NittLion78

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by NittLion78 5mo ago
Never used a Franklin, but I remember the Albert which was a IIe clone. Had a voice synthesizer which you could type words into and it would say them back (poorly) which as a young kid was a good time. Also had a stylus/drawpad for gra
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by NittLion78 7mo ago
Idk who would even want them as a client. They'll change course on you every 4 years at minimum potentially in massive ways that might force you to change your product putting all your other users at risk - and they might just do that
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by NittLion78 7mo ago
I can testify that Qwant, if nothing else, is a superior image search engine (basically does what GIS used to do 10-15 years ago) and it's better for just getting to a quick answer without your first 4 results being ad-driven. Unfortun
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by NittLion78 3y ago
Alaska, Hawaii, Vermont, and Maine all do not allow for billboard advertisement, so at least there are a few places you can go for respite.
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by NittLion78 3y ago
It's also a class Onion article: https://www.theonion.com/german-luftwaffle-chain-offers-waff...
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by NittLion78 3y ago
Anyone remember the Albert Apple ][ clone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_(computer) My dad had one of these and I thought it was the coolest because it had the text-to-audio synthesizer. Because it was such nasc
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by NittLion78 4y ago
I liked his journals from Karateka better than those from PoP. He was much less cocky then and his innovations seemed more novel and exciting, plus you know he was squeezing a lot more out of the hardware from that time. MoD was really an a
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by NittLion78 4y ago
I was going to cite the example of the Garmin G1000 glass cockpit. Even moving a cursor around a map requires pushing a physical knob in 360° to guide it.
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by NittLion78 4y ago
I started to have the most minor of flight-or-fight symptoms April 2020. I'm guessing I was exposed to covid then but was asymptomatic. Fast forward to August 2021 and I suddenly couldn't lift weights anymore without feeling like
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by NittLion78 5y ago
Mark Wahlberg's character in Three Kings has to do this after getting shot while wearing kevlar because his lung collapsed.
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by NittLion78 5y ago
This is basically the entire plot of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
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by NittLion78 5y ago
As I've said for years, any time you see a glittering urban core full of glass towers, steel bridges, and classic old stone architecture, somewhere there's a Mordor nearby that made all that happen.
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by NittLion78 5y ago
All of that was just them dusting off the 1991 playbook from the first Gulf War. That was the first time an ongoing war was mass marketed in the "modern" way, I think (you could argue successful war propaganda has been happening f
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by NittLion78 5y ago
I didn't meet any deniers in Alaska two years ago when I visited a week after the 100F temps broke.
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by NittLion78 5y ago
One of the strangest buildings I've ever seen. I wonder if it wasn't a street-level stall market or something first because now it's basically a parking lot with an unfortunate building packed under it.
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by NittLion78 5y ago
That's Adrian Carmack (no relation to John). He made most of the characters you see in the game out of clay before they were pixelated. Can't recommend Masters of Doom enough, the book that talks about the history of id Software
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by NittLion78 5y ago
Alpha Centauri has a very active mechanic built into it that uses both global warming (on an alien planet, granted) and also the planet itself being sentient enough to attack with its native lifeforms the factions that pollute it the most.
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by NittLion78 5y ago
Chicago pretty easily unburied itself out of two major snowstorms and extreme (even by normal standards) cold snaps. At least when it comes to the extreme weather the city faces, that part is handled. General corruption/waste is anothe
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by NittLion78 5y ago
You still see a lot of them being brought into wildlife rescue hospitals for lead poisoning from having eaten birdshot or in some other way ingesting fired ammunition. Seems to be the biggest issue in the Midwest for them, anyway. Either wa
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by NittLion78 6y ago
I always found this graph enlightening, but strictly on its face: https://fee.org/media/17509/prices2-1.png?width=645&height=6... I don't agree with the argument FEE is trying to make: "Consider each
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by NittLion78 6y ago
In Chicago, he's known as three things: a neighborhood, a park, and a statue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Park,_Chicago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Park_(Chicago_park)
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by NittLion78 6y ago
Adam Serwer summed it up fairly succintly: "The Cruelty Is The Point" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelt...
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by NittLion78 6y ago
I had a high school teacher show us Threads during a breakout portion of 10th grade history where, for 9 weeks, you learned all about nuclear war. It has stuck with me my entire life. Somewhere about 2/3 of the way through the course w
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by NittLion78 7y ago
...as recently as 2 weeks ago, no less https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-51098209
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by NittLion78 7y ago
It helps me, when interviewing people (already past the HR screen), to make assumptions about what we don't need to talk about. I'll still do my checks on your knowledge to make sure you aren't just a cert collector who has
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by NittLion78 7y ago
Made me think of this exchange from Fight Club : Narrator: "A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we i
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by NittLion78 7y ago
I can understand the opposition on a long enough timeline, but to dismiss it from the start is almost certainly a recipe for failure.
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by NittLion78 7y ago
I always thought this Demotivator nailed it best https://i.imgur.com/wlKkBmP.jpg
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by NittLion78 7y ago
Of course it won't help the narrative when the Lakes right now are near record highs due to lower levels of evaporation and more rain in the autumn months of the past few years (according to Army Corps of Engineers' data that star
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by NittLion78 8y ago
At least in the US, I think it's the combination of cheap airfares + the tracks being owned by freight companies, so there's not a ton of profit incentive to make it better and attract more riders. I assume Canada has a similar hi

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