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by smitelli 8mo ago
CyberS3XY was what I always figured he was going for.
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by smitelli 8mo ago
Never played Thief, but I logged a lot of hours in Unreal, 1998. I was (and still am) amazed at how full-featured the software renderer was. I always wished I could peek at the code behind it. If memory serves, the only thing my 3dfx Voodoo
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by smitelli 9mo ago
There are definitely outside organizations whose sole responsibility is to monitor TV/radio broadcasts and nowadays even podcast sponsor breaks to ensure that ad copy is inserted as agreed. (Source: I was contracted to do some of that
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by smitelli 9mo ago
You mean something other than ⌘+` ?
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by smitelli 11mo ago
I'm the person who reimplemented Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure (DOS, 1992) and my original reasoning was a desire to know how it was able to do some of the graphical tricks it did on such underpowered hardware (it could run on an IBM
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by smitelli 1y ago
https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-dash-tool/
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by smitelli 1y ago
I'd be interested in seeing an example of a well-composed 9:16 portrait photo. All the ones I have found look awkward.
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by smitelli 1y ago
https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-dash-tool/
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by smitelli 1y ago
I gotta say, I don't have the right personality traits to enjoy this kind of personal attention a lot of the time. I've had experiences where the counter staff at my daily breakfast place started to recognize me and know what &quo
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Understanding the World as Entropic – Part 1(entropic.mataroa.blog)
1 points by smitelli 1y ago|0 comments
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by smitelli 1y ago
Percy Livermore: We must rid our speech of slang. Now, besides "OK", I want you all to promise me that there are two words that you will never use. One of these is "swell" and the other one is "lousy". Lucy Ric
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by smitelli 1y ago
Never realized the "chunky" in my chunky peanut butter was so profane. /s
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by smitelli 1y ago
Good for occasional use. Feed it a big playlist and you might find yourself IP-banned for a week.
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by smitelli 1y ago
Some call this phenomenon the Goomba fallacy.
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by smitelli 1y ago
I really respect Jim Davis, believe it or not. Draw the cat, collect the money, keep mouth shut.
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by smitelli 1y ago
I have been nerd-sniped into conjuring up a less-traveled-path technique: Portable Python on the Windows computer. `python -m http.server`. On the Linux computer, something like `wget -mkp` followed by `find … -delete` to get rid of the ind
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by smitelli 1y ago
The thing I found interesting in trying to type out a single test sentence is how many of the letters were reachable with just a tap. It wasn’t until I really studied the layout closely that I noticed that it wasn’t in true alphabetical ord
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by smitelli 1y ago
To my ear it sounds like AFSK, kind of like the Bell 202 scheme. Here's the first passable search result I found with a clean recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PXxSHGrF-8
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by smitelli 1y ago
What happens on the day when those people just directly pay some AI model to do it?
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by smitelli 1y ago
Data Becker Music Center, the first real MIDI composition software I ever used. Came with a pretty decent dead-tree printed manual. Hadn't thought about that one in a long time.
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by smitelli 1y ago
Fun fact: In the US the concept of time-and-a-half (also minimum wage, and not hiring child labor) was created by the Fair Labor Standards Act. Most tech employees are classified as "exempt" -- the FLSA and its protections doesn&#
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by smitelli 1y ago
Having the primary/secondary rotation is arguably worse. In that model, from the perspective of any one participant, now they're on-call for two weeks each time around instead of one.
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by smitelli 2y ago
I've never liked any answer I've gotten to questions like "what's the weather like." I look at the forecast in my weather app -- the whole fullscreen thing -- and follow some sort of mental algorithm that I can&#x27
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by smitelli 2y ago
In FF DevTools, open settings, under "Inspector" check the box for "Show Browser Styles." It clutters the window up some, but I've gotten used to it.
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by smitelli 2y ago
"Say McDonalds to end commercial" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds/
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by smitelli 2y ago
Plumbers are paid quite well and they deal with actual, literal shit. It is not glamorous work, but I would have to guess there is likely less disillusionment and burnout in plumbing overall compared to software.
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by smitelli 2y ago
Sigh. Fine, I'll do it. What's a butfor?
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by smitelli 2y ago
Analog tape can sound pretty damn good, depending on the total surface area used and how fast it moves past the record/play heads.
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by smitelli 2y ago
> super slow $ units Currency exchange rates from FloatRates (USD base) on 2022-12-14 3753 units, 113 prefixes, 120 nonlinear units You have: (2 * 238854 mi) / c You want: ms * 2564.4291
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by smitelli 2y ago
Many moons ago, I randomly discovered that the built-in text to speech engine on Windows 2000 would pronounce “crotch” as “crow’s nest.” Never found any reference to it online at the time, although today it’s pretty well documented. It’s po

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