spankibalt

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by spankibalt 6d ago
Nice strategically-placed pussy. The keyboard layout is terrible on account of its misplaced trackball. There's a special hell reserved for people who design keyboards with trackballs below the numpad; that shit needs to be situated ei
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by spankibalt 7d ago
> The opposite of ordinary is, of course, extraordinary. Not just that: The ordinary is also the trivial, while the extraordinary is the relevant. In other words a dichotomy of who does not matter... and who does. And in the words of May
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by spankibalt 9d ago
No need to go to Heidegger's Sein und Zeit , once required reading in many a school where I'm from; the logical conclusion and application of polysemy [1], amongst other things, should get the ball rolling just as well. 1. [ ht
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by spankibalt 9d ago
> Programming can be art. On that at least we agree (ignoring the rubbish about "AI", unless it describes an artificial intelligence with at least peer-level (i. e. human-level) agency, and not a language model). The same g
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by spankibalt 9d ago
Nothing ever is just a tool. Saying that X "can just be a tool" is a fundamental violation of that statement; saying then "X can be much more than just a tool" is a violation in form of a contradiction. It's very
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by spankibalt 9d ago
> AI can be just a tool. [...] But AI can also be much more than a tool, [...]. Contradictio . Going back to Seven... > AI can be just a tool. Nothing, ever, is just a tool.
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by spankibalt 12d ago
It is, if a little bit overcomplicated and therefore prone to failures. HP had a competitive product in the HP x2 G4 detachable graphics workstation, which already conforms to a superior form factor: a 2-in-1 detachable. These days they c
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by spankibalt 13d ago
Eh, thickness doen't really bother me much as long as it's within reason as maintainability/repairability demands it. I just don't see a need to integrate a keyboard into the chassis. Unless you go for a T-hinge or ezel-
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by spankibalt 14d ago
Acer following in Lenovo's footsteps with bizarre, overcomplicated contraptions. The ideal form factor is already on the market for a productivity device like this: the 3-in-1 detachable. Make it maintainable (user replaceable battery,
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Acer's DualPlay Mini concept is both gaming handheld and mini-laptop(liliputing.com)
4 points by spankibalt 14d ago|5 comments
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by spankibalt 14d ago
Never had a personal smartphone, just work-issued ones that usually stay on-location after a shift. Yeah, it can drive people up the wall. I don't care lol.
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by spankibalt 14d ago
> [...] I've considered buying/tracking down a non functional one and putting a high performance ITX build into it a few times over the years. I'd buy a classic keyboard case x86 (with PCMCIA card slot, Enhanced Personal
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by spankibalt 14d ago
> [...] a C128. But for the latter the majority of time was spent in C64 mode. Did you make use of CP/M applications? I often wonder how well that worked back in the day; one of my best friends had a Commodore 128, but used it exclu
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by spankibalt 14d ago
Well, at least you got to experience the "innocent" and magical beginnings of the extremely integrated general-purpose computer, still very open to tinkering. Its overspecialized modern logical conclusion, and I'm not talking
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by spankibalt 15d ago
Yeah, I know. I just consider that "vertically integrated", or more precise closed system, approach inferior for general purpose computing.
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by spankibalt 15d ago
Hire somebody who's got at least a modicum of understanding of (web) typography. Small hint: A moving background layer makes reading supremely annoying, and for some people even (virtually) impossible.
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by spankibalt 15d ago
GPC, eh? :) Careful... overspecialize (overintegrate), and you breed in weakness.
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by spankibalt 15d ago
You talk of vertically integrated contraptions. What are they for?
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by spankibalt 15d ago
> I'm just casually familiar with guns, if I saw an AR-15, I'd call it an AK-47. Or a machine gun. Okay. Sure. Just as there are people who call(ed) every video game console, or even home computer, under the sun "a Nintend
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by spankibalt 15d ago
> I might even think that the AK-47 or the Glock have more name recognition. A "yes" on the AK, and a "no" on the Glock. The AR-15, incl. its variants, isn't called "America's Rifle" for nothing; i
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by spankibalt 15d ago
The AR-15 pattern rifle is certainly iconic; on its own probably more so (i. e. more recognizable) than almost all of Jobs's products. When allowing for the typical collective amnesia, the only two products that match, or manage to exc
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by spankibalt 17d ago
> But all the same, why do people go out of their way to frame it like this? Because you (and your legion of likeminded folks on pseudosocial media) indeed sound like some washed-up, self-delusional salesman with a loaded gun to his head
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by spankibalt 18d ago
> The textbook definition of ochlocracy is a small group of people taking justice into their own hands. No, that's not the textbook definition. That exchange has sadly run its course for me for I have no interest in reading tedious
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by spankibalt 18d ago
> Democracy has nothing to do with minority protections . [...] Democracy includes whatever enough people [italized by me] think it should include. If people don't want such protections then there is no need for them. You just pr
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by spankibalt 19d ago
> Democracy, in it's purest form, is about mob rule --majority rule, if you want to say it in a softer/kinder way. You're just parroting an old urban myth. The terminus technicus for mob rule is ochlocracy [1]; democra
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by spankibalt 19d ago
TIE Fighter is one of the best space sims to play for score (i. e. on the hardest difficulty level). Already the first mission is insanely brutal, fighting Escort Shuttle group "Tough". You, in a lone, unshielded TIE against turbo
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by spankibalt 20d ago
Let me help you with that: 1. Trackpads. I hate 'em. Keyboard-integrated trackpoints and/or trackballs is what I need. Detachables with a trackpad are acceptable as one can bring a Bluetooth substitute (that's how I do it on
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by spankibalt 20d ago
From the article: "It [the Robert Koch Institute] said laboratory tests to determine the source of the infections were not expected to be available for several weeks. [...] The [Robert Koch] institute said malaria in Germany almost exc
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by spankibalt 20d ago
> Also, the change from dedicated charge ports to USB-C charging increased USB port usage considerably. I never needed one, but a good USB-C adapter (or maybe even small dock) with power passthrough should solve this. Burning through who
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by spankibalt 20d ago
> We have those stupid regulations in Finland about how the outside of our apartments buildings should look - meaning you cannot put the condenser visibly on the outside of the building. Same for Germany, at least in many places. And if

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