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I would buy a North Korea phone if it was cool, band-compatible with my domestic carrier, and wasn't embargoed (i.e. if sale was possible), yeah. I already daily a China phone and depending on wh…

You do that merely by using the monetary system at all.

Real ones wouldn't be thinking about it at all.

Yes, anybody who puts a sticker on their car apologizing for owning it is somebody who bought it to make a statement. I bought mine because I researched best gas mileage, lowest ongoing maintenance co…

Learn to read. I actually didn't see that episode until years after I both owned a Prius and lived in San Francisco, and I found it very funny :)

> I do admire that they dared to do something different and took a big gamble on it. So many vehicles, especially in the truck space, are almost indistinguishable and lack any kind of imagination. …

There's a language called SLang inside Goldman Sachs used for their SecuritiesDB, and that's how I read it at first glance even with the dollar sign lol https://en.wikipedia.org&#…

“If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best …

Pardon my pedantry, but Facebook Chat was never XMPP- based . They ran an XMPP gateway into their proprietary messaging system, but there was no S2S.

> To be fair, this grip indicator only (and still) exists when the window has a status bar. Here's a resizable window in Platinum that has a drag handle but does not have a status bar: https:…

They are still very low-contrast compared to what was.

Yeah that is also true. I have had that experience with certain CD-ROMs (maybe like two or three ever but has happened) on my PowerBook 2400c. If the authoring machine had a higher display resolution …

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581813

True, but not a 1:1 comparison, because Classic Mac OS windows were much better at staying where you put them, even between sessions. John Siracusa wrote a lot about how this was missing from Mac OS X…

They're still too small and too light. Some times when a document is big enough I'm actually not able to find the scroll thumb on macOS Sequoia. Some times wiggling the scroll thumb around b…

Compare to Aqua and Platinum where every resizable window/pane had a big square drag target clearly labeled as such with some diagonal lines: https://guidebookgallery.org/pics&#…

I think this is the earliest-born person I've ever seen have a personal website like this — 1929 ! https://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/amsterdam1.html R.I.P. https://en.wikip…

Those people didn't chooso Big Tech; they chose the path of least resistance to getting themselves online and in front of as many eyeballs as possible, because Big Tech stacked the deck over many…

How the hell should I know? Do you have any comments on Mr. Ellison's interview, or are you just here to nitpick my wording?

Needs moar Happy Puppy https://web.archive.org/web/20000827164040/http://www.happyp... https://web.archive.org/web/19961023005340/http:&#…

They've been planning this outcome for a long time. Here's Larry Ellison in 1997: https://youtu.be/Bk1_btV3oIk?t=402 “The personal computer was designed as a standalone devi…

It's like ChuChu Rocket! + JezzBall; two of my favorite games!

What a cool guy https://jacquesmattheij.com/domains-for-sale/

> we didn’t know how far we’d have to go to find a gas station with electricity Corollary: carry cash, so you can buy things without depending on Point Of Sale systems being on and able to talk to …

It's a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch_(advertising_campaign) …

“Fortunately, we have a product for people who aren't able to stay connected; it's called Xbox 360” -- Don Mattrick