Activity from JHarris

Cool Retro Term is great! I used it to make the cover of both the EPUB and updated print version of my roguelike book! [more]
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MeFi comment - 12 days ago

There's a reason why Microsoft is Microsoft and Corel is a memory. Recently Humble Bundle did a collection of Corel programs, including WordPerfect, and I sprung for it. In exchange, I got a version of their QuattroPro spreadsheet that… [more]
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MeFi comment - 13 days ago

I feel that way too, except with Windows 98, which I think was what brought us USB plug-and-play. Maybe call it at Windows XP, where they switched to the NT kernel. Casting back, there are surprisingly few user-facing elements of Windows that… [more]
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MeFi comment - 13 days ago

I hear you kittens for breakfast, I too bounced off of Sinfest back in the day, it was a little too sarcastic and nihilistic, even when it was supposedly good. I didn't get into Goats either for that reason. I don't intend to keep leaving… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Every generation gets the Dave Sim most appropriate to its age. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Hey ersatzpience, welcome! Congratulations on getting an account! [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

That is interesting, because taking Pascal in college was the last time I feel like I really enjoyed programming. Not saying it's for everyone, or for you. I just kind of like Pascal. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Just broke, a dedicated site version of this: https://udm14.com/. It just appeared on Mastodon four hours ago, calls it "the enshittification Konami code," and already seems to be gaining a lot of buzz. It was made using Glitch (headed by… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Tonight at MST Club we showed three MST3K episodes with movies directed by Roger Corman, not produced by him, and all of them made in 1956. We watched SWAMP DIAMONDS, IT CONQUERED THE WORLD (with MST Club favorites Lee Van Cleef and Peter… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Finally, The Year of Linux on the Desktop! Even if you don't count systems running ChromeOS, which is not insubsantial, the percentage of PCs now running Linux has for the first time broken 4%. Anyway, it is easy for some to pooh-pooh… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

I don't think I want a rolling release, and Ubuntu derivs are clearly out (for same reason Ubuntu is). Debian is also systemd but as far as "base" distros go, it's generally ok, though I guess they were the reason ubuntu took it up… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

dunno, but notepad++ ate wordpad's lunch. great tool. Agreed on its greatness, but it really serves a different purpose from Wordpad. What Notepad++ supplants is Notepad. Wordpad is the current version of the ancient Windows 3 program Write,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

...if we make the mistake of actually using it, something we'll be left in the lurch over when the corporate will pushing it disappears. I want to add onto this statement to mention the experience of my Dad. Back in the Windows 3.1 days it… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Watched about five minutes so farThecontent is interestingIt is nice to hear about the experienceBut she does this thingThis thing a lot of Youtubers doWhere she ruthlessly edits out the pauses between her sentencesIt rapidly becomes exhaustingI… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

By having NPCs give information to the players, you are saying "this matters". Punishing the players for following up the lines you drop to them, because they should have realized in universe most peasants don't know anything meaningful… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

I mentioned NPC lying in a recent thread, I might as well mention a few examples.... In TTRPGs, this falls under the category of tavern or village rumors. Many early D&D modules offer a table of rumors that players may receive, sometimes even… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

The cartoon Steven Universe has some aspects of this. (some spoilers here:) Long ago, Pink Diamond, one of the rulers of the Diamond Authority, wanted to preserve human life, and tried to beg the other rulers to not create a space colony out of… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

But if the GM says: "The bartender tells you he's never heard of anyone named Whatley" and the bartender in fact HAD told them he knew someone named Whatley it's a problem. Or, the bartender could wink as he says he's never heard… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

I think the reaction comes because the arts are under particular attack right now, from multiple angles, but especially from generative "AI" companies seeking to destroy entire professions. From someone seeing their livelihood under that… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

It's a valid design decision to have NPCs lie, or not know what they're talking about. Dragon Quest XI has a preference setting that lets NPCs do just that. And it makes sense that the people in the villages might not even have a clue what's… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Northwoods Baseball (Previously) is quite fun. I sometimes listen to it even when I'm not trying to go to sleep. Each episode has one or two moments that are chuckle-worthy. Like, there was the one where there was a hot air balloon hovering in the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

CATSTRAVAGANZA
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MeFi post - 3 weeks ago

On Mr. Do! (apologies for derail, but Digger is very close in some ways, although different in others): First, there are several Mr. Do! games (properly written out, it has an exclamation point, although sometimes that's annoying to type out… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

No way to know, and even if he were self reporting would I believe him? But it's a thought in my head. In hearing this, about Somerton, I have to admit that I, too, sometimes am troubled by sympathy for the damned. As an example, Sam… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Absolutely not the time, topic and place, even if there were ever a time, topic or a place for garbage LLM nonsense. In the future, I'd like to see LLM-produced content passed off as real writing carry with it the same kind of stigma as… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

It upsets me that despite Elon seemingly doing everything he can to ruin Twitter (not calling it 'X'), a lot of people are still there, including many voices that should know better. Mastodon and Bluesky exist, you don't have to stay on the platform… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

martin q blank: Just have faith! [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Through Google, at least. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Like humbug I've stuck with Mastodon and the wider Fediverse, even as the general buzz around it has died down (tech still adores it and that's what I mostly follow), but I've already spilled a whole lot of words on that subject so I'll just leave a… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

As the ringleader of MST Club and watcher of every episode of MST3K at least three times, the jokes on Roger Corman, of course, lie thick on the ground there, despite the fact that they did fewer Roger Corman movies than you'd think, Bert I… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

I love that you're becoming so much of a connoisseur of the form to try to surface the videos that are less annoying, because frog knows there are some overly-cloying animal videos out there. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

To EmpressCallipyos, I do see that, but I feel like I keep saying, to the point of annoying repetition, that it's still important for other people to be able to look inside their machines, and it's important for them in a way that indirectly helps… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

But aren't we on the verge of true text-to-video tools being opened up to the public? OpenAI has Sora, which is supposed to generate up to a minute of video, Google has announced Imagen, and Microsoft announced VASA-1. Seems like it's a matter of… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

Yes, you can still do what you always could do, pay for a webstead somewhere, or else maybe make a small free site on a tilde or Neocities or some similar place. But will anyone read what you've written? How will they even find it? The biggest… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

I saw some of these and I was amused but I thought posting them to MetaFilter would lead to an argument. Yep, you were right about there being an argument. I think it's an important argument though, and that fact doesn't reflect badly on… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

To think I'd find a use for all that experimenting I did with the Commodore 64's sound chip back decades ago. I can tell a triangle and sawtooth wave apart by ear! [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

The raw hatred towards Apple has always been weird. It continues to be weird. And some of the comments here demonstrate why it's weird There are people who are annoyed at Steve Jobs' lionization (like me! I'm annoyed by it). But in this… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

If the customer wants wheat toast, we simply flip the jelly pack over
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MeFi post - 4 weeks ago

CW: Scaramucci [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

And you know what else, there's a fuck of a lot more "old pensioners" than there are "car mechanics", both literally and figuratively. This is a derail, but.... Yes, but the old pensioners can get the car mechanics to… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

It's okay windowpaene, it's not the first time I failed to see sarcasm yay [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

Ah, ArtW's link just got posted as a FPP. [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

Special Event: Mining Accident Theater: WAR OF THE ROBOTS
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FanFare post - Last month

Giving to food banks effectively
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MeFi post - Last month

"Sounds like Kermit the Frog during a rectal exam."
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MeFi post - Last month

I haven't seen this one yet, but Lower Decks has become one of my favorite shows. They love Star Trek so much. [more]
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FanFare comment - Last month

"Survivor's Log, Day 1. No one knows what made them angry, what set them off. Instantly, every vehicle on the planet turned itself into a flesh-smashing missile. They shouldn't have nearly enough kinetic energy in their gas tanks for this, a… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

Amazing how Lefties have developed such a taste for war. I'm the fourth fifth person chiming in on this clueless statement now. But wow. You don't even have your political axis right. Left/right is not inherently pro/anti war… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

Well queensissy you're in for a treat, because tomosteen has a whole Youtube channel of wonderful videos like that one. I found out about them through clavdivs's recent FPP! [more]
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FanFare comment - Last month

I think a lot of the disdain BASIC has gotten over time is undeserved, the result of a cadre of Respected Developers trying to maintain their profession as a kind of mysterious priesthood. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with BASIC. Sure,… [more]
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