wormius

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   by wormius 2y ago

   Heh - My first online experience was 1995 (obviously, pre-98 telecom deregulation). Not only did the price include the insane per-hour pricing of Compuserve, but the long distance fees pushed my bill up to 300 dollars the first month. I wo
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   by wormius 2y ago

   For a little more context on negative feedback to those who want to know more (I believe this is what you're referring to?) Here's a short historical interview with Harold Black from AT&T on his discovery/invention of the
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   by wormius 2y ago

   Me, thinking "who?" Getting yelled at by the Tim Heidecker in my brain "FORD DABNEY! DUH! FORD DABNEY! COME ON!" If only Ford Dabney was on the Colgate Comedy Hour.
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   by wormius 2y ago

   I'm pretty sure that merely tab-switching hasn't fixed it for me. I've done both mouse and alt-tab, i've ctrl-w'd the tab and ctrl-shift-T'd it. I've opened the same site in a new tab and it still wouldn
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   by wormius 2y ago

   Sometimes people gotta jerk, and that leaves only one hand free, which means. Mouse for interaction, Obviously. But more seriously - FF isn't vim and no I'm not installing vim keybindings. And I do use the keyboard a lot (I&#x27
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   by wormius 2y ago

   This is highly contextual. My previous job was hell without extra display. It's bad enough having to shift between : 1. Mainframe DB 2. Web (with 3-4 "apps" open in tabs - including one of our primary tools, various pages t
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   by wormius 2y ago

   A few that might be up your alley: Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWC5x9G45yo Bill Evans - Waltz for Debbie https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUA0n-uVUEwLu2aEtHit-... Po
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   by wormius 2y ago

   I know it's not directly related to this, but I remember one time I went to a dealership in my area that was apparently known for being particularly skeezy (unbeknownst to me before I went in). They got sued for some sort of fraud. An
9. 219.▲
   by wormius 2y ago

   Good ol' survivorship bias...
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    by wormius 2y ago

    You can blame the government policies and DEA's stringent rules, and I agree, but if they are going to limit it, maybe it'd be nice if the people who DO need it to function and not just so they can ace their finals in college, act
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    by wormius 2y ago

    For people who have ADHD it tends to have the opposite effect. I'm not officially dx'd, but in the past... I'm pretty sure I have ADHD (the test I took which was a standardized test has me on the low end of ADHD)... I'v
12. 222.▲
    by wormius 2y ago

    False detection rates suck enough - I can't imagine how awesome hallucinated fraud detection will be.
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    by wormius 2y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML_Holding This is a very solid base to start from. "As of 2023 it is the largest supplier for the semiconductor industry and the sole supplier in the world of extreme ultraviolet
14. 224.▲
    by wormius 2y ago

    So, sort of like game dev? Game Dev is the blue collar of white collar?
15. 225.▲
    by wormius 2y ago

    Swamp Water Kool-Aid for the cultists.
16. 226.▲
    by wormius 2y ago

    Back in my day we had to print this out on lined paper and it was snoopy and playboy centerfolds, and no color for miles around.
17. 227.▲
    by wormius 2y ago

    FF should create a DRM that uses the bullshit webdrm standards and apply it to the entire sandboxed experience. Lock MS the fuck out. Oh you want passwords? Sorry bucko. It's DRM'd. What's good for Hollywood execs is goo
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    by wormius 2y ago

    What I think MS should do if they really believed this is a thing people want is make it an actual sold product. Not free. Not a sub. Just like when we used to have boxed software back in the day. Of course it would be on Windows Store
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    by wormius 2y ago

    I don't think this is the case, but it sure seems like something actual scammers would come into forums to downplay. "Relax guys! There's no problem, it's tooooootally safe, trust MS! wink wink."
20. 230.▲
    by wormius 2y ago

    The fact there's now a central repo for it all. Scraping far more than just "credit card" and "passwords/logins" (personal details ever shown on your screen? Porn? Blackmail much? and don't give me the &
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    by wormius 2y ago

    You wouldn't download an analogy. Went there just for you :)
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    by wormius 2y ago

    I think it's not even just 'recent history' - it's current reality (let the whinging about Continental Philosophy commence). The past decade has taught me that Robert Anton Wilson's "reality tunnels" is a
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    by wormius 2y ago

    Laughs in Perl
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    by wormius 2y ago

    The keys I hate the most are $ % ^ & { } I think underscores are pretty painless, but maybe it's just that my hands being like Trumps tiny hands make it less painful? I never liked the idea of a short space bar, but thinking about
25. 235.▲
    by wormius 2y ago

    No more e-worms! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5BZkaWZAAA Hope you call it the Innernette :)
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    by wormius 2y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface
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    by wormius 2y ago

    One example, where Alito reaches back to Witch Trials to justify his anti-abortion stance: https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-roe-wade-alito-s... ... I understand "tradition" can play a role in juri
28. 238.▲
    by wormius 2y ago

    I actually paid for a license, because I think Justin Frankel/Cockos is great for Reaper and supporting Linux. Even though I barely use it (I ended up not doing much music production) - maybe someday I'll get back into it. I did
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    by wormius 2y ago

    What's funny is that I personally am not an Ableton fan, so this applies more for my friends than me. I know Bitwig exists, and just looking now it seems to support Linux. It's not the same exactly but uses the same "patter
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    by wormius 2y ago

    Does he have a lot of stock in student loan companies? Sounds like it.