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by zantana 7y ago
Metafilter https://metafilter.com still has interesting comments and occasionally unique content, besides the links which bubble up everywhere. It's pretty heavily politically left, which, along with heavy moderation has dr
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by zantana 7y ago
To show how real it was the Populous the Promised Lands expansion had a skin which was Atari vs Commodore, on a computer paper landscape with digits for the sea as I recall. https://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-st/
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by zantana 7y ago
Well Atari and Commodore enthusiasts were already used to crippled ports through their experiences with Apple II ports with that awful aliased color palette. :)
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by zantana 7y ago
It's funny how some companies just seem to acquire old giants/pioneers as some sort of trophy case to the point where they have the DNA of most of the industry, but frequently little of the talent. I think of companies like Chrysl
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by zantana 7y ago
I was listening to the Yale history of the new testament course a while back: https://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-152 and one of the more interesting observations was that scholars can date prophets (such as Da
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by zantana 7y ago
Yes, it is always a reality check from the feel good vscode/wsl/Nadella lovefest when they foist some unwanted telemetry or ads in various parts of Windows, that they are a beast with many heads.
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by zantana 8y ago
I do think there is a Sturgeon's Law problem where it's hard enough to come up with linear stories which are compelling. Based on some of the experimentalism in modern day game development in places like ichi.io hopefully they can
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by zantana 8y ago
This guy https://twitter.com/a2_4am?lang=en has been posting apple II woz files for a while and I know there is an Atari format as well. Cool stuff.
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by zantana 8y ago
I'm going to check out Isaac Arthur, it looks like there are audio only versions on soundcloud, which works better for me. I've used Art Bell and Terrence McKenna (via the Psychedelic Salon) in the past, and pretty much anything t
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by zantana 8y ago
My feeling is that greater proficiency in how code, leveraging the services can serve perspective employers. It's vague and I'm not sure if it can be quantified as easily as the RHCE, so let me give you an example. With the RHCE y
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by zantana 8y ago
For what its worth I would, as a system administrator, I would say falling back to infrastructure administration on the level that the RHCE helps with, won't keep you relevant, unless you're moving into an area which specifically
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by zantana 8y ago
Yes, my feeling always has been open source works best when the developers are the users since they feel the pain and see what needs to be changed.
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by zantana 8y ago
I was really keen on the Awair, but the necessity to be connected to wifi to function was a deal killer for me. From what I've seen this will never change which is disappointing.
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by zantana 8y ago
I have had a Mycroft Mark I for about 6 months, and have a Mark II on order since I ordered them as a special bundle about a year ago. My feeling is Mycoft is aiming to be more of a stand alone product, closer to the base level echo or home
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by zantana 8y ago
I lifted most of this from the guy mentioned in the hn post in the comments below. I don't know what shell/platform he used, but it didn't work from twitter so I tweaked it to work on the linux boxes I typically see. It creat
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by zantana 8y ago
Yes if you go to the sites via the links to the domains in the article they don't have the santa hats. I had to check for myself.
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by zantana 8y ago
There are a couple that I know. There is snips https://snips.ai/ which I haven't used and I have a Mycroft Mark I https://mycroft.ai/product/mycroft-mark-1/ . Mycroft does most of the Alexa p
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by zantana 8y ago
I was always surprised their model of selling their older versions at a reduced rate (e.g. latest version $199, next older $100, one before that $49) never took off. They always seemed so scrappy back in the 90s with their giant boxes and i
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by zantana 8y ago
I'm not sure if this covers everything you're looking at, but I have been moving towards getting this from Tindie: https://www.tindie.com/products/gumslone/wifi-air-quality-te...
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by zantana 8y ago
I logged in just to reply to this because I was one who generally doesn't like social media and thought of Twitter as just a proprietary version of RSS. But I had to do some promotion for work and created an account and got hooked in.
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by zantana 8y ago
I'm pretty sure a traumatized content moderator was extracting revenge on the people misbehaving on social media on a CSI Cyber episode, was it on Black Mirror too?
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by zantana 8y ago
There is a forum for this https://www.badcaps.net/forum/ which I believe was started when there was a slew of bad capacitors a decade or two ago. The main page appears to be someone who has a service of some sort, but
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by zantana 8y ago
I didn't look at the raw data, but no awk in the top 50?
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by zantana 8y ago
I have enjoyed watching the electronic badge scene at Defcon unfold this year. I don't know how long its been a scene, but some of the badges are pretty impressive mesh networks, blockchains, and breathalyzers. It really brings to mind
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by zantana 8y ago
Agreed. Based on the headline I was expecting the journalist had inadvertently revealed some data about which they weren't intending to.
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by zantana 8y ago
As another longtime fan (with an apartment full of Squeezeboxen) I was reflecting on how Slim Devices's main competitors at the time, Sonos and Roku are still around whereas Slim is a ghost in the Logitech graveyard. I've only use
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by zantana 8y ago
Yes, I devoured trivia troves like the Straight Dope, the bathroom reader series and predecessors, which for me were the Book of Lists. It is funny to go back now and see ones which have obvious errors. They will always have a place in my h
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by zantana 8y ago
Seconding Home Assistant, it's really the glue that allows for the leveraging of other systems. I was able to set up something I had wanted for a long time which was to turn off my TV/Stereo/Kodi after idling. I built the con
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by zantana 8y ago
It should be noted that Chicago doesn't exactly have a good track record on negotiating the details on these types of contracts. https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-to-pay-20-million-to-...
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by zantana 8y ago
This rush to Gitlab reminds me of the forecasted mass reddit exodus to voat in during the AMA/Ellen Pao crisis.

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