JeremyReimer

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by JeremyReimer 2y ago
These could each be an article in themselves. :)
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by JeremyReimer 2y ago
Nice.
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by JeremyReimer 2y ago
I did mention AOL, as part of the "Eternal September" of Usenet (so tangentially, but still acknowledging it was there) but yeah, I did skip over some of the others. CompuSERVE was something I thought was really cool at the time,
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by JeremyReimer 4y ago
I self-publish my novels, and I've had steady if very low sales year after year (certainly not enough to live on) and I have friends who have chosen the small independent publisher route and have not been happy with the results at all.
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by JeremyReimer 4y ago
I think it would be very unlikely for the web and html to arise in the current political climate, yes. It only came to be in the first place because of a massive amount of government investment that was an artifact of the space race in the
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by JeremyReimer 4y ago
The confusion and disconnect comes from the fact that the Metaverse, by definition, cannot ever exist. Zuckerberg is chasing a fantasy. I wrote in more detail about it here [1], but the basic gist is: 1. A real "Metaverse" that is
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by JeremyReimer 4y ago
I think the bitmap being shown in MacPaint implied that you were supposed to create your own clip art from scratch. Which would technically be possible, if you were already a good artist. But the real weakness, at the time, was in the final
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by JeremyReimer 4y ago
The Amiga was (and still is!) an amazing machine. If you liked this article and would like to read more, I'll take this opportunity to plug my History of the Amiga series on Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/series&
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by JeremyReimer 4y ago
You've got it right. I was going to label the inputs in the transistors in the second animation, but it made the diagram rather crowded, so I left it out. The diagrams are simplified because they leave out things like connections to gr
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by JeremyReimer 4y ago
EDIT: It looks so easy in that video! I'm not sure why I had so many problems opening the door, but I did. Maybe I'll try it again. Maybe I'll just wait a few more years to see if the game gets better first, though. I suspect
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by JeremyReimer 4y ago
I had even less luck than this with the elevator. I couldn't open the door! Apparently it's unlike every other video game in existence, where door opening is a matter of a) walking up to the door, or at worst b) walking up to the
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by JeremyReimer 4y ago
In a similar vein, I watched My Thai Bride on a recommendation from a friend, and it also stuck in my head for a long time. It's about an older British man who flies to Thailand in search of a wife, but it handles the entire situation
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by JeremyReimer 4y ago
I can honestly say that I love all the writing work I do. Every article I wrote for Ars Technica was a labor of love, even though I got paid. My novels are as well. I still have a day job (although I did write full-time for Ars for a couple
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by JeremyReimer 4y ago
I'm a writer. What you've said here is basically correct, but I disagree with your conclusion. In 2009 I took basically the same path that Howey is proposing here. I started self-publishing on Amazon in 2011 and I've written
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by JeremyReimer 4y ago
Quote: "self-publishing well is expensive (four, five digits easily)" This is basically correct, although it depends on the definition of "well". You can get a halfway decent cover for $100-$500, and you can get a halfwa
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by JeremyReimer 4y ago
If you really want to fall down the rabbit hole, NCommander did a thirteen-hour stream where he successfully (!!) installed OS/2 1.0 in a virtual machine (using PCem) and then upgraded, in-place, every single version after that, ending
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by JeremyReimer 4y ago
They weren't owned by Activision-- Activision was only the publisher for Destiny, and never acquired the studio. When the publishing agreement came up for renewal, Bungie and Activision agreed to go their separate ways, for their own r
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by JeremyReimer 4y ago
Hello, author here! You’re right that I didn’t mention many other products in the broader PDA market. The article was about the Newton, and believe it or not, there are still word count limits for online articles. Discussing other products
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by JeremyReimer 4y ago
I don't think so. OpenDoc was a document sharing service in classic Mac OS, similar in some ways to Microsoft's OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) but somewhat more advanced. Back then, some folks thought that applications were go
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by JeremyReimer 4y ago
There was enough confusion in the comments over whether a folded A4 was an A5 or A6, that I figured I made the right call. :)
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by JeremyReimer 4y ago
Author here! I'm really happy to see people getting into the nostalgia about these weird and wonderful devices. Researching the story was absolutely fascinating, and I loved getting to talk to Steve Capps, who was still excited to talk
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by JeremyReimer 5y ago
I don't think there's a good explanation out there. From what I've read, the main idea is decentralization, either of website databases using blockchain (which seems wildly impractical and ludicrously expensive), or of paymen
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by JeremyReimer 5y ago
The original Max Headroom was played by Matt Frewer in heavy makeup. So his eyes are Matt Frewer's eyes.
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by JeremyReimer 5y ago
phpBB added a mobile theme that works pretty well, but many sites didn't bother to upgrade. Mostly this was because the upgrade was difficult and required multiple steps (first updating to the latest sub-version, then to the major vers
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by JeremyReimer 5y ago
Thanks! I think it's just a combination of the limited graphics character set on the Heathkit, plus eight years of practice (at the time) making games using it. The stuffed animals are from my childhood, so I kept them on my childhood
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by JeremyReimer 5y ago
I'm really enjoying it so far. It seems to fit with my mental model of making video games, which basically ended when I was 15 and writing games in MBASIC on my Heathkit (and later QuickBasic on MS-DOS, but I sort of stopped making gam
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by JeremyReimer 5y ago
Congrats on releasing the game! Great work! I'm 49 and I have basically the same story you did... and also share the same secret dream to write games "one day", so I'm starting really small with a simple little 2D game i
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by JeremyReimer 5y ago
The publishing industry was disrupted by technology in 2007 when Amazon released the Kindle. It took a few years, but for a while, independent book authors were rivalling the "Big Five" publishers in terms of both sales volume a
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by JeremyReimer 5y ago
I believe the case for micropayments was shot down back in 2002 when Scott McCloud first proposed it as an option for webcomic authors in his comic post "I Can't Stop Thinking" (the original no longer exists at his site, but
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by JeremyReimer 5y ago
Kind of like this: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/05/07/the-fullness-o...

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