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by tssva 4y ago
This comment discusses how ball and paddle collision detection worked but leaves open the question of how the ball position was known. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32862403 Given your experience programming for it c
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by tssva 4y ago
It has been so long since I've seen a YouTube ad I forget it has them. I pay my $7.99 a month and never see an ad.
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by tssva 4y ago
In the early to mid 2000s I worked a day job as a technical project manager, a 3rd shift NOC job and worked on a side business during the NOC job. My side business required me to mostly interact with people in a time zone 7 hours ahead of m
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by tssva 4y ago
Thank you to all those that donate to the Wikimedia Foundation. Your donations help fund my local public schools, fire department, sheriff department, etc through Wikimedia's payment of local property taxes.
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by tssva 4y ago
I had success with Kiwi Browser, Chrome, Edge and Firefox for Android on a Pixel 4 running Android 13.
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by tssva 4y ago
I love Google Photos. It syncs quickly for me and I think the UI is fast and easy to use.
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by tssva 4y ago
Didn't have to do this on my phone.
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by tssva 4y ago
Worked fine on mobile for me without showing the desktop site.
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by tssva 4y ago
The source is available in several GitHub repos including at least one which claims to have updated the code to compile on modern systems.
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by tssva 4y ago
"Given you talked about "facilities" I would assume that you were talking about a professional environment, so assuming an adult seems fine to me." Using "man" as general term to refer to a person of any sex is
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by tssva 4y ago
My local computer store sells 3.5 and 5.25 floppies. You can find them at the rear of the left side of the store on a shelf just above the one with the new in wrapper Zip disks.
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by tssva 4y ago
The PC I purchased in late 1996 had USB 1.0 ports. USB 1.1 came out in 1998 around the same time as the iMac. The new PC I bought in fall 1998 had USB 1.1 ports. Most new PCs at that time were coming with USB ports. Maybe your school just h
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by tssva 4y ago
They are still going strong in all the school districts around me.
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by tssva 4y ago
U.S. public schools are locally run and any sweeping statements regarding them is going to be incorrect. For example my daughter is now in 10th grade. Over the years we have requested to switch teachers 3 times. Once in elementary, once in
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by tssva 4y ago
I refuse to see a movie at Alamo Drafthouse. Overpriced mediocre food & drink options, slow service (my popcorn and drinks would often come 1/2 way through the movie) and less comfortable seating than other local theatres.
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by tssva 4y ago
I'm curious about what you find not simple about the Amazon return process. My experience is that it is extremely simple. I request a return in the Amazon app and then drop the item off at the UPS store next to my grocery store next ti
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by tssva 4y ago
I use the premium (not the new Premium+ subscription) version of Accuweather. It has hyper local forecasts which I have found highly accurate in predicting local precipitation.
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by tssva 4y ago
The thought process was to keep people working. The reality was that about 40 out of hundreds of employees there were involved in keeping things flowing that day. The ISP was located in Northern Virginia near Dulles airport where the flight
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by tssva 4y ago
At the time I worked for an ISP which was the primary ISP for most of the major media companies and for the largest consumer internet provider. It was a crazy day trying to keep things flowing under the demand. A lot of traffic engineering
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by tssva 4y ago
Most Amazon tablets I see aren't being used as cheap ebook readers but are being used by kids because their parents don't want to risk them damaging an expensive tablet.
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by tssva 4y ago
"This allows us to avoid the awkward “swipe, stop, and wait” gesture to go to multitasking that other systems rely on" An arching swipe up and to the right brings up the multitasking selector on my Android phone. No swipe, stop an
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by tssva 4y ago
The data centers are in Northern Virginia because it has relatively cheap and very stable supplies of both electricity and water, a long history of being a low regulation business friendly state no matter the party in control, by right zoni
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by tssva 4y ago
None of those things are in conflict with her statement.
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by tssva 4y ago
The old HP and DEC I mourn but Compaq I don't. Compared to HP and DEC Compaq's period of "greatness" was a flash in the pan. By the time they bought DEC in 1998 they were already a shell of what they had been. Their serv
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by tssva 4y ago
"I would much rather choose a platform that stands by their TOS as-written" Terminating services to Kiwi Farms was completely in line with Cloudflare's TOS as-written.
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by tssva 4y ago
If Google wants to, yes.
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by tssva 4y ago
I have done clean installs of Windows 10, Windows 11, Ubuntu 22.04 and Fedora 36 on my ThinkPad over the last few months. From best to worse perceived performance the order is Windows 11, Windows 10, Fedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04. Windows 11 a
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by tssva 4y ago
I wonder if it used Graphics Vision which was a GUI toolkit for DOS graphics mode that was compatible with Borland's Turbo Vision text GUI library. It resembled the look of OWL.
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Arlington offered $23M for Amazon HQ2. So far, it hasn’t paid a dime(washingtonpost.com)
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by tssva 4y ago
It isn't just an issue with Mozilla or with snaps. The flatpak version of Mozilla suffers from many of the same issues. I avoid snaps and flatpaks for any desktop software. Each introduces bugs and/or annoying limitations by tryin

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