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by spatulon 7mo ago
Apple also put the music video for The Old Apartment by Barenaked Ladies on the Mac OS 8 CD.
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Our $100M Series B(oxide.computer)
751 points by spatulon 1y ago|503 comments
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by spatulon 2y ago
Unfortunately, if you use a two-monitor setup, you cannot have the dock on the left of the right-hand-side monitor, or vice versa.
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by spatulon 2y ago
I've never looked into the PDF format, but, does it not allow for annotations that say, "the glyphs in the rectangle ((x0, y0), (x1, y1)) represent the text 'foobar'")? That's been my mental model for how they
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by spatulon 2y ago
After Wise moved away from Evolve to Community Federal Savings Bank, they gave me new account details that included an address in New York. Looking that up on Google Maps and Street View, it appeared to be a small branch in Brooklyn, on a s
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by spatulon 2y ago
That doesn't match my experience. I have some unlisted videos that I or a small handful of friends might go back and watch once a year, and it takes several seconds of loading before they start playing. It's very noticeably differ
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by spatulon 2y ago
Until a few decades ago, the term 'billion' actually meant one million million (1e12) in the UK, rather than the now commonly-accepted meaning of one thousand million (1e9). As a British paper, the FT may simply be trying to avoid
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by spatulon 3y ago
Two problems that have occurred in recent times when Dota tournaments have not used booths: - the crowd whistling to tell their favourite team that the enemy team is making some kind of secret play (e.g. taking Roshan, or using a smoke). -
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by spatulon 3y ago
> Any open file Any file that was opened without specifying FILE_SHARE_DELETE in the call to CreateFile[1] (the Win32 equivalent of open(2)). Unfortunately, most language runtimes that wrap CreateFile tend not to pass that flag. [1] htt
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by spatulon 3y ago
The Mac is no better, in my experience. I just timed how long it takes to open the Calculator app – the simplest app I could think of – on my 2019 MacBook Pro, and the window appears 600ms after clicking on the dock icon. I would not call t
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by spatulon 3y ago
Yes, and it was actually Microsoft who first brought the iMac stripes to Mac software with Internet Explorer 5, before OS X.
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by spatulon 3y ago
The classic MacOS's Finder was 'spatial'. Since each folder on disk could only be open in a single window, and that window remembered its position and layout, there was a certain physical consistency - it felt like the window
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by spatulon 3y ago
Does it really have 2000 employees? I remember when they were owned by Conde Nast and had something like 5-10 people. I know they have a lot more users now, and have added features like image and photo hosting, but to go from that to 2000 e
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by spatulon 3y ago
The Platinum theme used by MacOS 8-9 was probably the closest-looking to that Windows 95 look and feel. And since Windows 2000 was a combination of that old look and feel on top of a modern kernel (NT), one might argue that the Mac OS X Dev
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by spatulon 3y ago
Note that one of the .kkreiger devs (ryg aka Fabian Giesen) works at Epic Game Tools on the Oodle compressors mentioned in OP's post.
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by spatulon 3y ago
Is that Apple Garamond?
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by spatulon 4y ago
Importantly, the punt is propelled by having someone stand at the back and push a pole against the river bed. It's popular with students and tourists in both Oxford and Cambridge, although the two cities disagree over which end of a pu
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Cheaters Will Never Be Welcome in Dota(dota2.com)
3 points by spatulon 4y ago|2 comments
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by spatulon 4y ago
Musk might care if this move drives all the influential power users away. I'm not influential – I almost never tweet and have almost no followers – but I've read Twitter almost every day for the last 15 years. If I can't use
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by spatulon 4y ago
s/Playstation 1/Playstation 3/
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by spatulon 4y ago
A lot of AAA games presumably got ported to Linux so that they would run on Stadia. Were those efforts funded by Google? I wonder if we saw more proper Linux game client releases as a result, and whether we'll see fewer Linux ports in
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by spatulon 4y ago
Note that they remastered the game in 2012 as "Doom 3: BFG Edition", and that included the ability to use the flashlight while holding weapons. I think Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal are far more successful as Doom games than Doom 3
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by spatulon 4y ago
For comparison, here's the wording on the Brexit ballot papers in 2016: > Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union? Voters had to choose from one of the following: - Remain a member
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by spatulon 4y ago
One of the more memorable and surreal experiences I had on my visit to SF was walking around Golden Gate Park, and suddenly seeing what looked like the mast of an alien sailing ship looming out of the fog in the distance. It turned out to b
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by spatulon 4y ago
Sorry, I had to reword and shorten the headline from the linked page to fit within HN's title length limit.
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American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft(boomsupersonic.com)
403 points by spatulon 4y ago|515 comments
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by spatulon 4y ago
I remember using something called Google Hangouts for video calls at my last job. What happened to that? I remember it being confusing because there was a seemingly unrelated Google Hangouts app for instant messaging.
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by spatulon 4y ago
You're not wrong. I guess they're just trying to say that LLVM's control-flow graph is implemented as individually heap-allocated objects for nodes, and pointers for edges. (I haven't looked at the LLVM code, but that so
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by spatulon 4y ago
I suspect they are actually talking about the modern/redistributable C/C++ runtime, not the old msvcrt.dll. Microsoft refer to the modern libraries as the "Microsoft C and C++ (MSVC) runtime libraries", so shortening tha
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by spatulon 4y ago
The main repo I work on for my job is open-source, and yes, it happens fairly regularly that someone opens a nonsensical PR that might randomly perturb some Markdown or YAML file, or attempt to merge commits from some other developer's

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