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glonq··on Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?
This.

In my 40s I asked my doc what I should get screened for and when. He said to wait until 50. Now I wait here on death row with stage 4 colorectal cancer.

glonq··on Gimp Source Code
Somebody posted 'Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990)' recently so I think this post is some kind of smartass response to that.
glonq··on Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
DAE remember in 2010 when Steve Jobs said that Facetime would be an open industry standard?
glonq··on Ultima VII Revisited
I recall that it was possible to squeeze a disk cache in too, which made a nice difference for performance.
glonq··on Ultima VII Revisited
A YT'er named 'Spoony' also made a thorough, entertaining retrospective of the Ultimas, and even caps it off with an interview with Lord British!
glonq··on Ultima VII Revisited
I loved U7 and 7.5, but those were the last ones I played because the series somewhat went off the rails after that. Pity.
glonq··on Family Computing Interviews Jack Tramiel After Atari Purchase (1985)
Smart businessman, but not the best reputation as a boss or for creating a pleasant work environment, even by the standards of the day.
glonq··on .NET 10
Yeah I've been using non-.Net languages this week, and lamenting how much they suck in regards to smooth version management
glonq··on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change
I'm thinking that Valve's new SteamBox will help this tremendously.
glonq··on FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is
Exactly. Now that the facade of being a country with integrity and equality is thoroughly shattered, good luck getting public support for shutting down a website that lets people read news for free. Shit's on fire yo; we got bigger problems than that.
glonq··on I have released a 69.0MB version of Windows 7 x86
It becomes The Windows of Theseus.
glonq··on US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty
Yes like the Ottawa Treaty banning Land Mines, in which 166 inconsiderate countries failed to consider the needs of big-time land-mine manufacturers like the US.

/s

glonq··on A brief history of random numbers (2018)
From the title, I expected to see a list of recently-generated random numbers.

I got a 27 yesterday.

glonq··on Dropping Trust in US Media
Is anybody who identifies strongly with a political party is interested in hearing fair or balanced news? I had presumed that they just want to hear confirmation, and are likely to stray far beyond their favorite echo chambers.
glonq··on How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized
"Israel accused the IPC of lowering the second threshold of acutely malnourished children for a famine declaration, which the IPC has denied."

Damn, Israel is really arguing about how much child starvation they are allowed to inflict before it becomes egregious?

That might be another one of those "are we the baddies?" moments right there.

glonq··on Elon Musk and the right's war on Wikipedia
Yeah, I do see where you're coming from. But just like with traditional media, Wikipedia as a "knowledge commons" maybe requires a slight left bias to guard against entrenched power and to raise awareness of marginalized perspectives.

As long as that's done in a way that protects knowledge integrity and relies on reliable sources and ethical review, I think I'm okay with that.

Also keep in mind that the age range of Wikipedia contributors skews much younger than the US population so yeah for boomers and the boomer-minded it's often gonna seem too progressive.

glonq··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
Only if you stop taking Tylenol, maybe /s
glonq··on Show HN: The Unite real time operating system
Back when I did embedded development full-time I always lusted after QNX, but the costs and royalties were higher than what our low-volume product could justify. Or maybe we were just cheapskates.
glonq··on Windows 10 refuses to go gentle into that good night
As a PC enthusiast, I can't remember a time when PC upgrades were less necessary than nowadays.

For the average user and even semi-enthusiast, 5+yo hardware with Win10 works just fine. I just upgraded last year, but it was probably the longest stretch I've gone between new PC's and even then it was as much FOMO as it was necessity.

glonq··on I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher
I've been buying/using/loving Nova for years. Gonna be tough to ditch it.
glonq··on Intel 80286 emulator for Raspberry Pico
The page calls 320×200×256 "Mode X" but IIRC that was actually 320×240×256 wasn't it?
glonq··on Wired Called Our AirGradient Monitor 'Not Recommended' over a Broken Display
I pretty much assume that all product review sites are at worst crooked and at best biased.

Is there a "meta review" site like metacritic, but for products?

glonq··on Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras
Cool! I hope this supports my Yi cameras someday. They added advertising to their app so now every time I gotta check my cams I first need to dismiss ads. That's a fabulous way to piss off customers.
glonq··on Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience
lol i converted from CAD to USD, so the extra $5K is just the being in canada tax i guess.
glonq··on Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience
If you're selling cars at that price tier ($150K CAD / $110K USD), you'd better be backing it with top-tier service.
glonq··on Burning Man Festival Is Burning Through Cash
https://archive.ph/KjDda
glonq··on Show HN: I built a tool to solve window management
Ditto. Having different desktops for different tasks/problems reduced clutter and makes context switching so much easier.
glonq··on That white guy who can't get a job at Tim Hortons? He's AI
It is definitely part of TikTok's mission to sow dissent in free western countries. And considering that the majority of people in those countries have lousy critical thinking skills, they'll readily believe stuff like this.

That's why TikTok should be banned outright.

glonq··on Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry
I work in the robotics industry and expect zero disruption from this.

It looks like a cute fun little toy though!

glonq··on Breakthrough cancer test predicts whether chemotherapy will work
Ditto. Chemo sucks but for me it is not terrible.
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