jvan

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by jvan 1y ago
Less than an hour away from Marlow, NH, original home of PC Connection. Must be something in the water.
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by jvan 1y ago
Changes that some applications made for Wayland definitely broke pasting for me. It seems Wayland added a separate clipboard so going between apps was a crapshoot if pasting would work. I haven't found a solution that covers everythi
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by jvan 2y ago
Was there a fourth wife, or was she the Last?
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by jvan 2y ago
>a simple and consistent experience Has that not been Apple's entire marketing thrust since 1984?
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by jvan 2y ago
For people who like LW for more than just nostalgia, Joe Dever's son is republishing all the LW books in a unified format, including a greatly expanded edition of Flight From the Dark using Joe's notes. They're also pursuing
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by jvan 2y ago
>with isometric 2D graphics I got excited because I thought I had missed something, but these are the same apps I've had for years. They're not isometric games, though some of the illustrations have a similar perspective.
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by jvan 2y ago
The video for MC Frontalot's "It is Pitch Dark" has a cameo by Meretzky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE
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by jvan 2y ago
The Internet Archive is your first port of call. For some reason I can't get any of them to load in the browser, but all of the systems are emulatable locally. https://archive.org/search?query=infocom&and%5B%5D=med
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by jvan 2y ago
Probably because JavaScript has been part of pdfs since Acrobat 4, way back in the last millennium.
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by jvan 2y ago
Ads. Tracking scripts. Interface hijacks. Dynamics that change the page as I read it. A myriad of other poorly executed ideas that someone who considers themselves "very clever" thought were good at the time but only make my e
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by jvan 2y ago
Lucas was friendly towards fan works, so Disney kind of got that situation handed to them and were smart enough not to go against it. When nerds are your core audience, you have to accept them doing nerd things. WB took down the Hunt for
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by jvan 2y ago
vcs is a 5000-line bash script wrapper around ImageMagick and FFmpeg, any features you want can be extracted to your own scripting.
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by jvan 2y ago
I've used vcs[0] to make contact sheets from videos. It has a nice feature that if it detects the frame is blacked out, it will shift the capture time so every frame on the sheet has something to look at. Easy syntax to set capture a
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by jvan 2y ago
I had hoped from the headline that it would shed some light on the Oakville blobs[0], but no such luck. The images don't look remotely the same material. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakville,_Washington#Oakv
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by jvan 2y ago
>What is it that you have to hide? An argument so cliche, it has its own Wikipedia page[1]. In the US, we currently have a presidential candidate from a major party threatening harm to people based on their political, social, and biologi
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by jvan 2y ago
>For example, people spent hours exploring wikipedia, this could never be done with physical paper. I must not understand what you're saying here. I'm envisioning someone reading an article, seeing a reference to something unf
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by jvan 2y ago
In study sessions in school I would sometimes look things up by thinking "it was on the lower left about this far into the book." I remember studies done years ago that showed reading a physical book improved memory and learning d
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by jvan 2y ago
I think anyone making that claim is going to have to define human nature in a way that has eluded several fields of study for generations.
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by jvan 2y ago
Please tell me what guarantee you would accept from any company that they won't eventually sell off a line of business or otherwise be acquired.
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by jvan 2y ago
Incredible! Songs in the Key of X was the only album I ever knew to do this, and it wasn't even the first. I had no idea so many others did the same thing. Edit: Son of a *, I've had a copy of Sister Machine Gun's Burn for
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by jvan 3y ago
Warning for Linux users, it's only available packaged as a flatpak. Otherwise it requires Meson to build.
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by jvan 3y ago
Seconding System76. I bought one for my wife after HP and Dell refurbs failed to be stable for her, so instead of trying to find a reasonably priced (<$800) business-class laptop we blew the budget on a $1500 Pangolin that's done w
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by jvan 3y ago
Microfiche is a small flat sheet, microfilm is on reels. "Fiche" being French for card. The More You Know...
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by jvan 3y ago
Oh that's good, I like that one! But a counterpoint for fun: weather is a system. I wonder if we can find a rule that seems sane but would classify an inert gas as alive? Imagine defining life and someone rebuts with "Argon.&qu
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by jvan 3y ago
99% of mules are sterile. And I'm not sure what the current debate on viruses and prions is. It's a difficult question to generalize.
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by jvan 3y ago
Why not consider it alive? The same with the fires mentioned in other comments. In The Andromeda Strain (the novel, don't remember if it's in the film as well), there's a scene where the characters are trying to determine a
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by jvan 3y ago
Do you have a write-up about this? I've been wanting to host my own almost entirely for the extra control over incoming mail and have been held back by the same worries. I'd like to see what a success story looks like.