RandomGuyDTB

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by RandomGuyDTB 6y ago
> Windows 2000 also served as an alternative to its successor, Windows XP, for several years. XP included some features that were controversial at the time. These included an Internet-based product activation system that complained if yo
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by RandomGuyDTB 6y ago
This but unironically. I can get C code from the 70s to compile in GCC but I can't get Windows programs released twenty or so years ago to run in Win10. Open software will always be easier to support and always be more stable than prop
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by RandomGuyDTB 6y ago
If only the world was rational enough that this would end Fox News's claims of credibility.
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by RandomGuyDTB 6y ago
There's an interesting article on Paw Patrol by Walt D[1]. It's a bit extreme at points (calling Paw Patrol "everything Trump’s Republican Party is pushing on the United States") but it does get the point across, that th
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by RandomGuyDTB 6y ago
I don't really see how master/slave is such a controversial issue in the computing community. The name change doesn't really affect anything either way, so if it makes people feel more welcome to the field I don't see mu
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by RandomGuyDTB 6y ago
Exactly. > There's something wrong with our civilization when some people have to go in for the increased risk to their health for $15+ just to feed their families while we comfortably and safely sit at home getting paid multiples o
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by RandomGuyDTB 6y ago
It's odd to highlight that Forth is 50 years old, considering C is 48 years old and still in very heavy use in operating systems development.
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by RandomGuyDTB 6y ago
It's a social thing - and a particularly stupid one. If you're ostracized by your peers for having the "green bubble" you're not gonna have great luck asking for the class notes or what Joey got on question 13. iMes
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by RandomGuyDTB 6y ago
Complete and utter bullshit. A look at the homepage for William M. Briggs tells you the kind of person he is - it seems every article he's shared repeats obviously incorrect nonsense from biased sources. A quick lookup shows that he&#x
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by RandomGuyDTB 6y ago
Don't get so ahead of yourself. Even people in relative poverty, in many cases, have new(er) iPhones, and HEIC is default on my SE, the budget iPhone model from 2016. In high schools you're alienated if you don't have the &qu
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by RandomGuyDTB 6y ago
I wish Microsoft would officially release the source code for Windows 7 or even XP. I use Windows 7 now (with AV and common sense) and although slower it's a marked improvement from 10 in terms of customization and privacy. If Microsof
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by RandomGuyDTB 6y ago
In any other world, this would be newsworthy. Even after Donald Trump, this would be newsworthy. But Elon Musk tweeted that we should open the country up in the middle of a pandemic. I've lost all my respect for him. He is, at the end
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by RandomGuyDTB 6y ago
I have experience using Wordpress; in sixth grade I tried out the Wordpress editor and felt writing HTML was easier. I admit it's popular with less-savvy users and with companies with money to burn, but it seems unprofessional to use W
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by RandomGuyDTB 6y ago
I've only ever seen userdir URLs hosting static content - ideally, static HTML with lesson plans or a resume or something. Why would anyone host a web application on a userdir? This seems like a complete non-issue. Also - why would a b
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by RandomGuyDTB 6y ago
Ah, Hacker News, where you get downvoted for making a joke. (to be truthful this comment didn't really add anything, which makes it fair game to downvote, but I still got a bit of surprise seeing a decent joke grayed out)
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by RandomGuyDTB 6y ago
I finally found an option in Firefox to change things around, but it still only changes the font and not actual foreground/background colors.
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by RandomGuyDTB 7y ago
If I recall, Netscape or one of the other early browsers used to have an option to change the default font/color of text and the background in its settings. Nowadays you have to use an extension to do so.
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by RandomGuyDTB 7y ago
The intent is for users to style it themselves.. or it was, until browsers stopped having that functionality.
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by RandomGuyDTB 7y ago
> (though admittedly I don't spend as much time on it as I should) It's pretty much just a howto and link repository for myself and my friends right now. Still mostly a work in progress. Consider it as an example for look rathe
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by RandomGuyDTB 7y ago
Hell, I still write the HTML and push it to Github where Github Pages and Cloudflare put it up on the Web for me. I've never seen any reason to use Markup when I can just Mark my text Up in HTML pretty simply. If you write a site corre
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by RandomGuyDTB 7y ago
I guess it is more aptly called bigotry. I was thinking along the lines of cloneship being a physical property of someone that's inherent to how they're produced (like how a newborn is probably going to be Black if its parents a
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by RandomGuyDTB 7y ago
Having both pirated GOG games and then later bought the same games because I liked them so much, I can confirm it is easier to pirate games. GOG is DRM-free, which is excellent when playing the games because it doesn't suck up megaby
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by RandomGuyDTB 7y ago
The weirdest form of racism is being prejudiced against groups that don't exist yet.
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by RandomGuyDTB 7y ago
Actually, on re-examination I thought I might've been a bit angrier than one should be when commenting on this site, but the poster confirmed they were serious.
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by RandomGuyDTB 7y ago
Blocked at my school :/ you can use Firefox's (probably Chrome's as well) reader mode to bypass the paywall though.
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Wearable Microphone Jamming(sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu)
236 points by RandomGuyDTB 7y ago|67 comments
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by RandomGuyDTB 7y ago
Any hyperlinks about that overlocking? I have an MK-52 and didn't know anything about that.
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by RandomGuyDTB 7y ago
What? Are you delusional? I rarely ever get this concerned at HN comments, but to say outright that one should be willing to give up any liberties or rights a corporation deems are dangerous, in order to participate in a group that has n
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by RandomGuyDTB 7y ago
(assuming it's A + A = B, there are still 4 sequences that could be if every number is an integer between 0 and 9, but if they remembered one of the numbers was a 1 it would drop the possibilities down to only 1 + 1 = 2)
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by RandomGuyDTB 7y ago
The explanation I've seen a lot is that once men realized computers could be used for more than trivial math they took over the field. It's obviously more nuanced but I do think it's mostly out of sexism, which is why organiz

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