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by dshep 4y ago
Nokia suffered from lack of direction from the top... They had both symbian and maemo, both officially blessed, but incompatible. Symbian was the past and maemo had promise, so what did management do... a hail mary bet on microsoft? It c
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by dshep 5y ago
If you are talking about the Butler Lampson talk that Alan Kay mentions, I would also be interested if anyone has found this somewhere ...
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by dshep 5y ago
Sweet website, been meaning to pick up a copy of the Dream Machine...
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by dshep 5y ago
Steve Yegge had a lot of similar stories about Amazon here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiqYKF0WzjQ
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by dshep 5y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Internal-Non-Raid-Adapter-Desktop-Sup... Haven't tried it personally, but maybe it works? :)
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by dshep 5y ago
Pretty neat. I have been thinking about how I can build a tiny NAS, but I would like ECC so that rules out the pi, etc. Best option I have found so far might be this ASRock 4x4-v2000 https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/4X4-
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by dshep 6y ago
It might not be a great analogy but its hilarious.
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by dshep 6y ago
I guess this is cool, but maybe they should focus on actually making Windows Terminal into a usable terminal emulator first. I've found so many bugs with it and it still doesn't even have a GUI for its settings.
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by dshep 6y ago
Seriously watch every Alan Kay (not the survivalist) video on youtube, you will not regret it. It's practically criminal that they have such low view counts.
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by dshep 6y ago
Am I the only one that finds these BD robots kind of repulsive? They are so weird and alien and... unnatural.
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by dshep 6y ago
For 2020 its gotta be: David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
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by dshep 6y ago
I was a cog at Nokia during the time the iPhone was released. So look forward to reading this and hope it sheds some light on Nokia's implosion. It felt like Nokia cut its own head off pretty needlessly. Nokia was still making better h
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by dshep 6y ago
I replaced Chrome with Brave more than a year ago and I recommend it as basically a better version of Chrome. The script blocking feature is especially useful for nytimes, and other paywall sites. The one problem I have had was my computer
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by dshep 6y ago
Excellent video and nice write-up!
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by dshep 6y ago
i3-8100 cpus support ECC
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by dshep 6y ago
Noscript is incredibly fussy and hard to use. Also it does not have the 'allow scripts [to run] once' ability afaict.
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by dshep 6y ago
I've been using Brave most of this year and really like it. The killer feature for me is that it lets you disable scripts for individual websites or 'Allow scripts once'. This basically makes most paywall news sites readable.
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by dshep 6y ago
bazqux.com, highly recommend.
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by dshep 6y ago
For better or worst, reading Dijkstra always reminds of these funny (I think) comments that Alan Kay made in 1997... "Arrogance in Computer Science is measured in nano-Dijkstras" --Alan Kay Video: https://www.youtube.co
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by dshep 6y ago
I imagine a lot of people here might be too young to know about Steve K Roberts. He had an earlier bike called WINNEBIKO (II?). Imagine yourself as a kid in the 80s watching something like this on TV, it was super cool. High-Tech Bike on Sp
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by dshep 6y ago
These discussions always remind me of this MMM blog about his experience being an Uber driver: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2017/11/22/mr-money-mustache... This is one of my favorite quotes: "Imagine
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by dshep 6y ago
I am a big fan of Lanier. I think he provides a very interesting perspective on social media and the future that I haven't found elsewhere. I really recommend watching this recent talk he gave, long, but worth it: Jaron Lanier: How the
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by dshep 6y ago
You would actually need to raise your original price 43% to cover Apple's 30%. And yeah I agree, I am surprised more Apps don't take this approach. But perhaps it is discouraged somehow.
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by dshep 6y ago
Trying to paint this 17-year old kid as a criminal mastermind strikes me as rather gross. I can see it as a kid doing it to see if he could, and using an obviously meme-worthy fake post that got out of hand. I think everyone has done some d
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by dshep 7y ago
I recently took my GF to the ER because she had been stung by a bee and was worried she was allergic. She was feeling dizzy but once we were in the ER she started feeling better. They basically took her vitals, waited 30 minutes or so, gave
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by dshep 8y ago
I get the impression OpenBSD isn't so happy with Intel: Disable SMT/Hyperthreading in all Intel BIOSes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17829790
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by dshep 8y ago
I hadn't ever noticed that, but it must be because of the trackpoint. The trackpoint is centered in between the home keys so you can reach it with your index fingers, mouse buttons below that for thumbs, and thus trackpad below buttons
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by dshep 8y ago
As far as non-apple laptops go, XPS13 seems a solid choice but I think this Huawei would be my first choice now (look at that screen!) https://consumer.huawei.com/us/tablets/matebook-x-pro/
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by dshep 8y ago
I've only taken Amtrak once, from Portland to San Francisco. One of the best parts was having dinner in the dining car. Two older ladies invited me to join them because I was by myself and we had a nice chat while cruising through the
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by dshep 9y ago
Is this why Google News on mobile is so terrible? Feels like using an android news app inside of Safari. Thumbs down.

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