tomc1985

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by tomc1985 5y ago
Is that Microbug debugger the one that pops up in a upper-centered box with only a prompt character? What I remember definitely wasn't MacsBug.
872.
by tomc1985 5y ago
There was some kind of command prompt you could bring up with some really obscure combination of keypresses. I remember encountering it on System 7 and MacOS 8. I never did figure out what could be done with it
873.
by tomc1985 5y ago
What's the After Dark clone? Inquiring minds want to know!
874.
by tomc1985 5y ago
The Tyranny of the Extroverted
875.
by tomc1985 5y ago
I played around with Uno... a sample "Hello World" app took like 10 seconds to load, placed a godawful amount of cruft in my project folder, and dragged Visual Studio to a crawl, on my 4core/4ghz, 32gb RAM desktop Whatever Un
876.
by tomc1985 5y ago
> Importantly, while California rates are relatively high, customer's bills are not Clearly you have never dealt with SDG&E, home of the highest residential electricity rates in the country. And yes that translates to astronomic
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by tomc1985 5y ago
There is a small but growing movement towards controlled burns of forests and such because not burning for long enough creates conditions that make wildfires even bigger and harder to stop. If you can rotate between enough zones over tim
878.
by tomc1985 5y ago
That will work... until you plug that drive into a fresh OS. Or you reformat and forget to unplug the drive before you set up the whitelist. Or it's spotted on a network drive by another PC running Windows Defender.
879.
by tomc1985 5y ago
Oxford Languages defines censorship as "the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security." Mirriam-Webster defines a censor as &
880.
by tomc1985 5y ago
I think you are holding far too strict a definition of the word related to "transmission". If I am prevented from reading data I want to read, because some entity has decided they don't want me to read it, how is that not cen
881.
by tomc1985 5y ago
Hearthstone's aesthetic reminds me of the parallel world of stuff that religious groups always make (Christian music, Christian books, etc), and I found it really offputting.
882.
by tomc1985 5y ago
I thought it was microwave-type weapons that people claimed were being used against them. Now its sound? I'm confused, are these the same events or different?
883.
by tomc1985 5y ago
Obscure? Isn't this the drug that ISIL feeds its "soldiers"?
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Abandoned? Are you kidding? They're previewing the 2022 release. And frankly VS Studio UX is not horrendous. Modern UX is horrendous, give me deep menus and toolbars any day of the week. As for I/O, I've worked on large git r
885.
by tomc1985 5y ago
It's Remote-Desktop-as-a-Service
886.
by tomc1985 5y ago
It's like Rent-2-Own, but for software! And no ownership!
887.
by tomc1985 5y ago
I'm pretty happy with ESET NOD32
888.
by tomc1985 5y ago
"There's something wrong with your iCloud ID, please log in to fix it" popup. But hey we disabled iCloud integration so they'll never be able to actually login! (cue evil laughter)
889.
by tomc1985 5y ago
Most of Windows itself is written in C/C++...
890.
by tomc1985 5y ago
There have been a lot of scenarios where blowing away everything since the last save and reverting to known-good via the Open command has saved my ass. The solution I think works best is to flash/blink the Save button when a file has c
891.
by tomc1985 5y ago
"Night" and "Day"
892.
by tomc1985 5y ago
Yeah I don't understand where all this fictional .deb and APT "complexity" is coming from. Everything uses standard abstractions that are decades old at this point..... oh no, you have to make some directories! You have to
893.
by tomc1985 5y ago
.deb packages are literally just a compressed archive with a folder structure that mostly mimics your folder structure on the hard drive. You've got some pre- and post-hooks where you can write some shellscript to do fancy stuff, and a
894.
by tomc1985 5y ago
I just read an article (maybe on HN) that they are doing so with drones that shoot electricity or something like that No heavy metals or consumable materials needed? https://www.iflscience.com/environment/fake-rain-the-
895.
by tomc1985 5y ago
The thing is, "stop consuming so much water" not the simple solution.
896.
by tomc1985 5y ago
Maybe we need to look at cloud-seeding or other rainmaking solutions like the UAE is doing
897.
by tomc1985 5y ago
In countries that have gotten rid of pennies, totals are simply rounded (down, I think, but it's been a while) for cash payments. Digital transactions are still at their original amount
898.
by tomc1985 5y ago
In terms of registrations, sure, but what about surface area? I can only think of very small pockets of places where the heavy majority of establishments are part of some megacorp The suburbs are especially bad....
899.
by tomc1985 5y ago
Polarizers were my first thought reading this, but they only work at certain angles.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
That sort of multipath convenience is a dying art. That there are so many ways to accomplish a task is one of the things I admire most about Windows (and to a lesser extent Linux) GUI design Modern app design almost always forces you into t

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