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Mr.Radar posted:https://twitter.com/MrGervaisWrites/status/1377048176830517256 that is ridiculously cool
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Mar 31, 2021 07:33
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Thousands of nerds: "I want one of those so I can gut it and stick a Raspberry Pi in it!"
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Mar 31, 2021 07:41
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Thousands of nerds: "I want one of those so I can gut it and stick a Raspberry Pi in it!" I could imagine this in some elaborate Fallout cosplay....so essentially the same thing.
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Mar 31, 2021 08:51
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My fiats each had a points ignition system with a distributor like that. Changing the brushes was definitely a thing and that silver can in the closeups was a “condenser” or as I was told, just a capacitor that could go bad... That machine looks like it even supports testing the vacuum advance/retard... super cool
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Mar 31, 2021 20:24
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Indiana JPG and the temple of TIFF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsCN0Yx2Vbs
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ynohtna posted:Indiana JPG and the temple of TIFF: I love stuff like this
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ynohtna posted:Indiana JPG and the temple of TIFF: Mentions a Super Mario 64 PC port which I'd never heard of... I'd kind of assumed N64 emulators had to be pretty good these days, so I guess the main advantage would be that you can mod in the higher-res textures more easily?
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Pham Nuwen posted:Mentions a Super Mario 64 PC port which I'd never heard of... I'd kind of assumed N64 emulators had to be pretty good these days, so I guess the main advantage would be that you can mod in the higher-res textures more easily? N64 emulators are less well developed than you think they should be, though I don't they that have any problems with SM64. In this case SM64 got reverse engineered a bit ago and has since been ported to everything under the sun, just because.
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Apr 1, 2021 03:38
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:N64 emulators are less well developed than you think they should be N64 emulators only need to be good enough to run the five N64 games actually worth playing. 
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Apr 1, 2021 11:54
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Sweevo posted:N64 emulators only need to be good enough to run the five N64 games actually worth playing. Superman, Carmageddon, Daikatana, Army Men and Earthworm Jim.
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Apr 1, 2021 12:08
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How dare you speak ill of Blast Corps
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Apr 1, 2021 12:35
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Reading the three-part history of Commodore that was mentioned upthread, and TIL that Tramiel and Jobs were seriously talking about Commodore buying up Apple.
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Apr 1, 2021 13:58
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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:How dare you speak ill of Blast Corps Is that the one where there is a runaway nuclear semi and you have to destroy a clear path for it, through cities?
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Johnny Aztec posted:Is that the one where there is a runaway nuclear semi and you have to destroy a clear path for it, through cities? Yes
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Apr 1, 2021 15:11
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Blast Corps is in Rare Replay which is what sold me on getting the Xbox One originally. If there's a game that could really use a remaster with quality of life improvements, it's Blast Corps. I still love it, but some of those later missions like Diamond Sands are extremely difficult.
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Apr 1, 2021 15:46
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KozmoNaut posted:Superman, Carmageddon, Daikatana, Army Men and Earthworm Jim. Ooohhh you bastard, I almost sprung that trap! Meanwhile, time to actually maybe this afternoon install the Xbox HDMI 
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Weird flex, but ok.
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I was contracting at MS and one day I drive into work and there are flags on lamp posts all over campus with this logo  I’d worked there for the better part of a year and had never heard of it. So I asked my manager and he said “It’s like a Facebook phone” I then asked too many questions like “What’s the market?” and “Why would you buy this instead of a Windows phone?” and realized I should shut up Had a similar experience the next job when I saw a Windows 8 dogfood build a few months before it went to RTM
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Apr 3, 2021 03:13
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I browse with the awful app in dark mode, and that took me a very long time to figure out.
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Apr 3, 2021 20:12
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Computer viking posted:I browse with the awful app in dark mode, and that took me a very long time to figure out. Thank you for this. I thought my pihole was blocking some lovely image hosting site they were using or something
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Apr 3, 2021 21:30
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Keith Atherton posted:I then asked too many questions like “What’s the market?” and “Why would you buy this instead of a Windows phone?” and realized I should shut up Well, what were the answers? Or did you realize you should shut up because you received the silent treatment?
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Wipfmetz posted:Well, what were the answers? I could tell he thought it was dumb and so did everyone else but no one talked about it. The Ballmer years had many “What are they doing?!?” moments
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"This doesn't seem like something anyone would buy" wasn't a real popular opinion at the consumer product startup I worked at. Oh well. Got to live the dream of unlimited PTO, snacks in the office and getting sold to Google anyways.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Raa-y0ITmX4
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Chemmy posted:unlimited PTO How unlimited was that really? I've heard that used a lot as a benefit in (mostly US) startups but always wondered how it really works out. I mean, I've worked at startups in the UK but holiday was the same as anywhere else then, but that means ~5 weeks (excluding sick and bank holidays) so that might seem unlimited to some people in the US? E: typo fixes (ugh autocorrect and tired) legooolas has a new favorite as of 01:46 on Apr 6, 2021 |
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Five weeks is an extravagant luxury in the USA yes.
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Apr 6, 2021 01:40
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Shibawanko posted:how obsolete were your computer science classes in school? From a few pages back but I wanted to say that my computer science classes at school when I was in the UK studying for A-levels (so when I was 16-18 in 1993-1995) were excellent. They were called "Computing" rather than Comp Sci for no obvious reason, but we did a bunch of history of computing, the usual (?) sort of algorithms and logic stuff and databases and programming in C. Then you could do whatever you wanted (within reason) for your final project, but were encouraged to do something in C or databases so that the teacher had sufficient experience of them to be able to help by answering questions etc. The network was a NetWare 3 network with thin Ethernet (mmm, one collision domain) and about 200 PCs on it, with loads of hubs and only one switch (they were expensive!) to separate the staff and students networks. All worked amazingly well though! (We did disconnect rooms from the rest of the network if we were doing to play Doom or Decent or something though, to avoid people getting cross with the network performance tanking...) I entirely blame this (and working there in the summers for a couple of years) for why I headed into computery things after, and even more why I have nostalgia for DOS and Windows 3.1, due to how much stuff worked incredibly well there. (Pre internet-access) I've no idea of their normal budget at the time, but other departments would fail to spend all their money in a financial year and it would get thrown at IT to spend quickly so that the school wouldn't get their budget reduced the next year! Fun times 
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legooolas posted:How unlimited was that really? I've heard that used a lot as a benefit in (mostly US) startups but always wondered how it really works out.
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I’ve worked at a place that had unlimited paid time off. The culture there was to never use it at all. It was worse than having a set amount because taking anything more than a day at a time was seen as an abuse of the system. That place also had an incredibly grueling interview process with multiple whiteboard sessions in front of 12 people. I was unable to figure out their puzzle on my own so asked for help and cracked jokes the whole time to hide the rage and humiliation. They still hired me though so after that it felt like hazing instead of a tool to evaluate my skills. I hated it there.
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SubG posted:According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 25% of US workers receive no paid time off.  Is this normal paid full-time employees or including contractors or whatever too? Here it's up to contractors to do their own tax and pay themselves sick and holiday pay, so they don't get any really, but for everyone else 20 days plus bank holidays (8 days) is legally required. (https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights) Obviously this doesn't stop people being on zero-hours contacts, which means 0 * 20 = 0 days legally required. Zero hours contacts are freaking awful  Could well be similarly 25% on such contacts here so that they get no paid holiday.
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Unlimited pto means you can’t accrue pto, a cost to the company that you get paid out upon leaving.
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Remulak posted:Unlimited pto means you can’t accrue pto, a cost to the company that you get paid out upon leaving. haha maybe you do, that's entirely dependent on the company (state too? I dunno if there are any states that mandate it) and if they either have a policy that says "lol no" or they just find some way to screw you out of it
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I've got unlimited PTO and I do take time off... but it's a very small company, a total of 5 technical employees and the 2 founders. I think in a bigger company, it's a drat good strategy for the company because instead of feeling like you're entitled to X days a year, you can end up feeling like you're imposing on your co-workers by taking time off. I don't take a lot of time, probably 10 days a year if you don't include the Christmas shutdown and federal holidays. No surprise, the Frenchman is a lot better about taking time off than the rest of us.
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legooolas posted:
The most recent US Bureau of Labor Statistics "Employee Benefits in the United States Summary" is available here. Employee Benefits in the United States Summary, 2020 posted:Seventy-eight percent of civilian workers had access to paid sick leave and an average of 8 annual paid sick leave days were available to workers across all years of service. Paid vacations were available to 76 percent of civilian workers. On average, 11 paid vacation days were available annually to workers after 1 year of service and 20 days were available to workers after 20 years of service.
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Unlimited PTO is almost always a downgrade, and aside from certain states where PTO is seen as earned wages, you’re highly unlikely to get paid out when you leave.
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AlternateAccount posted:Unlimited PTO is almost always a downgrade, and aside from certain states where PTO is seen as earned wages, you’re highly unlikely to get paid out when you leave. It really depends on the company. Some places are use it or lose it and you're forced to take PTO just before the new year. That's why you can't get any work done for the last 2 weeks of December. No one answers their phone. Other's still do payoff which is nice. I remember when our neighbor retired he got a check for 6 months PTO because he'd hardly taken more that a week or two here and there. Of course, he was a higher up so that can make a difference. My wife takes all her PTO every year. Might as well. They're super easy going about it. She doesn't have to give notice. IF she doesn't want to go to work, she texts her boss and there's never an argument. She does have to give notice to take a week or more, but for a day here and there, no questions. She doesn't like driving in snow so she takes most of her days off in the winter and then trips in the summer.
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Unlimited pto is a downgrade if the culture is bad. The startup I was at had a ton of creative types who used a ton of pto. Anything that was remotely a holiday was a day off, flag day, Arbor Day, everything. Also every week off was nine days because people would take the Friday before the week and the Monday after the week off.
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mostlygray posted:It really depends on the company. Some places are use it or lose it and you're forced to take PTO just before the new year. That's why you can't get any work done for the last 2 weeks of December. No one answers their phone. Other's still do payoff which is nice. Fair, and really I am a beneficiary of good culture. I think I have six weeks PTO now, but for me(and I pass it down to my team,) the rule is hey, take time off when you want and just make sure you do a good job and get your work done and/or important things are covered. We aren’t crazy accountants about it and I don’t care if they file it properly or not. I know I’ve gone years without taking my full PTO but at the same time I never, ever get pushback on a request and we all just about demand that people taking time off go radio silent and actually stop working. Sure a lot of our timekeeping is “off the books” but it works for us and we handle our business well. I think I’ve had to gripe at one of my team for letting something dangle while they were gone maybe twice in 5+ years. It’s very good, and I don’t know if my next company will be this flexible and understanding. I know too many people who get burned on the unlimited poo poo, but yeah, culture is everything and good culture solves so many problems, even if it’s “unofficially”.
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