PostThisTooFast

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by PostThisTooFast 4y ago
VBX controls were the thing that most closely fulfilled the promise of object-oriented programming: "off-the-shelf components that can be used to bolt an application together." Then there was WordBasic, a Word-specific implementat
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
I wondered that too, but isn't that pretty much what pistons are required to be anyway? It seems like this thing could rev really high, since there's no herky-jerky motion.
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Yes, Alt-Tab is a HUGE improvement over Apple's implementation because it not only restores minimized apps as it should, but can also create a window for a running app that lacks one (with Finder being a critical example).
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Apple messed up its Alt-Tab implementation with one simple blunder: It doesn't restore minimized apps. I tab TO an application, but when I'm done I minimize it out of the way. But then you can't Command-Tab back to it, becaus
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
The music industry (in collusion with Congress) killed DAT with this same specious argument, when everyone knew that "perfect digital copies" were the LEAST-likely vector of attack on their industry. The obvious and dominant form
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
And the bullshit tax on blank CDs, which came later. The article makes a critical point: We already PAID for the right to download this material, and have been paying for decades. Also, I've known several friends in bands. So far I&#x2
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
"designed on a 24x24 pixels grid" They're vector-based, so how are pixels involved?
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
The other problem is people not capitalizing abbreviations as they should. You see even major news organizations doing it. The entire nation of Great Britain appears to think there's a space agency called "Nasa." Ignorant AF.
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
What are we to make of that warning? What shortcomings do you think people will find?
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
They just passed a similar (actually worse) couple of laws in California, allowing up to 10 units where a single-family house stood. In a place like CA, this is a corrupt developer handout. It removes approval requirements for developers an
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
They're not going to ramp up a production-line option and do the QA on an ill-advised touchscreen computer for your edge case. And people who prefer computers should be very, very happy about that; because touchscreens on computers are
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
That's not true. Numerous home video recorders by that time had flying erase heads that could make clean cuts.
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Another thing that seems dumb about the investigation is that they went to a warehouse district because the background looks like a warehouse door. A warehouse door THAT SPINS AROUND? Really? With crack investigators like this on the case,
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
A few of us (and probably a disproportionate number on this site as compared to the general public) undoubtedly download and archive interesting material for just that reason. I wish there were a very good conversion utility to download sit
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Most open-source graphics software is crippled by dogshit UI. So far Blender is not. I'm impressed.
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Amen! I remember frame-advancing the LaserDisc over and over to study how they resolved the shot at the end.
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
What does that mean?
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
This is the authoritative source of the most-widely-used mod: https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2510&start=
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Yeah, this is woefully out of date. There are several more-recent mods for the Model M.
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Yeah, it's pretty cool. I am tasked with developing a new API and communication method for a bunch of networked devices that run embedded Linux. Initially I focused on MQTT, but have since decided to define an API in OpenAPI and implem
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
I don't see why this is better than simply implementing a table like this yourself.
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
No, it wouldn't. The sensor is an imager. The back end, which interprets what it delivers, should be separate. This is more petty Apple bullshit.
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
So freelance workers are banned? Contractors are banned? Wow, what a "victory."
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Yes, I would think this as well. If your company is known for dicking over your dealers, then no one will open up a dealership for you. Then again, Apple dicks its partners over and hasn't suffered much.
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Let's face it: The company did the right thing for its clients getting rid of a dumb-ass, even if it cost them $65K. Unless, of course, it was all a ruse to simply avoid being fingerprinted (and one would think that the company would&#
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
How is it a "great modern OS?" Internally? Because its UI and user experience are a shitshow. Settings are scattered everywhere. Windows have no toolbars, title bars, or borders to distinguish them from the one they're overla
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
People put up with it, and we all suffer. Google recently shat out a similarly offensive update to Android TV, so now the only UI on people's $4000 Sony TVs is 1/3 advertisements for stuff the user often doesn't even have acc
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
Thanks for that info. I have one of these records!
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
The entire canned TLD system (and ICANN't) is a scam. TLDs should be abolished (except for the ones that are still enforced, like edu, mil, and gov), and you should be able to register anything.anythingelse. Trademark violations would
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by PostThisTooFast 5y ago
And yet Windows 95 (and all Windows from 3.1 to Vista) let the user set up global color schemes that were inherited by all applications. I set up a "dark" mode in the early '90s and used it until Microsoft inexplicably REMOVE

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