products ever made. I think the straw for me was the fact that I had to factory res
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by sneakernets 8y ago
While there's plenty of blame to go around, I have a gut feeling this isn't the last time we'll see something like this. A little malicious social engineering is all it takes to affect millions of people, apparently.