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by tom_ 1y ago
I've never handled a £50 note. (I am young enough that if you gave me £1 for every year I've never handled one, I wouldn't be able to afford one. But I am old enough that I could dip into my lifetime of savings to make up the
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by tom_ 1y ago
Hammerspoon is quite easy to use, so attempting to cobble together your own thing (that does exactly what you want) might also be feasible. The documentation is decent and the iteration time is short. It took me about 30 minutes to replicat
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by tom_ 1y ago
I'm not the person you're replying to, but for my part I do actually like to hear when people think it sounds like it's AI-generated.
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by tom_ 1y ago
That was somebody else that said that.
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by tom_ 1y ago
Seconded. They're pretty good and I've found them a decent replacement for the MS Ergonomic 4000 keyboards that I used to use. Full size keyboard with keys in the normal places, reverse tilt, manageable F lock, and a cable to conn
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by tom_ 1y ago
Of course. Why not? I can use the terminal's search facility to search its infinite scrollback buffer.
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by tom_ 1y ago
Next thing you know, they'll be telling us that Neanderthals were the intellectual equals of humans.
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by tom_ 1y ago
This is worse than the cassette tape revival.
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by tom_ 1y ago
It's been missing since at least Big Sur, so if they're going to go any further they do seem to be taking their time over it.
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by tom_ 1y ago
Apple have always seemed to drop support for hardware after 5-7 years, and then it's just a question of the last supported OS becoming itself unsupported too. My early 2015 Macbook Pro (new in April 2015) got as far as macOS Monterey (
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by tom_ 1y ago
Add me to the VB for DOS fan club! I was a user in the mid to late 90s. TurboVision was beyond me at the time (I didn't really know Pascal well at all, and I wasn't good enough at C++), but VB for DOS was just the ticket (mostly)
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by tom_ 1y ago
Regarding other BASIC versions: it's probably-abandonware rather than open source, but the (more than slightly inscrutable) source code for Acorn's 8-bit BBC BASIC is here: https://github.com/stardot/AcornDmos
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by tom_ 1y ago
I'd say it's definitely weird for a standalone assembler. For standalone 6502 assemblers, some approximation of the standard MOS-type syntax has always been near-universal. Though you're quite correct about some of the advant
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by tom_ 1y ago
Why do they need so many threads? This really feels like they just designed the cpu poorly, in that it can't extract enough parallelism out of the instruction stream already. (Intel and AMD stopped at 2! Apparently more wasn't wor
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by tom_ 1y ago
Total throughout has always seemed better with it switched on for me, even for stuff that isn't hyper threading friendly. You get a free 10% at least.
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by tom_ 1y ago
I gave up tablets and pills of all kinds a long time ago now, but, at the time, if god himself had popped up to tell me something, it wouldn't have been a huge surprise.
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by tom_ 1y ago
The only particularly bad case I've found is v/w/z being right next to one another, which can be annoying. Still, I think I've won out overall. I spend a lot more time typing text than I do invoking keyboard shortcuts. R
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by tom_ 1y ago
Yes, of course. The point of my heavy-handed post was to try to find out what is actually going on here. Does this person have any insider info? Or are they (as many are in the discussion, and as I suspect is the case here too - but I am go
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by tom_ 1y ago
Carmack says he can't post the actual discussion, but clearly you have access to it - can you post it?
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by tom_ 1y ago
In many (most?) salary jobs, employees are typically paid both to get the job done, and to supply at least N hours of their time for the company to have them use as it sees fit.
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by tom_ 1y ago
The term is a gendered one in German. See also, e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14462318
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by tom_ 1y ago
Ladies and gentlemen: the duality of Man.
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by tom_ 1y ago
Too much not-x-but-y (but with dashes) in this imo.
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by tom_ 1y ago
If you used them when they were current, the emulator experience is never quite the same. The input latency is always detectably worse, especially without a CRT (and even now you're no longer 15-25 years old), and there's always a
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by tom_ 1y ago
I disagree, but maybe if I elaborate (as perhaps I should have done) it'll be clearer. The comment was intended to make two points: 0. the link was clicked by users of the site. The admins claim not to have any influence; I'm sure
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by tom_ 1y ago
Because enough people clicked the flag link. If enough of them click the flag link on this one, it'll get flagged too! Flagging is there for stuff that's off-topic or generating low-quality discussion in the views of the people cl
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by tom_ 1y ago
But what if that's not how prayer works? What if rotating the prayer wheels is just as effective as saying the prayers out loud? And what if that effect really can be multiplied up mechanically, somehow, and what if it doesn't
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by tom_ 1y ago
Maybe it's phoning home to verify the app, or whatever it is it does? Launch times for MS Word on my 11 year old Macbook Pro, approx time to the opening dialog: First run since last reboot: 19 seconds Second run: 2.5 seconds Third run
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by tom_ 1y ago
Another tip: don't use normal asprintf as-is, but write your own very similar helper! 1. have it free the passed-in buffer, so that you can reuse the same pointer 2. have it do step 1 after the formatting, so the old value can be a f
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by tom_ 1y ago
No, brain fart on my part. You can use llhttp, which is pretty easy to use: https://github.com/nodejs/llhttp

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