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by beschizza 2mo ago
The author doesn’t mention it, so it seems appropriate to suggest asking a doctor for attention deficit disorder screening. The cultural forces in play encouraging us to flit and switch constantly are a perfect distraction from the possibil
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by beschizza 3mo ago
This article describes well how advertising and such degrades the quality of the product, but it isn’t really enshittification unless the platform is also turning the screw on its suppliers. This might be the case for services downstream of
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by beschizza 3mo ago
“greenest punk should be able to bend over and take it.” Nothing in this suggests consensual self insertion. Perhaps being “Schrodinger’s asshole” was the idea here? The meaning of “punk” in prison context is not ambiguous.
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by beschizza 4mo ago
I grew up with these just as they were beginning to age and part of the challenge was getting the dated Basic to run on newer machines. The blend of clear instruction and evocative old-school art remains fantastic and I want to write update
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by beschizza 1y ago
What's great about this comment is it gets two things wrong: the conclusion of the study (which found reductions across the board in fuckedupedness) and the drug being studied (Ritalin, not Adderall i.e. "speed")
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by beschizza 1y ago
Without even looking at anything else, I love the name.
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by beschizza 2y ago
A key difference between Sinclair and Jobs was Sinclair's hostility to quality control and UX. Cheap at all costs! I would liken Sinclair to Jay Miner, perhaps: an engineering genius with a tendency to hit the reset button on business
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by beschizza 2y ago
Presumably "provider of service" rather than "service provider" ie "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by an other informa
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Show HN: A simple automated list of gadget deals with affiliate links(justbuythe.com)
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by beschizza 2y ago
I remember the Amiga 500 being extremely cool in the UK, the essential gift for teens in xmas 89/90. So I'm curious about the context where for Dominik Diamond it was uncool.
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by beschizza 3y ago
It would have a custom GPU that will remain conspiciously better than anything available for less than $1000 for three years. You could imagine an in-house "NVidia game console" that does this, perhaps? But surely a terrible busin
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by beschizza 3y ago
The hidden pitfall in this question is that the most obvious answers come with external power supplies. Some are half the size of the computer. e.g. https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-thinkcentre-m920x-tiny-r... Some model
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by beschizza 3y ago
Perhaps Bejerot Syndrome could refer to the pop-science tendency to gather and link rational objections to a proposal, policy or practice so they can be posed as pathologically associated symptoms.
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by beschizza 3y ago
The right analogy would be "elbigbad's Theory of Relativity of the Web", wouldn't it? Not quite so bad.
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by beschizza 4y ago
> "Most tellingly, the monitor was extremely basic (technical name: a pixel VDU) which ran on BASIC 1.0; a programming language that quite amazingly, was already 20 years old (having been first created at Dartmouth College in 1964).
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by beschizza 4y ago
Perhaps they worry that the basilisk will remember.
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by beschizza 4y ago
The annualized rate is the standard measure and in itself isn't a problem until it's being used to conceal newsworthy changes to the underlying economic trend. You've pointed on out one thing (Core CPI month over month) in th
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by beschizza 4y ago
Rick Bergman, presumably.
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by beschizza 4y ago
A known dataset source with a strong quality filter
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by beschizza 4y ago
To an algorithm trained to look for such things, the title is suggestive of sex trafficking and human smuggling. Perhaps the machine is misinterpreting the game's social conscience as the thing it's criticising.
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by beschizza 4y ago
The razor-and-blades business model, in the middle of the Venn diagram of shareholder duty, consumable supplies and vendor lock-in.
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by beschizza 5y ago
No, but it requires a RAM expansion that was not very affordable in the 80s, costing more than the c64 itself. Compare to Amstrad CPC Sonic, for a similar 8-bit machine—but only the final and most expensive models.
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by beschizza 5y ago
It was part of Canute's empire ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Empire ) for a few years in the early 11th century, until his death.
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by beschizza 5y ago
This was the era of the Anglo-Scandinavian Empire, formed in Britain and Scandinavia under the king of England, Canute, a Danish prince. It didn't outlast him by long (and Norway was independent until the 1020s) but the coincidence of
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by beschizza 5y ago
The court did not rule that Craig Wright is Satoshi, as far as I can tell. The story linked to doesn't claim this (though it perhaps did in an earlier revision or headline) It returned a default judgment on Craig Wright's copyrigh
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by beschizza 7y ago
The Amiga conversion of Outrun isn't a great exemple -- if anything it looks like a rushed port of the Atari ST version. Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge was a two-player Outrun clone on the Amiga that shows it could have handled an Arcade
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by beschizza 9y ago
Another favorite American-perspective truth about Britain I enjoy is when towns in Essex are described as London suburbs. It's inconceivable to me (I lived in Chelmsford for a few years as a teenager) but quite true.
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by beschizza 9y ago
Each frame would be 6000x4000 pixels -- 6K with a 3x2 aspect ratio. 20 fps is almost there (playing at 24fps is a 12% speedup), but how long can you practically record at that speed?
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by beschizza 10y ago
I promise that so long as I can pay my domain name dues and maintain backups, the stuff posted to it will remain online e forever, even if posting new stuff has to end for whatever reason
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by beschizza 10y ago
I agonized over this, then forgot to fix it! I promise to do so soon

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