tomxor

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by tomxor 4y ago
> Select in Vim and select text in terminal are two different things Yup, this is critical if you want to copy stuff out of vim, you generally don't want to accidentally use the terminal selection because you might take any decorati
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by tomxor 4y ago
> an intangible sense of "realness" that's difficult to attain with an emulator. I wonder if this is due to input latency, because no matter how good the emulator, input devices have gotten waaay slower due to all of the l
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by tomxor 4y ago
If you also had a dog named cow it would be very on topic ;)
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by tomxor 4y ago
I also love the feel of using these old systems, but I wonder how much of it is also to do with the physical experience. Do you think you would get a similar or diminished experience with e.g a raspberry pi and a little LCD screen etc that
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by tomxor 4y ago
> because a very, very niche audience is in dire straits Not very niche.
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by tomxor 4y ago
> Consider that Atari tried to compete with office PCs in the early 80s with their 8-bit family, and failed I don't think that's very accurate. The Atari ST had a pretty good following compared to personal computers of the time
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by tomxor 4y ago
That is not a manufacturing process. Pretty sure they are referring to time sensitive operations where halting a manufacturing process causes substantial losses due to the overhead of starting and stopping that process and probably losses d
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by tomxor 4y ago
heh, that's kind of the opposite to what I imagined.. which is Apple reigning in the deprecation cycle to a single day.
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by tomxor 4y ago
As you say it does not catch on fire, there is no danger in wearing a fleece while sitting next to a camp fire; there is a danger in wearing a fleece while sitting in a camp fire. I've worn a fleece that got burned while I was wearin
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by tomxor 4y ago
Nah, in a move of immense courage they will ditch charging all together and start selling single use iPhones. I can see the dollars rolling in now.
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by tomxor 4y ago
> Changed several jobs, and in my hobbies, I am jumping from one project to another. [...] How do you find 1 thing you are really good at and stick with it? For the vast majority of activities (especially those considered viable work), i
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by tomxor 4y ago
If you've ever actually burned a fleece accidentally you will find they just shrivel up a bit, they don't catch on fire very easily unless you throw them in one.
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by tomxor 4y ago
That something has some positive utility does not justify all negative consequences. For instance installing publicly accessible cameras in all rooms in all homes would help reduce domestic abuse, however that obviously does not mean it&#x2
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by tomxor 4y ago
Policies of inclusivity are currently governed by the perception of the mob. Trying to apply thoughtful thinking in this area publicly is dangerous (presuming that's what he did) because it's falsely evaluated as a dichotomy betwe
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by tomxor 4y ago
> failing) at getting Filipinos interested in software engineering and programming, especially women Don't get people interested, find people that are interested and lack the resources and opportunity - then help those people. The
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by tomxor 4y ago
> anything involving Linux is pretty much the opposite of comfortable. This is extremely subjective, both the the individual due to their expertise and the task at hand... e.g doing much software development on windows will drive many de
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by tomxor 4y ago
> OP is just asking for ways to profit from a recession. Not in any way contributing to other people's suffering. My entire argument is that these two things are related, and become more so when times are hard. People like to believ
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by tomxor 4y ago
When there is an economic event that pushes a massive portion of the population under or very close to the line that allows them to buy their fair share of those finite resources, then redistribution of wealth is competing for those finit
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by tomxor 4y ago
Lets be honest here, in your analogy someone already has an oxygen mask and is figuring out how to get a few more canisters of oxygen even though there is (or possibly was) enough to go around.
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by tomxor 4y ago
I know, it's hard to answer because the more you dig the more you start to ask uncomfortable questions about the fundamental nature of our economy and the emergence of varying degrees of wealth inequality... at which point saying when
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by tomxor 4y ago
Philosophical perspective: Should you? Energy is more expensive, food is more expensive, both due to real shortages. If we are going into a recession it makes it even more difficult to afford on average, a huge chunk of the population is go
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by tomxor 4y ago
> don't want to serve as an oracle for the people whose malware they are trying to block Those people don't have a registered business; The people contacting Microsoft do. There are probably a bunch of excuses we can come up wi
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by tomxor 4y ago
I also hate the anti-logged-out dark patterns they introduced this year. It's almost useless without logging in.
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by tomxor 4y ago
> One way to stop this is to raise interest rates and pull pounds out of circulation but the government is terrified of popping the real estate bubble. I'm pretty sure i'm being naive here but... why? House ownership has become
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by tomxor 4y ago
> I know it's 18 years old game by now, but in my mind it's the first wave of "next gen" games Oh man that makes me feel old. I remember first playing this on my tiny 12" powerbook from 2004... and back then It f
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by tomxor 4y ago
> This policy is just a way to clear out old, unpopular apps from the store Except popularity doesn't correlate with utility when it comes to apps. Probably only addictive games and social network apps will pass whatever arbitrary t
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by tomxor 4y ago
> the real reason to code in Fixed-Point HTML is simply the satisfaction of knowing that you and the browser are in total agreement about the HTML. Interesting idea, I've been trying to achieve something similar but in reverse... ra
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by tomxor 4y ago
Shameless plug Matrix opening scene "Trace Program Running" in 194 bytes of javascript https://www.dwitter.net/d/25497 Close to authentic but not 100% due to fonts, non-linear easing of the zoom, and of cours
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by tomxor 4y ago
> That you know about. Your house mates share the internet connection. This is actually the least likely these days... the no.1 cause would be CGNAT, the vast majority of residential endpoints share an IPv4 address with a huge number of
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by tomxor 4y ago
That's a total no-go unfortunately since WCAG-AA accessibility is a non-optional requirement in edtech. The solution in general is in improving the quality of the content, using a more sophisticated format of questions that requires wo

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