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by spankibalt 5d ago
> The ghosting on the original Game Boy did not blend pixel boundaries and did not affect static images. It still gives you, especially when factoring in the condition of the STN screen, a "fuzzy" picture and with its own lo-fi
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by spankibalt 5d ago
And not just that; invoking the Game Boy here is not the closer many people think it is, given that its STN LCD screen was fuzzy (e. g. ghosting) yet also had this distinct, subdued lo-fi glow, almost like looking through a zoetrope. Some
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by spankibalt 5d ago
> All of them will. [...] It’s already being used everywhere without “the wider public” even noticing. Doesn't your lot ever get tired of the intellectually lazy, rubbish absolutisms you peddle? Same goes for the projections; just b
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by spankibalt 12d ago
East German here. I have never met East Germans who called their home country Ostdeutschland before the Wende ; that was very much a West German thing, and even then not as widespread as one might think (i. e. "DDR" was the muc
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by spankibalt 15d ago
Nice strategically-placed pussy. The keyboard layout is terrible on account of its misplaced trackball. There's a special hell reserved for people who design keyboards with trackballs below the numpad; that shit needs to be situated ei
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by spankibalt 17d ago
> The opposite of ordinary is, of course, extraordinary. Not just that: The ordinary is also the trivial, while the extraordinary is the relevant. In other words a dichotomy of who does not matter... and who does. And in the words of May
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by spankibalt 19d ago
No need to go to Heidegger's Sein und Zeit , once required reading in many a school where I'm from; the logical conclusion and application of polysemy [1], amongst other things, should get the ball rolling just as well. 1. [ ht
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by spankibalt 19d ago
> Programming can be art. On that at least we agree (ignoring the rubbish about "AI", unless it describes an artificial intelligence with at least peer-level (i. e. human-level) agency, and not a language model). The same g
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by spankibalt 19d ago
Nothing ever is just a tool. Saying that X "can just be a tool" is a fundamental violation of that statement; saying then "X can be much more than just a tool" is a violation in form of a contradiction. It's very
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by spankibalt 19d ago
> AI can be just a tool. [...] But AI can also be much more than a tool, [...]. Contradictio . Going back to Seven... > AI can be just a tool. Nothing, ever, is just a tool.
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by spankibalt 22d ago
It is, if a little bit overcomplicated and therefore prone to failures. HP had a competitive product in the HP x2 G4 detachable graphics workstation, which already conforms to a superior form factor: a 2-in-1 detachable. These days they c
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by spankibalt 23d ago
Eh, thickness doen't really bother me much as long as it's within reason as maintainability/repairability demands it. I just don't see a need to integrate a keyboard into the chassis. Unless you go for a T-hinge or ezel-
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by spankibalt 24d ago
Acer following in Lenovo's footsteps with bizarre, overcomplicated contraptions. The ideal form factor is already on the market for a productivity device like this: the 3-in-1 detachable. Make it maintainable (user replaceable battery,
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Acer's DualPlay Mini concept is both gaming handheld and mini-laptop(liliputing.com)
4 points by spankibalt 24d ago|5 comments
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by spankibalt 24d ago
Never had a personal smartphone, just work-issued ones that usually stay on-location after a shift. Yeah, it can drive people up the wall. I don't care lol.
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by spankibalt 24d ago
> [...] I've considered buying/tracking down a non functional one and putting a high performance ITX build into it a few times over the years. I'd buy a classic keyboard case x86 (with PCMCIA card slot, Enhanced Personal
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by spankibalt 24d ago
> [...] a C128. But for the latter the majority of time was spent in C64 mode. Did you make use of CP/M applications? I often wonder how well that worked back in the day; one of my best friends had a Commodore 128, but used it exclu
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by spankibalt 24d ago
Well, at least you got to experience the "innocent" and magical beginnings of the extremely integrated general-purpose computer, still very open to tinkering. Its overspecialized modern logical conclusion, and I'm not talking
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by spankibalt 25d ago
Yeah, I know. I just consider that "vertically integrated", or more precise closed system, approach inferior for general purpose computing.
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by spankibalt 25d ago
Hire somebody who's got at least a modicum of understanding of (web) typography. Small hint: A moving background layer makes reading supremely annoying, and for some people even (virtually) impossible.
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by spankibalt 25d ago
GPC, eh? :) Careful... overspecialize (overintegrate), and you breed in weakness.
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by spankibalt 25d ago
You talk of vertically integrated contraptions. What are they for?
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by spankibalt 25d ago
> I'm just casually familiar with guns, if I saw an AR-15, I'd call it an AK-47. Or a machine gun. Okay. Sure. Just as there are people who call(ed) every video game console, or even home computer, under the sun "a Nintend
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by spankibalt 25d ago
> I might even think that the AK-47 or the Glock have more name recognition. A "yes" on the AK, and a "no" on the Glock. The AR-15, incl. its variants, isn't called "America's Rifle" for nothing; i
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by spankibalt 25d ago
The AR-15 pattern rifle is certainly iconic; on its own probably more so (i. e. more recognizable) than almost all of Jobs's products. When allowing for the typical collective amnesia, the only two products that match, or manage to exc
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by spankibalt 27d ago
> But all the same, why do people go out of their way to frame it like this? Because you (and your legion of likeminded folks on pseudosocial media) indeed sound like some washed-up, self-delusional salesman with a loaded gun to his head
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by spankibalt 28d ago
> The textbook definition of ochlocracy is a small group of people taking justice into their own hands. No, that's not the textbook definition. That exchange has sadly run its course for me for I have no interest in reading tedious
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by spankibalt 28d ago
> Democracy has nothing to do with minority protections . [...] Democracy includes whatever enough people [italized by me] think it should include. If people don't want such protections then there is no need for them. You just pr
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by spankibalt 28d ago
> Democracy, in it's purest form, is about mob rule --majority rule, if you want to say it in a softer/kinder way. You're just parroting an old urban myth. The terminus technicus for mob rule is ochlocracy [1]; democra
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by spankibalt 29d ago
TIE Fighter is one of the best space sims to play for score (i. e. on the hardest difficulty level). Already the first mission is insanely brutal, fighting Escort Shuttle group "Tough". You, in a lone, unshielded TIE against turbo

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