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CyberS3XY was what I always figured he was going for.

Never played Thief, but I logged a lot of hours in Unreal, 1998. I was (and still am) amazed at how full-featured the software renderer was. I always wished I could peek at the cod…

There are definitely outside organizations whose sole responsibility is to monitor TV/radio broadcasts and nowadays even podcast sponsor breaks to ensure that ad copy is inserted a…

You mean something other than ⌘+` ?

I'm the person who reimplemented Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure (DOS, 1992) and my original reasoning was a desire to know how it was able to do some of the graphical tricks it did on su…

https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-dash-tool/

I'd be interested in seeing an example of a well-composed 9:16 portrait photo. All the ones I have found look awkward.

https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-dash-tool/

I gotta say, I don't have the right personality traits to enjoy this kind of personal attention a lot of the time. I've had experiences where the counter staff at my daily breakfas…

Percy Livermore: We must rid our speech of slang. Now, besides "OK", I want you all to promise me that there are two words that you will never use. One of these is "swell" and the …

Never realized the "chunky" in my chunky peanut butter was so profane. /s

Good for occasional use. Feed it a big playlist and you might find yourself IP-banned for a week.

Some call this phenomenon the Goomba fallacy.

I really respect Jim Davis, believe it or not. Draw the cat, collect the money, keep mouth shut.

I have been nerd-sniped into conjuring up a less-traveled-path technique: Portable Python on the Windows computer. `python -m http.server`. On the Linux computer, something like `w…

The thing I found interesting in trying to type out a single test sentence is how many of the letters were reachable with just a tap. It wasn’t until I really studied the layout cl…

To my ear it sounds like AFSK, kind of like the Bell 202 scheme. Here's the first passable search result I found with a clean recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PXxSHGrF-8…

What happens on the day when those people just directly pay some AI model to do it?

Data Becker Music Center, the first real MIDI composition software I ever used. Came with a pretty decent dead-tree printed manual. Hadn't thought about that one in a long time.

Fun fact: In the US the concept of time-and-a-half (also minimum wage, and not hiring child labor) was created by the Fair Labor Standards Act. Most tech employees are classified a…

Having the primary/secondary rotation is arguably worse. In that model, from the perspective of any one participant, now they're on-call for two weeks each time around instead of o…

I've never liked any answer I've gotten to questions like "what's the weather like." I look at the forecast in my weather app -- the whole fullscreen thing -- and follow some sort …

In FF DevTools, open settings, under "Inspector" check the box for "Show Browser Styles." It clutters the window up some, but I've gotten used to it.

"Say McDonalds to end commercial" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds/