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you figure, kids still know what a floppy disk represents despite the tech being obsolete for 20 years now. skeuomorphism means designs like phone handsets retain some informationa…

new games are starting to retail at $70 usd compared to $60 previously... that was the canary and this is the lightheaded feeling of carbon monoxide poisoning

it's a sad state of affairs when the shoplifters make more than loss prevention.

shoplifting absolute necessities and life essentials is a morally light grey area. it's stealing, but when the alternative is starvation, there's a bit of leeway. for everything el…

i'd argue factorio is closer to electrical engineering than software dev, but it definitely scratches the same itch of a well-engineered solution to a novel problem.

were cell phones that common in 2001? i thought payphones were still more commonly used at that point

> I greatly look forward to tech companies who prefer written documentation (eg, Notion) over Slack. this is (at least how i'm reading it) a similar issue i've seen in hobby spaces…

i lived with my mother in law for a short time when i was between apartments. she would occasionally go around the house and unplug all of my devices in the early mornings before I…

it's worth noting that the virtual console (wii, wii u) releases are built off of the original nstc edition, meaning backwards long jumping is in play. but the most recent 3d all s…

typing this on a dell precision-class laptop and yeah, it's a dream. even between this and my latitude (which is still business class but one tier down) it's noticeable. there are …

> In a 1970 survey, The New York Times suggested a consensus definition of a minicomputer as a machine costing less than US$25,000 (equivalent to $174,000 in 2021), with an input-o…

i think i've tried to use mastodon twice now, today begins the third attempt.

especially because that can be a very tight venn diagram

explorer also allows you to create a new window in a new process now, but not using a keyboard shortcut as far as i can tell. you have to go file > new window > new window using a …

probably not unless they're forced to. retail lost money for amazon until very recently -- aws was the only thing keeping amazon afloat for years and years

well, problem solved then! no need to update cec anymore

i feel like it's something that, on its own isn't worth much, but could be sold to a group like goodrx or webmd or something like that for a decent payout.

i came from a rural high school that didn't have any ap/ib courses. i wonder how much that affected my college applications. i still got to go to the college of my choice (fire up …

i prefer it being around, if only because i come from an area that, in the winter time, has 8 hours of daylight to kick off the season. it's nicer to have that start at 8:30 am ins…

it could also be there because the work is for a company that some have moral objections to, like raytheon or meta. i think i remember a story on here that meta had to highball off…

i'm not a leader of any sort of country, but i fail to see how shelling and invading ukraine fixes that. even if it were a quick and easy three day excursion to kyiv, congratulatio…

and it makes total sense! computers are slowly transitioning back to professional/enthusiast/educational focused as casual internet browsing continues to move onto mobile devices. …

but did you sign up for the newzletter?

i should really bust mine out more. i've had one for ages and used it a bunch in college then just... stopped.

on windows i find myself bouncing around a lot between pdf viewers, choosing between lightweight but feature sparse options (sumatra) and heavier, more featured programs (acrobat, …