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by wowtip 7mo ago
Hm altered carbon season 1 was pretty good? the books are still on my to read list.
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by wowtip 1y ago
It was not like lot's of very talented Amiga devs didn't try their very best to create a Wolfenstein/Doom clone for their platform, but iirc the bitplane setup used by Amiga gfx, which enabled lot's of other cool feature
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by wowtip 5y ago
Not an answer to your specific questions, but my recommendation i always 1. Learn as much elisp as you can 2. Learn the help system 3. https://emacs.stackexchange.com 4. Bind eval-region to easy to reach key for testing and trou
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by wowtip 5y ago
Who owns iD software nowadays? Reading the title I first thought John Carmack had started hunting down metal bands...
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by wowtip 5y ago
Scores are one thing, using it is another. I ran OpenBSD on a Thinkpad T450 for over a year, but recently switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, not because of lack of speed, but some missing applications and blutooth support. Given I don't
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by wowtip 5y ago
Yes! That was it. When on the subject of "things lost in the mists of time", did the original OpenBeOS lead (Michael?) ever return?
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by wowtip 5y ago
IIRC that was one of the two/three main ways forward discussed and planned for after Be Inc went belly up. - OpenBeOS (Haiku) - rewrite from scratch - Option 2 (can't remember if it had a name) - was just to Implement BeOS userlan
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The End of Ownership(datagubbe.se)
43 points by wowtip 5y ago|19 comments
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by wowtip 7y ago
Airtable is fantastic for so many things, I only wish there was a cheaper "personal" plan with more records, for a couple of bucks / month. I can't really justify $10 / month for "just for fun" personal pr
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by wowtip 7y ago
Exactly same problem for me. Someone mentioned in some other thread there is some airlines looking into having seats that when reclining, instead of pushing the backrest into the space behind you, your seat slides forward, and thereby tilti
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by wowtip 7y ago
Thinkpads are almost the System76 equivalent for OpenBSD? As long as you stay away from nvidia graphics, that is...
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by wowtip 7y ago
Maybe Filemaker / Claris https://www.filemaker.com
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by wowtip 7y ago
RMS should sue the publications for defamation and loss of income. Hopefully someone can help him with this if needed.
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by wowtip 7y ago
Could you do it on a 30 minute commute, or is a (most of the time very peaceful) bus trip too much external distractions?
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by wowtip 7y ago
Have you used vanilla Emacs + Evil? Any thoughts on that combination?
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by wowtip 7y ago
Well, Emacs may not have changed my view of computing, but it definitely changed how I _use_ computers...
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by wowtip 7y ago
Yes, many ordinary users never get past the folders-on-desktop organizational level for their files...
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by wowtip 7y ago
Exactly. How much I like the idea of a truly open phone platform there are some obstacles: - Decent hardware available at competitive price -- While I could make do with some degraded performance for a truly open phone concept, most people
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by wowtip 7y ago
In my experience O365 office web applications are no competition even for Libre/OpenOffice. Has that changed lately?
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by wowtip 7y ago
In Swedish: Lax = Salmon Grava = preparing raw salmon (or other fish/meat) by keeping it in a mixture of salt, sugar and spices. Salt and sugar keeps the fish from spoling, lactic acid bacteria preserves the fish. Back in the days this
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by wowtip 7y ago
My take is Emacs is the best integrated text processing environment available. But I am not sure it would beat VI/VIM as an text editor . I don't think most Emacs users could match a good VIM user in text editing speed, but then
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by wowtip 7y ago
Does Orgzly work with Syncthing out of the box now? Last time I tried Orgzly it only used Dropbox for sync, which is what made me drop it at that time.
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by wowtip 8y ago
Hmm, wonder what would happen if USPS lose your application? Sure, you have the tracking number, but no way to prove what was sent. Just send it again when you realize it was lost?
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by wowtip 8y ago
Is there no way back, where upstart companies can make hit games and become mega stars, like iD in the 90s? Is the resources required to make a hit PC game too high today for an upstart to succeed, or is it just big gaming houses controllin
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by wowtip 8y ago
Yes, you would need to adjust for that. Might be the explanation for why the guys from the future shows up in spaceships. I guess it would be dangerous calculating slightly wrong and instead end up inside earth or inside a building's w
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by wowtip 8y ago
But even Python requires installing the dev environment etc. I can see the use for this, for throwing people with no experience into "coding right away".
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by wowtip 8y ago
I heard somewhere SGI put a big chunk of iron/lead inside the case to make them heavier and add to the expensive impression when handling the machines. Not sure if that was the case, or if it is just an urban legend?
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by wowtip 8y ago
And adding to the magic, SGI machines were a something most people would never get their hands on. A maxed out graphics workstation today is still just an "ordinary PC" but more expensive. A (big) upgrade, but not something with m
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by wowtip 8y ago
Yes, I recently got a Kobo Aura One. At 7.8" and high resolution screen it is not much different from reading a largish pocket book. Also being able to read in the dark without disturbing the wife, thanks to screen back light is also a
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HAIKU: R1/beta1 release plans – at last(haiku-os.org)
6 points by wowtip 8y ago|0 comments

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