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- Comment on Please tell me 5 weeks ago:
Yet, incredibly delicious
- Comment on The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality 5 weeks ago:
Bewildering? Quality is dropping so profit margins can increase.
- Comment on Solar powered personal umbrella with battery? 5 weeks ago:
Slapping one together out of spare parts is not at all the same as mass producing one in a factory. And whatever you could slap together for 30 bucks would, as I said, in previous comment, suck and break very easily, not to mention that you wouldn’t be able to bring it anywhere close to the ocean for fear of everything corroding extremely quickly.
- Comment on Solar powered personal umbrella with battery? 5 weeks ago:
Probably because it would weigh 40 pounds and cost $700
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 2 months ago:
Exactly. Reddit isn’t my fucking bank. They don’t need to know who I am.
- Comment on Linux Delivering Driver Fix For 30 Year Old Creative SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA Sound Card 2 months ago:
I have one of those. It was a great sound card.
- Comment on Do you remember Windows 95? How about Windows 96? 2 months ago:
No, I actually worked for Microsoft. It was a sort of contract gig for bug hunters, especially if you were able to fix the code at all. Otherwise, you just had access to download it from Microsoft servers and submit feedback.
- Comment on Do you remember Windows 95? How about Windows 96? 2 months ago:
Memphis was the code name for Windows 98. The code name for Windows 96 was Nashville.
- Comment on Do you remember Windows 95? How about Windows 96? 2 months ago:
I was actually part of the beta test group for Windows Nashville. It was an improvement over Windows 95, but Windows 98 really brought home a lot of good UI design improvements.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft prepared to walk away from high-stakes OpenAI talks 2 months ago:
I don’t really know how much of a privilege that would be
