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by anotherlab 1mo ago
I find it entertaining. I'm doing it for me, not to boost any metric. I am my target audience.
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by anotherlab 1mo ago
I use AI-themed images for the opener to my blog. It's typically a steampunk robot image that is not related to the topic of the post. The actual content is written by me. If there are any code samples that were AI-generated, I'll
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by anotherlab 2mo ago
I was starting as a software developer when the Amiga first came out. We used Lattice C at work on MS-DOS. I bought it for my A2000. Being able to write code on a proper multitasking OS made it easier for me to learn C. I kept updating the
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by anotherlab 2mo ago
I wrote a book on localization for Xamarin many years ago. I get about one email a week "inviting" me to join a book club. The well-crafted ones tend to impersonate an actual person on Goodreads. At this point, I would happily giv
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by anotherlab 4mo ago
There were multiple reasons. Simons' BASIC was still interpreted. If you wanted graphics and performance, you used Assembler. Many/most people were using a disk speed-up cartridge like Epyx's Fast Load. You could only use one
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by anotherlab 5mo ago
I moved my blog from WordPress to Jekyll a few years ago, and it's anything but an over-engineered system. I used WordPress for years, and it was overkill for a personal blog.
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by anotherlab 7mo ago
I used to use em-dashes and en-dashes in my work emails and other writings, but stopped using them when they became AI markers.
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by anotherlab 7mo ago
Back in the VIC-20 days, I had the VIC Forth ( https://ia800304.us.archive.org/34/items/VIC_Forth_1982_HES/... and https://photobubba.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/an-inter
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by anotherlab 11mo ago
I was using this before 2018. I used to write TSR applets for data collection. Knowing what interrupts were being was critical. It could mean the difference between your code working and it dying somewhere in expanded memory space.
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by anotherlab 1y ago
I could see using this for a specialized use, for a game or a presentation. But day to day use, the jarring design of the letters that would have had descenders would be like a mental speed bump for me.
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by anotherlab 1y ago
I grew up in the 70s and I loved cassettes. I would take my records and copy them to cassettes so I could play them on horrible and not-so-horrible boom boxes at parties. And of course making mix tapes. But I don't miss wow and flutter
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by anotherlab 1y ago
As an Amiga developer and user in the same timeframe, I could see the handwriting on the wall. The consumer market had shifted to Windows 3.1 and then 95 on those awful Packard Bell computers. I like the asteroid analogy. The Wintel commod
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by anotherlab 1y ago
Moby licensed every song from "Play" for commercial use. The exposure made "Play" a huge hit for him. This is just a variation of that. This is an attempt to grab a slice of the pie before AI-generated music kills the m
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by anotherlab 2y ago
I'm so sorry for your loss. I remember buying licenses for Qmodem and later on Qmodem for Windows. I think I spent more time tweaking scripts to log me into various BBSs than I would have spent just typing in the username and password.
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by anotherlab 2y ago
There is a similar type of app called NetPad. https://github.com/tareqimbasher/NetPad It's not as good as LINQPad, but it runs on the Mac.
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by anotherlab 2y ago
Is it just me, but when I see a reference to a map of time, I get a vivid flashback to a scruffy band of little people pushing a bedroom wall back into a portal.
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by anotherlab 3y ago
WSA wasn't intended for calls or messaging. It was intended to allow developers who had developed apps for the Fire tablets to also provide or sell the apps on Windows. It was also an alternative way for Android developers to write and
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by anotherlab 3y ago
I spent years in the Delphi ecosystem, starting with Delphi 1. In the early years, it was a great tool for building desktop apps. I haven't used it in 15+ years, but no regrets. The $5k limit for the Community Edition is very limiting.
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by anotherlab 3y ago
UPS that can run my PC, monitors, USB hub for 10-30 minutes. I rarely have power outages, but when I do have one it's a non-event Cheap boom arm for the webcam. Stream Deck makes it was to quickly control audio and lights and aps Tourb
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by anotherlab 4y ago
This thread has mentioned that it was unacceptable for the interviewer to walk out without saying why they were leaving, or even saying goodbye and thanking you for your time. While that was an enormous red flag, so is that they had laughed