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    Comment #49225658

    Solitiny :) > NOTE: For DosBox users, DosBox doesn’t seem to support AT&T 6300 but the other modes work fine. I'm pretty sure DOSBox supports the Olivetti M24 graphics mode.

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    Comment #49187784

    What's even worse is that, when you do this on the description of a story or task, everytime it comes up with a slightly different format of how it's going to layout the "enhanced"…

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    Comment #49175464

    It's more like two collisions rather than two parties.

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    Comment #49116340

    Anyone working in an organisation where teams are trying to map business logic errors into HTTP status codes? Wasn't Fieldings original dissertation meant as a formalisation of the…

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    Comment #49041760

    I scanned through it and settled on Design H as well, birds and buildings. One thing I started to notice while looking over the design that I had a strong preference for the number…

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    Comment #48865188

    I have switched to vocalised morse code. My colleagues love me.

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    Comment #48801602

    > I sort of lament the use of lines under headings, as they look visually better for human readers of Markdown Maybe I am spoiled but I rarely read markdown directly. As a user of …

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    Comment #48789195

    > The problem is most people don’t realize how short disc media’s lifespan is. I have audio CDs from 1990 that play just fine and look to be in tip-top condition. Not so much CDs I…

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    Comment #48789151

    Furthermore, a physical book (or disc) can't just be "taken away".

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    Comment #48757796

    Does anyone remember ToolBook? I spend a couple of years from the mid to late 90s working with this daily, crossing from Windows 3.11 into Windows 95/98. It's a bit Visual Basic-es…

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    Comment #48738767

    "We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and work backwards." - Jeff Bezos Backwards indeed.

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    Comment #48730496

    Not super familiar with Azure, but didn't they already have Cosmos DB? Or is that just MongoDB under the hood?

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    Comment #48614632

    Ah, right. I never knew it went away (sott of) then then came back. That is kinda worrying indeed.

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    Comment #48612874

    Does anyone has experience with AWS CodeCommit? It might not be what OP is looking for but since we're talking about moving away from GitHub. Personally I already pay for GitHub so…

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    Comment #48545891

    Great write up. Reminds me of Cosmodoc, which is similar source but analyzes Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventure instead of Commander Keen. https://cosmodoc.org

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    Comment #48468065

    I think GP is referring to EGA which also used address 0xA0000 but you had to program it in it a planer mode of 16 colors out of a palette of 64. VGA provided backward compatibilit…

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    Comment #48467878

    It's certainly the most rudimentary. Small optimisation on the inner-loop would be to pre-calculate the scanline offset before going into the pixel loop: int s = y*screenRect.w; fo…

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    Comment #48420469

    I suppose the argument being made is more about the meaning of human made rather than GenAI.

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    Comment #48388938

    import {signal} from "@angular/core" import {form} from "@angular/forms/signals" So, signal comes out of core and form comes out of forms/signals. This must be a terminology thing …

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    Comment #48340614

    If not an abstraction, how would you describe it then?

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    Comment #48340554

    > so that we have escape hatches From what? Those 3 things you point out above?

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    Comment #48291215

    I wouldn't work at Google either. If you can't trust the people you have hired to hire people then you shouldn't have hired them.

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    Comment #48288712

    > just a formality and a friendly chat That was not the case in this scenario. I was told I would be offered the role if I came out favorable with the CEO (did he like me or not? d…