robterrell

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by robterrell 1mo ago
For some reason your comment reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky-uzsw0kqw
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by robterrell 2mo ago
Not true. Individual authors could sign up for the settlement. One of my books was in there under my name.
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by robterrell 3mo ago
This is so great. Another fun trick we used in the 90s was palette animation -- by swapping the palette you can create incredibly cool effects at a low runtime cost.
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by robterrell 4mo ago
JAMF is popular. I've heard of Kandji too.
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by robterrell 4mo ago
Recently I've been thinking about the nerds/hippie dichotomy from that book. Really missing the anti-authoritarian streak that was so formative in the early computer industry.
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by robterrell 5mo ago
But that communication is clearly intended to be confidential. Also isn't having one attorney on a multi-party communication marked confidential sufficient to create privilege?
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by robterrell 7mo ago
There's a pattern of movies flopping in theaters only to become top 10 on Netflix. It's very similar in many ways. The difference is there was backend participation for VHS/DVD rentals... whereas Netflix is paying a one-time
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Byte Shop 50th Year Birthday Party(byteshop50thyearbirthdayp.rsvpify.com)
3 points by robterrell 9mo ago|1 comments
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by robterrell 9mo ago
Fifty years ago this week, The Byte Shop opened its doors, becoming one of the epicenters of the personal computing earthquake that reshaped our world. A secret rebel base for a generation of hackers, engineers and tinkerers who would go on
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by robterrell 10mo ago
I know it's been days but since you asked he made a link: https://byteshop50thyearbirthdayp.rsvpify.com
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by robterrell 10mo ago
Zynga was acquired by Take2 in 2022 and is very much alive today. IMHO the "predatory business" period of Zynga (e.g. the Tiny Tower vs Dream Heights) was prior to the arrival of team who executed the turnaround discussed in the i
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by robterrell 10mo ago
At this point I'm surprised they haven't been training on thousands of professionally-created SVGs of pelicans on bicycles.
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by robterrell 10mo ago
Yep! Paul is my uncle. My parents had a franchise Byte Shop in Greensboro, NC when I was a kid.
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by robterrell 10mo ago
Lee will be speaking next month in San Jose at an event for the 50th anniversary of the Byte Shop computer store. Incredible opportunity to hear from the man himself. For computer designers of the 8-bit era, I’d say he ranks next to Woz in
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by robterrell 10mo ago
Please, this was my first thought too.
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by robterrell 1y ago
holy crap, what a rabbit hole you sent me down.
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by robterrell 1y ago
If you're smart enough to get hired for one of these roles, and you're willing to work 996, be just a little bit smarter and found your own startup and take all the upside.
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by robterrell 1y ago
I have one in the basement! The bar was called the "ISOpoint" bar. It was a great use of the tiny space. Also innovative was the IR keyboard. You could disconnect and move it pretty far from the main unit.
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by robterrell 1y ago
ModBook is mentioned in the article. But Outbound (another deconstructed Mac) is not.
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by robterrell 1y ago
As a published author who had works in the training data, can I take my settlement payout in the form of Claude Code API credits? TBH I'm just going to plow all that money back into Anthropic... might was well cut out the middleman.
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by robterrell 1y ago
With the per-item limit for "willful infringement" being $150,000, it's a bargain.
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by robterrell 1y ago
There's this one too: https://jcm-1.com/product/picomicromac/
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by robterrell 1y ago
I have an appscript that uses Gemini for this. Works great. Usage is in in the free tier. I even had Gemini write the appscript.
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by robterrell 1y ago
This is the correct answer. More memorable and better number of syllables. Although I'm sure he wasn't the first either.
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by robterrell 1y ago
Wired is killing it with great reporting this year. Worth subscribing and supporting.
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by robterrell 1y ago
In what ways?
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by robterrell 1y ago
Isn't the use of the H.264 motion vector to preserve bit when there is a camera pan? A pan is a case where every pixel in the frame will change, but maybe doesn't have to.
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by robterrell 1y ago
AppleScript supports the "delay" command. System Events supports both "keydown" and "keyup" in addition to keystroke.
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by robterrell 1y ago
You've always had this ability, but with more convoluted syntax: osascript -e "tell application \"System Events\" to keystroke \"whatever\"" Specify the application too with multiple -e parameters.
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by robterrell 1y ago
IIRC Swift Playgrounds goes pretty deep -- a full LLVM compiler for Swift and you can use any platform API -- but you can't build something for distribution. The limitations are all at the Apple policy level.

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