vasac

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by vasac 4d ago
I have a 10-year-old LG TV that runs webOS 3. The first update slowed it down - not that it was particularly fast to begin with - and every subsequent update made it even slower. It also constantly nags you to update the firmware. You can’
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by vasac 1mo ago
It was possible to connect the MIC or EAR connector (I don't remember exactly which one, as this was 40 years ago) to a cassette recorder and start recording, which caused the cassette recorder to amplify the Spectrum's sound. And
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by vasac 3mo ago
The first attempt failed, so they caved in, but they’ll try again after a while and lay those people off again.
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by vasac 3mo ago
IIRC, my problem with Quake multiplayer was that one node acted as the server, so when I connected to a friend’s computer via modem, my lag was a serious disadvantage (neither my friend nor I ever won as clients). Doom, on the other hand, s
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by vasac 3mo ago
> If one spouse stays home to watch them, that covers as many kids as you have. That's debatable ;) I have two kids, and taking care of both during the day is vastly harder - both mentally and physically - than working two jobs. As
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by vasac 4mo ago
And there was Wham! The Music Box if you wanted to compose music :). Here’s how it sounded on the original ZX Spectrum, equipped with only the beeper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNDVJLma-W4
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by vasac 4mo ago
> It's an advantage, but I don't see that changing for a very long time: It’s an interesting question: for how long will it remain important to know multiple languages in the age of LLMs? Of course, it’s better to know foreign
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by vasac 4mo ago
Ah, Clipper was a major force in the late ’80s in Yugoslavia, as economic reforms enabled the widespread establishment of private companies that needed accounting software, and PCs became cheap enough for one-person shops to develop custom
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by vasac 5mo ago
A few years ago, I bought a bunch of magnetic cables (with both Lightning and USB-C connectors - the cables are the same; only the connectors differ). I haven’t had any issues so far.
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by vasac 5mo ago
I’ve heard that lower and middle education aren’t exactly the US’s strong suits, but still? The US organized a coup in Iran over 70 years ago and has never really stopped meddling in Iran’s internal affairs. The US runs proxy wars around th
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by vasac 5mo ago
Acquired taste. Ten years ago, I switched from a sugar-based soft drink to one with Aspartame - it didn’t taste great at first. Now the sugary one tastes awful, while the Aspartame one tastes great ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by vasac 5mo ago
> Iran's situation is obviously very different. Yes, very different as in 'Our blessed homeland vs their barbarous wastes' meme. We (and our allies) should have nukes because we want to prevent wars. But no one else should
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by vasac 5mo ago
> Germany would have to quickly get nukes No shit? Why would they have to? Is someone ready to nuke them if it turns out they’re no longer under the U.S. nuclear umbrella, or are they some special snowflakes who should have them while Ir
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by vasac 5mo ago
I would guess that there's a big difference between assembling a drone (which can easily be done in a kitchen) and mass-producing parts such as batteries and gas engines for drones that have to fly more than a few dozen kilometers.
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by vasac 6mo ago
The OP probably thought of defense in the narrow sense as "the action of defending against or resisting an attack", and not in the broader sense defined as "we’re going to travel halfway around the world to kill a million peo
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by vasac 6mo ago
I’m implying they aren’t getting ready because they think Russians are going to march on Berlin.
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by vasac 6mo ago
So while many of the reasons are questionable (understatement of the year), let’s focus on the last one. After America lost the war in Vietnam, what happened to those neighboring nations? Did they suffer from Vietnamese communists? The only
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by vasac 6mo ago
Yes, the previous time they were getting ready it was because those pesky Poles being an inch away from invading the Third Reich.
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by vasac 6mo ago
The Turbo button worked wonders for Tetris. You start it with turbo turned on, so Tetris adjusts to the computer’s speed - but it only does this once, at startup. As soon as the blocks start falling, you turn the turbo off, and now your Tet
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by vasac 6mo ago
Both scripts have been taught in the early years of elementary school in Serbia for the past 80 years.
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by vasac 6mo ago
So Croats and Muslims fought each other bloodily because all Serbs wanted to live in one state? Funnily enough, they were already living in one state - Yugoslavia - so they certainly had no reason to start the war.
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by vasac 6mo ago
Russia pretty much took over all the USSR's external debts too.
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by vasac 6mo ago
> Do you think some evil military planners sat in the Pentagon... Why shouldn’t he believe it? You people believe the same kind of crap when you're told that X (insert the current boogeyman de jour) hates Murica and wants to kill yo
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by vasac 6mo ago
Americans can be convinced of anything without too much effort so that isn’t really a factor here.
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by vasac 6mo ago
One of my better cinema experiences was watching Austin Powers 3 at the theater in some random late-morning screening where there were only three friends and me in the hall, plus two elderly ladies in their 70s. They were laughing so hard t
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by vasac 6mo ago
The worst part is that the discrete GPU was used to drive external displays, so now I’m stuck with a 17” integrated display, which is large for a laptop but still small for a computer that I’ll never again lug with me (it’s heavy by today’s
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by vasac 7mo ago
> ... in the Balkans this was exclusively done in areas to harm civilians ... It wasn’t. While there were probably some areas that were mined with the intention of harming civilians, most of the mines were laid in places where you would
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by vasac 8mo ago
> Do we want to fight this war on someone else's soil or on ours? Russia thought so too.
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by vasac 9mo ago
> The point is you don't have to attack Kaliningrad. A siege trivially collapses the place. This is hilarious as naval blockade by itself is an act of war.
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by vasac 9mo ago
You’re in for a big surprise once you discover what happened after Nuremberg.

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