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by spcebar 5y ago
For some background, Colossal Cave Adventure is arguably the first narrative computer game, and probably the first text adventure. It was developed in the 70s by Will Crowther (who helped create ARPANET) and Don Woods, who added most the ga
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Agreed! XPS laptop line really ticks all your boxes. Competently runs whatever IDE I throw at it and runs a variety of servers simultaneously without performance issues. Also plays Elden Ring very competently, if that's your bag. Only
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From a technical perspective, usually that kind of window isn't necessary, though I've seen exceptions, mainly in oldschool monoliths that can only be configured on their very specific production hardware (I assume this isn't
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If you put more effort into prevention, thieves are going to put more effort into circumventing said protection. Without some kind of safety net, people are going to be stolen from and really get hurt. As for net benefit to society, it&#x27
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"If you've lost to them, join them."
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Messaging, no, voice chat, maybe. I haven't actually tried it so I'm just theorizing here, but to me personally, I could see being in a simulated physical space with someone as enhancing the experience of a long call. I also want
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My initial reaction is "wow this is incredibly stupid," but my second take is, wouldn't it be nice to be able to walk around with someone on a video call? I think a 3D space like this will always suffer as when compared to a
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by spcebar 5y ago
The good news is, Providence _probably_ isn't on the top of anyone's to-bomb list, so a direct blast likely isn't going to be a concern. "The principles of MAD have been narrowed for a post cold-war age. Now that Russia
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Talking specifically about the web: We're still not there with no code tools and I don't know if there's a future where the very specific needs of businesses could be met with building blocks. Sure, designs, basic features--b
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A warm day in early spring, satisfying work, a meaningful conversation. Making a good meal, eating in good company. Winning, a fair game or a contract. A hot shower, a warm bed, a cold drink in the summer, a hot coffee in the morning. Rewir
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by spcebar 5y ago
I too have had issues with that particular blacklist, which, I believe, is gaining notoriety as a scam. In my case I was setting up outgoing email for a customer's WordPress website. In the end, rather than spending the time and money
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by spcebar 5y ago
Does anyone have a link to the study?
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This looks like the 'before' photo for a Bond villain's lair before they move in. It's fascinating that this is for sale at all.
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I don't disagree with any of the author's points, but if I'm ordering over the phone I either need to pay by cash, which I never have, or say my credit card number out loud to a random stranger.
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The bulleted list of issues with QR codes seems a little petty or at least very specific to me. I have no hard data to support my saying "the majority of people have phones", but I don't think it's a controversial assert
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https://web.archive.org/web/20220128141631/https://rarehisto...
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In other news, a cigarette shortage has been reported, with thousands of crows queued outside tobacconists around the nation.
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Who could have guessed a piece of cardstock would be a poor means of verification. No one seems to have thought these through and few seem to be taking it seriously.
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Don't forget the Web 3 consortium, but that's just for the three Ws. The concept of web 3 was introduced to me in ~'09 by a technologist friend saying the logical progression of web 2.0 is complete interconnectivity of websit
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Not a dedicated option, but Bing is fairly competent as a video search engine. I don't know how good their indexing is in reality, but you can search with a "site:YouTube.com" to limit results to YouTube.
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by spcebar 5y ago
I hope it's plenty- I was really starting to worry about Google's bottom line with all their goodwill to users. /s
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This strikes me as a really weird, kind of poorly titled piece. By infrastructure, they're talking about tools like lint and babel. Does it really matter what they're written in? This has very little effect on the code that's
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Could Rust Be the Future of JavaScript Infrastructure?(thenewstack.io)
3 points by spcebar 5y ago|1 comments
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I think this is the most cogent take on the essay I've read. I wonder where the middle ground exists between letting the field go fallow and feeding your family is. If you quit your job and then need to pay an unexpected medical bill—
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I think there will always be a boundary with these tools where if you are building something complex you will reach a point in the project where you need something more advanced than the tool you're using can provide. For me at least,
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Obviously this has implications in academia, but I wonder how this will affect museum tours and the explanations of art the docents give. And I must admit, I clicked this article hoping to discover there were lions wandering around the sout
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If you define cancel culture as angry k pop fans attacking people they don't like, then yes it is probably bad. If you define it as a service banning effective private propoganda machines spewing baseless conspiracy theories to people
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And who is on a time zone to currently be awake or are night owls.
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I thought a host file entry overrides dns resolution— wouldn't a .dev domain that's already pointed at localhost not be affected by this? Or am I misunderstanding?
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I get the issue of making .dev public, what's the issue with requiring ssl certs beside it being unnecessary in some cases?

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