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by RunSet 1y ago
https://github.com/n4ru/1vyrain
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by RunSet 1y ago
> What can you do with them that you cannot do in software? It lets a macbook operate with the lid closed.
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by RunSet 1y ago
Perhaps my favorite deliberate error in arithmetic is from Winston Groom's Forrest Gump, during the protagonist's tour in Vietnam: > I am the machine gun ammo bearer, cause they figger I can carry a lot of shit on account of my
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by RunSet 1y ago
> While incompetence is merely a barrier to further promotion, "super-incompetence" is grounds for dismissal, as is "super-competence". In both cases, "they tend to disrupt the hierarchy." One specific exam
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by RunSet 1y ago
IBM invented the Fn key so if anyone has their Fn key where the Ctrl key should be, it is the copycats. > The Fn key first debuted on the monochrome display ThinkPad 300 in October of 1992. Yes there was a ThinkPad with a monochrome
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by RunSet 1y ago
The story of Isaac Asimov's "shotgun curve" is relevant: https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v056n06_...
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by RunSet 1y ago
The bluetooth stack in MacOS does not work with wiimotes since Monterey. https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-wiimote-pairing-macos-... The bluetooth stack in Windows and Linux does. Apple's official position is that
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by RunSet 1y ago
Designing the mouse so it is useless while the charging cable is connected means that if the battery no longer takes a charge the mouse becomes e-waste.
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by RunSet 2y ago
You might ask the old-timers whether any of them knows why this bug is unfixed since 2009. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505521 Surely there is some rich lore to be mined.
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by RunSet 2y ago
> the client spies on you and that data is (part of) your payment. >> What value do you think this click tracking data has? That it is collected at all shows that, at least to data miners, a user's data has a value greater tha
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by RunSet 2y ago
> Speech also proceeds under the whips of two tyrants: time and memory. Our memories aren’t nearly capacious enough to allow us to compose and precompile each sentence before beginning to utter its first syllable. Instead, speaking is li
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by RunSet 2y ago
Counterpoint: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36057840/
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by RunSet 2y ago
In that case, say no more.
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by RunSet 2y ago
> increasing size of vehicles due to increasing insecurity of American buyers I understand the average vehicle size increased to exploit a loophole in emission reduction requirements. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect&#x
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by RunSet 2y ago
https://archive.is/vW9ZA
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by RunSet 2y ago
Given your tastes in websites, I hope you will be receptive to my attempt at reviving Craigslist's casual encounters: https://LokiList.com/ Its size in kilobytes varies depending on how many posts are displayed on the
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by RunSet 2y ago
The model is this: Let players run their own servers and host their own playgroups as they did before game servers were monetized. Then when someone cheats you ban them until they apologize in person and sing the Very Sorry Song. This has b
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by RunSet 2y ago
That parody website responds like it is mining crypto in the background. Not going viral when I can't share it in good conscience.
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by RunSet 2y ago
Or a game you may have heard of called "Chess".
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by RunSet 2y ago
> The only people who would actually equate them are people not professionally using these tools everyday. While someone who just needs a functional vector graphics editor and is not being paid to use adobe software might prefer inkscape
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by RunSet 2y ago
Privatize the fire department and you'll soon see just how shrewd they become.
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by RunSet 2y ago
I have an M2 Macbook Pro mostly gathering dust and waiting until Debian supports it rather than dip so much as a toe into Apple's crass software ecosystem. For now it is a file server, albeit I had to purchase an dongle just to make it
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by RunSet 2y ago
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_conundrum.htm
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by RunSet 2y ago
discord is this generation's yahoo groups.
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by RunSet 2y ago
> Of course we aren't going to win, but spending $20-50 a week to spend a couple hours dreaming about what we'd do with half a billion is such a fun uplifting family activity I have heard many people say things like this and I
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by RunSet 2y ago
Calls to mind Isaac Asimov's "shotgun curve". https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v056n06_...
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by RunSet 2y ago
"Coercion" by Douglas Rushkoff is somewhat dated but by no means out of date. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/348346/coercion-by-...
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by RunSet 2y ago
Fiendish; the most clever part is that authors who are already slaves to their own creative urges may not notice any change.
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by RunSet 2y ago
I thought it was going to be a massively collaborative chiptune tracker.
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by RunSet 2y ago
In the United States prison inmates are still slave labor, courtesy of the 14th amendment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un... https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1

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