benjaminpv

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by benjaminpv 2y ago
Apple, start your photocopiers and you'll see why 2024 won't be like 2007[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control
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by benjaminpv 2y ago
Do you remember if the textbook was orange (possibly with a two-tone cover design)? I had a really good textbook in college that had a... 4? CD set (with the big jewel case) that had a bunch of tracks and like you I really enjoyed it.
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by benjaminpv 2y ago
Contrasting seemingly all the other responses to this, I use it the same way you do (only opening it when needed) and I'm fine with the delay: even at its slowest rebuilding the index and searching is faster than the in-built windows S
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by benjaminpv 2y ago
I always liked the cases where people have broken open ROMs only to find that the compilation process stuffed a bunch of directory and filenames in the silicon. It's funny to think that in a time when literally every byte cost money th
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by benjaminpv 2y ago
In Windows when you set a wallpaper it (sometimes) silently transcodes the one you selected into a new, smaller version. It doesn't always, there's a heuristic, but it's assumed it happens to prevent people from selecting a 1
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by benjaminpv 2y ago
Do things like the upgradable firmware and integrated text editor live in a path that's separate from the 8KB of data? If not I'd fear it would die before the actual storage did. I also vaguely recall that Sonic 3 used this storag
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by benjaminpv 3y ago
Or more broadly, don't do something unbidden on my behalf then complain when it doesn't work. I swear 75% of the times I've daydreamed about a return to a single-tasking OS like DOS was on account of software trying to '
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by benjaminpv 3y ago
Yeah, people frequently trot out the Sim City classic example, but the fact is that games in particular have borne the brunt of Windows API changes. If it didn't happen we'd have no need for wrappers like dgVoodoo: software once o
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by benjaminpv 3y ago
I don't know if anything's changed but for a long time a lot of Word's formatting was impacted by the printer you had installed and/or selected. So it was pretty easy to run into scenarios on a network where printers bei
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by benjaminpv 3y ago
>mService always immediately returns the “drive ready” code I've read enough of these emulation / reverse engineering blogs to know this will inevitably come back to haunt them.
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by benjaminpv 3y ago
Decades late, but they could have told you to use Special: Eject Disk if dragging to the trash was too much for you. Then you'd have to grapple with what to do now that the physical disk was in your hand but its icon remained. There wa
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by benjaminpv 3y ago
Absolutely this. My parents would take an impromptu vacation toward the tail end of winter and every time they basically just told the school 'we're leaving, give him the homework he'll be missing, end communication.' Ye
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by benjaminpv 4y ago
COBOL was actually in the CS curriculum for my university, a fact that several of my friends brought up when the 'COVID is prompting a real need for COBOL programmers in light of the need to change benefits rules and unemployment!&#x27
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by benjaminpv 4y ago
Yep, you still see it come up nowadays with people running it under virtualization. https://www.os2museum.com/wp/those-win9x-crashes-on-fast-mac...
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by benjaminpv 4y ago
Something I haven't seen discussed very widely: it feels like there's not only a balance needed in determine what to log vs what not to log, but also logging in a way that isn't a detriment to the readability of the code over
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by benjaminpv 4y ago
That feeling of absolute dread, thinking 'my parents are gonna kill me when they realize I killed the family computer' did a lot to prepare me for the white-knuckle experience of troubleshooting problems in Production. :) Bless th
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by benjaminpv 4y ago
Somewhat surprised that you could even use threads in System 6. I know in the 7 era you'd find applications that shipped with the Thread Manager[1], I'm guessing this individual must have rolled their own thread handling? [1]: ht
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by benjaminpv 4y ago
Try tap+holding the "+ Save" button. If you just tap it the video goes to Watch Later but if you tap+hold it should show you a list of your playlists. That said, the behavior's really janky. When I do this on my iPad you kind
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by benjaminpv 4y ago
I'm not terribly familiar with Apple ][s either but given the surrounding context it sounds like there was a computer and fixed disk that was sent to a junk sorting center. It was initially thought that the disk they were sent was bad
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by benjaminpv 4y ago
I was gonna say, from context it was clear it's some sorta container but I'd never heard it used that way.
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by benjaminpv 4y ago
I'm sure they'll treat the matter very seriously and profess that steps are being taken to prevent it happening again.
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by benjaminpv 4y ago
Funny to think that the issue here is just a relative of the 'no-preserve-root' feature rm (now) has: it's easy to let the user use the same actions equally on the branches of a hierarchy as you could the leaves, but should
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by benjaminpv 4y ago
Raymond Chen talked about how periodically the devs were tasked with getting a handful of software purchased at CompUSA or w/e out of a grocery cart, opening them up, installing them and testing that they worked with the then-unrelease
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by benjaminpv 4y ago
I worked on an app once that used two different, equally ancient libraries to a) generate thumbnails and b) create a png from a pdf. While modifying part of this process I started realizing that there were conditions where you'd get a
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by benjaminpv 4y ago
No disrespect but your experience with foobar seems like the inverse of how it works? It definitely has a Library function, but my workflow for using foobar for years now is: - Install - Turn off visualization - Drag and drop folder full of
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by benjaminpv 4y ago
While formal HOWTOs might not get much attention, it's pretty clear Linux tutorials of all types are both being made and consumed in a variety of media. People often bring up how much value they get out of the articles DigitalOcean put
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by benjaminpv 4y ago
It's not as high-minded as the examples in the link, but as a kid I really enjoyed Woody Leonhard's "Mother of All..." books about Windows (the 3.1 and 95 ones, specifically). Woody introduced a series of characters, eac
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by benjaminpv 4y ago
This is as much a stab in the dark as any, but as someone that builds/rebuilds ROM sets pretty often (leading me to do a lot of hash-specific searches) I've noticed that there's a lot of crypto-trading related hashes in the
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by benjaminpv 4y ago
It's easily forgotten now, but in the 95 and 98 eras Microsoft actually bundled a utility called Quick View [1] that added a quick preview to the context menu. It got lost in the XP transition and I have to wonder if they thought tha
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by benjaminpv 5y ago
The first computer I ever upgraded on my own was a P3 system (my family owned a few, we just never upgraded them without taking them to a shop). I knew if I broke something/did something wrong my parents would never forgive me, so befo

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