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by troymc 4y ago
For anyone who didn't get the reference in the post title: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxIPcbmo1_U
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by troymc 4y ago
> The Tandy 1000 line did support Sierra games very well. Very true! I wonder if the Sierra games (e.g. King's Quest, Space Quest) were some of the "killer apps" for Tandy computers, i.e. the apps which made people want to
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by troymc 4y ago
I remember that spiral bound reference manual. Learning from that was like learning English by reading the dictionary. Thank goodness there were examples. I also never understood the point of GOSUB for a long time.
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by troymc 4y ago
Ah yes, Turbo Pascal 2.0! My brother and I got it as a shared birthday gift. We spent a lot of time trying to understand what happened to GOTO, which we had used a lot when programming with GWBASIC.
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by troymc 4y ago
It constitutes evidence that the people behind W3.CSS don't fully understand copyright or licensing.
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by troymc 4y ago
There are other profitable, ad-driven sites which offer web-based services , rather than content. The original Gmail was one of them (i.e. before there was a paid option).
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by troymc 4y ago
It's open source; I wonder if competition and innovation will bring the cost down over time. One obvious way to do that is to build one, or a few, giant centralized plants that pump out a zillion of these each year, i.e. economies of s
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by troymc 4y ago
If an HN user is a citizen of an EU country, then it's my understanding that the GDPR requires you to comply with their request for account deletion.
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by troymc 4y ago
One way to think about it is as a question of microeconomics. There are only so many works by Picasso; the supply is a small finite number. As long as demand for Picasso works stays stable, the price should stay stable. As for works by AI,
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by troymc 4y ago
The software was named by the company which developed it: Clipchamp Pty Ltd was founded in 2013 and was acquired by Microsoft in 2021. More details: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/clipchamp-pty-ltd
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by troymc 4y ago
I just remember (using my human memory). And if I forget I saw something before, then I maybe watch it again.
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by troymc 4y ago
I don't think Publii is aimed at people who know what git is. Those people already have lots of great options.
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by troymc 4y ago
AFAIK, most of the moderation on Reddit is done by unpaid humans, not AI. Reddit isn't perfect, of course, but their approach does scale.
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by troymc 4y ago
When I read the headline, I thought "car repos" were git repositories associated with car software, such as self-driving car software. Maybe those repos are getting really huge, i.e. with lots of code, hard to maintain? But that&#
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by troymc 4y ago
There are many tactics for receiving mail as a digital nomad. For examples, see: https://goremote.virtualpostmail.com/article/how-to-manage-y... https://nomadtactics.com/nomadic-life-prep/how-to-ha
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by troymc 4y ago
You wrote, "And many have talked about data being the ‘new oil’ when really it should be reframed as radioactive waste." It's true that privacy regulations have made personally identifiable information (PII) into something
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by troymc 4y ago
My concern would be about what would happen if the battery was sitting beside a house that caught on fire. That seems like a bad situation for firefighters.
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by troymc 4y ago
Skirts aren't the only reason to avoid transparent stairs. I always wear trousers, and I also get freaked out when I have to climb transparent stairs or even stairs with holes in them. Why? I can see through them and below, and it make
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by troymc 4y ago
I'm confused by people thinking it's a bad job market. Statistically, US unemployment is very low right now... back to pre-pandemic levels. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics report on April 2022 [1]: "Total nonfarm payroll
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by troymc 4y ago
I would second the recommendation of Mazes for Programmers . The author used Ruby, but I used Python and that was actually good, because it forced me to really understand the algorithms, rather than just giving up and copying the Ruby code
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by troymc 4y ago
My experience with SVG is that it renders great in all modern browsers, but Illustrator, Inkscape and other vector graphics editors don't support the latest SVG features. I suspect that's why Shutterstock asks contributors to uplo
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by troymc 4y ago
"Farmers have nowhere to store their next harvest, due to start in late June, which may therefore rot." In Saskatchewan (where I grew up on a farm), when the grain bins get full, some farmers put their grain in shops or sheds norm
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by troymc 4y ago
A much better solution would be to buy your own horse, although personally I think I'd upgrade to an elephant.
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by troymc 4y ago
It's really impossible for anyone to give you good advice without knowing more about you, your values, your skills, your risk tolerance, etc. But don't worry about the music ending. The world is constantly changing, and while that
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by troymc 4y ago
Citation needed.
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by troymc 5y ago
I agree. Other options are Zoho [1] and ONLYOFFICE [2]. [1] https://www.zoho.com/ [2] https://www.onlyoffice.com/
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by troymc 5y ago
Tesla's blog: https://www.tesla.com/blog A lit of all Tesla Patents: https://www.tesla.com/legal/additional-resources#patent-list (That's just the patent numbers and titles; you can get the
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by troymc 5y ago
Your suspicion is correct. An example is Ant Colony Optimization [1], a general-purpose optimization technique. [1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=ant+...
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by troymc 5y ago
Maybe you were thinking of this one? http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/
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by troymc 5y ago
Sometimes yesterday's failed idea can be today's genius idea. For example, if you tried to launch Squarespace in 1993, most people wouldn't care; they'd wonder who would want it and why. (The World Wide Web was a niche t

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