TurkTurkleton

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by TurkTurkleton 4y ago
A bit after that he switches to a keyboard called "Kika" which appears to enable typing with the keypad and provides predictions. A bigger objection to this device to me would be the fact that UI animations appear to chug like a
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by TurkTurkleton 4y ago
Dude. I get it. It's HTTP all the way down. I know that; I'm a professional software developer and have been Into Computers since I was old enough to read. That's also how I know that "just dump your video files into
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by TurkTurkleton 4y ago
I feel like you're intentionally missing the point. Your "dump all your videos into a big directory and Ctrl-F the Apache directory index" workflow will necessarily limit you to watching on devices that can navigate to arbitr
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by TurkTurkleton 4y ago
Yes, yes, we're all very impressed with your techno-asceticism, but also some of us just want shit that Just Works, has a remote control that isn't just a wireless keyboard and mouse, and doesn't require us to actively sysadm
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by TurkTurkleton 4y ago
You can't use Fastmail for free at all, custom domain or no.
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by TurkTurkleton 4y ago
> Also, if I ever use "rockstar" or "ninja" in my posts, I hope someone finds me on the street and punches me in the face. I'd deserve it. Are you sure you'll never find yourself blogging about bands' f
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by TurkTurkleton 4y ago
It must pain you deeply whenever you look at your car radio and it says "AM" and "FM" instead of "medium wave" and "ultra-short wave".
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by TurkTurkleton 5y ago
While there is precedent[0] for reclassifying a game based on content included on the distribution medium but not normally accessible within the game as released, I think you would have a hard time making that case here since you're pr
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by TurkTurkleton 5y ago
AIUI and IIRC, iSH implements just enough of an x86 emulator to be able to interpret x86 binaries and JIT "compile" them to a series of function calls rather than directly to native machine code, and it implements enough of the x8
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by TurkTurkleton 5y ago
Starlink, unfortunately, will not present meaningful competition. It will really only be viable in sparsely populated areas--even once the full constellation is deployed, there simply won't be the bandwidth for large numbers of users
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by TurkTurkleton 6y ago
I didn't want to show my age (any more than I already did by knowing about ZZT). Also due to said age I couldn't remember the character number in CP437... though I did remember that the shaded blocks were mysteriously separate f
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by TurkTurkleton 6y ago
Since I imagine there are many HN readers that might not get it: "The King in Yellow Borders" is a ZZT inside joke. When editing a ZZT world, new boards by default are created with a yellow border of what (if memory serves me) in
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by TurkTurkleton 6y ago
Microsoft's Java implementation that got them sued was J++. As part of the settlement, they weren't allowed to add any new features to it, and it quietly faded into obscurity, along with its CLR counterpart J#, the latter having
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by TurkTurkleton 6y ago
It is. The unit Kelvin is equal to the degree Celsius. If you want to convert temperatures, you need to use tempK and tempC: You have: tempK(1) You want: tempC -272.15
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by TurkTurkleton 6y ago
At least in Big Sur, you can just place the override in /Library/Displays/Contents/Resources/Overrides instead of /System/Library/[...]. This may work in earlier versions as well, but it equally woul
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by TurkTurkleton 6y ago
Ah, right. It's so rare that removal of functionality is seen as a positive that I wasn't thinking in that direction, but yeah, that would be a definite improvement. I have seen ATMs here in the US that have quick withdrawal opti
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by TurkTurkleton 6y ago
> Even on the other side of the world here in China, that basically defines the menu options available today some 40 years later. Perhaps this bespeaks a lack of imagination on my part, but I can't imagine many (or really, any) othe
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by TurkTurkleton 6y ago
As a native English speaker and middling foreign-language speaker of German, "halzenfugel" sounds to me like a mock-German word that an English speaker would make up.
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by TurkTurkleton 6y ago
It was added in iOS 14. Not hardware specific. It works on my iPhone 11 Pro Max. It's an accessibility feature that has to be specifically turned on though.
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by TurkTurkleton 6y ago
Such synecdoche is common in headlines on both sides of the pond.
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by TurkTurkleton 6y ago
> Could we have even got to modern development level without so much free power? It's only free if you don't consider externalities to be a cost.
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by TurkTurkleton 6y ago
And so that expectant mothers who end up losing their child can be further traumatized by them: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2018/12/12/dear-tec...
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by TurkTurkleton 6y ago
Those are excellent points that I had not considered (or even been aware of). Still, though, while the set of brands and products available at a brick-and-mortar store is predetermined in a way that the customer has little to no influence
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by TurkTurkleton 6y ago
The difference is that when you go to Kroger you search the shelves with your own eyeballs. When you go to Amazon, their opaque algorithm does the searching for you, and it could be (and probably is) prioritizing Amazon brands or "Ama
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by TurkTurkleton 6y ago
You can't write query plans directly because you would have to manually take into account a number of factors that the query planner considers for you automatically, such as size of the table, statistics on the distribution of values,
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by TurkTurkleton 7y ago
There's also a setting that controls the thickness of font strokes, independent of color. I forget exactly how it's labeled (not at my Mac right now), but I remember it's a dropdown with combinations of options for using thi
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by TurkTurkleton 7y ago
Credit Karma was/is pretty open about the way in which you are the product, though: they show you ads for credit cards and loans that you are likely to be approved for, based on your credit information which they already have.
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by TurkTurkleton 7y ago
Ah, yes. I always forget that the entire global economy is built on debt. That actually makes it worse, in a way, but at least it makes sense in context.
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by TurkTurkleton 7y ago
I am a salaried software developer, and my employer requires me to track my time, for precisely the reason you describe. And I still think it's stupid, despite having heard this very explanation at least twice (or thrice, if you cou
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by TurkTurkleton 7y ago
In The Handmaid's Tale it's even worse than the quoted commenter described: the packaging and all the signage in the store is all pictures and no text because handmaids aren't allowed to be literate.

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