mtVessel

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by mtVessel 2mo ago
| Now you can do something with your time besides writing pointless one-off doo-dads. ...thus eliminating all the tedious chatting, relaxing and making friends that people were previously forced to do while waiting for elevators.
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by mtVessel 3mo ago
I dunno. I'm in the US and I feel that those saying they wouldn't expect to be liable for services they consume beyond free tier limits sound awfully entitled. I mean, it's a sleazy practice, especially considering how they w
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by mtVessel 3mo ago
All mice supported scrolling. In the before times, you use the mouse to drag the scroll thumb, which was located on the scrollbar. And you'd drag it down to see information further "down" in the document.
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by mtVessel 6mo ago
I applaud their restraint. Me, I would've been compelled to title it, "Kniterate Knotes".
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by mtVessel 9mo ago
When I saw the article (which, for some reason, I had no trouble finding) I felt the same way, but then remembered I could adjust the font size myself with a few keystrokes.
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by mtVessel 9mo ago
| I assume nowadays it's much better... It's not, but the Linux weenies won't hear of it. Maybe it's a great choice on Linux, but on Windows, it often renders things much worse than stock WMP (both legacy and modern). Vi
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by mtVessel 9mo ago
What was the reason?
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by mtVessel 11mo ago
Please always explain what things are. All day long I'm following deep links, and nothing bothers me more than people assuming I have perfect context.
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by mtVessel 1y ago
At least there's a way out of scrollbar madness (at least, for now): Settings -> Accessibility -> Visual effects -> Always show scrollbars No such luck for title bars, though, or the general Fisher-Price-ification of Windows o
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by mtVessel 1y ago
I feel vaguely vindicated that the agent can't figure out how to use the modern Save as workflow, either, and reverts to the traditional dialog.
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by mtVessel 1y ago
| > What actually prevents bugs at scale is boring stuff: type systems... | Nonsense. The most widely-deployed software with the lowest bug-count is written in C. Type systems could not have done anything to improve that. C is statically
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by mtVessel 1y ago
Sure, but don't forget to look for posted signs, like: "In Upper Manhattan, downtown 1 skips 137 St-City College, 125 St, 116 St-Columbia University, Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) and 103 St Aug 1 - 4, Fri 9:45 PM to Mon 5:00 AM
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by mtVessel 1y ago
It likely doesn't make any money by itself. It's a loss leader to entice companies into its enterprise offerings.
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by mtVessel 1y ago
On FF (similar on Edge): Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to reverse-pacman.staticrun.app. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR
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by mtVessel 1y ago
"Wanda, do you have any idea what it's like being English? Being so correct all the time, being so stifled by this dread of, of doing the wrong thing, of saying to someone 'Are you married?' and hearing 'My wife lef
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by mtVessel 1y ago
| I don't know what the legal definition of Enemies is, but I would imagine it would involve a declaration of war. These days, some vague tattoos will do it.
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by mtVessel 1y ago
Serious question: how did you envision "wide-scale deportations" playing out, prior to these events?
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by mtVessel 2y ago
I didn't realize they were still in print!
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by mtVessel 2y ago
So far, it's no HAL 9000. Uploaded video dialog: Bowman: You know, of course, though, he's right about the 9000 series having a perfect operational record. They do. Poole: Unfortunately that sounds a little like famous last words.
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by mtVessel 2y ago
The post doesn't explain how the niches themselves come into being, so an equally logical assumption could be that creating a person also creates a new niche, and their task is simply to find the right one. No new person, no niche. A
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by mtVessel 2y ago
Common term in North America for elementary (usually ages 5-12) and secondary (age 13-18) education. What do you call it where you live?
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by mtVessel 2y ago
My partner has been volunteering at a food pantry here in the US northeast since mid-2020. The numbers have remained fairly constant, aside from regular seasonality.
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Japan won its 'war' on floppy disks, but its love of archaic tech lingers(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by mtVessel 2y ago|2 comments
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by mtVessel 2y ago
Alt: https://archive.is/C28c3#selection-527.0-527.73 What I don't understand is the emphasis on the robustness of tech such as floppies. I remember them being quite fiddly and easily corrupted. Is it just a way to ju
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by mtVessel 2y ago
That couldn't be further from the truth. They're so different one would never confuse the two, or believe them related.
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by mtVessel 2y ago
You can. Open the folder inside Explorer and use the ellipsis menu on the toolbar, there's an option to pin.
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by mtVessel 2y ago
"What do you mean 'it's been deleted?' It's right here! Stupid computers..."
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by mtVessel 2y ago
Do we really need to? I'd lay odds that the effect remains the same: users dismiss the error/warning without reading it.
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by mtVessel 2y ago
People who tailgate are impervious to those types of incentives.
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by mtVessel 2y ago
Wow, the comments in this thread are super confusing. They seem to be largely around, "windows are a luxury, not having one is a first-world problem, who wants one anyway?" Is this the same community that champions human-centered

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