Diederich

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by Diederich 2y ago
It's going to be super interesting when millions of my fellow tech-savvy gen-Xers get really old.
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by Diederich 2y ago
Can you expand on the high points from your perspective? Thanks.
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by Diederich 2y ago
Well fair enough, I remember that with great excitement back in the day. Is it possible that MSFT has moved on from this perspective?
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by Diederich 2y ago
Here's an example of what it looked like 21 years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20030204090614/http://freshmeat.... Back then, for years before and after, I looked at it almost every day. It was
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by Diederich 2y ago
> glaring conflict of interest Can you expand on that?
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by Diederich 3y ago
I've never had COVID. In fact, the last respiratory infection I had was in 2019. I sing, masked, in a 90 member choir where few people do mask, and we've had a couple COVID outbreaks. In one case, the people who sat to my right
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by Diederich 3y ago
> And, it lost power at almost exactly the worst moment. What are the odds? I don't know, but I suspect we don't hear much about all the times power is lost at moments that are less than the worst.
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by Diederich 3y ago
I still play https://mume.org/ from time to time. It's been running (almost) continuously since 1991. I started it in 1992.
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by Diederich 3y ago
In this context, what's the physical scale of a 'central office', as far as regional dimensions? Thanks!
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by Diederich 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Adaptation
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by Diederich 3y ago
Back in the early 90s when I was writing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-user_dungeon 's, and for a while had quite a few players, I was always keen to move as much functionality as possible into unloadable&#x
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by Diederich 3y ago
Hah, beautiful, well done. But yours isn't nearly so...catchy looking...as the New Yorker version.
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by Diederich 3y ago
Right, I believe they will be a few tens of meters per second short of orbital velocity.
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by Diederich 3y ago
> They will be finding problems in this thing until the day it's taken out of service. Is this similar to how they developed the Falcon 9 platform?
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by Diederich 3y ago
What is the actual downside to hosting it personally and hosting it on github or something like it?
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by Diederich 3y ago
I'd love to read more about this!
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by Diederich 3y ago
> parents don't parent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latchkey_kid Is minimal parental involvement a new thing?
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by Diederich 3y ago
Well I got one of my domains almost 28 years ago and I still haven't done much useful with it. (: dana@eighteendotfour:~$ whois realms.org|grep ^Cre Creation Date: 1995-10-17T04:00:00Z dana@eighteendotfour:~$
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by Diederich 3y ago
So they registered the domain close to a year before incorporation: dana@thalos:~$ whois google.com|grep ^Creat Creation Date: 1997-09-15T07:00:00+0000 dana@thalos:~$ That seems fast to me.
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by Diederich 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230831131550/https://www.nytim...
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by Diederich 3y ago
> But the engineers played some tricks to extract maximum performance at minimum cost which left them kind of trapped. That's interesting. If you have a moment could you expand on that? Thanks.
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by Diederich 3y ago
> this is one of the reasons for SpaceX's newer Raptor engines also using kerosene Typo there :)
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by Diederich 3y ago
I'm not going to necessarily disagree with you. Perl was my professional go-to language for about 20 years, and I moved on to Python for the past eight or so. Back 15+ years ago, you'd see perhaps 2-3x more updates on CPAN recent
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by Diederich 3y ago
> Yeah, because the ecosystem is dead. Is it? https://metacpan.org/recent
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by Diederich 3y ago
I'm somewhat anxious about old.reddit.com going away, no doubt. > harder to monetize Honest question: how is old.reddit.com harder to monetize than 'new.reddit.com'? I've been seeing ads creep in over the past couple
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by Diederich 3y ago
I exclusively use old.reddit.com and it seems pretty good.
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by Diederich 3y ago
My wife uses Supernatural almost every day, and while it's a bummer to be subscription, she really enjoys the new content that keeps coming in.
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by Diederich 3y ago
My wife uses Supernatural almost exclusively, and I use Beat Saber.
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by Diederich 3y ago
Yeah the Quest 2 was amazing, my first VR headset. I got my wife one, and she enjoyed messing around with it so much I ended up getting one, and we often play games together in VR. Mostly though we use it for various workout apps.
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by Diederich 3y ago
Hah thanks. It was actually not too bad. The only really challenging part was the few hours of aphasia which came up in the middle of the night. Overall it was a nice 'shared adversity' kind of experience.

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